MKIV R32 Custom Install

[ranton-inc]

Hiiii..

Heres my Custom Install in Progress

Idea: 2x 8 inch Dual Coil Subwoofers concealed behind standard trimming each coil to be ran at 400wrms

RE RE8 are the Subwoofers
RE RE6s are the 6 inch components for upfront

Alpine CDA 9887 is the HU i will be running

Alpine 5 Channel Amp

you get the picture?

Photos:

Initial Mouldings Click to Enlarge

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[ranton-inc]

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[Mr ©harisma]

Looking good dude, Its good to see you securing your wiring down.

400WRMS per coil, is that all the 8inch can handle lol

Depending on how it finishes, it definately look like one of the best stealth idea's I have seen in a long time.

[ranton-inc]

Looking good dude, Its good to see you securing your wiring down.

400WRMS per coil, is that all the 8inch can handle lol

Depending on how it finishes, it definately look like one of the best stealth idea's I have seen in a long time.

Nah man its all my amp can put out

she cracked 140db with the old setup so.. its more than enough for me..

its not going to be entered in to comps or anything :)

FYI

The Concept of the install was a very ugly love child by my mate Hennie... hes the resident Audio Guru on eurosport.org.nz he has done some pretty crazy installs and owns enough audio equipment thats unused he could kit out a fleet of cars..

[glidn]

wow man that is a nice install.:D

[ranton-inc]

wow man that is a nice install.:D

hi hennie.. your an ass!

[thepowercosmic]

More photos please..!!

[ranton-inc]

More photos please..!!

lol

is that sarcasm?

thats as far as the project has progressed in the last 2 weeks

Head Deck and New Components arrive wednesday

comp wiring hopefully this arvo

Glidn will hopefully start sealing the boxes up shortly as the weather is good for a change..

cant wait..

will be plugging my Ipod Straight in and busting out Shapeshifter to tune the system

and when glidns imprint tuner arrives we will be doing a imprint tune on the car!

[thepowercosmic]

lol

is that sarcasm?

thats as far as the project has progressed in the last 2 weeks

Head Deck and New Components arrive wednesday

comp wiring hopefully this arvo

Glidn will hopefully start sealing the boxes up shortly as the weather is good for a change..

cant wait..

will be plugging my Ipod Straight in and busting out Shapeshifter to tune the system

and when glidns imprint tuner arrives we will be doing a imprint tune on the car!

No, no sarcasm.

Genuinely interested in your progress.

I had someone like that planned also. So far I've only managed to get my old Boston Pro 6.5's in the car.

Link below if you wanna have a look - but from all accounts, you guys have got it all sorted.

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/newforum/upload/showthread.php?t=5038

[ranton-inc]

Glidn has started Assembling both halves of the sealed boxes

Not alot of progress has been made of late as we have both been excessivly busy!

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Running the 4AWG Power Wire tonight and will be making up my Stereo Wiring harnes.. (I never used the vehicles proprietry radio harness.. i tape it up and zip tie it out of the way..

We source power for the H.U. directly from the battery and source the Accessory Signal else where

i do this so the car can be returned to stock standar with ease at any stage!!

will get some more photos tonight.. hopefully i will be able to install the strut brace also!

[Soundofav6]

WOW.. that is very NEAT !!!

What is the first layer before you used fibre glass, it is so smooth.

[ranton-inc]

WOW.. that is very NEAT !!!

What is the first layer before you used fibre glass, it is so smooth.

Tape... Masking Tape.. lots of it.


Glidn Sealed the boxes last night..

maybe he can pop some photos up

[ranton-inc]

Boxes being Sealed

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[ranton-inc]

More keep on hitting img per post limit.

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[Mr ©harisma]

Looking good dude, will look forward to see it in the car :D

[ranton-inc]

Looking good dude, will look forward to see it in the car :D

Or was it not seeing it (that is the question) :P

[Mr ©harisma]

lol hurry up and put it in already!!

[intensem1]

Looks really good! Whats the cloth you used to stretch over it, and whats the can. Would love a DIY on this.

Keep it up!

[ranton-inc]

the cloth is a polar fleece blanket from glidns child hood (jks)

but yeah its a polar fleece blanked

and the can is Ados F2 Spray adhesive..


good for carpeting boxes and recovering headliners etc.


Would love a DIY on this.

Keep it up!

That my friend you would have to ask Glidn for..

he is real passionate about sound systems and going a little crazy with the construction..

[ranton-inc]

whoop Alpine 9887 is now mine!

colour match for the wee dub oooh yea!

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[ranton-inc]

Well its getting there..

Hennie and I spent all Saturday on completing the following that are about to be posted up.

