Jay's 2015 Mazda 6i Touring build thread

Well, technically, it ALL "unnecessary." lol

If I weren't going to install everything like I wanted to compete in Install, I could have just run my wires and been done with it.
But I figured I could get some of the heat shrink and stuff from my original order later...then I realized I removed some of the Techflex off the order
that I actually needed (1/4" doesn't fit over my speaker wire.) So I ordered the rest of the stuff I cut off the order in the first place.

Now I'm looking for a label tabe that is preferably blue on black, but I'll settle for black on blue.

eAsy Fabrication Products has a label product coming, but it's not available yet. So I guess I'll bust out the pTouch and make my own.

Jay
 
I had thought about it, and I looked at one of their other printers, but $40 for 8 feet of heat shrink seemed pretty pricey.
And I needed something that would go over 1/0...so like 1" -1.5" and that meant a much more expensive printer.

I'm going to use my P-Touch (probably do white on black) and then ultra clear heat shrink over it.

Jay
 
JayinMI said:
eAsy Fabrication Products has a label product coming, but it's not available yet. So I guess I'll bust out the pTouch and make my own.

Jay
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Jay, Have you gtten a preview of those eAsy labels? Very sexy. Cant wait! [MENTION=296]TheDavel[/MENTION]
 
Jay is correct, we've been working on some labels and we currently have sheets that look like this:





Our plan is not to offer "cut sheets" like this, but I can't disclose what we are doing just yet... but things are about to get easier.


Here are some other graphics we are working on, much more to come... sorry to thread jack Jay.





 
I like that, Dave...but I suggest that on the fractional-to-decimal graph, you change to a standard font such as Arial. Some of those numbers are hard to read.
 
What do you mean "cut sheets?" I was under the impression you'd be able to order a sheet with everything on it, then just peel off the ones you need.
Curious to see what you guys come up with.

Also, thanks for the video on how to use the Circ Center, Dave. I will be ordering one (or making one until I can afford one, lol) and using that technique to make the rings around my subs.

Jay
 
OK. Thanks to Steve, I picked up some 3/4" square tubing and some 3/4" flat stock to begin my amp rack. I need that done, so I can determine RCA lengths.
I might have to look into some connectors (weather pak or Deutsch) for the speaker wires, so the whole rack can be removable easily....but I'll probably skip that aspect for now.

Jay
 
TheDavel said:
Jay is correct, we've been working on some labels and we currently have sheets that look like this
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Will be keeping an eye out for those labels, I cannot tell you the number of times I have stood looking into the trunk, holding a speaker wire and wondering is that front and did I use the stripe as positive or negative...
 
OK. Got some work done on my amp rack. Couldn't find the wrench to change discs on my angle grinder so i cut the tubing with my Milwaukee cordless Sawzall and used a flap disc on my Ryobi angle grinder to clean them up.




I'm not a great welder, but I'm a pretty good grinder. lol













Ran out of time, probably this weekend I will finish the bracketry to mount the amps, processor and combo distro block.
I have a plan and the amp mounts are made.

The rack will be held in place with 1/4-20 bolts (eventually anti-theft Torx or Allen, I think) and I should get my 1/4-20 rivnuts tomorrow along with BOTH my orders from Wirecare.com I'm thinking of making so pieces so I can bolt the rear deck to the amp rack as well as the front and rear mounts just to keep everything tight, but I don't know if it will be necessary.


Jay
 
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OK. So, where I left off before, I had the basic frame and mounts put together. Today, I added all the brackets/captive nuts/etc. to hold both my PDX-V9's, my 8to12 Aerospace and my Streetwires Combo block. I drilled the holes and test fitted the riv nuts for the combo block.

I fabbed up some brackets, and then made some 1/2" MDF "PDX amps" so I could line everything up and make sure it was going to fit.



I double sided taped a piece to the bottom to keep them in place.



Clamped everything in place...



and welded it up...then hit it with the grinder to knock down the welds some. Hoping to test fit it and then paint it tomorrow or Tuesday.



While I had the welder out, I decided to make a mount for my Tsunami compression Fuse Holder.

Fabbed a bracket with captive nuts, and ground a flat spot on top of the battery hold down:







Then welded it to the hold down...







Jay
 
Took the amp rack to work, cleaned off some weld spatter, hit it with a couple of coats of self etching primer and sprayed it with Duplicolor spray can bed liner.
Pretty happy with the finish. When I got home I installed the rivnuts for the distro block.









Will probably do the battery hold down to match.

Jay
 
"Good Welder" might be a stretch, but my welds got a lot better as I went along. Kinda makes me want to work on my S-10. lol

Jay
 
So, since Photobucket decided to break the Internet, I think I'm going to have to find another way to host pics. One here, I think I can do them like attachments, but on the other DIY car audio forum, not so much. I think I'm going to pay the $2.95 for a month of ad free use, download anything I don't already have on my computer and cancel my account. I probably won't update older threads. Sucks.

Jay
 
OK. Woke up this morning a little before 7 to find we had no power. Got up for a while, but was exhausted (for now apparent reason) went back to sleep and woke up around 11am just before the power came back on. Went to Home Depot to get some MDF for my amp trim panel, felt 'off.' I kinda felt warm and clammy even tho the AC was kickin'. Blood sugar was a little high, thought that might have been it. Decided to work on the car again.

Started a trim ring to work from for my trim panel...and it didn't fit. Oops, the "nose" of the center bar on the amp rack stuck out past the front of the amps. That killed my motivation for a while. Went back out a little while ago, removed amps/amp rack from car. Chopped off said offending nose. Misplaced the screws for the processor and distro.

It hasn't been a good day.

I get home from work on Saturday around 6:30, have Sunday and Monday off this week. A replacement router bit I needed arrives tomorrow.
Maybe this weekend will be better.

*sigh*

Jay
 
OK, thought I'd try Flickr.

I picked up a new Brother label maker. This one can do 1/2 and 3/4" labels.
Went with white on black.





So, Wasps keep hanging around my car, and it's been hot, but today the wasps have (mostly) stayed away and it was only about 73 degrees. So, I decided to run my Knu 12ga speaker wire into the door. Things were going about as expected until my Olfa blade broke, knife slipped, caught my thumb (luckily, callusses don't bleed) and slice my leg.

Anyway...

Driver's door:



Factory molex-style harness. The door side is a little weird, instead of just going inside the door, it runs along the edge of the door and wraps around the front.



There wasn't one spot large enough for the wire to fit through, so I relocated the pink wire (in an otherwise empty 8pin bank of spaces) over to free up that whole area.





I had had to do the same thing in my old Genesis Coupe, but alas, all the pics are gone.

So, I drilled out the 8 (now open) spaces to feed my wire through.





I added Blue/black techflex tightweave and ran it into position.

I had to cut the center bar out of the yellow piece to make room.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/WAxVEZ]



Jay
 
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