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great stuff! i'm gonna wind up putting one on mine too. eventually

its a great piece to add - combined with the front strut bar - it REALLY tightens the car up.

hopefully my FPR bracket will come in today and i can install that and make a work log on it.

so much for the FPR tutorial tonight - after waiting weeks to get the bracket - the friggin thing fell down under the fuel rails - so i'm looking at removing my entire IM just to get the damn thing! i'm so pissed. i guess i'll use that time to polish up the IM and change out the injectors - ARGH!

well - i'm tinting my windows - if anyone would like a work log on it - let me know

are you tinting the hatch...definatley worklog material

tmac4t4 wrote:are you tinting the hatch...definatley worklog material

very true - but no - not yet - just the windows for now - i know how to - but i know its the hardest window to do because of the heater strips.

hows the tinting coming along? you're doing it all yourself?

i did the side windows, but not the rear window - i cheated hardcore and took the windows out of the doors ( a whole 5 minutes to do - woohoo) and took it all into the living room - i have pics - but i think its a pretty self explanatory process, but i'll post them if you want. they came out really well - i had a couple of air bubbles on one window, but a few days in the texas sun took care of that , now they are looking really good.

yeah sounds good! pictures are always a good thing

CHEATER!! takin the windows outta the doors! im j/k
i was thinkin if your doin the hatch its probably easiest to take the hatch right off so your not contortin urself like a pretzel

well - it has begun - the building of the sound system. i will be posting pics as i go along and at the end i will create a worklog of the process...enjoi

here's the stripped out trunk space - notice the old stereo wires - the power and ground are one side and the speaker and rca plugs on the other side this is the proper and safest way to run stereo wires - you should see this one guy on dfwmazdas forum - he spent 8 hours (so he says) and was so proud of his system it was a WRECK - wires everywhere, you couldnt tell what went where and all of his hardware was just srewed to a piece of wood just laying in his trunk..lol and he was SO proud of himself...we dogged him pretty good.



its o if the wires come out of the same hole as long as they are running parallel to each other and not for any great distance. once the wires came out of this hole, they immediately went to opposite sides of the amp.


here is everything - just waiting, waiting, waiting....


here's my room-mate cutting out the initial template - since they were his cutting tools - i let him play too


the template - cut out - it will refined on the edges to be more straight:


here is the completed base of the box - now i just need to make the braces that will hold the speakers and amps and then lay my fiberglass on top of that...the big hole in the middle is for the spare tire door.


as you can see - my initial designed changed. instead of having the woofers on each side of the trunk - i put them on one side and the amps on the other with the crossover in the middle - and the distribution blocks and wiring will be seen behind a plexiglass window when you put the back seat down..

WARNING! Digging up old thread!

Still got a working link to your rear strut tower bar installation?