Hi All,
Well another full weekend of work. We started out with more of the final sanding and fitment of all the B-Pillar pieces getting them all ready for vinyl.
From there we were starting on the interiors of the amplifier boxes (behinf the driver's and passenger's seats). ORiginall the Driver's side housed 2 of the SD500.4 4ch amps and the Audio Control MATRIX line driver. The Passenger's side held 2 more of the SD500.4 amps along with the Audio Control EPIC-160. The problem is, that we've found that we pretty much adjust/disable the EPIC-160 every song and having it behind the seat is just a royal pain. So we decided to reloacte it to the dash with a quick custom pod.
With the EPIC-160 moved, we could look at giving us a bit more room for the MATRIX, so we decided to put 3 of the SD amps into the Passenger's side amp rack, then we only have 1 of the SD500.4 amps in the Driver's side along with the MATRIX.
After dinner that night Fab and I decided to tackle rewiring the subwoofer amplifier rack to strap the amps together. We had an issue with the way we originally had the amps wired. WE wired each amplifier running two subwoofers. We made it so that each amp ran a subwoofer from the top box and the matching subwoofer from the bottom box. Example Top Driver's Rear Corner and Bottom Driver's Corner. The issue was that if an amplifier went into thermal protection, we had one subwoofer in each sealed sextion becoming a passive radiator with 8 other woofers trying to physically tear apart the woofer.
So now we will be running strapped pairs of amps, with each strapped pair running 4 woofers. We also made sure that all 4 woofer were in the same box! This way if/when an amp goes into thermal protection it will shut off 4 woofers, turning them into passive radiators but only being driven by 5 other woofers. So instead of an 8 to one ratio, we will now have a 1.25 to 1 ratio of woofer trying to tear apart the other woofers. Hopefully this makes sense, and hopefully this works!!!
Still have to wire up the strapping wires to join the speaker terminals between the amps, and also wire up the RCA's, but that should be relatively quick!