You may have noticed from my previous posts that I really seem to love speakers…and it’s true. A little over a month ago, I purchased a new vehicle and decided to go all-in with the audio install. This is a crossover project using both the LowRider and the MPCNC — other than the acrylic and engraving which I did on the CO2 laser.
A quick peek under the hood. Some changes were made to the design before completion as the rear corners did not fit properly in the vehicle. They had to be notched.
If you mean the silver objects between the speakers, they are the amplifiers for the whole-vehicle system. I also replaced the front and rear door speakers in the vehicle, but that was not particularly relevant to this forum as their replacement did not require any use of the CNC.
There are also two additional devices in the slot beneath the amplifiers for sound processing (DSP), but they are not easy to see, as space was limited and I did not intend to display them.
There’s still a lot of fine tuning to do, but it’s coming along. I think my neighbors are starting to wonder what I’m doing in my driveway sitting in the back seat with a laptop and earmuffs on.
For the wife’s Jeep, I just went with the JL Audio stealthbox. Just putting a decently powered sub back there woke up the audio a ton compared to the stock anemic sub.
I tucked the amp and line converter into the spare tire wheel well under the back carpet.
Prior to kids, I put a 12" in a custom fiberglass enclosure in the back of an old Dodge Stratus. I haven’t done much car audio since then. It was nice playing around with running wires through a car again.
