Too Much Time???

I'm sure many of you have seen this picture. Your probably tired of looking at it.



Have you ever ask yourself "how was that done?" If not please go to www I dont care com.

First custom work is not difficult. Anyone reading this thread can do this. I learned all of this by doing. Installers in Abilene are assholes. So everything I've done I learned by doing. Never got any help, so if you know a better way speak up.

If you get an idea, the first thing you need to try to figure out is, is it possible? will it fit? what am I gonna have to do to make this work? You really need to look at the project and come up with a "what could go wrong list". Then figure out how to do the project, so those "what might go wrong senerio's" dont happen. Get ideas from others. In fact the overhead console was an idea from someone on another website.

So first I looked at the amp an realize it would fit. I checked with the kick panel on and off. Behind the panel a small wire harness had to be moved up and a factory ground had to be relocated.

Now all I need was a way to mount the amp. The amp would mount to the MDF frame

The amp had to be mounted to the kick panel, the area behind the panel was not flat.

Next the frame had to be mounted to the kick panel. Only epoxy and fiberglass is used. No screws. Notice that I only cut away enough kick panel to fit the frame. At this point I did not know how much of the original material would be needed.



Once everthing is secured and dried and reinforced, only then is the rest of the opening cut. The rest of the work is body work.



There was a lot of trial fits.



While you cannot see the problem, I could get the panel to fit with the amp out but not with the amp in. The problem was a minor one and easily corrected but it just goes to show that no matter how good we plan we will still run into obsticles.

The only other thing (not shown) is the RCA problem. the RCA input had to be moved to the other side.

 

Maybe. But I really meant it. This stuff is not difficult. It might be because I'm older, but I did not get in a hurry. This project took me 3 weeks. I only worked on it when I felt like it. Actual real time working on it (not including glue, bondo, or fiberglass drying time) was less than 5 or 6 hours.

It really wasnt that hard.