Stereo Installation Pictures

These are the finished trunk pictures. The panels are made of MDF and fiberglass. They were primed a couple of times sanded and I painted them the same color as the exterior of the car. The paint is PPG "Omni" line paint, one of their lower quality lines. It is a base coat/clear coat, then I wet sanded it with 1000 grit and 2000 grit paper then poloished them with a couple of buffers.

The upper panel was made with the trunk lid off of the car. It is mostly wood. I covered the lid with masking tape and glassed right over the tape so it would be a mold of the car and have a tight fit.

The floor was raised to flush mount the amps. the floor is covered with a backed carpet called "Bentley" and was made to be similar to a Mercades style carpet. At $60 a yard I didn't want to use much. Anyone who has ever used "Ozite" before knows that the carpet can't even be vacumed once without getting "hairy". So I used a carpet that will last.
Some pics of the panels while they were primed waiting to be painted.
The stock kick panels were used and I added on to them with fiberglass. I played with the speaker angle for a little bit, then hot glued the ring where I wanted it supporting it with little pieces of MDF. Then I scuffed the stock kick panel with 80 grit paper so the resin will stick better and stretched grill cloth over all of it.
The resin has been applied with a cheap paint brush and body filler was used to smooth out any low spots. I like to use a fiberglass reinforced filler first and follow up with a conventional body filler after than. Then it was primed and block sanded.
Here the panel was sprayed with SEM brand "Texture Coating" because I was using them painted for a little while. I have since sanded the coating off and covered then with vinyl.
I added to the center console to make a place for the pre-amp and my paddle switches for the 1/4" line portion of the air suspension. It is a bent piece of ABS that I glassed into the console and smoothed it out with filler on the edges. I painted the whole console with "Texture Coating" and Sprayed with SEM "Landau Black"
The box has an internal volume of 5 cu.ft. It ws designed on Term Pro by a friend of mine. I then took the volumes I needed and played with the numbers to get a box tht will fit in the car in one piece. It's a bandpass with the rear chamber seaed and the front ported. The ports are on their own panel that I had to install after the box was in the trunk and secured. The prots stick through the rear deck about 4". the woofers are 15W6's wired 6 ohm mono.
I have a cracked dash and got sick of looking at the ragular dash covers, so I built one using part of a Coverlay dash cover that had warped on me from the heat. Here is the first part, I reshaped it with expanding foam and glassed over it. The rest of the dash cover was made with flat fiberglass panels that I made on a piece of MDF to keep them flat. I then glassed all the pieces together in the car so they would fit properly. Then it was covered in landau padding and vinyl covered. there are grills for a tweeter in each corner of the dash.