I bought a 60 watt output Whelen Comet Flash strobe power supply and some hideaway strobe bulbs and installed them in my headlight lenses they are really bright I’m running my power supply in high power mode.

The strobe bulbs require a 1” whole to be drilled so I drilled into my headlight lens then put some silicone around the plug


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I have been seeing threads of guys doing some very nice trunk installs.

So I decided to redo my trunk setup.

My trunk has to be very functional w/as much space kept as possible.

Old setup
I had one Pioneer Dual Voice Coil 400w RMS/800 Peak 12” subwoofer in a medium sealed hatchback style box (now for sale) $100 local pickup/delivery, $150 shipped.

I had my Stinger ½ farad capacitor and my MTX Thunder 421D amp mounted to the sides of the box.





I took my spare tire out (w/18’s a spare is really no good).

I used some plywood and made an amp rack in my spare tire well.

I went to my local hardware store and had a piece of plexiglas cut 18” x 36”.

I covered it in plexiglas and put hinges on it so I can lift the plexiglas up over the amp and still get to my amp and stuff under the cover.

I bought some black automotive carpet and used my factory trunk liner as a template and cut out a pattern to line the bottom of my trunk.

I have 4 10” neon music interface (blink to the beat of the music) tubes in my trunk I have two of them mounted under my rear deck and I put the other two beside my amp on the rack so they light up the amp blue they are wired to my trunk light so they come on when my trunk opens and go off when I close it.




I bought two Xtant Z-series 12” subwoofers
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...092024969&rd=1


and a dual Bandpass 12 subwoofer enclosure it has mirrors in it and a plexiglas cover
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I was trying to carry my brushed aluminum, gray, black, silver, theme from my interior to my trunk, the Xtant subs are black and the dust caps have a brushed aluminum look to them, the sub box has black carpet on the outside and gray carpet on the inside, black carpet to line the trunk, brushed aluminum look old school Maxima emblem for a decorative touch.

This project took me 4 days off and on working on it after work.

It’s not much, but it is more “custom” than my old setup and it’s nice and clean and all done by me!

This was my very 1st time working w/wood and I do all kinds of mods but I don’t have any carpenter skills.

I’m happy w/how it came out.

I just put the box and subs in today and I’m happy w/how they sound

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Trunk looks good Will. Keep up the good work

 

Nice turnout! I need to do somethin like that w/ my trunk

 

Looks really clean! But don't you lose a lot of trunk space, which I'm guessing might be important seeing how you have a family and all?

 

Looks good, much more fitting look to go with the exterior of your max then the old set up

 

That looks sweet, good job Will

 

good work....did you make that cover yourself for trunk lid?

 

Lookin good as always...

 

thank you...........


that is the factory trunk lid cover

 

I was thinking about getting a strobe kit but was wondering how hard the installation is. Do you just run a power/ground wire from the battery to the controller box, mount the bulbs in the desired housings and then mount the box inside the car somewhere?

 

Great work, as always william

 

love that black carpet

 

I like what you did with your truck. Keep the hard work up.

 

Looks good!!! I had tons of issue trying to fit two amps and a cap in there. At first, I wanted the amps to lay flat. No matter how I positioned them, they were just too big. I ended up tilting them up and raised the false floor up about 4". Looks like you got that same piece of precut board from Home Depot as I did. LOL.

 

if you get a kit it will have installation instructions, power supplies are very high voltage so the box must not get wet at all mine is in my engine bay beside my battery..

 

I sold my 12” Pioneer sub w/the box...so this item is sold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

looks clean my friend...

 

looks sa-weeeeeet!!!!

 

Is there a seperate switch that runs into the car to turn them on? Cause I'm assuming you don't pop the hood every time you want to turn on the strobes.

 

I have a toggle switch on my dash....

 

nice pics i like that look. makes me want to finish my trunk off. and get rid of this pos box i haveand replace it with a custom box that will do my subs justice. keep up the good work.

 

Looks good, i think you might need a better amp tho for those subs. Good work man, i wish everyone made write up like you.

 

Hey Will - That turned out real nice. Black trunk looks really clean indeed.

-OS

 

thanks Oss coming from you

 

Great work William!!!!!

 

Your car has totally changed in the last year or so. Very nice bro.

 

Will, you should have installed the strobe power supply in the engine bay.

You should of thrown it under your passenger or driver's seat, or in the trunk.

~ Kirk

 

That looks REALLY clean, man.. excellent work. One of the best setups I have seen on the org. I need to do something like that; my uncovered home made box is starting to annoy me.

How did you attach the wooden board that the plexiglass attaches to? Velcro? Epoxy?

 

very nice work. seriously!

 

Nice Setup!

 

thank you man for the props

I screwed the plexi onto the board w/hinges then the carpet has velcro on it to attach to the plexoglas

 

I see.. I was actually asking about the actual wooden board - how is it attached to the wheel well?

 

wow looks good so far! good luck with the custom work!

 

it is being held in by the spare tire holder, the bolt that screws down the spare tire...........

 

Cool, that's what I wanted to know. Where can I get a perfect circle like that? Home Depot? How much would it cost, and what size is it?

 

it's like a counter top or table top ask the guy above this post back up in the thread 1MAX2NV he used the top from Home depot..I used a cable reel from my job I work for the phone company and we have cable reels and I used one of them....

 

Looks good, I like

 

a few pics from this weekend........








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