Canary's got a thread part II
05-11-2008, 01:06 AM
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Canary's got a thread part II
So I finally got around to taking some pics of some recent work done, read below for the scoop:
For the doors I wanted something custom, but that looked almost factory, we removed and took apart the panels, cut out a center section in the middle piece, mounted a piece of custom painted plexiglass in the center (we sandblasted the back side to get the "frost" effect) and backlit it using 7 color LED's that are remote controlled. We also smoothed out the bottom half (where the factory door speaker is) and custom fit a SoundStream 8" midbass, along with a custom made plexiglass ring (frosted as well), also backlit with 7 color LED's. We shaved and filled the factory tweeter position as well. We covered the top section and bottom section in black carbon fiver vinyl, center section in yellow to contrast with the custom painted plexi etc.
We designed the interior with the intent to look and sound amazing while retiaing a pseudo factory look, unfortunately the speakers we had to use to pull that off (the amazing sound part lol) wouldn't look right or sound right all crammed in the doors, so we built custom made speaker pods and mounted them in the corners of the floorboards. At first glance it almost looks like they're just placed in there, but they're actually mounted and built to exact specs airspace wise for the mid and tweeter contained within. Although the placement seemed awkward at first, after hearing these along with the midbass in the door, I was absolutely stunned by how good the imaging is in this car. We plan on entering it into an upcoming SQ comp., I'll be sure to post a follow up
We also continued the LED theme and these speakers light up in conjunction with the door panel, looks pretty awesome at night, if we "strobe the LED's it actually makes the "audiofx" look like it's moving 
For the dash we took apart and relocated the factory radio and installed a Soundstream Vir4100, nice radio, excellent nav, interface is a bit funky and the sub out is pretty weak but I've got a good feeling their next gen radios are going to blow alot of what's out now away. (shhhh, you didn't hear that from me though) We custom molded a dash piece using the front of the old radio, we also relocated the "clock" button and the "disp/amb" button to the ashtray, where we molded in a Soundstream Digi-Q eq as well. All pieces were professionally painted in a piano black finish. (including my shift cover) The rest of the interior is mostly stock, save for the Soundstream "cap" we mounted inbetween the back seats. We haven't finished with the cover for that so I didn't take a pic yet. (doh!)
In the trunk I have 2 Soundstream 7" monitors, a custom painted (and backlit) piece of plexiglass, 2 Soundstream R1 12's, and 2 Soundstream Tarantula series 4 channel amps pushing everything. We had the top pieces powder coated piano black to match the parts painted in the interior. We laid down a few layers of r-blox sound deadener, then built a custom multilevel false floor along with a unique speaker enclosure that is comprised of two seperate boxes sharing arispace via acrylic tubes that connect them. (and are lit using LED's as well) There's a camera back there as well, and the amps are mounted on custom metal handmade posts that are hidden from view
Under the hood I had the blue Cusco radiator shroud deflector thingies powder coated black as well as the ends of my Greddy strut bar, still rockin' an aem intake, an optima yellow top, 0 gauge power (and ground eventually) to a 120amp circuit breaker (mounted on a custom made bracket powder coated as well).
wheels are Work S1 meister 3 piece, +29 on the rear, +36 front, 235/35/19's and 265/30/19's kdw 2's, car is lowered on Tein S tech's, with authentic Mazdaspeed front and sides and appearance package rear pieces.
I think that covers everything, future plans include a BHR ignition system and A/t radiator (yeah!), Tein basic coilovers, and a Cobb AP. I'll probably be getting a different radio at some point (looking at the JVC 810), and probably painting the top section of the dash to match the rest of the dash. We'll also be redoing the decklid piece in fiberglass as the factory piece is thin and flimsy. (as evidenced by the wavy lines in the bottom part) Few other minor things like cleaning up the wires a bit in the back and getting some LED's behind the amps etc. and it should be good.....until it gets changed again
Now on to the pics, and thanks for reading my long *** thread
thanks to my buds at AudioFx, and all comments welcome! (even the thread crapping ones )
For the doors I wanted something custom, but that looked almost factory, we removed and took apart the panels, cut out a center section in the middle piece, mounted a piece of custom painted plexiglass in the center (we sandblasted the back side to get the "frost" effect) and backlit it using 7 color LED's that are remote controlled. We also smoothed out the bottom half (where the factory door speaker is) and custom fit a SoundStream 8" midbass, along with a custom made plexiglass ring (frosted as well), also backlit with 7 color LED's. We shaved and filled the factory tweeter position as well. We covered the top section and bottom section in black carbon fiver vinyl, center section in yellow to contrast with the custom painted plexi etc.
