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    Babs' 08 Honda Civic Si Sedan

    I've been reluctant over the years to do a log here for a couple reasons. One I didn't think the skills were up to anything special for showing off anything that's not been seen, and two install learning curve on many levels has made my install work extremely slooooooowwww. Like molasses slow. And lastly I feared I'd make a confabulated crazy thread full of misinformation and audio heresy while showing just how newb I am at real installation and tuning. Hehe ah WTH! Here goes.. The old girl has something like 90k miles on the odo and she still boogies but has some squeaks here and there and some typical things I want to do from a maintenance and looks perspective. The paint will have to be redone. The 8th Civic paint curse has bitten me.



    The car has already had iteration 2 or 3 maybe with still a two way system comprising of SB Acoustics drivers badged NVX and I've gone through various subs along the way with an SD-3 10" in an Audio Integrations box, then pulled it for a temporary 12TW1 in a first home-built sealed box for me.

    Powered by 80PRS, PDX V9 and F4

    Changes planned and in the works:

    IB baby!!

    Two IB12AU drivers on shelf now and building template now a bit unorthodox. Balsa wood. LOL! I have to make everything difficult. But ok. Here's as of tonight. Template done, time to cut some wood.



    3-Way:

    The poor guys at the NCSQ meet have heard me whine for the last time about a 3-way. Scan-speak D3004's and 10F mids will be replacing my first fabrication project in the pillars with a bit more extensive first-time pillar job for me.

    Existing:


    That little window will be getting mids and tweets glassed in a sealed enclosure pillar job for the 10F. Goal being as stealthy or inconspicuous as possible.

    Gear list plan after this iteration:

    80PRS main source
    IDevice into HDMI converted to toslink for second source
    Helix DSP (8 ch) with two-knob remote
    PDX V9 for sub, mids, tweets
    PDX F4 for midbass.
    D3004 around 3100 hz up maybe
    10F from 400 to 3100 hz
    NVX (SB17) XSP65 midbass from 80 to 400 hz. Maybe a surprise or two there though on driver and installation.




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    Re: Babs' 08 Honda Civic Si Sedan

    Heh heh, you said log.
    Are you not entertained?!?!


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    Slow progress. Roughed in with jigsaw. Time to break out a flush trim bit and make dust. Wish I had ply but don't. Got MDF so I'm using it.



    And now fun with power tools..



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    Re: Babs' 08 Honda Civic Si Sedan

    looking good Scott.

    keep up the good work.
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    One of those tools that makes you say where you been all my life!

    Just messin around making circles. Perfect 11" hole anyone?


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    Babs' 08 Honda Civic Si Sedan

    Big shout out to our own Mark at Car Audio Fabrication for the instructional vids that have given me the courage to attempt this craziness.

    And big shout out to Erin who blazed the trail with 8th Civic speaker install stuff he's done over the years, that has inspired the wild stuff I'm about to do to some spare pillars on the shelf.

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    Awesome progress! Very nice following the contour of the pass through cutout.
    Are you not entertained?!?!


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    Babs' 08 Honda Civic Si Sedan

    And bam!!


    Let's make some big holes!

    Or maybe better start thinking mounting position before I commit


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    Re: Babs' 08 Honda Civic Si Sedan

    Nah! Just go for it. lol

    Looking forward to updates.

    Jay

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    Babs' 08 Honda Civic Si Sedan

    Quote Originally Posted by JayinMI View Post
    Nah! Just go for it. lol

    Looking forward to updates.

    Jay
    I guess two 12's aughta be a breeze. Just make sure plenty of wood support distance between them. I'll probably want to do it in such a way should for some odd reason those 12's grow into 15's they're spaced accordingly so may use a typical IB15AU OD as a rule and just center the 12's on that. Hehehe. Planned obsolescence.

    Having seen plenty of IB installs after the fact but not too many in-process, I'm pretty much winging this thing, second guessing myself.
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