My Passat Wagon

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Okay, so I'm going to walk you thru my on going build of my wagon:

Components:
Beyma speakers:

• SD-35 dome midrange will be changing to 3FR30 this week (but I will show you the current setup)
• eXperience Tweeter
• 8br40/N 8" midbass/Woofer (pro audio)
• MetalPro 1000 10" sub (availability is limited, nice sounding aluminum cone subwoofer, might change in the future)

Soundigital Amps:

• 2 - EVO 400.4 100w x4 , 200w x 2 bridged, running bridged to mids and tweeters
• 1 - Evolution 800.4 200w x 4, running midbass and subs

Headunit
Pioneer P9 combo (currently have both CD and dvd changers in the car, due tot he faulty ribbon cable on the face)

Vehicle:
2002 Black VW Passat Wagon 1.8T Automatic

• swapped powered/heated seats into the car (black, minor rip on the drivers seat)
• Lowered on raceland Ultimo coilovers
• Running Audi S4 !7" Avus wheels

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First off, the headunit install. I used two methods


a) using the single din solution using factory pocket to turn the double din into a single din:


to accomplish that I need to trim the headunit of the tabs it had on the sides to I could get it to sit deeper into the dash:


sitting deeper in the dash:



That solution was more of a jerry rig as the case was really what kept the radio in place when sliding in the dash piece..







b) Permanent solution:

Took a Metra Double Din kit and a Metra pocket and built a single din with pocket dash kit using CA glue and ABS.
Part one, glue the pocket:










Sand the hardened CA glue smooth to make it unnoticeable and give the abs some texture..

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Door sails


Originally VW was gracious to put some small tweeters in the sails, but, always a but, they were way smaller than the tweeters I was going to run
(first version of a pillars in the background)



Used grill cloth and resing to make it permanent






rougn sanded



Sanding, primer, and paint



Plans are to cover in Vinyl for finals..

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A-pillars
I went thru two iterations one for SBN and another afterwards (feedback from show)


Pre-SBN (not going to go into much detail as it lasted one event)

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Post SBN (current but going to change soon, ask away, but going to keep it just pictures)


Sanded, primer, paint





Installed














outside view



next version will be using different speakers, so lets see..

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Midbass
Since I have a autotragic I can play with a 8" midbass in the kicks. (these are rough to gain points to qualify)


prep worK

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Yes, there's lots of room for the 8, I didn't take all of it up.. maybe next round, so I lower the bottom cutoff...

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Quick Update:
Things change and I need to make changes:

(2) Soundigital 300.2 GaN amps
(1) Soundigital 1200.4 Amp
(1) Beyma 12" Sub..



More to follow once it's all in..

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With equipment:

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That's gonna be sick!