We designed the interior with the intent to look and sound amazing while retiaing a pseudo factory look, unfortunately the speakers we had to use to pull that off (the amazing sound part lol) wouldn't look right or sound right all crammed in the doors, so we built custom made speaker pods and mounted them in the corners of the floorboards. At first glance it almost looks like they're just placed in there, but they're actually mounted and built to exact specs airspace wise for the mid and tweeter contained within. Although the placement seemed awkward at first, after hearing these along with the midbass in the door, I was absolutely stunned by how good the imaging is in this car. We plan on entering it into an upcoming SQ comp., I'll be sure to post a follow up
We also continued the LED theme and these speakers light up in conjunction with the door panel, looks pretty awesome at night, if we "strobe the LED's it actually makes the "audiofx" look like it's moving For the dash we took apart and relocated the factory radio and installed a Soundstream Vir4100, nice radio, excellent nav, interface is a bit funky and the sub out is pretty weak but I've got a good feeling their next gen radios are going to blow alot of what's out now away. (shhhh, you didn't hear that from me though) We custom molded a dash piece using the front of the old radio, we also relocated the "clock" button and the "disp/amb" button to the ashtray, where we molded in a Soundstream Digi-Q eq as well. All pieces were professionally painted in a piano black finish. (including my shift cover) The rest of the interior is mostly stock, save for the Soundstream "cap" we mounted inbetween the back seats. We haven't finished with the cover for that so I didn't take a pic yet. (doh!)
In the trunk I have 2 Soundstream 7" monitors, a custom painted (and backlit) piece of plexiglass, 2 Soundstream R1 12's, and 2 Soundstream Tarantula series 4 channel amps pushing everything. We had the top pieces powder coated piano black to match the parts painted in the interior. We laid down a few layers of r-blox sound deadener, then built a custom multilevel false floor along with a unique speaker enclosure that is comprised of two seperate boxes sharing arispace via acrylic tubes that connect them. (and are lit using LED's as well) There's a camera back there as well, and the amps are mounted on custom metal handmade posts that are hidden from view
Under the hood I had the blue Cusco radiator shroud deflector thingies powder coated black as well as the ends of my Greddy strut bar, still rockin' an aem intake, an optima yellow top, 0 gauge power (and ground eventually) to a 120amp circuit breaker (mounted on a custom made bracket powder coated as well).
wheels are Work S1 meister 3 piece, +29 on the rear, +36 front, 235/35/19's and 265/30/19's kdw 2's, car is lowered on Tein S tech's, with authentic Mazdaspeed front and sides and appearance package rear pieces.
I think that covers everything, future plans include a BHR ignition system and A/t radiator (yeah!), Tein basic coilovers, and a Cobb AP. I'll probably be getting a different radio at some point (looking at the JVC 810), and probably painting the top section of the dash to match the rest of the dash. We'll also be redoing the decklid piece in fiberglass as the factory piece is thin and flimsy. (as evidenced by the wavy lines in the bottom part) Few other minor things like cleaning up the wires a bit in the back and getting some LED's behind the amps etc. and it should be good.....until it gets changed again
Now on to the pics, and thanks for reading my long *** thread
thanks to my buds at AudioFx, and all comments welcome! (even the thread crapping ones
)
great job though, looks like it cost a lot 
05-11-2008, 01:29 AM
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So I finally got around to taking some pics of some recent work done, read below for the scoop:
For the doors I wanted something custom, but that looked almost factory, we removed and took apart the panels, cut out a center section in the middle piece, mounted a piece of custom painted plexiglass in the center (we sandblasted the back side to get the "frost" effect) and backlit it using 7 color LED's that are remote controlled. We also smoothed out the bottom half (where the factory door speaker is) and custom fit a SoundStream 8" midbass, along with a custom made plexiglass ring (frosted as well), also backlit with 7 color LED's. We shaved and filled the factory tweeter position as well. We covered the top section and bottom section in black carbon fiver vinyl, center section in yellow to contrast with the custom painted plexi etc.
