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Psyko's 2007 Mustang
Let me start by saying this is my first audio build it took quite a bit of deliberation but, after listening to quite a few SQ systems at the Oklahoma City and College Station meets. I felt like it was time to do something about the stock stereo in the Mustang.
The stock system is comprised of a Shaker 500 head unit with two 5x7's and two 8" door subs up front and in the rear two 6x8's. For a stock system it wasn't bad but, there wasn't much clarity in music and the stock CD changer was long since gone...
The Car
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Parts List:
Alpine IVA-W505 HU
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Phoenix Gold Ti2 1600.5
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Cables... Lots of Cables...
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Morel 5.25" Coaxial
Stock 8" door speaker for now 1.2ohm x2
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RE Audio SEPRO12D4
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RE recommends 1 cube for a sealed sub enclosure. Jon managed to find a custom box from HiFi Sound Connection that's built for the car. The build quality for the box is awesome especially for the price and with free shipping it was a steal.
Link to Box
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Taking the car apart didn't take much time I had just a few hold ups like finding a T30 torx to remove the door panels :banghead:. I had previously taken the head unit out to remove the CD changer when it failed so that wasn't a big deal at all.
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The speaker bracket seemed odd it wasn't flush with the door so it had to be reused.
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The back seat was a joke to get out two push clips and it's out of there.
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Next, I needed to find a place for the amp I wanted something out of the way so Jon and I mounted it under the rear deck we cut a piece of lumber to fit and used the mounting holes for the rear speakers since those were removed.
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View from the top side
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Amp in place! This thing is a beast for its size. 14.4” L x 7.1” W x 2.0” H
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4 Gauge power, turn on, and, accessory 12v wire on its way to the front
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All the power wires run on the far passenger side not sure if its necessary to keep it away from speaker wire and RCA cables but it seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Threw the main wiring grommet and into the wheel well as long as the inner fender liner stays in place this is a very safe place on these cars.
The Stinger wiring kit was even tech flexed on the end going to the battery. :thumbup:
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Out of the whole project running speaker wire into the doors was by far the worst part. I wanted to run the wire threw the rubber boot but, couldn't figure out why I was having trouble fishing wire through I decided to pull the boot off and found this... :banghead: The dreaded molex connection and to make matters worse the hole cut in the exterior and interior do not match up at all.
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I found that I could run speaker wire threw a hole in the clip. Getting the boot back on was a mess I had to remove the molex connection from the door to allow some more room to work with it.
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The driver side went together much faster.
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Next up sound deadening. I picked up a bulk pack of Stinger Roadkill from Sonic Electronics I would highly recommend the roller it made laying down the material much easier.
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Front 5.25" speakers mounted I think I may replace the speaker bracket in the future.
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Wiring up the head unit harness.
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After some very minor modification I got the stock Sirius satellite antenna to work with the Alpine module.
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Something about scraping the paint off your car...
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With the amp and everything wired up I realized the H100 ended up in the trunk and there was no need for 17' RCA cables :facepalm: but, they will work for now until I can find some shorter ones.
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Sub gain mounted in the center console the other cables are a usb and a aux. I plan to get a face plate for those at some point to hide the wire.
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Sub in place and the trunks put together. Those RCA cables... :lol:
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Head unit fits nicely
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Looking good. I can completely relate to having RCAs that are entirely too long. I did the exact same thing...LOL
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Looking great! Even moreso knowing it's a first install :)
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thanks for posting Mark. and glad you are happy with it. looks good and sounds great
so great work, and esp for a first install
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The use of space along with everything else is incredible, Mark :cool: