My ICE install (pic heavy)

[Stan]

Right, here is my install in my mk4 supra. It's taken me about a month on and off, including 7 days solid which I had off work to try and get it all done although it certainly doesn't look like that amount of work in the pics, believe me it was!!

 

 

First up, the equipment that I managed to shoehorn into it:

 

Alpine D310RB headunit

Genesis A16.2 components (front)

Genesis A13.2 components (front)

Genesis P16.2 components (rear)

2x Alpine SWS-1043d subwoofers

Genesis 4 channel (bridge for front A16s)

Genesis 4 channel (front A13s and rear P16s)

Genesis DMX (subs)

 

Slightly overkill on the components, including the dreaded rear speakers, but I had a few pairs lying around and coupled with the fact my supra is an aerotop, I needed the volume!

 

 

 

Wiring

 

0 gauge all the way baby! This involved a lot of cut fingers and swearing. I eventually removed my front wing to get the cable through the firewall which was a PITA, and installed some tasty voltage battery clamps.

 

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Door builds

 

So first stage in the proper ICE installing, we have the front door builds. The supra already had brackets made up in the doors for 6.5" speakers, here is what they looked like before, and also with the doorcards off to show the existing brackets.

 

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So in order to cram 2 speakers each side, I had to fab up a mounting trim for each side to hold the 2 speakers and a tweeter (I'm only using 1 tweeter at the mo). Here is some pics of the trim rings along with using some bodyfiller to make the back of the trim ring contoured to fit around the doorcard.

 

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And after trimming the ring in black leatehr and cutting a hole out for the second speaker in the doorcard, I bolted the trim ring to the door card for support. I also put a lot of sound deadening on the back of the trim ring and the doorcard.

 

 

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Now this'd be no good just mounting the trim ring to the doorcard, so after putting the doorcard back on, I screwed the trim ring to the existing speaker bracket on the door to give it more support, and put a load more sound deadening on the door. Then the A16.2 speaker was screwed onto the trim ring.

 

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[Stan]

Rear speakers

 

Now the supra has existing holes behind the rear grilles for some small speakers, but there was no way I could get a 6.5" speaker in along with the crossover and a tweeter, so again I made up a mounting plate using the template of the OEM rear grille.

 

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This was then trimmed in black leather and fitted with the speakers.

 

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Now there isn't a lot of room behind the rear speakers, so after cutting away some of the plastic I managed to fit in the crossover and wiring for the rear speakers

 

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And then I bolted the mounting trim to the rear using two existing bolt holes (after remembering I shouldn't have already screwed the speakers on ). I couldn't figure out how to hide the bolts but I don't think they look too bad

 

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And here is a pick of the drivers side speakers

 

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Sub box

 

Now, first I must explain what an enormously deep boot the supra has.....

 

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A total of 7 inches mouting depth (!!!), coupled with the fact that I need to fit my roof in the back as well so can't go any higher than the existing boot floor.

 

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Therefore I had to get a custom box made and sent from the states which fits where the OEM sub is, and allows two 10" subs to sit kinda flat just under the leading edge of the roof when it's in. This also means I had to order 2 shallow subs as it wouldn't allow anything with a mounting depth of over 12cm. After narrowing it down and trying to find something relatively SQ, I settled for two Alpine SWS-1043d subs so I could run them at 4ohm to start with, then 1ohm when they are run in and I want more power

 

Now the sub box came trimmed in that black carpety stuff. I didn't really want that so stripped it all off (with a hell of a lot of turps and sanding!) and re-trimmed it in leather

 

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So onto installing the subs. I used threaded inserts so I could undo the subs easily when needed.

 

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Mmmmm shallow!!

 

 

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[Stan]

Amp rack

 

 

Probably the hardest bit of the install. To start with, I had to remove the spare wheel and associated tools etc to make it all fit in (remember, I can't go higher than the boot floor), and also the 3 genesis amps lined end to end are about 5cm shorter than the length of my boot, so this was a close one!

 

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Then I made a new floor for the amps and stuff

 

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Luckily this came in at 7cm below the OEM bootline, and the genesis amps are 6.2cm high, so this gave me room for the cover as well.

 

 

So with a bit more fettling, I drilled all the holes for the wiring and the temp/volt meters, and then trimmed it all

 

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Then screwed on the amps and the distribution blocks, and put grommets in for the wiring (even though they are hidden, I think it looks better!)

 

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Then I made a wall to seperate the distro blocks and volt/temp meters

 

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And then made end plates for the amps, these had 2 fans in each end (one to blow down the heatsink hole, one to blow down the fins) - one sucking and one blowing of course. I also ran bendy LEDs over the top so they light up the edges of the amps when it's dark

 

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Then came the fun part, wiring everything in! This took bloody ages, although it was the fiddly stuff like the amp remotes and neons that were harder to do than the amp power. You'll notice I also had the added problem of keeping all the wires out of the way of the fuel pump that the amp rack was sitting over (this would have raised the amp rack too much)

 

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Cover

 

So I had to make a nice cover to hide everything away. First I used the existing boot carpet to make a template.