We designed the interior with the intent to look and sound amazing while retiaing a pseudo factory look, unfortunately the speakers we had to use to pull that off (the amazing sound part lol) wouldn't look right or sound right all crammed in the doors, so we built custom made speaker pods and mounted them in the corners of the floorboards. At first glance it almost looks like they're just placed in there, but they're actually mounted and built to exact specs airspace wise for the mid and tweeter contained within. Although the placement seemed awkward at first, after hearing these along with the midbass in the door, I was absolutely stunned by how good the imaging is in this car. We plan on entering it into an upcoming SQ comp., I'll be sure to post a follow up We also continued the LED theme and these speakers light up in conjunction with the door panel, looks pretty awesome at night, if we "strobe the LED's it actually makes the "audiofx" look like it's moving
For the dash we took apart and relocated the factory radio and installed a Soundstream Vir4100, nice radio, excellent nav, interface is a bit funky and the sub out is pretty weak but I've got a good feeling their next gen radios are going to blow alot of what's out now away. (shhhh, you didn't hear that from me though) We custom molded a dash piece using the front of the old radio, we also relocated the "clock" button and the "disp/amb" button to the ashtray, where we molded in a Soundstream Digi-Q eq as well. All pieces were professionally painted in a piano black finish. (including my shift cover) The rest of the interior is mostly stock, save for the Soundstream "cap" we mounted inbetween the back seats. We haven't finished with the cover for that so I didn't take a pic yet. (doh!)
In the trunk I have 2 Soundstream 7" monitors, a custom painted (and backlit) piece of plexiglass, 2 Soundstream R1 12's, and 2 Soundstream Tarantula series 4 channel amps pushing everything. We had the top pieces powder coated piano black to match the parts painted in the interior. We laid down a few layers of r-blox sound deadener, then built a custom multilevel false floor along with a unique speaker enclosure that is comprised of two seperate boxes sharing arispace via acrylic tubes that connect them. (and are lit using LED's as well) There's a camera back there as well, and the amps are mounted on custom metal handmade posts that are hidden from view
Under the hood I had the blue Cusco radiator shroud deflector thingies powder coated black as well as the ends of my Greddy strut bar, still rockin' an aem intake, an optima yellow top, 0 gauge power (and ground eventually) to a 120amp circuit breaker (mounted on a custom made bracket powder coated as well).
wheels are Work S1 meister 3 piece, +29 on the rear, +36 front, 235/35/19's and 265/30/19's kdw 2's, car is lowered on Tein S tech's, with authentic Mazdaspeed front and sides and appearance package rear pieces.
I think that covers everything, future plans include a BHR ignition system and A/t radiator (yeah!), Tein basic coilovers, and a Cobb AP. I'll probably be getting a different radio at some point (looking at the JVC 810), and probably painting the top section of the dash to match the rest of the dash. We'll also be redoing the decklid piece in fiberglass as the factory piece is thin and flimsy. (as evidenced by the wavy lines in the bottom part) Few other minor things like cleaning up the wires a bit in the back and getting some LED's behind the amps etc. and it should be good.....until it gets changed again
Now on to the pics, and thanks for reading my long *** thread
thanks to my buds at AudioFx, and all comments welcome! (even the thread crapping ones )
For the doors I wanted something custom, but that looked almost factory, we removed and took apart the panels, cut out a center section in the middle piece, mounted a piece of custom painted plexiglass in the center (we sandblasted the back side to get the "frost" effect) and backlit it using 7 color LED's that are remote controlled. We also smoothed out the bottom half (where the factory door speaker is) and custom fit a SoundStream 8" midbass, along with a custom made plexiglass ring (frosted as well), also backlit with 7 color LED's. We shaved and filled the factory tweeter position as well. We covered the top section and bottom section in black carbon fiver vinyl, center section in yellow to contrast with the custom painted plexi etc.
