Any more pics ? Looks good so far !

 

Stopped for while but now I am back at it again lol... The past two days I manged to get my CD1Pro Mini Horns installed. I am extremely pleased with how well they came out. Very proud of my self lol because these things can be a pain to install. The horns have gotten scratched up, eventually I will sand them down and repaint them.

Drivers Side





Passenger Side

 

nicew to see someone who know how to get real sound quality. with some wave guides.

 

Alright had problems with my sound was coming from the right, was told to move the horn out more. Here is what I started with.. (Use the motor distance from the parking brake for reference)


Removed the hood release lever (still there just tucked away) Could you ever guess there is a full out remote start/alarm with several interfaces tucked up in there? =D


Underdash shot for the guys at Image Dynamics that wanted to see..


There is a piece that is sopposed to go under the dash to block it off, but I took that off and it is mounted using two push pins. For now I used to the push pin as one of my mounts. When I get more time I will drill a hole and use a bolt/nut.


How far over I was able to move it, almost resting on the parking brake.


About the best I can do... I am not moving the parking brake or bending it.



Still trying to come up with something for the passenger side...

 

On a different note.. these arrived at the shop today for me =D





I thought this was going to be a drop in install, 10-20 minutes at most. Not.. 6x9s did not fit the stock 6x9 holders. I had to cut out the top piece that was went for blocking water I assume. Looked for the dremel, no where to be founded, soldering iron was my next choice, but then the cutting tip for that was missing. Next choice: hand held hacksaw. It sucked using this thing but it got the job done.






Next step is to finish my box, mount my amp and crossovers. (Staying passive for now). Still need to remount the passenger side horn and work on the mounts to perfection on them. Then I will sand down the horns, repaint them and clean everything up.

 

You really have to get those horns as far to the left and right as possible. I ended up ditching the ebrake pedal in my Lexus, and it made a huge difference. I just did without one, but I guess you could rig up a handle near the console, or something, if you just had to have one. You can also trim the horn flange down, as long as you don't cut into the opening. From memory, I really didn't have any lip at all, on mine.

You also want to get them up as close to the dash as possible, and fill any gap that is left. Think of the sound as water, and the horns as nozzles. You want the water to have a single, clear path to your ears.

Down the road, you might also want to look at getting those midbass drivers out of the front doors, and down into the corners, under the horns. The horns are very loud, and quite directional. If you don't get the full range of frequencies coming from the area around the horn, you'll hear it...the sound will skip from the nice, level, stage created by the horns, to more of a point source, created by the midbass's as the frequency drops. Things like wide range female vocals will make this stand out badly.

All in all, looks like good work, though.


Toby

 

To go back some time...why did you decide to mount the subs facing the way you did?
Only ask bc it seems to me that the excursion would come really close to touching the back of the seats.

 

Toby - I took a look at the e-brake, looks like more of process than I care to do inorder to remove it. I am considering switching to full bodies, I may be able to fit better with the full bodies. I haven't had too much time since to really play with it. I need to just sit under the dash and think for like 20 minutes until I come up with something lol. Kicks could be an option for a rainy day. I have an extra set of kicks in my garage, not sure if I want to give up the foot room though.

Driver - There is a lot of room for excursion actually, unless I went to a super high powered driver, which I would need a different box for anyways.

 

Oh nice, figured you had compensated for that but was just wondering.
Nice build and car in general!

 

Not too much more but finally got the passenger horn about as good as it will get.

New mount


The kick panel needed to cut.. luckily I had an old one laying around..


It can't get too much further over... maybe .75" if I bend the connectors






I also got time to move from LOC from the rear speakers to the front. The stock system will cut down the rear speakers at 2/3rds volume and it got extremely annoying. Issue solved.


I got around to finishing up the drivers side horn. I sucked it up and removed the parking brake. I thought it would be a lot worse than it was. It was just 3 bolts and a little bit of muslce to remove the cable from the unit. Sound stage seems immediately fixed, will update with how it is in a few days when I can drive around more. Didn't get many pics, camera was dead but here it is finished. This is the stronger mount to date for the horn, I could literally kick the horn hard and it wouldn't budge. Also I know for a fact I could go to full body horns... so that may be in my future.