I went in the forums sections of both caraudio.com and sounddomain.com and searched for "big 3" and "upgrade wiring" and found a bunch of threads.

Main ca thread: http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=152355

Main SD thread: http://forum.sounddomain.com/forum/u...c;f=5;t=007801

 

It can be closer to the battery. It just happened to fit well in that location in my Sentra.

 

FINALLY...Components installed! It took 10 hours, total (I did more than just install the components).

Vehicle:


View of door Screws:


Underside of handle showing location of clips:


Brokeback door handle:


Stock Door:

 

Tweeter Mounting details:

Stock Tweeter:


Hertz Tweeter Mount on stock bracket:


Hertz Tweeter installed on stock bracket:


Hertz Tweeter mounted in stock location:


...and with stock A-pillar cover in place (not much to see here):

 

Midrange details:

Snaking the wires to the door (note the use of a HUGE zip-tie as a wire snake):


Spacer installed; part of deadening completed:


Mid in Spacer (Driver's side):


Mid in Spacer (Passenger's side):


Door Deadened with both mass and barrier loading:

 

Ooo lookin good so far!

 

One more pic...

Proper wire routing:

 

How do they sound?

 

Good. I am still oversized on the box fo rmy sub and most likely everything is underpowered. I remember when an RF amp w/ 50 watts per channel would break windows...this Xtant is very clean, but the 50 watts per channel is really not as far-reaching as I had hoped. The Hertz have very smooth highs and very clean midrange. Midbass is there if i lower the HPF to 50 Hz, but they sound very clean at 80 hZ (I am using the built-in x-over on the Pioneer). I could not push the Hertz to distortion without maxing out the volume on the HU, and that is with the amp's gains up around 90%. Like I said, the amp is clean, but just does not have a lot of headroom.

I think that with a few more watts, these would SCREAM. I DON'T like the in-line crossovers, but they would be easy to upgrade, and they were a snap to install because they can be tucked just about anywhere. Also, the mids have a basket that seems a bit thin. I could probably torque the mounting screws enough to actually bend the basket/flange if I tightened them any more. You could see the mounting flange start to bend as the screws cinched down.

On the plus side, the speakers are VERY musical, and don't sound like speakers- they make music sound like music. For the price, they are the best components I have ever heard or run. My only wish is that I had more power to put to them, and that I had a more well-tuned sub to augment them.

 

Nice! So more power and a smaller box and you'll be golden

 

VERY nicely done. Glad it worked out. Nice job

 

Smaller box to start. I will be putting blocks of wood in the current box until it sounds the best, then I will build a new box with that same volume.

After driving it for an hour today, I realized that it gets more than loud enough for daily driving, so while my old basshead, hear-me-down-the-block self would need more power, I will take this nice, clean sound and put the $$$ from another amp into something else...

 

Thank you!

 

very nice install

 

Sounds good man, glad its actually louder than you initially thought