alpine PDC 1.1000

 

Got some work done, got the new dash kit, had to tinker with a few things, got a new key gasket for around my ignition, that was broke on the origonal install, along with the bracket for the 4 way button for my 4 ways, i glued that down.

mounting the cage onto the dash kit


heres the new gasket installed


heres the bracket being blued down


the glue


the main bracket installed


Deck wired up


Behind the dash kit showing the mess of wires


Deck tested and working


checking if the light works


Light Off


light on with dash installed


outside view of dash.


in the end the only realy modding i needed to do was grind down the face plate edges of the hole a little bit, had to take a file to that, and jsut used a marker to color it so you wouldn't see the silver of the aluminum.

 

whelp i went with the diehard because i didnt feel like spending 50$ to ship a battery :| I got the largest size they had that would fit, was a 880 CCA, the stock batery was about 500 i think, so I should def be in the good if my 500 was just barley keeping ahead.





finily got to use that fused battery terminal. it was kind of a pain to get on, i basicly just tighten it all the way and taped it on and it seems to have a pretty decnet grip. you can also see i ran another line from my alt, a 4 gauge to my batterys terminal to help it charge the only thing i need to do still is run a chasey ground to the battery terminal thats larger than the 6 gauge thats running to, probably a 2 gauge or 1\0.

 

very clean

 

schools been keeping me from doing anything ive wanted to, but i'm looking at parts, looking to do a new deck with a back up cam and some fun stuff like that maybe finely get around to deadening my door panels lol. i'm such a lazy **** lately.

 

Looks nice. Keep up the good work

 

Looks good man!

One question, any one think I can fit a 8" mid on that mounting plate? I haven't taken my doors apart yet but really want to use my 8" mids, I'll mount tweeters else where.

Overall diameter of my mid is 8.25", depth is 3.75". I'll make a mdf mounting plate on top of the factory one for added clearance if someone can tell me if it'll fit

 

that wont fit without modification, the 6.5s are hard to make fit with the stock mounting plate, you could probably easily modify it though

 

What kind of modifications you thinking?

I could tell if I got started on my system myself but I haven't yet.

I thinking of doing away with the factory plate and making my own straight to the door, it was a picture somewhere on here that someone did to their door, anyone know?

 

yeah, you're going to have to mod it, but 8's will EASILY fit in these doors. I woudln't use stock bafels anyways, ive been meaning to build some for my car for months, lol but just never got around to it. should of done it with the install use a hardwood, or a synthedic sound dampended material i know there are some out there. personaly some standard MDF is plenty secure to do something.

the modding you're going to be doing will be cutting some sheet metal out of the doors opening, i don't think the window struts get in the way in these door panels. should be plenty of room. i know in smaller cars you have to move the window struts, but these are plenty large.