Sunday i was down in Karapiro watching the rowing.

It was a relativly constructive day.. especially seeing as tom came around with speakers sans speaker cones in his rover. (and he wondered why they wernt working)

Heres sa barage photos of the Work that progressed in the weekend.

Mini dub + 1 rover meet at Hennies on Sat
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now for the work

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[ranton-inc]

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[ranton-inc]

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[ranton-inc]

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The Final Stages of Reassembly, Leak Testing and Ultimate Tuning take place tonight..

cant wait to have a R with an interior.

[Mr ©harisma]

Looking good dude, OH&S might have something to say... put some shoes on lol.

It's great to have wires everywhere :)

[Greg Roles]

Wow, you guys really spent some time on those sub boxes, awesome fabrication. I see you filled them with dacron wool to absord the reverse wave, but I've always wondered about just how much to use, and if this then drops the volume of the box? Is it really that acoustically invisible??

Or is it you guys just dig wool?:D

You have any plans to put a vent or a fan in for the amp? Great idea with the spare tyre well, it's starting to look good to me too....

[ranton-inc]

funnily enough we just installed the fan system tonight and discoverd the subs love to rattle the interior apart.. so we are busy shutting up rattles... etc (another spanner in the works yay!

what has ticked me off.. i just rolled in to my garage about 2 minutes ago..

turned the key off.. opend the drivers door pulled the key and pop all the interior lighting and central locking died.. why the f*%^ do you have to blow fuses at me at 1:00am nz time grrr.

[ranton-inc]

Well forgot to mention last night how much of a rattle trap the R32 is now..

looks like we will be needing ALOT of foam and deadening!

We put Dynaxorb pads behind the front mids seems as thou it has improved the quality a little..

but the stereo (before that and probably still is now) clear as a bell out side the car.. one things we will be needing alot... and i mean ALOT.... of dynamat or similar...

Good news is the Amp isnt running extremly hot any more with the new AMD processor Fans installed (cheers Glidn) we are waiting for his mum to figure out that two heatsinks and fans out of the new stock have gone missing :P

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also made some foam speaker rings for the front mids to try and direct the sound as much as possible out the door grilles (ie prevent sound being played in to the door card.. hopefully this nullifies any vibrations that could potentially start..

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still got to fix the leak on the passenger side box and the slight leak that just developed on the driverside box..

also the left has a slight lack of Dacron fluff

apparently the dacron fluff tricks the sub in to thinking its in a bigger box..

dont ask me how me no physisizisizisict

[ranton-inc]

Looking good dude, OH&S might have something to say... put some shoes on lol.

It's great to have wires everywhere :)

Thats glidn

hes half Maori half southafrican

he one half hates the other ;)

[Mr ©harisma]

Thats glidn

hes half Maori half southafrican

he one half hates the other ;)

lol dude that is funny as!

Yeah I never turn a stereo on until I deaden it, otherwise as you said rattles everywhere. You will find that once you deaden the inner and outer door skin that the dynazorb pad will work even better.

Far out 1am, you guys are keen! I would hate to think how many times a fuse has blown just to annoy the crap out of me.... Starting to really take shape thou!

[ranton-inc]

lol dude that is funny as!

Yeah I never turn a stereo on until I deaden it, otherwise as you said rattles everywhere. You will find that once you deaden the inner and outer door skin that the dynazorb pad will work even better.

Far out 1am, you guys are keen! I would hate to think how many times a fuse has blown just to annoy the crap out of me.... Starting to really take shape thou!

yeah

fact is the deadening will have to happen in a few weeks time..

cant be fluffed at this stage..

just want he car functional again.

so hrm..

but yeah its exciting stuff..

even with the bas turned down a bit so the rattles are gone.. its filled in the bottom end enough i suppose..

to my tonedeaf ears it sounds pretty nice..

:D

[glidn]

well the idea of the dacron inside the subbox can do 2 things, you can stuff just enough to make it sound really good, or sound boxy or even to small an enclosure.

But i guess if wanted could stick dynzord behind it.

[glidn]

Mr Charisma maybe you can help on this one,

i currently have the system running active in the front.
Tweeter is cut off @ 2khz @ 12db
Mids are cut off 63 Hz @ Flat and 2.5Khz @ 6db
Sub @ 100Hz @ 18db

I find as soon as i run anything other than flat on the bottom of the mid the kick just vanishes.

Any suggestion or advice would be good, interior should be some what similar to that of your bora.

[Mr ©harisma]

Turn it up lol. Its the big knob on the left of your headunit. :D

[fuzion]

all these crazy kiwis with their bloody doof doof i tell ya ...

lol :)

trez i might have a present for u next month!

