Earlier in summer I bought a cheap daily driver for $900, a pretty decent Golf mk3 in good condition. A few weeks after I bought it I found out that I wanted to compete with a simple system in it, in the Master OEM category in EMMA sq events.
The car already had a system in it when I bought it, so most of the audio cables I needed were already there (low grade ones, but still). So in 3 days I put together a small system in a hurry from things I had laying around anyway. This included a Pioneer DEH-P88RS head unit, an old PPI PC6600 amp, some Focal TN51 tweeters from the 180W component set (I had to buy the whole set secondhand to get hold of the 7w2 midbasses that I wanted for my other car), a DD 2508 sub and some $8 Peerless India 6" mids picked up at a blowout sale at partsexpress. Only used these and the DD sub because the speakers I had ordered did not show up in time for the first event, so I just used what I had :p Just to be able to go to the event.
It went pretty well, I was just 1 point away on the sound score from the winner in my class, but I was missing a whole lot on install since all was just rushed in the car to get it ready for the event.
So in the two weeks until the next event I started a rebuild that will be featured in this thread. Might as well start with the system diagram:
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Build pics wil come shortly!
The car already had a system in it when I bought it, so most of the audio cables I needed were already there (low grade ones, but still). So in 3 days I put together a small system in a hurry from things I had laying around anyway. This included a Pioneer DEH-P88RS head unit, an old PPI PC6600 amp, some Focal TN51 tweeters from the 180W component set (I had to buy the whole set secondhand to get hold of the 7w2 midbasses that I wanted for my other car), a DD 2508 sub and some $8 Peerless India 6" mids picked up at a blowout sale at partsexpress. Only used these and the DD sub because the speakers I had ordered did not show up in time for the first event, so I just used what I had :p Just to be able to go to the event.
It went pretty well, I was just 1 point away on the sound score from the winner in my class, but I was missing a whole lot on install since all was just rushed in the car to get it ready for the event.
So in the two weeks until the next event I started a rebuild that will be featured in this thread. Might as well start with the system diagram:
Build pics wil come shortly!