Well today was interior and audio day for me, since I am still waiting on the #$)$(%$ flywheel and pressure plate bolts from motorsports. I put a rush on it, and got it sent UPS air to get it here as fast as possible, and its still been 3 weeks... not here yet.

Anyway, enough venting.

Swapping over the orange (which was origionally tan, but turned orange in the sunlight I guess) interior panels to black. Everything but the headliner is now black, which is fine. I am going to try to dye the headliner shortly. Ended up removing the tool box covers and making up some wood ones and mounted my Cerwin Vega 5" in there, facing up. I think imaging will be decent to the front seats, despite the high back on the seats. It made for a very clean install. (had to cut a hole in the carpet too, but everything blends well and looks clean)

I was thinking I'd put the tweeters up front on the top of the dash, aimed at the glass so the sound reflects forwards at the people.

10" sub and amp still haven't found a home. The sub may just go in the spare tire well along with a civic donut spare. (I'm running honda adapters) I had planned on mounting the amp behind the passanger seat vertically on the face there. (240z) Turns out its too wide to fit there well. (argh) I may have to try to get it under the passanger seat.

The dash now sports mechanical oil pressure, boost, and water temp gauges. EvanPurple helped me out a bit there to get them mounted right, and they look way SWEET now. I found some autometer gauges that fit nicely with the stock black/white theme, and had a chrome bezel. The bezel looks really nice in there once I got them mounted right. Pictures will come soon.

Anyway, thats the interior story for today! Tomorrow is dash re-install and wiring day. And maybe SDS install day too, and maybe engine install day if those bolts finally come. (ok, I'm not likely to get all that done)

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Drax,

Thats sweet I'd love to see the pictures, post them as soon as you get them!

zya
Yuichi

 

Yuichi, check out my webpage in my link, I loaded up a bunch of pictures. Nothing of the final install yet, but you can get an idea how things look from those pictures.

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Thanks man. Still doing interior work, and its coming along nicely. I've started on a new center insert into the dash as well. I've so far incorporated my stock fuel level/ammeter, 3 toggle switches, my SDS mixture meter, and soon I am going to put 1 of the heater sliders back in there. My idea is to have the heater controls permanently set on defrost, have a toggle switch to turn the fan high/off. And have 1 slider for hot/cold. (because if air passes through the core with the fan off, it would still heat the car up if I couldn't change this)

To do this I've removed the center vent, light, and heater controls. The final appearance should be very clean, and I think that people that didn't know Z cars well could confuse it for stock.

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First of all, Id like to say that I realy like your web site. It has a nice layout. Second, Id like to know how the sound was in your system. Im not sure whether to put speakers behind the seats pointing up or under the deck lid. Thanks!

 

Been a long time in responding here. I did eventually get it all going, and wired up and tried out the new system.

Its AWSOME. Now I've been driving around in cars with sub-standard stereos a lot lately, but this thing blew me away. I had the same sort of system in my Celica, except using 6x9's instead of the 5 1/4" and 1" tweets. I defiantely like the sound better using the mid/tweet combo!

Tweeters were mounted on the dash, facing into the windshield. (very easy install) Mids are in tool boxes pointing up. Sub in its own box in the back. Amp under passanger seat. And thats it.

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