[ranton-inc]

all these crazy kiwis with their bloody doof doof i tell ya ...

lol :)

trez i might have a present for u next month!

whats trez got to do with any of this lol?

man i cant wait to get this doof doof going..

lol love the ripco ad

not sure if you guys have it over there with the asian family and the white guy hes trying to show of to his asian girlfriends family

yada yada yada

[Mr ©harisma]

all these crazy kiwis with their bloody doof doof i tell ya ...

lol :)

trez i might have a present for u next month!


Ha there not crazy, they are using 8 inch woofers... :?

[fuzion]

eh ignore me.

what ad?

is it this one? http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZFN95_WcxRc :D:D:D

[glidn]

well some progress was made as you saw, on monday night I installed some cooling fans.

also installed Dynazorb behind the speakers. I ahve not listen to it at all since.
So i'll do some more tuning tonight and see where we go from there.

[ranton-inc]

f*&k the tuning lets try and stop these rattles!!!!!!!

[Mr ©harisma]

lol GET TO WORK!

[ranton-inc]

just got home from glidns

its 1:30 am i have work in 4 hours..

whoopeee!

we spent pretty much the whole night doing oil changes and working on a sub box for his wifes GTI

got to my two towards the end.. to diagnose the leaks..

which to out surprise there were a few.. i suppose thats the difficulty when moulding and trimming such a difficult shape with glass..

so one box is leaky leaky no more.. and the other one is a current wip.. trying to solve the remaining leaky issues!


got heaps of foam and **** to use as gaskets and **** like that to minimise vibrations etc..

cos the car vibrates horrible especially when listening to Kings of leon the song "on call"

[ranton-inc]

Part 1: completed last night

interor back in! yay system operational but only running at 60% of Potential!

stay tuned for part 2: the incorporation of even more foam stuffing and hush matt or dyna mat or similar..

yay..

[Mr ©harisma]

Do it right, deaden why you have the trim off. May need an extra 2-3hours work but its gunna save you a lot of time in the long run!! Even if you do need it finished for the weekend lol.

[ranton-inc]

its the money issue..

not the time issue..

besides

it takes 20 minutes to remove.. so no probs there..

its all got to come out sooner than later any way because there are a few annoying dings down the left hand side that need to be rolled out..

[D3bb4]

Looks awesome.

How did you run the cables from the battery to the rear for the amp?

And the RCA leads???

I'm planning to do a sub install, but seems like it might be a pain in the ass, as i'm not wanting to cut or destroy anything - so that can be removed in future, and still be tidy.

Cheers.

[glidn]

Looks awesome.

How did you run the cables from the battery to the rear for the amp?

And the RCA leads???

I'm planning to do a sub install, but seems like it might be a pain in the ass, as i'm not wanting to cut or destroy anything - so that can be removed in future, and still be tidy.

Cheers.

Here is a quick run down on doing these steps.

As for power run them up the black channel behind battery up and under the rain tray, run the power cable just to the left of the pollen filter, There is a grommet you can run the power cable thru.

You will have to remove your glovebox to get easy access to it in the car.

Then simply run under the door trim to the boot.

RCA's - run down other side of car under the door trim, and out under the back seats. Or all the way into the boot as we had done.

If you get stuck let us know, will show some photo's as i'm redoing my cabling in a week or so then will be able to post pics.

[Mr ©harisma]

Its not hard if you have done it a few times before. There is also an easier grommet half way down the firewall under the pollen filter. You can fit huge cables through that one.

If you have never done it before, take your time and factor in about 2days if no one will help you out :D

Otherwise you can always get an Audio shop to run all your cables and you create the install....

[glidn]

Its not hard if you have done it a few times before. There is also an easier grommet half way down the firewall under the pollen filter. You can fit huge cables through that one.

If you have never done it before, take your time and factor in about 2days if no one will help you out :D

Otherwise you can always get an Audio shop to run all your cables and you create the install....

hmmm,

maybe i should go find that one.

I guess we both ran our cabling as mentioned before to make the engine bay look 100% factory original.

[Mr ©harisma]

hmmm,

maybe i should go find that one.

I guess we both ran our cabling as mentioned before to make the engine bay look 100% factory original.

Yeah ill go find it a get a pic.

[ranton-inc]

i started at the back of the car and ran it thru to the front!

heres a foto with the glove box out.

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and here is a photo looking up (as thou your lying on the floor in the passenger foot well with the glove box out!

you can see the dash support bar etc

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The Black hole thing where the red wire is pointing is the hole that leads out from just behind the pollen filter box..