 

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To show off the amps, I thought it would be appropriate to use an oval similar to the genesis logo. With the clever use of a calculator, 2 screws and a bit of string, I knocked up an oval and cut it out, worked out pretty well I think!

 

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Now to make it fit around the sub box, I had to make another bit of trim and join it to the cover

 

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You'll also see I cut out a hole to show off the distribution blocks and volt/temp meter

 

Unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to hide the plates so they do show up when trimmed, however I'm not too fussed about that at the mo. So here is it trimmed and with some perspex over the amps (for anyone who wants cheap perspex, I got a clip picture frame from The Range which had a bit of plastic that was long enough, and I cut it to fit, only cost me a fiver!)

 

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Edited June 14, 2010 by Stan (see edit history)

[Stan]

So then it's a case of putting it over the amp rack!

 

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(I've got 2 triangle bits of plastic coming to cover the wires, but thought I'd get these pics up anyway, but it will all be hidden)

 

 

And then a pic of it lit up at night

 

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If anyone is wondering, the first 3 gauges are the 3 amps temperatures, and the last gauge is the voltage running through the distro block.

 

 

 

So there it is, I hope you all think it's not a bad effort considering my last install was just a premade box in the boot with an amp and wires lying on the boot floor!!, and the roof still fits in fine too

[lui]

Looks fantastic job very well done must sound awesome top quality install there

[scotty71]

 

Thats a looooooooooong post

 

Good work and pics there A/V clip from outside the supe??

[Smallshinyant]

Nice job, and certainly a better job than i could pull off. Im not a big guy for sounds, but throw me a few led lights and some LED displays and im all for it.

[geordie82]

looks good, obviously alot of time and effort invested

[The Raven]

Huge amounts of win mate, i know the pain of aero installs! Looks awesome

[Ricky49]

Might be a silly question but why so many in the front doors.

 

Looks go though well done 9/10 for effort. What's handling like no with the extra weight in the back.

[Brazil]

Looks good, but totally over kill I have had 1 12'' sup in all my cars and I find that more then enough. I think an 8'' or good components would suffice though..!

 

Congrats on the quailit of the install though...!

 

Ps. I think the front door cards trimming could be made a little better.

Edited June 14, 2010 by Brazil (see edit history)

[Geo]

Nice install mate, one thing did you fook your wing doing it?? Its all bent!!!

[supra_aero]

Looks stunning. Truly stunning. Well done.

[Lude]

good work, there really isnt much room at all in the boot is there.

 

 

its even less room if you leave the spare wheel in there, doesnt that bother you?

 

 

looks nice and origonal there tho, takes lots of planning, let alone all the actual work

[fuldhat]

Nice install...

[Stan]

Looks good, but totally over kill I have had 1 12'' sup in all my cars and I find that more then enough. I think an 8'' or good components would suffice though..!

 

Congrats on the quailit of the install though...!

 

Ps. I think the front door cards trimming could be made a little better.

 

Haha, well it may be overkill but I like my tunes, and the only way to increase volume is to increase the speakers! And Genesis are very good components if you research them, there amps and speakers are well known for their SQ (have a look how much they cost )

 

I know the front trimming ain't great, that's the only thing that is annoying me at the mo but I just wanted to get it all done!, I got better with trimming by the time I did the rears, so I will re-do the fronts at some point.

 

Nice install mate, one thing did you fook your wing doing it?? Its all bent!!!

 

Haha, that was me getting it off to get the cable through the bulkhead!

 

 

good work, there really isnt much room at all in the boot is there.

 

its even less room if you leave the spare wheel in there, doesnt that bother you?

 

Doesn't bother me having no spare wheel, at least if offsets some of the extra weight! I only do about 2000 miles a year if that, so I'll risk getting a flat.

[SUPRALOOPY]

Bloody top job there.

[Axle]

Impressive.

 

You thought about offering this as a service?

 

If anyone does, i would be intrested.

[Stan]

You thought about offering this as a service?

 

If anyone does, i would be intrested.

 

If I had the time I'd love to do it, but this has taken me a month on and off (including weekends, much to the misses chagrin and 7 days off work as well) and I'd never have the time with my job as well

[Axle]

Get your finger out of your @rse and do mine dammit.

 

I will offer you £800 and a pint of redbull to help you on the way.

 

I will even track down Nizam and have him entertain you for your halftime refreshment.

 

You're not ganna get a offer better then that.

 

What say you?

Edited June 15, 2010 by Axle
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[supra steveo]

loving the sub encloser , good to see another aerotop with a good sound system

[Guest SupraN]

Look fantastic install mate, How long it took you to finish all this work?

[RCK10]

Look fantastic install mate, How long it took you to finish all this work?

 

this has taken me a month on and off (including weekends, much to the misses chagrin and 7 days off work as well)

 

[Guest Supra-T]

this has taken me a month on and off (including weekends, much to the misses chagrin and 7 days off work as well)

[Guest SupraN]

Ah i get it.. cheers fella:)