2002 Acura RSX Type S (3-Way On Axis Rebuild Alpine/Audison)

Going to be making some changes to the old system and adding new equipment. I'm going to be ditching the 2-way + rear fill and going 3-way on this one. Ever since I went 3-way in my daily driver, this car just never seemed as enjoyable. I will be removing the ipad mini and pure i20 as the main source. I will also be fabricating sail panel pods for the mids and small pods for the tweeters.

Old Equipment
- iPad Mini (Optical Out)
- Audison Voce AV5.1k (Front Stage/Sub Amplifier)
- Audison Voce AV K6 Component Speakers (2-Way Front Stage)
- Alpine DVA-9861 (Head Unit/Processor Controller)
- Alpine PXA-H701 (Processor)
- Kicker PX 100.2 (Rear Fill Amplifier)
- Alpine Type S 5.25 Coaxial (Rear Fill)
- Audison AV10 (Subwoofer)


New Equipment
- Android Phone LG G7 (Optical Out)
- Audison Voce AV5.1k (Tweeter/Mid-range/Sub Amplifier)
- Audison Voce AV5.1k (Mid-bass)
- Alpine DVA-9860 (Head Unit/Controller)
- Alpine PXA-H701 (Processor)
- Audison AV1.1 (Tweeter)
- Audison AV3.0 (Midrange)
- Audison AV K6 (Midbass)
- Audison AV10 (Subwoofer)

The Audison AV3.0 midrange are pretty small. I decided to install them on axis in the sail panels.

Had to cut a piece out of the passenger sail panel so the door would close.

Painted the pods in a rustoleum black for now.

I ordered some ABS plastic rings to replace the wood rings I previously had in the doors. I filled in the back of the rings with a mixture of bondo and fiberglass resin to add some rigidity.

I had some kilmat laying around, so I decided to put another layer on the doors.

Deadener on the door panels and fast rings on the mids.

Ran new speaker wires for the midrange. Also put some techflex on the old wires to dress them up a bit.

More wiring with tesa tape and plastic sleeving.

This is where I left off after last weekend. Here are some pics of how the tweeters look in the stock locations. I got the basic shape mocked up for the tweeter pods. Still a lot of sanding needs to be done.