Then i ran it down thru the black Wire loom duct think that sits under neath where your air box should be

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[Mr ©harisma]

Lol so you did it in reverse. This is where I put mine through.

How did you go? Did you get it all usable?

[ranton-inc]

WTH?!

you done yours a way different way

mine comes thru a hole under the rain tray
and runs straight thru that black plastic duct for the loom.. the cables come out right by the battery

which is why my Wires are secured tightly around the battery box.

secured as tidily as possible..

ill have to get another foto tonight

My Head decks dedicated power and earth wire go thru the same hole..

you can only see the wires when you pop out the cover that reveals the pollen filter..

will take photo tonight hopefully..

[ranton-inc]

i always seem to wire the cars from the back to the front..

i use a short section of thick gauge wire taped to the other electrical wires to thread them thru holes.. and tight spaces ie how i got the speaker wire direct in to the doors..

not just outside.. the doors or re using the standard wiring of the car.

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/03/w14-2.jpg

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/03/w15-2.jpg

[Mr ©harisma]

Yeah that is about the easiest way to feed the wires through. Packing tape also seems to work.

I did think about running it up that duct but I am so lazy so yeah different hole as it was easier than pulling everything out. Only run a 4ga power ( thanks largely to the Audison amps producing over 750WRMS off only 50-60A for normal music ) and like to dress the engine bay up a bit. With the earthing kit it makes life a little hard to hide it all lol.

[Mr ©harisma]

As you can see, this is how my engine bay currently looks :D

[ranton-inc]

yours is a complete different story :P

ihave a earthing kit to

but its only a 3 branch one

one to the throttle body being the main focus as its connected to the plastic intake manifold and as we all know plastic doesnt have conductive properties..

so the electronic throttle body has a grounding..

i need to pull my headlights and make sure everything is connected proper on them

[glidn]

only reason HitmanR32 has wired his power up in reverse is we did his last golfs wiring too but did it from front to rear. So he already knew where it had to go but we where unsure of the length. Hence running it in reverse.

[Mr ©harisma]

Well really who said it has to go from front to back?

Maybe Hitman did the right way and everyone else does it wrong....

[glidn]

Well really who said it has to go from front to back?

Maybe Hitman did the right way and everyone else does it wrong....

haha well i guess so, hence you have the power where you want it then join in the engine bay if need be.
lol

[ranton-inc]

ok these rattles are pissing me off
and now i think my rear quarter window seal is leaking..

something is whistling when im on the motor way..

(tbh i dont think its sound system install related :))

[Mr ©harisma]

Man that sucks. I hope you can fix it!

It annoys me when I have my lunch in a plastic bag in the front and the mids make it move.

[Soundofav6]

GOOD progress HITMAN !

BTW were the speakers mounted on the door card before ? than you simply MDF it to the door frame ?

[ranton-inc]

well got a few more rattles soreted today its amazing what electrical tape and foam can acheive!

and nah

i bolted a mdf ring to the door with m6 cap screws i put Rivet nuts in place of the original rivet holes

then screwed the speaker to the next mdf ring right thru to the mdf ring mounted in to the door.

i could have mounted it like 3 peice mags had i bought long enough cap screws.

[ranton-inc]

Due to popular demand..

here are some finished product photos..

Interior with Head Deck and doors blah
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/04/F1-2.jpg

Under the boot mat showing the amp box.
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/04/F2-1.jpg

Showing the Amp inside its little house..
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/04/F3-2.jpg

Showing the rear paneling with all the interior etc back in the car.. with a little bit of the subwoofer logo peeking thru the grilles.. (only viewable at certain angles :)
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/04/F4-2.jpg

[Mr ©harisma]

Good work dude, I bet the long nights are starting to be worth it hey. Definately a neat little stealth install! I like the use of space, a 3 door must be a pain to keep it useful and have a bit of a stereo. Well done.

[ranton-inc]

Space..

had no impact on space its great :P

i love having a 3 door

the 5 doors look not as good..

[Mr ©harisma]

Yeah I'm sure when the missus sends you out to get the groceries you will still have no problems lol

[ranton-inc]

what you mean missus..

ditch that bitch a long time ago..

but funnily enough the R is pretty good for those tight car park spaces :P

[Mr ©harisma]

lol I am very sorry to hear about your lose :D:D

Pfft even the Bora can get into spots, I used to own 2 of what you affectionately called the Mitsubishi Diamante ( Magna ). Now that was a pain!

Have you got those mini fans mounted up yet or am I going blind lol.

[99gti]

Looking good mate - nice progress!

