Very Little by Little, Upgrading the Subie Premium Sound

[rlockwood]

euhm, I'm driving a subby to

it is a 2.0 (not turbo charged!) impreza plus from 2002 (the bugeye). in belgium it is not affordable for a youngster to buy a turbocharged model

the mounting depth is indeed nothing, but you can easily make a ring from 18mm wood, put it on the chassis and put the doorpanel back into his original place. this gives you a bit more space to put some speakers.

well, if you ever feel like getting rid of your headlights, look me up

[Phoenixcolt]

yeah, mine is a 2002, "bugeye" back then there was no USDM STI, so no big scoop. Mine actually has a carbon fiber JDM STI scoop on it now, though.

Also, if you end up wanting to modify this car, I'd reccomend looking at the Accessport from Cobb. Its a fairly spendy piece (~600) but its worth every penny, imo.

cool to have another suby guy on this forum..!

Just a few weeks before I got mine, a friend of mine picked up a clearance brand new 08 STI...he is planning on getting the accessport by Cobb...and I am planning on using it : )...if he lets me. The stage 1 upgrade requires no additional car mods but still adds some power and torque. I don't want to mod this one, at least not for a few years so I hope he definitely ends up picking the port up.

[Phoenixcolt]

euhm, I'm driving a subby to

it is a 2.0 (not turbo charged!) impreza plus from 2002 (the bugeye). in belgium it is not affordable for a youngster to buy a turbocharged model

the mounting depth is indeed nothing, but you can easily make a ring from 18mm wood, put it on the chassis and put the doorpanel back into his original place. this gives you a bit more space to put some speakers.

Good info buddy! So there may be room in there to install a ring and still fit the door panel back on properly?

My first order of business will be this headunit install I am all psyched about but speakers will follow shortly after though all of this may have to wait until it stops snowing , I hate snow.

What I miss the most about my Pioneer 7800DVD is the Ipod interface I installed. I can't stand not being able to navigate through the ipod by the screen now that I had a taste of it in the car I traded in.

[Phoenixcolt]

I am still a ways off but hopefully by the end of summer I can get some serious upgraded tunage going.

For now I installed a temporary headunit upgrade since I needed to do something : ). I love this unit, it is pretty great for sound manipulation but I can't wait to upgrade back to a dvd unit and amped speakers.

I am trying to sell all of my existing stuff I will not be using so I can pick up the Alpine IVA-D106, PXA-H100 IMPRINT sound processor. Wayyyy smaller processor than my massive brained Pioneer 7800 which I love but was dreading running in the new car so instead I am selling it on ebay with a 6 disc changer and Ipod adapter.

If anyone is interested, I am looking for 650.

If I sell the Pioneer, I am also going to try selling the Clarion below with a 2 channel Clarion amp and some 4" infinity reference coaxes and an add on reference tweeter pair for about 300. That Alpine is really calling my name so I am clearing out old headunits and accesories so I don't break the bank upgrading.

Anyway...To install a normal headunit in the subie, I had to buy the JSPEC dash bezel, scosche wiring harness, scosche double din to single din adapter, and I already had the headunit in my closet. It came out pretty sweet and sounds a lot better on the stock Premium speakers than the oem headunit did.

I have since picked up kartboy polyurethane 1/2" speaker spacers for the front so the doors will accomodate my RSD 6.5cs when I get there. I hope to fit my RSD coaxes in the back doors, and I have an RSD500.4 and RSD12 to install once I get my headunit stuff straightened out. Then of course I will need some Dynamat. I am picking everything up little by little so I don't break myself.

This is what I got so far, it isn't much but I wanted to share. I have also installed a kartboy short shifter with a Cobb Knob.

Glad to be back in the game a little.