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This isn't going to be a full DIY because veedoubleme already did a hell of a walkthrough and I essentially copied his. I just completed my install this weekend and thought I'd offer my tips.
I want to start by showing my appreciation to Nik with uberstealth audio as well as veedoubleme for his amazing DIY. Nik got me my box in a little over a week! He is wanting to start coating his boxes with a rubbery plastic similar to a rhino trunk liner as opposed to carpet covered (correct me if I am wrong Nik). I prefer the new coating to carpet. The coating you can tell is very durable. It smelled a bit funky when I got it, but went away soon enough. Looks great, fits perfect, sounds gorgeous... Can't complain in the slightest. Absolutely worth every penny.
First thing that differed from other installs that I have seen is where they punch through the firewall for the power cable to the battery. Most people have a foam cover over a rubber gromet that they just pull out poke a hole through and go. I THINK that this is where our clutch pedals go in manuals. So after spending some time trying to find that damn cover I realized I didn't have one. Anyways, there is a thick bundle of cables up higher and to the left of the clutch pedal that goes through into the engine bay and drops out almost directly behind the fuse box (and below it). To use this you'll have to take out the battery (I will be posting another thread shortly explaining some things I found about leaving the battery unplugged for too long).
There are open slots in the fuse box that you can land the cable on. I went with slot C or D... I can't remember. But it is an 80 amp fuse spot. I figure i'd rather have my inline fuse (50A) that came with my Scosche amp kit to blow before I start taking out the fuses that came with the car.
Trim pieces you really do just have to pull hard and straight up. All but 2 of my clips stayed in the frame of the body and had to be pulled out and replaced in the trim pieces. None broke.
The back seat... I didn't fully remove it because I had read all over the forums that getting it back in was a PITA. I removed the two front clips first and was able to lift it up enough. From the trunk side you can stick a hanger or something though and under the seat. Just loop your speaker and power cables through the hangar and pull them into the trunk... Similar to what you will have to do with the amp power cable through the firewall.
For all wiring information i'll refer you to veedoubleme's DIY because it was all spot on and saved me a TON of time.
Now for my amp/L2Ci mounting. I cut a 1/2" piece of MDF to go directly under the right side foam piece to raise it up high enough to match the height of the sub box (just like veedoubleme). I kept the entire cubby in the foam though. I initially planned to chop of that section, but I thought that it would lose a lot of support for the trunk mat, as well as require more work adding in supports to hold up the corner. I ended up cutting a piece of the scrap MDF to match the shape of that cubby hole exactly, and i placed it in the "floor" of the cubby so I could screw the hardware to the board instead of the foam. But to account for how wide the amp was, I knocked out part of the foam wall (closest to the tire) so that the amp could fit and still have MDF to rest on. After that I punched a hole in the right side wall so that I could run my wires to/from the amp/LC2i.
That's all I have though. Hopefully this will help some people out there. If anyone cares to see more pictures let me know and I can go snap some. I would have got one of where I brought the power cable through the firewall, but it's raining here now. Also if the amp mounting section was unclear let me know and I can try to give a better explanation/send more pics of it but hopefully the one attached helps.
Update: I forgot to mention one thing I messed up on during my install. I didn't want to remove the dead pedal or the trim around the hood release lever so I just dropped the cable down and went under the driver door sill trim. In retrospect that trim around the hood release lever is pretty loose/open up near the top. It is very possible to weed the power cable down through that and out the bottom before entering the door sill trim. By the time I noticed this I already had the cable in the trunk and was popping trim back in... Needless to say; I have yet to fix it.
I want to start by showing my appreciation to Nik with uberstealth audio as well as veedoubleme for his amazing DIY. Nik got me my box in a little over a week! He is wanting to start coating his boxes with a rubbery plastic similar to a rhino trunk liner as opposed to carpet covered (correct me if I am wrong Nik). I prefer the new coating to carpet. The coating you can tell is very durable. It smelled a bit funky when I got it, but went away soon enough. Looks great, fits perfect, sounds gorgeous... Can't complain in the slightest. Absolutely worth every penny.
First thing that differed from other installs that I have seen is where they punch through the firewall for the power cable to the battery. Most people have a foam cover over a rubber gromet that they just pull out poke a hole through and go. I THINK that this is where our clutch pedals go in manuals. So after spending some time trying to find that damn cover I realized I didn't have one. Anyways, there is a thick bundle of cables up higher and to the left of the clutch pedal that goes through into the engine bay and drops out almost directly behind the fuse box (and below it). To use this you'll have to take out the battery (I will be posting another thread shortly explaining some things I found about leaving the battery unplugged for too long).
There are open slots in the fuse box that you can land the cable on. I went with slot C or D... I can't remember. But it is an 80 amp fuse spot. I figure i'd rather have my inline fuse (50A) that came with my Scosche amp kit to blow before I start taking out the fuses that came with the car.
Trim pieces you really do just have to pull hard and straight up. All but 2 of my clips stayed in the frame of the body and had to be pulled out and replaced in the trim pieces. None broke.
The back seat... I didn't fully remove it because I had read all over the forums that getting it back in was a PITA. I removed the two front clips first and was able to lift it up enough. From the trunk side you can stick a hanger or something though and under the seat. Just loop your speaker and power cables through the hangar and pull them into the trunk... Similar to what you will have to do with the amp power cable through the firewall.
For all wiring information i'll refer you to veedoubleme's DIY because it was all spot on and saved me a TON of time.
Now for my amp/L2Ci mounting. I cut a 1/2" piece of MDF to go directly under the right side foam piece to raise it up high enough to match the height of the sub box (just like veedoubleme). I kept the entire cubby in the foam though. I initially planned to chop of that section, but I thought that it would lose a lot of support for the trunk mat, as well as require more work adding in supports to hold up the corner. I ended up cutting a piece of the scrap MDF to match the shape of that cubby hole exactly, and i placed it in the "floor" of the cubby so I could screw the hardware to the board instead of the foam. But to account for how wide the amp was, I knocked out part of the foam wall (closest to the tire) so that the amp could fit and still have MDF to rest on. After that I punched a hole in the right side wall so that I could run my wires to/from the amp/LC2i.
That's all I have though. Hopefully this will help some people out there. If anyone cares to see more pictures let me know and I can go snap some. I would have got one of where I brought the power cable through the firewall, but it's raining here now. Also if the amp mounting section was unclear let me know and I can try to give a better explanation/send more pics of it but hopefully the one attached helps.
Update: I forgot to mention one thing I messed up on during my install. I didn't want to remove the dead pedal or the trim around the hood release lever so I just dropped the cable down and went under the driver door sill trim. In retrospect that trim around the hood release lever is pretty loose/open up near the top. It is very possible to weed the power cable down through that and out the bottom before entering the door sill trim. By the time I noticed this I already had the cable in the trunk and was popping trim back in... Needless to say; I have yet to fix it.
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