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WR1 ICE Upgrade - Phase 1

Postby Scoobasteve » Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:18 pm

Hi,

Have been planning to upgrade the ICE in the Scoob for a while and as it was a reasonable day I thought I'd take the plunge.

I know there have been some posts about this before but I thought I'd share it anyway.

The car is a WR1 and totally stock from an audio standpoint.
The front speakers I have chosen are Infinity reference 6510cs' (90W RMS, 270 Peak).

Okay they're not Infinity Perfects but they were sixty pounds on Ebay (new) which I thought was a bargain.

Reviewed the posts on SN and saw the MDF spacer debate. Couldn't be arsed to start cutting MDF so I managed to find a good shortcut.

Autoleads produce a speaker adapter kit for the Vauxhall Astra/Vectra which I found to be a near perfect fit, the kit number is (SAK-2902) and it cost around twelve pounds from Halfrauds.

Anyway here's how it went.

Step 1 - Followed Chiark's guide for removing the door card:
http://www.chiark.com/scooby/icetoc.asp

Step 2 Removed the stock tweeter and modified the mounting, replaced this with the new Infinity tweeter.

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Step 3 Removed stock subwoofer, removed stock speaker connector and replaced with standard terminals.

Step 4 Remove the plastic sheeting and Dynamat'd the whole subwoofer area.

Step 5 Coverded the Dynamat with the plastic sheeting and trimmed Dynomat to make door stud holes visible

Step 6 Cut hole in Dynomat for subwoofer and installed the Autoleads speaker adapter.

Step 7 Connect new Sub and screw into speaker adapter, end result looks something like this.

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Step 8 Check that the window can be lowered fully and perform a sound check.

Step 9 Re-fit door card and check the speaker is not fouled.

Overall I'm well happy with the result, a massive improvment over the standard speakers for minimal cost.

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Phase 2 will be to install the new Sony MEX-1GP head unit (due next week).

Phase 3 will be a full boot install with 2 x 12@ JL audio subs and an Infinity 6 way AMP.

Cheers

Steve
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Postby WR 1mposter » Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:32 pm

I see you've only part dynomated the doors,
any particular reason for this......

Had our door skins and panel done aswell :D

Are the speaker running of a amp?
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Postby Scoobasteve » Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:39 pm

No amp connection as yet, just a standard HU feed.

I'm gonna add the AMP in a few weeks hopefully.

Planning to fully Dynamat the doors when I add the amp.
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Postby WR 1mposter » Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:43 pm

Fully dynamated doors unbelivable .....


trouble is the rest of the car vibrates,


when i turn Kylie up :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby Anders_WR1 » Sat Apr 15, 2006 2:41 pm

Steve, how did you find the clearance on these speakers? I opted for the Subaru Clarion upgrade kit (
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Postby Scoobasteve » Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:53 pm

Hi Anders,

No problem with door fouling, thought I may have to trim down the guide ring on the door card but there's just enough clearance.

cheers

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Postby Neil M » Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:40 pm

Hi, I thought about installing 2 x 12 inch subs too, however I only have 1 x JL12w6 . . . the sub is quite expensive but the results are absolutely amazing - I never thought I would be able to generate so much bass from 1 sub.

Would recommend this to anyone, more boot space and half the weight!!
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