Betty the RAV4 Clean and Audio install pt2 

Gotta love car audio, I remeber playing around with non-ported ten inch subs in my truck trying to get a good sound thinking bigger was better but it never worked very good for me, then my friend gives me his old sub from a home theater that would fit behind the seat and hot damn its only a 4 inch with a port and will really kick if you set it up to do so. Good job ed love your audio install it looks like a professional did it so far.

not a bad idea!, I tied off the rear cables and drains a bit more but I may pull the panel back a bit and check that they can't move.

lol I have lost count of how many AC units and electrical cabinets I have stripped with them!. I still use them to prune the weeds around here too :p

hehe yeah I am in the process of moving into the spare room and remodeling things my old room and the interconnecting one will be storage and server rooms, the main room will be my bedroom with dual amps, 8 speaker surround + 2 subs, and 3-4 display panels 42" and bigger, plus a couple of 32" security ones.. its going to be awesome :D

Depending on its size it'll work good for the car. Can't wait to see it in action.

yeh those things are cool!, I will look around at the local shops and see if they can at least pull it for me and I do the rest.

mass loaded vinyl works great as an alternative to dynamat. I used it to replace all the disintegrating noise padding under my car's carpet.

oh cool, I will have a good look for that!

yeh I was thinking I could use a Kenwood home theater sub in the back, I think I have it somewhere inside the house.

Human range of hearing, 20-20,000 cps. I play with vintage/antique radios and have seen links to some of the audiophool websites posted just for entertainment on the antique radio ones. One of the dumbest was for some fancy power cord made out of oxygen free copper wire, the price was something like $300. This is for AC power to come into the power supply of the amp. Also dummies building tube amps using mercury vapor rectifiers, which produce all kinds of hash.

yeh thats kinda like tires, Betty's new front tire still smells very strongly, where as the older new one has been around long enough not to.

Ed, you should probably replace that factory unit with a good aftermarket head-unit like Pioneer or Sony

I think its all webbed in behind It but I will check today when I put the amp in

Dam that carpet looks clean, bet it dont stink eather. Cracking job Ed :-))

lol those cheap secateurs are used to cut lots of things other that plants, looking good!!

yeh I am tempted to pull the Pioneer out of the Ford, but I would like a CD changer, I may see if Pioneer make one that suits the model I have

looking good ed, haha micras getting 2 x 12" rockford fosgate p1 subs ( progress is slow .. no rush :P ) also cash converters have cheap amps.. pretty sure they have a 30 day warranty and can test them before you takem home, if you dare venture into frangainstan ;)

mm yer I just looked and I found one for $50, may have to get it next week.

i had a rattling sound in my old BMW. turns out it was the sunroof drain hoses that run behind the speakers in the kick panels hitting the outside of the body. some zip ties fixed that.

roof repair as in heat/noise insulation for car roofs or houses?

Get a stud welder and pull the dent out from the outside. Then dolly it smooth if you've got room to get behind it. Little bit of filler and paint...

Should've used a couple shots of foam up in those cavities for your rear speakers. =D

ah cool, these are the ones you are building into the structure :D

ed you are very inventive. we want decent sound though. modernize your house similar to Betty :)

Boom mat is a good cheap dynamat equivalent. Just as good if not better quality. And no ugly branding all over it like dynamat.

i agree. he very thorough.

Also don't run line level cables near the power cable. You will get alternater feedback

all of it ;) show you some pictures sometime... should work... just enough airspace for a sealed box

Clean, proper job.

lol Have half a dozen cans of the stuff, big ones, but lack the gun to dispense it :(

Those old speakers need connecting to Mr Variac! Get some excursion!

mmmm high level converter.. personally, I would have bought a deck and ran RCAs. you dont need to cut and shut the dash loom to install a deck btw, there are adaptor cables available.

Looking good!

Haha will you have any cargo space left after the subs go in? ;) Not sure if I want to actually get out of the car in Franganistan tho :p

well, it looks like Betty is Pre Wired for the SRS System; and she's looking better! ( I take it Blue is gonna be the Passenger Rav4 as soon as he's Roadworthy?)

Edd you thought about trying to get at that dent by removing the offside tail lamp?

dont use pvc to make a basstube, make a long rectangular box made of MDF, will sound massive!!!! :)

If you need to do a floating audio feed, use a portable CD/DVD player. I could send you one from here in the States.

Have you considered a AUX in for ipods and similar? of maybe even Bluetooth if your feeling adventurous

they ain't bad for under $10.00 i see a set like that st the supermarket!

jackknifed in a bad spot too!!

Replace the head unit and put a UHF in place of the stacker

most car amps have high level inputs why not use them,, verses having another set of connections to weather/fail?

You need to throw a small subwoofer in there. It'lll defiantly sound better.

First! I know I know.. But i just had to do it :p Keep up the good vids btw. Long time watcher!

lmao no I am not married, my relationships are kinda, short :p, you can guess why :P

Try expanding form tht be good !!!!

haha ill send you a picture, but yeah pretty much, was going to be 8" but got those 2 12's for $25ea ;) couldnt pass it up

line level converters aren't worth it. head units are cheap. and worth it. the sound difference is shocking and plus you have the added touch of tuning. those cheap sonys go well when tuned tip. run you treble with the speakers so you have no bass coming from the speakers and use the sub to give you the bass.

What about pulling the dent, instead of hamering it from the inside? /watch?v=vEyE8PibVDs

CD is dead. Mechless Alpine head unit can be had for $90.

U.S Civil War, two hit songs I know of, "We'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home" and "Dixie". I don't really give a damn about car audio either, as long as it doesn't sound like crap and has decent volume. I think car audio equipment is more or less like the audiophile equipment, 75% of it is overpriced crap that does next to nothing of substance other then give bragging status to the buyer.

haha put expanding foam in all the holes

UPOL is your friend

nice do the sub get dat boom

I wish they would just go away, they make a radio guy's life more difficult by driving up the price of some power output tubes. For some reason they think that rare tube type obsolete since 1933 makes their audio system sound better. So I guess that RCA, G.E, Marconi-Osram, and Phillips did not know what they were doing by switching to pentode and beam power tetrodes, after all they only had thousands of engineers and scientists to turn to.

buy said gun online.

Heh... You aren't married eh? My wife would cut sick if I did this :)