Lookin' good Tim. Keep it up.

 

There is no way I'm going to have this all done by Wednesday before I leave for DC for 4 days. My goal is to have the HU & iPod wired and mounted. The final trim work will have to come next week after I get home as well as installing my new 12w6v2 once it arrives. The plexi piece in the above 2 pics is going to be scrapped.


Tomorrow is going to be a loooong day

 

Much more done today. I actually just listened to it for a few minutes to insure everything was working properly. The sound is incredible and the iPod is crystal clear. Oh, it charges too

Man, I need to get my carpet cleaned.


The Eclipse mounted (more fit & finish will come next week.


Misc wiring. (Ammi - there's your grounding point)

 

Wiring everything up.


Testing everything. The iPod sounds great coming through this unit. I also played a CD (3 Doors Down "Let Me Go") I'm going to be very happy with this setup.


My 4 channel Eclipse hooked up in the trunk. Much different than when I had the 8's back there.

 

I had the 4 channel set to high pass, and changed it to "through" and the sound quality is amazing. It's almost like you don't need a sub back there (but I'll install one just the same).

Gotta get my interior back in the car and tuck everything away. Thought I'd just update a bit.

 

are you gonna have a special mounting for the ipod or just sit it in your lap?

 

I'm going to install a dock in the ashtray. Something like this:

 

everything looks good so far Tim. that HU is looking good

 

Sounds good too. After working last night, I started on this thing today at around 9am and its 6:30 now...I think it's Milla Time!

 

Hey Tim, can you give us a shot of where in your trunk you mounted the amp?

Thanks.

 

Goddamit!!! All of these audio installs going on here are making me HELLA jealous. I gotta get my console done soon so I can do my install!

Oh, and the install is looking good, Tim.

 

give yourself more credit than that...your glassing project will end up looking sick

 

Good Job Tim, so hows the sound compare to stock huh? lol you must be loving it, especially with those nice equipment you got there.


man all these nice installs are so tempting, for me

 

yeah...very tempting...i'm even more eager to put my RL-p in now

 

The amp is pretty much just sitting in the trunk for now. I'll be building my new sub enclosure next week and will end up redoing some of the wiring at that time.

 

Looks very sweet Tim. Excellent work!

 

I've always loved Jayson's setup. I thought of giving it a try, but I got lazy and decided to buy the GXE trim peice. Here's a pic:


Tim, how difficult is it to seperate the oem radio faceplate from the radio? Just a couple screws?

 

With the iPod hardwired into your system, are you able to switch the songs with the hand controls on the steering wheel? And do you know if it is possible to hardwire the iPod into the factory HU?

 

Beautiful job. I can't wait to get my Eclipse in the car.

 

Oh, by the way...please tell me that the HU has a white LCD display? I know that the 5435 is supposed to have like 8 different colors. Please tell me white is one of them. I'm getting a white LED swap done sometime next week, so I want to make sure it matches. If not white, then I'll go for the red, which I know the Eclipse has.

 

the color is for the button illumination only...5 patterns
red/blue
amber/blue
green/blue
all red
all green

The main title screen remains white illumination i believe..

 

What is red/blue, amber/blue and etc.? Is that like where half of the buttons are one color, and half are another?

 

Guys. Sorry I haven't replied to this thread in a while. I was in DC for a week and got home yesterday to find my pc had crashed. I will try to answer questions and take more pics as I am able.

 

http://www.eclipse-web.com/cd/others.html

 

I got the box built for my new JL 12w6v2 and new false floor finished yesterday. The HU is still a work in progress however. I've taken a few pics of what I've gotten done in the last few days since I got back from DC, but as my PC crashed while I was gone, I cannot post pics until my new Dell arrives in the next week or so.

 

dam that sucks, hopefully youll be done with the hu by then!

dont you have like 3 jls?

 

I'm trying to sell my 3 8w6's. I bought a single 12w6v2 to gain some trunk space back and to also change up my setup a bit.

 

how much you want one 8 for?

 

Here are some of the pics of the new sub and the box being built. I'm still debating about how I want to cover the box, so it's still nekid.

Side-by-side of the 8w6 next to the 12w6v2


Box underway being built out of Baltic Birch

 

 

Since these pics were taken, I've built a new trunk floor and positioned the box back further under the pass-through.

 

Lookin good Tim. How long did it take you to make that?

 

nice looking back Tim

 

Thanks guys. Jason, to build the box, and install it, I dragged it out over a two-day period, but I wasn't rushing too much. Work for a while, drink a Rolling Rock, work for a while, etc.

 

nice box. specs please

 

Thanks. I built the box per JL's specs which are listed in this pdf file. I went with the ported version which is on the right hand side of the page.

http://www.jlaudio.com/subwoofers/pdfs/W6v2_MAN.pdf

 

how much RMS can the sub handle?? 400???

 

400 continuous, yeah.

 

looks very very good tim... and i bet it sounds sweet

 

looks good!.... i like where u mounted the crossovers... and the box...and woofer look just like mine!!! itll produce some nice clean bass..... i can tell ya that much since i have the same box(jl spec and all) and woofer, only diffrence is mine is on a jl500.1 unsure what yours is or will be on....