this thread is long overdue for me. i came back from iraq last month and chris (filtor1) and kevin (kpr10is) came to my house and installed my viper 791xv with remote start and my subs and amp. they did this while me and wife spent the day in orlando.


so again to chris and kevin

here are some of the pics

seats out


bose out


a broken clip here fixed with epoxy


rear deck with stinger roadkill

 

this was chris' lunch


almost done


clean shot of the amp


red top and power wire

 

kevin under the steering column


steering column all tore up


a shot of the subs


viper remote and key

 

those two knows their stuff

looks good, wished i was closer to them so i can get my 791 installed as well

 

Looks awesome, nice simple and clean. Thats a solid day's work. Thanks for your service in Iraq, by the way....

 

seen the pix before good work guys. what did you all do to keep the optima high enough to use the stock bttery tie down?

 

Nice looking install. How do you like that Viper alarm and remote start?

 

Thanks for the props everyone

 

Good job Kevin and Chris. BTW is that sub issue resolved? I told Chris what to do.

 

the battery cover is beneath it. the ground cable is connected by a clip near the bottom of the tray. i had to remove the cable from the clip to get it to reach the negative post.

 

thanks and your welcome. i had a lot of fun in iraq.

 

i am liking the alarm and remote start alot. i haven't really been able to test out how far i use it. maybe this weeken.

 

Welcome back man... glad to see you made it out of there. So where did you spend your days of glorious fun.

I spent mine in Kirkuk.

 

the sub issue is resolved now. i ended up looking at the fuse holder and saw that one side came off really easy. so i decided to make it a little tighter. while i had the fuse out i noticed some arc marks on it. but it was weird because the amp never turned itself off. i made sure that both sides of the fuse made good contact with the holder. i took it for a test drive and it didn't cut out on me.

 

i was at 2 locations while i was there. first was al-asad, second was mosul. so i did a little bit of travel. it was fun.

 

nice work fellas!

Congrats Rey, nice that you are home safe!

 

I spent 4 months in Kirkuk... then took a nice flight over Bagram Afghanistan. Needless to say, after stepping off the plane, I wanted to go right back home, Iraq as a second choice

I did have fun i Kirkuk, though the Kurds are interesting... some of the time they acted like 3 yr olds.

 

good work Reytard

 

Your welcome Rey. Glad we could source that issue. Sorry it took so long. I had a great time.

Thanks for the compliments everyone!

BTW, the 791 was all Kevin. I might be able to install a 791 one of these days.

 

dam you guys had to take the whole cluster off too to install the alarm? or was that to run the led?

 

To do it correctly, yes. I don't think he wanted to leave the brain on the front seat.

 

how long did the alarm install take? (just for something to keep in mind when i have mine installed)

 

Rey's was one of my best 791 installs imo, and it shows, not only when you look under the dash, but in the time it took for the install itself. At work they expect me to do one in 4ish hours depending on the car. But thats soldering every connection. Shops other than CC or BB can have it done faster than that, being that their installers will probably have more experience than me, and that they use crimps/t-taps, whereas BB and CC solder. But I guarantee it wont look as clean as ones like rey's. It would take me 10 minutes to get to the alarm brain myself, let alone a thief who doesnt know every single screw/bolt in the car as well as i do.

 

a very nice install it is.

 

Most def a professional 791 install.

 

Tach wire is behind the instrument cluster.