We designed the interior with the intent to look and sound amazing while retiaing a pseudo factory look, unfortunately the speakers we had to use to pull that off (the amazing sound part lol) wouldn't look right or sound right all crammed in the doors, so we built custom made speaker pods and mounted them in the corners of the floorboards. At first glance it almost looks like they're just placed in there, but they're actually mounted and built to exact specs airspace wise for the mid and tweeter contained within. Although the placement seemed awkward at first, after hearing these along with the midbass in the door, I was absolutely stunned by how good the imaging is in this car. We plan on entering it into an upcoming SQ comp., I'll be sure to post a follow up
We also continued the LED theme and these speakers light up in conjunction with the door panel, looks pretty awesome at night, if we "strobe the LED's it actually makes the "audiofx" look like it's moving For the dash we took apart and relocated the factory radio and installed a Soundstream Vir4100, nice radio, excellent nav, interface is a bit funky and the sub out is pretty weak but I've got a good feeling their next gen radios are going to blow alot of what's out now away. (shhhh, you didn't hear that from me though) We custom molded a dash piece using the front of the old radio, we also relocated the "clock" button and the "disp/amb" button to the ashtray, where we molded in a Soundstream Digi-Q eq as well. All pieces were professionally painted in a piano black finish. (including my shift cover) The rest of the interior is mostly stock, save for the Soundstream "cap" we mounted inbetween the back seats. We haven't finished with the cover for that so I didn't take a pic yet. (doh!)
In the trunk I have 2 Soundstream 7" monitors, a custom painted (and backlit) piece of plexiglass, 2 Soundstream R1 12's, and 2 Soundstream Tarantula series 4 channel amps pushing everything. We had the top pieces powder coated piano black to match the parts painted in the interior. We laid down a few layers of r-blox sound deadener, then built a custom multilevel false floor along with a unique speaker enclosure that is comprised of two seperate boxes sharing arispace via acrylic tubes that connect them. (and are lit using LED's as well) There's a camera back there as well, and the amps are mounted on custom metal handmade posts that are hidden from view
Under the hood I had the blue Cusco radiator shroud deflector thingies powder coated black as well as the ends of my Greddy strut bar, still rockin' an aem intake, an optima yellow top, 0 gauge power (and ground eventually) to a 120amp circuit breaker (mounted on a custom made bracket powder coated as well).
wheels are Work S1 meister 3 piece, +29 on the rear, +36 front, 235/35/19's and 265/30/19's kdw 2's, car is lowered on Tein S tech's, with authentic Mazdaspeed front and sides and appearance package rear pieces.
I think that covers everything, future plans include a BHR ignition system and A/t radiator (yeah!), Tein basic coilovers, and a Cobb AP. I'll probably be getting a different radio at some point (looking at the JVC 810), and probably painting the top section of the dash to match the rest of the dash. We'll also be redoing the decklid piece in fiberglass as the factory piece is thin and flimsy. (as evidenced by the wavy lines in the bottom part) Few other minor things like cleaning up the wires a bit in the back and getting some LED's behind the amps etc. and it should be good.....until it gets changed again
Now on to the pics, and thanks for reading my long *** thread
thanks to my buds at AudioFx, and all comments welcome! (even the thread crapping ones
)
05-11-2008, 05:07 PM
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It looks a bit too much, but I seem to like it a lot! Also, let me know how much it cost you to modify the H.U. (PM me) I know that me and you, both dislike the CorkSport kit!
05-11-2008, 06:37 PM
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looks great!!! beautiful car. one suggestion...get some blue LED courtesy lights, map lights, dome light. I think it would tie in the blue led's around the speakers perfectly.
05-11-2008, 07:51 PM
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^^ I thought of that, but if anything I'd have to somehow get them to match the 7 colors somehow. The nice thing is, if I leave them stock and don't turn on the led's then nobody's the wiser (heh). This is probably a bit much and I'm sure some might think it's excessive, but on the other hand I drive this car every day (it's my only vehicle) and enter it in just about all the regional shows around here to help support my best friend's shop (and represent Soundstream in their booth at some events) so when you're pitted against cars that have 6 figure stereo's and paint jobs and full factory sponsorships, this is the only way to try and distract people from all that I don't have any kind of full sponsorship, I just get a break here and there so this car is like David compared to some of the Goliath's out there, can't wait to enter an SQ comp and really knock some people off the box.
I don't have any kind of full sponsorship, I just get a break here and there so this car is like David compared to some of the Goliath's out there, can't wait to enter an SQ comp and really knock some people off the box.
