Great job! Can you please give us a final list of equipment used in this install? Thanks for that! OK here's a basic rundown: 4pr of Ti65CS in the front doors 28pr of R4CX - 9pr per side window - 5pr per side of the amp - one speaker is hidden underneath the rear pod firing down at the batteries to...

If you could stop doors from flexing would that give you your magic figure? Are you allowed to make something that pulls the doors shut tighter or do they have to be only on factory latch. I don't have exp building spl but just chucking thoughts out there. I'm not a fan of the multiple little speak...

Did you have any licensing problems with the music? Anytime I tried to put a regular song on there youtube would block it. We've run into issues once or twice before, but it seems like if we choose older songs, then there are fewer issues... We always try them before posting them up now (got caught...

Quick video of the build and footage from the weekend!

...and the Final outcome http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j392/Shoba_Scottydo/PG%20Astra%20-%202013%20Rebuild%20Pt1/IMG_1391_zps3b8b36d5.jpg http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j392/Shoba_Scottydo/PG%20Astra%20-%202013%20Rebuild%20Pt1/IMG_1389_zpsbcf32ea1.jpg http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j...

The Wheels got Painted a matching Yellow to the new graphics http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j392/Shoba_Scottydo/PG%20Astra%20-%202013%20Rebuild%20Pt1/IMG_1351_zpsa8c02be9.jpg B-Pillars got painted, with a bit of help from our custom garage heater ;) http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j392/Shob...

Also because of the new 10mm steel plate at the rear of the box, our old speaker pods would no longer fit, so we decided to go a little bit crazy...and we continued this theme onto some new side window pods too... There's now 56x 4" Coaxials :P http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j392/Shoba_Sco...

Hi All, OK it's done!!!! As per ususal there was an extreme lack of sleep, but we made it to the show and had an awesome time!!! The updates you saw earlier were a little misleading, we wanted to keep a few tings secret until the big debut. So there was a lot more work happening behind the scenes th...

Kirghiz wrote:Your sub enclosure doubles as protection from roadside bombs.

HaHa - only if you're 'inside' the sub box, and it's just stupidly loud inside of there

This is a crazy build. I wish I had that level of skills. Just to say I did that would make it all worth while. The old amp rack was crazy. How many amps is that.? The old amplifier rack was running 9 of the Ti1500.1 amplifiers (1250w RMS each) so producing just over 11,250w RMS The new amplifier r...

Why didn't you go with aluminum over the steel for the weight reduction? One of the guys helping with the project - his brother inlaw has a steel fabrication company, so we took advantage of that situation. Aslo as for additional weight, we have already upgraded the rear suspension, and the steel o...

Some new lighting options: http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j392/Shoba_Scottydo/PG%20Astra%20-%202013%20Rebuild%20Pt1/IMG_1317_zps62d06135.jpg http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j392/Shoba_Scottydo/PG%20Astra%20-%202013%20Rebuild%20Pt1/IMG_1316_zps26b19d8e.jpg http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums...

Plate Steel continued http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j392/Shoba_Scottydo/PG%20Astra%20-%202013%20Rebuild%20Pt1/IMG_1243_zpse812305d.jpg http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j392/Shoba_Scottydo/PG%20Astra%20-%202013%20Rebuild%20Pt1/IMG_1252_zpsa1690b2f.jpg On the cosmetic side of thins we opted t...

After that we decided to take the BIG step and line the box with 10mm Plate Steel and add some much needed bracing: http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j392/Shoba_Scottydo/PG%20Astra%20-%202013%20Rebuild%20Pt1/IMG_1234_zps60b58648.jpg http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j392/Shoba_Scottydo/PG%20Astr...

Hi All, Once again it's been quite awhile since our last update, so I thought it might be time to let you all in on what we've been up to in the last 6 months. Basically what's been happening is that the car has been breaking itself apart, we have now fixed various things about 6 times. The box itse...

ttocs wrote:pretty sure the chance of snow where he is, is pretty low this time of year.............

Prett sure Starunit10 was just talking about my trip to Canada this week...and yes I do need my Jacket, there's about 6" of snow here right now and it's -10c tonight

Cheers,

Scott

Hi All, Not much to look at but it sure took long enough...sanded down the interior of the box and cleaned it all up. http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j392/Shoba_Scottydo/PG%20Astra%20-%202013%20Rebuild%20Pt1/IMG_0663.jpg Next we took the final measurements and made an old school cardboard layout...

Alrighty then, made some decent progress this weekend thanks to Craig Whyte lending a helping hand. Got the inside of the box all sanded (there went another 5 belt sander belts), then put the box into the car for the final time, all joints Liquid Nailed and screwed together. Then on Sunday we took a...

OK back from Hong Kong, had an AMAZING time and had an unbelievable time meeting with the boys from AAMP of AMERICA. It was great to finally meet Morgan and bore him to death with Nerd talk! It seems they have been following the Astra and wanted to be an even BIGGER part of the Rebuild!!! Let's just...

Well it's been a little while since I posted updates...we've been working on cutting out the baffles for the top and bottom boxes. All I can say is that we built these damn things STRONG! It's been an absolute pain in the @$$ getting these things gutted. http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j392/Shob...

Hi All, Well we had a fairly productive day, we got the entire sub box removed. Thankfully we had origianlly made this as fully removable, no pieces are actually attached to the vehicle permanently, and all panels are just sealed together with weather stripping and a bit of silicone. The new build w...

Well yesterday we got all the subwoofers removed, so getting closer to having the car gutted... Tons of fun removing these damn things, especially the top subs, we had put 2x bolts in each sub just incase the screws ever decided to let go, sounded like a good idea at the time, but makes it a pain to...

OK a bit more progress this afternoon. We got all the batteries removed as well as all the 5-1/4" speakers and pods... http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j392/Shoba_Scottydo/PG%20Astra%20-%202013%20Rebuild%20Pt1/IMG_0428.jpg http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j392/Shoba_Scottydo/PG%20Astra%20...

Hi All, It's been awhile since we last updated this build log, but there hasn't been a lot of significant changes since the last updates. As many of you have heard/seen the Astra does some decent numbers with a Pb of 152.1dB at 32Hz (on music) but more impressively we also do a 151.7dB at 22Hz on mu...

That's simply absurd :shock: How long do your batteries last like that? Or do you run a large power supply at shows? Currently we're running 9 of the Stinger SPV69 batteries, so basically one per monoblock. There's 2 underneath the subwoofer box in the spare tire well, another 6 across the back bel...