T minus 1 day

Today is the last day before Modified Nationals tomorrow and Big Black's official unveiling - to say im scared is an understatement.  Its just before 7am as I'm writing this and today I need to

• Finish Carpeting the sides of the box
• Install Head Unit
• Install Epicenter Remote
• Install main floor carpet
• Wire and Install speakers in front doors 
• Install Head lining
• Scope and Gain Match all the amps
• Take the car for some new fluids and a valet

So im going to be a busy bunny - this is the state of the install as of sunday evening - thanks to alot of work from Big Jon Young, Willy P, my Dad and of course my wife Lou

 Painted the wall black with an iron fleck

Link cables made for batteries

 and all wired in
 with lots of crimping done!

 Switch panel built and wired in thanks to Jon

 one broken LED :(  but the rest work well - far left switch turns on the epic and delta boxes the individual switches turn on each amp - far left switch turns on the rear door amps

Rear door cabled

All subs installed with the help of Will P

Amp fusing and installation took ages

Those of you of the EMMA persuasion will not fuses for the amps are NOT within 40cm from the batteries -

will  hopefully get everything done by the end of the day!

wish me luck

Amp Rack Build and Box Finishing

This work started last weekend - Last Friday night actually - Started like this

 A rough cut out around thearches - so I added some closer fitted panels glues and expanding foamed in

 I then added a mounting board for the amps and test fitted the batteries

 That was saturday morning - The rest of saturday I was at my cousins wedding (Congratulations Simon!) so didnt get anything else done until sunday

Out came the batteries

 A blank canvas ready to carry on

 Got the wife to paint the inside black -

 While she was working on that I needed to get some bits out of the company car - For those of you that didnt know - I was testing a Ground Zero Nuclear 15 with a GZNW 1.2500 in my company car but I need   The amp and the epicenter - so decided to take it all out

 Thanks to Rik@RMD Audio in Wellingborough for the sub box - if anyone needs one they can have it!
 Back to Big Black - I needed to route the signal and speaker cable around the door opening so used some 40mm pond tubing

I also added some tubeing as protection around the chassis rail were the 0 awg turns up into the engine bay

with the inside painted - the batteries went back in - The aim of the weekens work was to get everything ready to send Big Black off to Paul Richardson @ A1 Audio Design to allow him to build the rear amp rack - he is a busy chap as it approches show season and we had a long standing appointment for Big Black
so we got everythign mocked up

Front face of the battery box in place

lid cut into two section to allow easy access to the battery box

Started fiting amps prior to taking it to pauls

This was my simple design for the amp lay out - i dont 'do' fancy so was  a little plain

 So that is how it was left at Pauls last sunday night. - He started work on it on wednesday - and called me to ask if he could 'get funky' with the design layout -  my idea above didnt allow Paul to but much personality into thebuild - it would have looked a bit flat so i gave him free reign and he didnt disappoint

And before anyone mentions it - yes the amp covers on the right are the wrong way round - they will be flipped in the final install

 Rear speakers will be mounted in the roof here

 After getting it back i needed to strip it all down again to finally seal the rear wall - there wasnt time last week

amp wall came down so that I could get to the wall proper
 Lots of fibreglass filler

 While the back was off I also added some M12 threaded rod ro tie front to back nice and securly

 I also made a start on cladding the port radius with some pvc piping

using expanding foam to glue it on - screwed i nto place just to hold it but they will be removed and smoothed
Sunday I will finish the port and hopefully have the front face painted in a stone fleck finish

Bank Holiday Workin - Days 3 and 4

Bit of a delay getting this update on but was so tired after the last twodays workingI have put it off until tonight!

Monday morning t his is how we stood

the black is fibreglass resin mixed with filler talc one giant tub of filler later

And starting on the port laying down some filler

Also added some expanding foam to seal in cable grommets

Needed to make way for the signal and speaker and remote cables
a few holes and a hacksaw later

some thick rubber hose as a grommet

The hose is stuck in (more later) and the cable will also run through 40mm pond hose
 ran in the extra cable needed to run the tweeters in the doors wonky and buju may remember trying to get2 runs into the door grommet - imanaged the3rd very easily which was a shock!

Measured and cut 6 lengths of speaker cable and bundled it up to run it under the car

speaker and signal cable coming in through the sealed grommet - not pretty but will be covered with carpet when done

all in the back

Running along side the petrol tank - not yet secured

That was it for Day 3 - Monday - Tuesday - DAY 4 I was woken by the post man delivering my new air filter
old one thanks to Nick the nurse on www.pocuk.co.uk

And the new green cotton one

I then started onsecuring all the cables i had run

Earth cables mounted to the alt mounting studs - good solid earths

also put the port length in 275mm long 200mm wide box is 1335x1000x700 which gives a tuning of approx 36hz so should really make some noise on real music

Also ran the cables for the subs - 8awg power wire!

Plenty left over for running to the amps on the back wall

starting to look like its going to do some business!

GOT CABLE????

WE then started on the back wall - first off got the main panel in packed into place

the gaps around the arches will be filled and sealed with wood panels doubling as braces, expanding foam, fibreglass and filler

First brace goes in

LEVEL!

2nd brace in

And yes Wonky thecar was on flat ground

More cable

the grey stuff is7 core cable that I will be using for remote - I plan on having all 8amps individually controllable (with a single override to)

Big thanks to my Dad Eric and my wife lou for the help over the 4 days - thursday and friday night will be spent cutting wood to go over the arches to seal the back wall. saturday is my cousins wedding so cant do any work but sunday im off to see Craig cdescort Dillow inmilton keynes to put some steal strengthening in the roof up front - I will also be putting in the battery box so thaton sunday night I can take Big Black to Paul Richardson for the rearamp rack to be trimmed in!