If only we got 3 door GTI's here :mad:

[Mr ©harisma]

We do, they just have Polo in front of them :D

[Mr ©harisma]

they are indeed mounted up

i dont call any ricer burner anything affctionatly..

lol those Diamantes made awesome shopping cars, you could fit 4x 15's in the boot no problem.

Sweet, have you got the hole thing tuned yet? Would be interesting to see if the amp overheats. Suppose it doesn't get that hot over there though. :rolleyes:

[qsilverza]

Try a Ford BA Wagon in and moving from under-ground carpark to car-park all day long. Luckily it was company so they used to pay for the scratches and bangs.... they eventually got me a commonwho*e and it was far better from a parking point of view... when I left they wanted to give me a mitsubishi Triton.... LOL


lol I am very sorry to hear about your lose :D:D

Pfft even the Bora can get into spots, I used to own 2 of what you affectionately called the Mitsubishi Diamante ( Magna ). Now that was a pain!

Have you got those mini fans mounted up yet or am I going blind lol.

[ranton-inc]

lol those Diamantes made awesome shopping cars, you could fit 4x 15's in the boot no problem.

Sweet, have you got the hole thing tuned yet? Would be interesting to see if the amp overheats. Suppose it doesn't get that hot over there though. :rolleyes:

its tuned amp doesnt over head

speakers dont clip..

its nice..

so now this project is done

the R32 is for sale :)

[99gti]

Are you kidding me!!!! You are seriously going to sell it now you've done that awesome install?!?!?!? What the........

[Mr ©harisma]

its tuned amp doesnt over head

speakers dont clip..

its nice..

so now this project is done

the R32 is for sale :)

lol you must be an old man. I can get the Audisons to overheat. Has to be 40deg running full tilt for about an hour though :D

Ha for sale hey....

[ranton-inc]

yeah time to move on

had my fun..

time to get out..

[Mr ©harisma]

Possible replacement will be?

[glidn]

maybe a uni-cycle or even an upgrade to a bicycle i would say.

[99gti]

I smell that there is more than meets they eye here. Fess up!!! j:

[ranton-inc]

Possible replacement will be?

Nothing at this stage

maybe a honda or something $500 dollar jobby

reason for sale is to open up the door to go to europe for a prolonged period of time..

[Mr ©harisma]

Sounds sweet. Do you have bar/pub experience? They love Aussies behind the bars for easy money, oh wait, my bad your a kiwi :D:D They wont know the difference!!

Seriously though you gunna go backpack styles?

[glidn]

Sounds sweet. Do you have bar/pub experience? They love Aussies behind the bars for easy money, oh wait, my bad your a kiwi :D:D They wont know the difference!!

Seriously though you gunna go backpack styles?

Haha Hitman doing Back pack style,

i think i would pay for that.

It would be some seriously funny times if that did happen.

But yeah he is going overseas to europe and that.

[ranton-inc]

we got a house in Croatia

so plan to go home and spend a chunk of my time there re learning the culture and language! :)

http://www.immocroatia.net/makarska-croatia-1.jpg

[Mr ©harisma]

Wow sounds good dude. When you get over their you can get a Skoda :D

How long you going for?

Ha the first thing I noticed in the pic was the sporting field. Al least there is a track there as well so you can keep fit :rolleyes:

[ranton-inc]

Wow sounds good dude. When you get over their you can get a Skoda :D

How long you going for?

Ha the first thing I noticed in the pic was the sporting field. Al least there is a track there as well so you can keep fit :rolleyes:

its the women that keep you fit over there

:P

[Mr ©harisma]

Aren't the women bigger than the men?

[glidn]

Aren't the women bigger than the men?

Haha good one
roflmao

[ranton-inc]

Aren't the women bigger than the men?

nah thats kazakastan

[Mr ©harisma]

lol fair enough I am not one to discriminate...

You gunna go find yourself a nice ( normal ) woman while your there?

[ranton-inc]

possibly...

dunno

gotta get there yet..

****. im fricken written.. went to town last night drank far to much and then randomly ran in to a bunch of people from brisbane... i dont think they were none the impressed as half their girls that were with them ran off with kiwi gusy instead lol..

[Mr ©harisma]

Ha you must have got lucky this time. If your available and you go overseas, why not try whats on offer.

I bet your head is still quite big after that little episode. You should ice it so you can fit out the doorway again.

[ranton-inc]

hmmmm

This Install is no longer...

We are trying a more traditional approach to it this time around.. stay tuned for MKIV R32 Install MKII!

[dubbed]

Are you still selling it?

[ranton-inc]

at the moment no

[Mrk_Mickey]

You spent all that time fixing it up and making it flawless and now it's going? :confused:

[Manaz]

Which town in Croatia is that? It's not Split is it?