yea let your back seat down and pop off the plastic cover that goes around the hook and start tapping on the back shelf piece.. i put some soft velcro in that area and inside that plastic cover that goes around the hook when i was trying to check for rattles in my suspension

 

cool. thanks for the heads up. that piece does rattle. i think i'll go to home depot and get some cheapo carpet padding and cut to fit under the package shelf cover. that ought to aide in noise reduction.

a buddy is giving me some dynamat for the trunk lid, so that's good.

 

The install looks really clean. I am glad that it all worked for you. And I am sure that it sounds great for you. I also like the stealth install of the Remote Bass ****. Awesome job!!

 

You should dynamat the package shelf too as well as your front doors. It will make a workd of difference.

 

yep. that's just one more thing on my list of "to do's" lol

i'm having a hard time picking what's next though, wait for Cusco sways, or get a bunch of dynamat and do it right...

 

do you have any pictures of the install with the powercable from batt>trunk that's all im interested in, i been working on a custom box in the span of these last three months haha i dont get alot of time off

 

just because it aint fancy like some other builds doesnt mean its not good.

looks clean, who needs a back seat anyway?

btw, what does it look like from inside the car?

 

His back seat is still there and 100% stock looking from the inside.

 

Awesome install!

you just inspired me to call up some people on craigslist and see if i can do the same!

Michael

 

looks good but the bose is good enough for me, My g35 coupe rattled like crazy after i installed 2 10w0s and a 250/1 it drove me crazy so i took it out and now i just have the equipment sitting colllecting dust in my guest room.

 

man i'm sorry, i didn't take any pics at all of the routing of +12VDC... it was late and i just wanted to get done. i will say, however, that it's very easy. once you penetrate the grommet just behind the battery, feed the wire through, take the glove box out and you'll see the wire. from there, it's just a matter of feeding it down and through the channel under the kick plates.

and yeah, back seat is still fully intact, this did nothing at all to the space in the cabin. now SITTING in the back seat with the system full on probably wouldn't be my first choice.

@oOmikeyboy: glad i could be an inspiration! Craigslist is just great. the two guys i bought from were awesome people and gave me great deals.

 

this pic was requested on Driver, so i figured i'd post it here also. a shot of the rear seat down, back of the zenclosure. note that the seat can be put in its full and upright position.

 

just a quick update:

yesterday while driving home, i noticed when i made a sharp turn that the amp would cut out, then come back on..

when i got home i pulled on the remote on wire and it pulled right out. this being a used amp, the hex screw for the remote on is fairly stripped.. even a torx bit i had wouldn't make it any tighter. this was after stepping the wire up to 16AWG speaker wire via butt-splice.

so i pulled it out, turned on the Signal Sensing and haven't looked back. the amp basically looks for an sound signal on the RCA inputs and powers the amp if it sees it. seems to work just fine.

 

Update. I purchased a 4080 enclosure from the recent (still ongoing) group buy.

This past Saturday, with the help of Wezbian (not really) and Extreme G (very much), we relocated the 500/1 amp to under the passenger side plastic piece in the trunk ala this thread.

I'll get the new enclosure on Wednesday, but may not be able to install it untill Thursday as Wed will be a night at the drag strip.

I'll post pics when I'm done.

 

cool...i love the 4080 enclosure...thought bout moving my amp under the mat too when i did my install....but will we have heat issues?