White VY Berlina *Picture Heavy*

That air freshner has to be worth 2ess ques

And yeah not a problem, its a bit dark and gloomy now but tomorrow i'll take some more pictures of my upgrade so far.

 

Missed this one sorry man yeah there are a few, i'll dig around then put them up.

 

My new headunit has arrived Alpine 9855 which will allow me to run my new front stage (more details on this later). The annoying thing is, my car in the panel shop having the rear bar resprayed so I can't play with it yet!
A big thanks to HOLD3N for the flawless packaging and fast postage.

Also have a nice collection of suspension now, I am going to be re doing the suspension a bit, not sure what springs to use yet but I have a lot to choose from. I also have some FE2 shocks with 30 000km on them, and am going to order some polyurethane adjustable radius rod bushes and get a nice wheel alignment. Also deciding to run with the 19x8.5" XHP Modena wheels once I organise some new tyres, for something a bit different.

Springs I have are: (Not all pictured)
Kings Lows (2 x Rear Pair, 1 x Front Pair)
Pedders Super Lows (Front / Rear Pairs)
Pedders Super Super Low? (Ultra?) (Front Pair)
FE2 Shocks
VS FE2 (Rear Pair)

So it will be a lot lower at the front, probably a similar height at the rear if not a little lower, should look sweet with the 19's on.







Also clicked over 124 000km the other day!

 

Hey man, sorry about the late reply

I'm running (temporarily) the Soundstream TRC.6N component set, active (ditched the factory passive cross overs) .. I don't like them at all haha the midbass are OKish but lack a midrange punch, though have a solid midbass punch. The tweeters are not refined and were very harsh, though thanks to the headunit i've been able to cut out a bit of the harshness, though they still aren't refined.

In two weeks i'm picking up some SB Acoustics SB17 midbass to replace the Soundstream, i'll keep using the tweeters until I get myself something better, I'll be having a full format SB Acoustics SB29's or some Seas Prestige .. Or some Fountek's or something nicer haha not sure on the tweets yet.

The crescendo are a very nice sounding speaker indeed, first time I saw some I was very surprised how shallow they were with the neodymium magnets, though they still have awesome output. A very well designed speaker indeed.

What sort of money are you looking at spending? I was blown away with the 2011 Audison Voce K6 component set. RRP is $599 but i've found the set for $490, absolutely awesome. You could run a dual midbass with that if you wanted to, run them to a 4 channel amp from 63hz or wherever you want, play the midbass to roll off then run the tweeters through the passive cross over. Would be a killer setup, definitely look into them when you have your tax money. I'd be going those if I didn't have such a limited budget, forcing me to go a DIY Setup (nothing wrong with this though)

FG Boxes got the boot, I got 4 layers in the thought #### this, taking too much time and screwing around haha went and built my MDF box. 18mm all round, 36mm mdf front baffle, 0.9cu.ft each chamber after displacement, and a nice flush mount front. I love it

Hope to see some more updates on your car soon mate!

 

haha why did you think I was older?

Are you referring to the exodus anarchy midbass? If so, very beefy midbass and I do enjoy them a lot, however they don't play high at all, very much so a midbass speaker and not as much a midrange speaker, you'd need a tweeter you could cross nice and low (say 2khz on a 12dB slope) to make them good in an active 2-way setup. Any reason you want to double up on midbass, or do you want to double up on everything? You'll get better SQ and with just the 1 set. You will lack the first 3dB of volume you get from another speaker but this could be fixed with spending more money on mounting / amplification / eq. .. What sort of amp / headunit do you have to run?

And yeah i'm still at school too haha at Uni.

 

I'll take this over to PM mate, will be easier to chat.

 

First post updated, some pictures deleted, a bit tidier and easier to follow now Check front page for current and planned mods.

 

Haha it's not much too look at mate. But yeah a NSW cruise could be cool, if one gets lined up again near Goulburn i'll head for sure.

As an update, my new midbass are ordered. SB Acoustics SB17 .. and I'll get them next week, then a lot of work will be happening on my front doors and the wiring of the car.

 

Update time.

I have my new midbass now. SB Acoustics SB17 . . Will be used in my 2-Way DIY Active front stage.

Decent magnets on them, remember these are classed as a 6" speaker



Also new speaker wire, 14awg, going to re do 4 runs for midbass / tweeters




Also picked up two new tyres for my 19" ROH Modenas.
245/35R19 Nexen N6000 - A pair for the rear.



Thanks for looking.

 

Few more pictures

Footwell / centre console lights


Making new baffles for my midbass, this is the final angle I was happy with, while still fitting behind the factory doortrim

Rings cut





Wrapped up


Ready for polyester resin


Pulled my sub box out, lined it with Dacron


Subs sitting out of the box


Re ran all speaker wiring with some quality 14awg

Nice and labelled


Tidy! 80 cable ties for the run



All loomed up



Up and into the boot



More updates tomorrow.
Cheers

 

Some more pictures

I did the front suspension, its settled a little now

On stock Berlina wheels

Wheels after a clean, 2 new tyres and ready to go on


Still need a polish though


Midbass pods sanded and ready


In the car


Door being sealed up, service holes with treated MDF


And complete


Thanks for looking, all comments welcome!

 

Thanks for the comment mate. Loom didn't take too long, used about 80 cable ties though haha. Midbass pods took around 16 hours, sanding is a bitch, angles are annoying and time consuming, but I am very very happy with how they turn out.

The next comp in on the 14th so its been a squeeze to get it all done. I have to get my door trims on and clean like there's no tomorrow now!