Some serious effort has gone in to that, good job. It will be Mercedes silent in there now, until you put your foot down.

Nice work Ian, looks a real tidy job. Not a lot of space in the cab for a sub, plenty of room in the back though :)

Looking amazing. Some real attention to detail there too :doubleup:

Great job. What's that little penguin thingy?:yeah:

It's a Punky, most Indian restaurants have it as a desert filled with ice cream, it's been to Germany a few times :rofl:

A bit more progress today, covered the passenger side floor and surrounding areas and gave the rear bulkhead a second coat although i ran out of silent coat so used dodo dead mat that i had used on the doors

Got a bit of a deal on my subwoofer (JL Audio 10W3V3) today from ebay as it was 25% off and i had a ebay £15 voucher to use :smile:

Should get around to making the sub box next week which will be fitted behind the passenger seat, you can see a stud sticking up on a platform which was used to hold down the jack & wheel brace which i'll now use to bolt down the sub box (jack & brace can go in the back), any passengers now will get a nice bum & back massage :lol:

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Top Job dude :)


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Nice, didn't think you'd have the space for a sub box in behind the seat looking at the pics, but result :ok: Still haven't seen this in the flesh yet!

The sub i've ordered only needs a small box otherwise there would not be enough room, haven't been to a meet lately as they have always been on when i'm working, i've been off most of this month and the meet is on the only weekend i'm working again lol

Got a few more things done today even though the weather wasn't playing ball, just glad i've put up a new shed in the last couple weeks so i can work in there

Had the door trims off and noticed the speakers were getting wet so looks like the weather seal at the top of the door is leaking (should be fun trying to get hold of a pair of them :o), in the meantime I've modified the speaker pods to include a top cover for the speaker so water doesn't drip straight on them

Got the subwoofer box made yesterday just in time for the subwoofer to arrive today :D, still got to finish it off and cover it with cloth but I'm getting there

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Looks great mate :ok:


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Well 99% of the install is done now, still got a couple of things to tidy up but they can be done at a later date

First off i've got to say i'm over the moon with the sound quality of this install, even with compressed mp3 files it really did blow me away the first time i played a tune, i eventually went for a Pioneer single din headunit which is a older unit but was built for sound quality, it also has plenty of inputs (2 usb, 2 auxiliary's, 1 SD card slot, CD player and RDS tuner)

Apart from sound deadening the floor & rear bulkhead i also put sound deadening on every trim piece i removed which i think made a difference as when everything was put back together i had no little rattles or squeaks which can happen or it could of bean the great Holden build quality (maybe not lol)

There are a couple of things i'm not 100% happy with though, the amp install doesn't look very tidy to me and i'm already thinking ways of changing it although it can't be seen as it's behind the drivers seat but i know it's there so will be changed at some stage, also the single din trim panel isn't a 100% match for the rest of the dash but that seems normal as the double din panel also doesn't match

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Looks amazing Ian - a real credit to you!
I bet it's a real struggle to choose between listening to tunes and listening to that mighty engine noise!

Noisy bastrd ;) (said in Australian accent)


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Think the cat has a death wish :lol:

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I agree! crazy !

:meow:I think you need to inform paws it will have catastrophic consequences if this continues. .........:tumbleweed:

Obviously not enough wax on it if it can get a grip like that.

February is looking like a good month :grin:

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Very smart

Thanks :doubleup:

Would look even better on the autobahns.

Would look even better on the autobahns. :ok:

Line lock fitted yesterday along with anti-hop driveshafts with uprated CV joints :norty:

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Hooligan :D

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Coming along nicely .

You may have seen this already, but I thought it might be of interest.

https://youtu.be/5VesbCl2XNw

Haven't watched it yet but will tonight :smile:

The noise is back, fitted some valves in the exhaust today to replace the blanking plates so now i have the best of both worlds, quiet for early or late starts and loud for the rest of the time :-)

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Awesome job Ian :ok:

Was bored this afternoon :-D

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Nice shiny pipes any reason why you filled your pipes:-D

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Looks very shinny :)

Keep the noise down :mrgreen:

How much difference does the sound deadening make? Is it really expensive ?

Yes it does make a nice difference but at the cost of weight, here's the stuff i used

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1511556789...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

think i used about 2 lots of it but i covered the whole of the floor, rear bulkhead & doors

As for the multi coloured microfiber cloths i don't know as they didn't stay in very long :rofl:

I've used the same stuff and their insolation and think it's awesome:)

Finally got round to getting one :)

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Good man, get buffing :polish::polish: