Ok, so first off I'm not a stereo guy. But a year or two ago I got an old truck that only one speaker worked in, long story short I replaced the speakers with some mid level aftermarkets and loved having crisp, clear sound.
Because of all the nightmares I've seen about working with the Mach 460 systems, when I decided to put a Nav system in my Cobra I thought it would be best to replace everything.
I ended up using a Sony XNV-770BT head unit with Infinity Reference components up front and a similar version of their rear speaker. Since the stock unit used amplifiers I didn't want to be out done and got a Boston Acoustic's GTA-1105 Five channel amp. And since our charging systems suck, a 2 Farad Capacitor (at that point whats another $80 anyway).
I sourced a lot of stuff off ebay and waited for Crutchfield to have a sale BOGO on the Infinity speakers, to keep the prices low.
Anyway the point of this thread is to show where I ended up putting the Amp, I searched for pictures of installs before this and couldn't find too many I liked because most of the time they take up a ton of trunk space.
This isn't really a "How to" this is just to show what I did and give anyone else some options in their install.
Also the fact that I'm driving a convertible made it about a thousand times more difficult.
Final install:
To do it I basically used the trunk pieces as a pattern and a lot of back and forth fitting.
I made some holes for the wires and some just to lose extra material and lighten the mounting board up.
Then I ordered some carpet off ebay and covered it:
I ran out of heavy gauge wire and didn't want to run tons of extra as there was enough wiring running around the car as it was. I tried not to cross any or bundle it do to interference but this meant I had to wire it all when mounted: terrible idea.
I'm going to work on installing my sub next. It's an Infinity 120.9 and its way bigger than I thought it was going to be.
Because of all the nightmares I've seen about working with the Mach 460 systems, when I decided to put a Nav system in my Cobra I thought it would be best to replace everything.
I ended up using a Sony XNV-770BT head unit with Infinity Reference components up front and a similar version of their rear speaker. Since the stock unit used amplifiers I didn't want to be out done and got a Boston Acoustic's GTA-1105 Five channel amp. And since our charging systems suck, a 2 Farad Capacitor (at that point whats another $80 anyway).
I sourced a lot of stuff off ebay and waited for Crutchfield to have a sale BOGO on the Infinity speakers, to keep the prices low.
Anyway the point of this thread is to show where I ended up putting the Amp, I searched for pictures of installs before this and couldn't find too many I liked because most of the time they take up a ton of trunk space.
This isn't really a "How to" this is just to show what I did and give anyone else some options in their install.
Also the fact that I'm driving a convertible made it about a thousand times more difficult.
Final install:
To do it I basically used the trunk pieces as a pattern and a lot of back and forth fitting.
I made some holes for the wires and some just to lose extra material and lighten the mounting board up.
Then I ordered some carpet off ebay and covered it:
I ran out of heavy gauge wire and didn't want to run tons of extra as there was enough wiring running around the car as it was. I tried not to cross any or bundle it do to interference but this meant I had to wire it all when mounted: terrible idea.
I'm going to work on installing my sub next. It's an Infinity 120.9 and its way bigger than I thought it was going to be.
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