Rags brought his 21' Weldcraft with a 450 hp 8.1 liter with a Hamilton 212 pump.
This unit didn't come with a stereo of any kind....so we needed to put something in that will piss off the other fishermen out there.....as well as give him the drivin' music to be able to get up some of those gnarly rapids.
Here is what we installed:
Clarion M309 Marine CD/MP3 Player with USB/iPod inputs
Memphis Marine MR 5.750 5 Channel Amp (80x4, 350x1)
Memphis Power Reference 6.5" Coaxial Speakers up front x 4
Memphis Marine MM62 6.5" Coaxial Speakers in the rear
Digital Designs 12" 1000 series Woofer in a custom made ported enclosure
We were originally going to just put the Power Reference speakers in, but then I remember I had the Marine speakers for the golf cart project....so we used those.
So technically, power-wise, this boat is at:
50x4 up front, 80x2 in the rear and 350x1 for the subwoofer.
The fronts and rear sound perfect...and since it's an aluminum boat, projects the sound all around and does a good job of it.
The DD sub fit perfectly under the boat's front un-used cabin area, and the port loaded off the front live-well perfectly.....deep deeeeep bass inside and it carries VERY well outside...shaking things inside the garage while we were tuning it.
All in all, this boat system does exactly what Rags wanted it to do, all while only installing a very minimal footprint of electronics.
So slowly but surely I've been getting parts for the truck.
So far we have:
Black Replacement Carpet (Switching Interior from Blue to Black with Grey Accents)
Custom Made Seat Covers
Sport Mirrors
Custom Range Rover Front Clip (Headlights will be retro'd and LED'd out)
Smoked Tails
Just this week I received all my audio equipment:
Digital Designs 6.5" Component System x 2
Digital Designs 8" 2500 series Subwoofer, custom platnium carbon fiber dust cap
Digital Designs MONSTER SS5 5 Channel Amp - 120x4, 800x1 (yup, you read that right)
So, now I just have to find the time to tear into it, get it ready for Paint (Full body paint) and then the audio nonsense can begin.
Words cannot express how excited I am about this beast of a sub.....800 watts RMS....giggidy!
Had a client come in with a gnarly Jeep CJ5 rock crawler…..he wants a system to go with the brute force this thing has
Memphis Audio just seemed to fit the bill.
He had an existing Panasonic deck with some rear wake board tower cannons and some
MTX speakers up front.
I pulled everything out and started fresh.
Front stage got some MemphisAudio Power Reference 5.25” Components speakers. The Mid Bass speakers went in a custom made pod behind the shifter and the tweeters when where the old MTX speakers had been cut out.
Rear stage was a bit more involved. Customer wanted some subs added as well as rear fill speakers that weren’t in the way when he’s driving/crawling. I custom built a rear box to house the two 10” Memphis Power Reference subwoofers, as well as the 6.5” Memphis Power Reference Component speakers. This was all molded for a seamless look, and then received a few layers of rhino lining to protect the box, make it water proof and make it overall solid. This was then bolted through the rear side walls so that it doesn’t move when this jeep is sideways.
To power all of this is Memphis Audio’s 5 channel Marine Audio amplifier. It’s putting out around 80 watts x 4 channels for the components speakers, as well as 350 watts for the subwoofers….just what the jeep needed.
A Pioneer 5300UB deck was placed in the existing cutout to provide UBS, iPod and
Auxiliary inputs…as well as MUCH improved and needed controls over how the music sounds.
All in all, this was a fun project. It’s different to build something strong enough and install everything KNOWING that this vehicle will be flexing in different directions than 99% of vehicles out there.
Till next time
Got to Project Liberty today.
2003 Jeep Liberty
Pioneer Deck Install with Steering wheel controls retained and Bluetooth
Arc Audio XXD 5 channel amplifier
Infinity 6.5" Component Speakers up front
Arc Audio 6.5" XXD Coaxial Speakers in the rear
Arch Audio 10" XXD Subwoofer in a sealed carpeted box
4 gauge amp kit to make sure everything has enough power
Jeep sounded good once everything was tuned and the customers left with a smile on their faces...so a success!
Cheers!