October 24, 200520 yr My old stereo finally broke down and I had to purchase a new one. Got it on Ebay for $100 less than the store ($250 @ Circuit City). Its a Kenwood EZ500, flip down face and a bunch of other goodies. Got it going into 2 10in subs powered by a 250W amp and 2 Sony 3ways in the doors. The system rocks! I thought my old one sounded ok This blows it away I know all you younger folks get into this stuff, I hope you can appreciate us "older" guys like good systems too. Btw, the pocket above it is not stock. Theres usually a equalizer there for the stock radio. I got the pocket from a EA81 GL and made a faceplate for it. Can never have enough storage
October 24, 200520 yr Looks good, Rob. Makes me want to shoot a pic of the Sony I put in the XT6 and the Panasonic in the Brat. Both are custom installs with too many amps for the small space thet're in. Is that, by the way, the title to a Jeff Beck song on the face of the player?
October 24, 200520 yr Author Looks good, Rob. Makes me want to shoot a pic of the Sony I put in the XT6 and the Panasonic in the Brat. Both are custom installs with too many amps for the small space thet're in. Is that, by the way, the title to a Jeff Beck song on the face of the player? I was wondering if anyone would recognize the song. Yup, its an old Jeff Beck album. I've been burning some of my old cassettes to CD so I can listen to them in the car. I got stuff from the early 70's
October 24, 200520 yr Good deal Rob, looks sweet! Whats the rest of the set up? Speakers, amp? Read the post. It's all listed there.
October 24, 200520 yr Author Mykeys Toy gave me some links to some places and products. I did some (alot) of research on different makes and I came up with the Kenwood. The subs are off brand, I got them from Mykeys and the amp is a cheapo I got off Ebay, used. The Sony 3ways were in the car when I got it. But I think I have the right combo (for now) and its sounding pretty good. I've been burning about 5-6 CD's a night, I have to record them to my HD first from the cassette player. I went and bought a nice Onkyo system off of Craigslist (Amp, Cassette, 5 CD changer) for just $65. I've been making some good scores lately from Craigslist
October 24, 200520 yr Did you have another aftermarket deck in there before, or was it the stock one? If it was stock, did you have to rewire everything, or was a wiring harness adapter good enough?
October 24, 200520 yr Author No, I had a Sony deck in it. But it was in the car when I bought it. It doesnt have a wiring adapter either, the sub wiring is straight back from the deck with 12g RCA. The door speakers are actually wired to the stock harness. I think the 89's might be wired differently because I didnt have any problem once I figured out which were the correct wires. Each one had its own ground wire. I wasnt looking forward to running new wire into the doors :-\
October 24, 200520 yr Makes me think I should take pics of my system and post them. Alpine 3-disc in-dash changer, Alpine EQ w/ remote head, Clarion 3-way Crossover, 30x2 Coustic for highs, 100x2 Sony Mobile ES for mids and Lanzar 200x2 for the sub. Memphis 6.5" separates, Memphis 12" sub, custom box, custom door skins. Wow...that's a lot more than it looks like in the car.
October 24, 200520 yr my bro reformatted his hard disk on his comp so no pics but, 92 brumby, JVC head unit, eclipse 4 channel amp, kicker 6 inch front componants, Eclipse 6 x 9's both sets of speakers in custom doorskins. still to go in behind the seats are 2 eclipse 12 inch subs and 2 clarion 10 inch V-net subs and in the floor imedatly infront of the seats are amps to run all the subs. ( brands and models still being debated and bought [ and on hold because of my intension to get a lift kit])
October 25, 200520 yr Pioneer Head unit, 2x6.5" kevlar splits in the front, 2x type s alpine subs, 2x response 2x150 amps http://soob.johnnysmultimedia.com/
October 25, 200520 yr looks really clean unlike all my installs i do. blue steel, yours dons't look bad if you don't need the back seats.
October 25, 200520 yr Author Theres alot of things you can do in the back of a wagon when theres no seats in it. Nice touch with the carpet too Some mood lighting and your set :cool:
October 25, 200520 yr Theres alot of things you can do in the back of a wagon when theres no seats in it. Nice touch with the carpet too Some mood lighting and your set :cool: A couple LED sticks between the front seats should do the trick.
October 25, 200520 yr like these...... oh and they can flash to the beat of the music too more pics here http://soob.johnnysmultimedia.com/
October 29, 200520 yr Turbone, long time no see. Glad to hear you got some new tunes in the XT6! Bluesteel, that is freakin' awesome! Wear a jimmy!
October 29, 200520 yr mood lights? hm... i think those would look great in my wagon my cousins got them in his truck, looks pretty cool, i'll have to add that to my list of to-do's
October 31, 200520 yr i guess i better take some pics in full camping form then... 15.4' widscreen laptop mounted upside down on the roof in the back checkered furry curtains the best bit is... the outside of the car looks crap... different coloured panels, faded paint few dents and stuff round it only once had someone tried to break into it... they pulled the lock barrel out and opened the door and the alarm went off so they didnt touch anything and left
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now