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Honda Accord Install

Where to begin. Okay, initially this was going to be a 2 weekend project, tops. We started this project on 11/25/05 and finished it on 1/15/06, so much for that idea. We were going to take out all of the carpeted shell in the trunk, remove the spare tire, and build a box to set in the space where the spare tire was. We then were going to make a top piece to set over that so it would lay flush. The only problem was that my 15” sub takes 3 cubic feet of airspace. So a flush mount would put the box about 5 inches above the line where my trunk lid would close. It would fit, but look and sound like shit, back to the drawing board. We basically were at a point where I needed a bigger trunk, or a smaller sub. I was not interested in either. So Matt is in the trunk with a tape measure, and he starts yelling out dimensions to me that seemed to be larger than what we had space for. He asked me to figure out the volume for the dimensions he gave me and it ended up being 3.02 cubic feet. Just about perfect. I then asked where he picked up the extra space. He told me that in Scrote’s trunk, in order to save space he tried something new. He used the actual spare tire steel well as the bottom of the box and built a wooden lid for it. Using liquid nails to seal it, it worked out perfectly. So it was then up to me if I wanted to go that route. Well that was an easy decision after all of the thought we put into the design of this only to hit a wall because of space. We stripped the trunk of everything to the point where we were looking at a steel floor. We then sealed every hole we could find with heavy duty liquid nails. Then we figured out the dimensions of the lid, built it, sealed it and laid it in. From there we ran the sub wires and power for the light in the sub under the lid and sealed it down. When it was all set and sealed we had went through 9 caulk size tubes of liquid nails. That had to set up for at least a week. We waited four. The glue was still mushy after two weeks. Once the glue was set, we put the plastic sidewalls back in and made a cardboard template of the top layer to make sure it mated well with the existing carpeted plastic molded side walls. We then cut both halves of the top layer, temporarily mounted the sub, laid the halves in, and made some adjustments on the hole. The sub then came out, and we carpeted the top halves, and laid a small ring of carpet around the hole on the top of the box where the sub sits. We then wired and mounted the sub, secured it over the carpet, and we dropped the top pieces in and mounted the amps. In order for me to keep my stock deck, which I love, I had to buy a line out converter. It converts speaker wire into a RCA output. Most of these are junk and 25-40 bucks at Best Buy. I didn’t want junk so I did some research on a good line out converter. The one I bought was from Automotive Innovations. It is a JL Audio Clean Sweep. It has a RCA input for my iPod, 4 channel speaker wire inputs and 4 channel 8 volt RCA outputs. Most CD players and line out converters only have a 4-6 volt output. So we wired from the dash to the Clean Sweep, then from the Clean Sweep to the JL Audio e4300, from the e4300 to the internal speakers, and also from the e4300, a summed RCA output of the inputs from the Clean Sweep to the Massive Audio D100X, and from the D100X to the Massive Audio CW 15 Stage 2 15” subwoofer. We hid the Clean Sweep under the top layer, and ran all the wires through ports we cut in said layer. We had to take the back bench seat out to hide all of the wires, and we ran the D100X gain control and the Clean Sweep gain control under the carpet and out the underside plastic of the center console. Here it is all finished, and here is a pic of it in the dark bumping.

Here are all of the pics.

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17 Responses to “Honda Accord Install”

amanda Says:
January 28th, 2006 at 9:38 am
i just want to say that it looks great! and i really want to thank matt and brent for FINALLY getting it done! i had to loosen the “noose” for a couple of months for that project, but now things are back to normal. (thanks for that one mitch)
derek Says:
January 28th, 2006 at 10:48 am
that install is really nice. good work. i bet it sounds like shit with all those shit components though.
dick Says:
January 30th, 2006 at 9:23 am
At first, that was my biggest fear. I have all this nice stuff, and it will sound like shit because I have to use a cheap ass line out converter. I just happened to stop into Automotive and I asked them how they integrate a stock deck to an amp. They showed me the ever popular 65 dollar piece of shit, and then i explained to him, in a not so subtle way, that if I wanted shit, I would have went to Wal-Mart, or Discount Tool. He then showed me the Clean Sweep.
guy with shirt off in january doing car stuff Says:
January 30th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
this weekend i fixed my windsheild wipers (they were overextending). i also checked the oil, i was a quart down.
Mr. Mitchell Todd Pilon Says:
January 31st, 2006 at 8:18 am
we talking about Brook’s dad, here?
dick Says:
January 31st, 2006 at 9:30 am
Looks like Xiggz.
Mr. Mitchell Todd Pilon Says:
January 31st, 2006 at 3:48 pm
Not talking to but about? sorry about the confusion, rich!!!
Kevinator Says:
February 9th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
You are insane. Deaf by 30 or close to it. Wish I could have a master blaster installed in my romping ranger. Nice work Rich.

Kevinator
amanda Says:
February 10th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
so is “kevinator” the name you use when you are hitting on other guy’s girlfriends? it isnt hot. it sounds like a name a gay male stripper would use!
Dicks Dad Says:
February 18th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
way to knock em dead with this story Dick.
get it nobody cares about your stupid car.
10 fucking comments and 3 of those are from you.
chickenplucker Says:
February 23rd, 2006 at 12:45 pm
I have to agree with your dad on that one,buddy.You just wasted 5 minutes of my fuckin’ life.
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February 24th, 2006 at 8:03 am
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dicks Dad Says:
February 24th, 2006 at 11:11 am
You must have meant chickenplucker correct?
I think you have my numbers.
Jeff Says:
March 3rd, 2006 at 9:28 pm
DICK THE CAR LOOKS GREAT!! When you are going to come play in Iowa City???
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Time for a new page. How about a page devoted to your tat. Include that part where Amanda put you to your sissy knees by slapping your back.
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Honda Accord Install

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