The ///M gets a new sound system (archive)

My objectives were to keep as much trunk space as possible, keep the system fairly stealthy, improve bass and clarity, no holes to be drilled between the cab and trunk and do it all for $6,000 Cdn.

I ended up satisfied with the trunk space.
It looks like the batmobile instead of being stealthy, but I kind of changed my mind after seeing the initial ideas the installer had.
The sound quality and amount of bass is drastically improved.
It came in at about $7,500 Cdn., which I wasn't pleased about.

The car can be converted back to stock easily in the event of a sale.

We didn't change the head unit. I just bought a new house, so I postponed replacing it, a new CD changer and the equalizer we're going to put in the armrest cassette holder. It sounds pretty good, but it needs the equalizer to counter the shortcomings of the head unit.

We disconnected the useless speakers behind the seats.

The one thing I regret was taking the dead pedal out in favour of the kick panel enclosure. If I were to do it again, I would sacrifice a bit of sound quality and just stuff whatever speakers we could fit in, without interfering with the left foot. It wasn't a major adjustment, but the dead pedal is far more comfortable.

Kickpanels:
6.5" JL Audio mid drivers
3.5" JL Audio mids
1" JL Audio tweeters

Subs:
8" Eclipse aluminum drivers x 2

Amps:
350 Watt Zapco x 2

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