"THE BEGINNING" V-2

Post by **stipud** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:10 pm

Of course there's no real gain... just like techflexed and heatshrunk cables. If you're going to do all that extra work making things tidy, having frayed copper visible at the terminals seems out of place.

All of my speaker terminals (including those on the speakers themselves) have gold Stinger spades which have black and red booties to go over them. Makes the polarity really obvious and gives a nice finished look to the whole install. The terminals in my doors don't appear to have aged a day, while all the screws on my Elite's are completely rusted. They were really cheap too...

bruther · Post by **bruther** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:39 pm

stipud wrote:Of course there's no real gain... just like techflexed and heatshrunk cables. If you're going to do all that extra work making things tidy, having frayed copper visible at the terminals seems out of place.

All of my speaker terminals (including those on the speakers themselves) have gold Stinger spades which have black and red booties to go over them. Makes the polarity really obvious and gives a nice finished look to the whole install. The terminals in my doors don't appear to have aged a day, while all the screws on my Elite's are completely rusted. They were really cheap too...

The problem was finding small enough spades.

bruther · Post by **bruther** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 2:21 pm

Kick Panel Construction-

bruther · Post by **bruther** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 9:05 pm

More Pics of kick panels

Post by **fuzzysnuggleduck** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 10:31 pm

You do really great work, man.

Justin · Post by **Justin** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 1:55 pm

nice.

bruther · Post by **bruther** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 3:30 pm

Started to finish my kick panels-

bruther · Post by **bruther** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:35 am

Here are the Kicks with bondo and primer. I will start wrapping them in the Alcantara Leather tonight and hopefully drop them in tomorrow.

dwnrodeo · Post by **dwnrodeo** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:41 am

^Wow^

I can't believe how extremely well those look. Looks like a factory molded part.

Tiger · Post by **Tiger** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:51 am

That is an EXCELLENT job on those kicks!

Keep up the good work

tonym · Post by **tonym** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:10 pm

very nice.....

gridracer · Post by **gridracer** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:20 pm

I know its too late but why did you use green tech flex for the right speakers? green is always left in car audio. I always remember this because money is green and I never have any left. lol

bruther · Post by **bruther** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:49 pm

gridracer wrote:I know its too late but why did you use green tech flex for the right speakers? green is always left in car audio. I always remember this because money is green and I never have any left. lol

Nice....thanks

Post by **ttocs** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:24 pm

looks good.

alancantra on the kicks is gonna be hard to wrap, and 2x as hard to keep clean.

bruther · Post by **bruther** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:33 pm

ttocs wrote:looks good.

alancantra on the kicks is gonna be hard to wrap, and 2x as hard to keep clean.

I'm learning that right now....I can't get glue to stick....I am open to all ideas?? Is there a better material I should use?? I don't want carpet.
Is there any high strength glue someone can recommend?

Post by **Bfowler** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 8:14 pm

i suggest a feux suede flocking. you spray the whole thing down with a adhesive cover in the flocking and then let the excess fall off

bruther · Post by **bruther** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:47 am

Bfowler wrote:i suggest a feux suede flocking. you spray the whole thing down with a adhesive cover in the flocking and then let the excess fall off

I looked around and I don't really like the flocking very much. Though i haven't seen it up close. I ended up using 3m 90 spray. I started over last night and it seems to be working VERY SLOWLY. I got about half of one done. I had to spray both the kick and alcantara first. After I sprayed it I let it dry and then put it toegther. Since I bought real alcantara, it does have a little flexibility to curve around the contours. I will get some pics up shortly of everything.

I welcome any and all advice.

Brian

vipka9 · Post by **vipka9** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 4:12 am

soo..jellouussss

bruther · Post by **bruther** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:32 pm

Some more pics of the Kicks....wrapped in Alcantara

bruther · Post by **bruther** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:59 am

Starting to work on the vehicle again....some long awaited changes....

has anyone worked with aluminum? I'm going to be cutting some rings and then need to polish them. What is the best way to polish? Any advice for cutting aluminum?

shawn k · Post by **shawn k** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:28 am

I think I can help

http://phoenixphorum.com/some-of-my-pas ... 13737.html

Aluminum isn't too awefully hard to work with. Although it really requires a router table for the best results. It's all about making jigs. Do you have a router table?

Post by **stipud** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:34 am

Ooh I missed the finished product. Man those kicks turned out great! I cant help but wonder how that would have looked with a lighter color of alcantara (matching the carpets), although the dark shade blends in with the speaker and the door better.

Kudos! Nice work! How does it sound?

bruther · Post by **bruther** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:21 am

stipud wrote:Ooh I missed the finished product. Man those kicks turned out great! I cant help but wonder how that would have looked with a lighter color of alcantara (matching the carpets), although the dark shade blends in with the speaker and the door better.

Kudos! Nice work! How does it sound?

Thanks. They sound pretty amazing. I thought about different colors and/or matching the floor but if you would see my whole interior they fit the look very well.

Post by **stipud** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:31 am

That's a good point. I can visualize with your head at eye level, that they would definitely blend in to the lower dash.

bruther · Post by **bruther** » Tue May 03, 2011 11:37 am

Took my car to the local Infiniti dealership to look at my AC system and they totaled my car while it was there.

No more install.

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