LittlemissGTO's 2006 GTO

[claydo]

Should be awesome miss.......hope ya love it!

[Hi-FiDelity]

looking good Shuana and good luck with the edumacation.

[littlemissGTO]

looking good Shauna and good luck with the edumacation.

Thank you Nick. I'm afraid to follow Glenn's install work. He's so darned good. I'm hoping mine doesn't look like a balled up piece of ass.

[littlemissGTO]

Last night I picked up a set of RCAs from Scott (thanks again) and got them labeled an ready. The power/distribution block showed up today so I was able to get my layout finished.

Tomorrow I'll head to a friend's shop and get busy with painting the amp board and the rewire process. If I'm lucky it will be making noise by late afternoon.

[littlemissGTO]

Man what a day! I got started a little later than I wanted, but the removal and install process went pretty well. I was a bad girl and skipped lunch, and I felt it later in the day.
My thought process for today was to re-route/run wire as I was removing the old amps. I also put the car back together as I was finishing up the routing of wires. This haunts me little bit because I forgot to run the remote wire for the processor. I'll get it installed later.
This is what I had around mid-afternoon:

My original plan of reusing some factory cables proved to be more trouble than they were worth. Thankfully I had Knukonceptz wire left from removing the Focal amp I was running.
Everything is installed at this point:

Today's goal of getting all of the drivers working was accomplished.
I didn't get any tuning done because I didn't read the manual for the processor and I spent some time talking with my friend before I left.
Tomorrow I'll get some tuning done.

[Glenn]

Those amps just sweeten up any install. Love em to death! Looks great.

[littlemissGTO]

Those amps just sweeten up any install. Love em to death! Looks great.

Thank you and Thank you so much for all of your help. I was really worried about how the install would look. I'm pleased with how it turned out. I learned a couple of things this go-round that will help with version 2.5. LOL

[astrochex]

I like how you ran power the power wires over then under, it really cleans things up.

Congrats on the successful drivers power-up! How are you going to set your amp levels?

[littlemissGTO]

I like how you ran power the power wires over then under, it really cleans things up.

Congrats on the successful drivers power-up! How are you going to set your amp levels?

Thank you.

I set them before I put them in the car, and promptly discovered today that the gain is a bit too high. I'll move the rack tomorrow and lower the levels.

[littlemissGTO]

Well after little more than a year, I finally found someone local that would teach me about using fiberglass. JayinMI came down from the Flint area, which is about an hour or so away from me. The day started with laying tape. LOTS of tape.


After the base layer of tape was laid down, out came aluminum foil, some spray adhesive and the thick plastic sheeting.


Now this is where things got real interesting for me. Jay mixed up the resin and started to lay the fiberglass mat. Holy buckets is this messy! I had no idea just how messy this process was going to be. Now I do...LOL This was taken after the first layer was laid down.


Then more layers:

Finally the mold was ready to come out.

This is where we stopped for the night. Hopefully later this week we can meet up to finish up the process. I'll add more photos that I took with my other camera.