New Stereo for my SVX

[Lookin4SVX]

So, I have a bunch of stereo equipment here from my old USAC comp car. Parts were all bought in 1995-96.
I was going to put it all into the SVX, but limited space, and not feeling like doing an upgraded alternator yet has mellowed that plan.

So instead I swapped my friend my 4 12" Kicker solobarics for his 2 10" dvc fosgate punch 10".
Bought an eclipse 4 channel amp on ebay to run the mids and highs.
Cheap Pioneer head unit from walmart :-(

Specs:
Pioneer DEH-1200MP head unit (Temp deck, my pioneer DEH-P825 died during install!)
Infinity Kappa 6.5's all around
2 -10" Fosgate Punch hx2
Orion 225HCCA (subs)
Eclipse 3640 (mids and highs)
Orion 200SPX crossover
Phoenix Gold Stiffing Cap.

Install Pics:

Lets remove the necessary parts and arrange them neatly.



How did I even get sound out of this?


Thats better!






Tweeters:







Bye-Bye 6x9's


Run some Wire to the Trunk:

[Lookin4SVX]

No more doughnut, but a new subfloor:


Time for a new cover board:






Time to pull the carpet back in and insert sub box.



There we go, now I can still change fuses and mess with the sub amp:


Inside, seat down:


Head unit & EQ:


My old broken deck matched better :-(

[Freeman]

Wow, that setup looks reallly nice! How much did it cost you do do everything and how much time did it take you?

[Lookin4SVX]

The eclipse amp I payed like $40.
Walmart head unit was $94.
Some screws, Luann, hinge, crimps, heat shrink, solder, & epoxy. $25
Everything else I had.

Time:
It took us more than 40 hours. Over a week and a half period. Working until 4am some days.
Changed crossovers, and EQs, went through about 4 redesigns during the install. 12 hours of that was trying to get the broken DEH-P825 to work. We ended up trying every pin to every pin. 24x14 is a lot of pins...
Car fought us every bit of the way. In the end the answer was to just junk all stock wiring and run everything new to the trunk.

Passive crossovers for mids and highs

[K_Dub]

Originally Posted by Lookin4SVX

The eclipse amp I payed like $40.
Walmart head unit was $94.
Some screws, Luann, hinge, crimps, heat shrink, solder, & epoxy. $25
Everything else I had.

Time:
It took us more than 40 hours. Over a week and a half period. Working until 4am some days.
Changed crossovers, and EQs, went through about 4 redesigns during the install. 12 hours of that was trying to get the broken DEH-P825 to work. We ended up trying every pin to every pin. 24x14 is a lot of pins...
Car fought us every bit of the way. In the end the answer was to just junk all stock wiring and run everything new to the trunk.

Those rears are fun to get out, aren't they?

I'm curious why you ditched the 6x9s in the back. Was it because you had the 6.5s laying around or is it your preference? I've heard of audiophiles not liking oblong shaped speakers, which seems logical, but I prefer the larger surface area and high end of my 6x9/3ways (no subs in mine, so I need all the bass the rears can offer).

[Lookin4SVX]

I have had the 6.5's in the rear on all my cars for the last 15years.
I just prefer them over the 6x9.
The 6x9 do make more mid bass than my 6.5's but the 6.5 are cleaner.

And yes because I just had them laying around.

And yes them back speakers are no fun:

Remove Rear Speaker



Install rear speaker:

[Freeman]

From what I gathered from previous posts, the oval ones are the best designs for our rear windshields and how they're contoured.

[michael]

+1 for the Orion! Does it shake your teeth?

[Lookin4SVX]

It shakes enough. It sounds good.
There is some rattle that i need to address in the rear deck area.
I was always into SQ over DB.

I love my Old school Orion amps.
The 225 was my mids and highs amp in the comp car.
That had a 2100HCCA pushing 4 kicker 12"s.
4 12's in a 95 grand am = cannot think loud. (142db-146db depending on weather)
It drilled lyrics into your brain. Loud enough it over powers your internal voice, you literally cannot think.

I still have the 2100HCCA, but its current draw by itself is more than our stock alternator.

Comp car had 185amp alternator with a dedicated secondary output for the amplifiers. 0gauge wire, 2 1 fared caps, dual 150amp fuses upfront, a 120amp fuse in the block for it. Idle increase to 1,200RPM. Even with all this, if turned on my rear defrost while idle it would over draw the alternator.

[SoCal LS-L]

My first sub was an Orion Cobalt 10"..... and attached to a simple bridged Pioneer amp in a ported box, simply embarrassed the other clowns in high school running dual 12's.

[K_Dub]

Originally Posted by Lookin4SVX

That had a 2100HCCA pushing 4 kicker 12"s.

No subs in my car (yet) but my living room has four 12" MTX subs with two 2.5" horn tweeters and two 6.5 mids with an infinti x-over. These towers are plugged into an Alesis RM300 amp to power my cheepo-sony record player.

No EQ and no switcher for other inputs, but my old vinyl sounds goooooooood

[NeedForSpeed]

NICE WORK,
Just don't park it in New York City,
for a number of reasons

[NeedForSpeed]

Originally Posted by K_Dub

No subs in my car (yet) but my living room has four 12" MTX subs with two 2.5" horn tweeters and two 6.5 mids with an infinti x-over. These towers are plugged into an Alesis RM300 amp to power my cheepo-sony record player.

No EQ and no switcher for other inputs, but my old vinyl sounds goooooooood

Yea,
Vinyl does sound good

[Alex-svx]

Thats a grate job you have done whit the sterio. =)

[SVXMAN2001]

Great system, I am jealous! Where did you end up drilling and running the power wire for the amp?