Sorting out the ICE in my E30

[pac1982]

Well been a busy few days getting the sounds in my E30 sorted gone for a kinda budget meets high end mix up in at the moment.

First thing I wanted to sort out was my aerial so I got an electric black one from Euro Car Parts for about £40 luckily it must have had a leccy aerial at some point so all I had to do was use the exiting wiring and bobs your uncle!



Next was to address the speakers which is where the budget equipment comes in so I spend a grand total of £80 on some Edge front components and some Alpine Type E Rear Coaxial speakers, not to impressed with the Alpines but the edge ones which I have never heard of before sound really good!

I’m a little apprehensive to spend good money on 13cm speakers the way I see it no matter how much you spend a 13cm speaker is never going to be great so I’m looking it to ways of fitting bigger speakers once I find the best way I’ll go for Alpine Type R’s all round.

I’m on the look out for some tweeter pods but seeing as I need a new dash because mine is cracked I just super glued the tweets to the dash board”¦”¦”¦.



Didn’t want the new rear speakers to stand out to much so used the old retro looking speaker covers on the new Alpines”¦”¦..



Next step was to sort out the bass so I went with a top quality Alpine Digital Mono Block Amp and a nice Vibe sub woofer, usually I don’t like Vibe equipment but that’s down the fact that there speakers are far to bassey but this is a good thing as far as a sub is concerned and I’m very happy with the results.

I’ve also started to knock up a boot install but its far from finished yet, it has a false floor to hide the amps and wires and it also keep the sub in place but it still needs the edges tidying up and some black carpet putting down to finish it off

All in all I’m very happy with the results I run an Alpine CDA7876RB head unit which is 4x60w and gives me enough control to set the system up for some nice jazz or funk but also allows me to crank it up and make the whole car shake when I’m in a crazy mood and wanna slap on some drum and bass!



And a cheeky pic of the whole car for good measure”¦”¦.

[secondtimelucky]

not to impressed with the Alpines but the edge ones which I have never heard of before sound really good!

I’m looking it to ways of fitting bigger speakers once I find the best way I’ll go for Alpine Type R’s all round.

Surely a contradiction there ^^^^^^

If your impressed with the edge speakers surely you should go for those all round in 16cm form??

Bootbuild looks good too

[pac1982]

not to impressed with the Alpines but the edge ones which I have never heard of before sound really good!

I’m looking it to ways of fitting bigger speakers once I find the best way I’ll go for Alpine Type R’s all round.

Surely a contradiction there ^^^^^^

If your impressed with the edge speakers surely you should go for those all round in 16cm form??

Bootbuild looks good too

Alpine type R's are a world apart from the Type E's i have at the moment the type R's are some of the best speakers i've ever heard

[secondtimelucky]

My bad didn't see the 'type r' bit in that case go for it

Should you find a good solution to getting the 16cm speakers in, make sure you post up details, im sure theres many on here would be interested

[pac1982]

My bad didn't see the 'type r' bit in that case go for it

Should you find a good solution to getting the 16cm speakers in, make sure you post up details, im sure theres many on here would be interested

its all good should be getting the carpet in soon and a perspex lid over the amp, i also want to put a speaker grill over the sub, the whole idea of the boot install is so i can still use my boot with out being worried about something putting a hole in my sub or fucking the amp up.

By the time its done i should be able to throw a load of bricks in the boot with out damageing the equipment, not that i will put bricks in there just making a point!

As far as fitting bigger speakers goes getting in the rear aint to much hastle by using some custom brackets but the fronts will require some customs kickwell builds

Cheers for the comments anyhow

Cheers for the comments anyhow

[maddogg]

Good work. When I had my stereo sorted I was amazed at what difference fitting a dyna-matt speaker fitting kit made. I've got Jl audios in the kick panels and they sound amazing. really punchy

[pac1982]

Yeah i'm running dyna matt up front but need some to go around the rear speakers and also want to do some parts of the boot. amazing stuff really makes a huge difference i've used dyna matt in most of the systems i've built.

JL audio are supposed to be really good, i did have a £300 set of 13cm bostons that were in my E36 but can only find one of them

[Coops90]

Hows the woofer performance when its in the boot? I could do with one but was worrying if it would sound crap as its behind all that metal.

[pac1982]

Hows the woofer performance when its in the boot? I could do with one but was worrying if it would sound crap as its behind all that metal.

Woofer works well although there is a slight time delay due to the metal and build quality of the E30, some of the new fancy pants alpines have time correction so you can get round this problem but i hardly notice it.

I had a similer set up in my E36 but the sound had a really hard time getting though so i ran 2 12's instead which made up for it

[Alex]

you could always stick 6.5's in the rear, ive got a set of infinity comps in the front and infinity 6.5's in the rear sounds really good, all powerd by an amp

bass is good too without the need for a sub, the 6.5s only just fit

you need some tweeter pods too pac

[Coops90]

Hows the woofer performance when its in the boot? I could do with one but was worrying if it would sound crap as its behind all that metal.

Woofer works well although there is a slight time delay due to the metal and build quality of the E30, some of the new fancy pants alpines have time correction so you can get round this problem but i hardly notice it.

I had a similer set up in my E36 but the sound had a really hard time getting though so i ran 2 12's instead which made up for it

Ahh right. Hmm, may have to stick to my cunning plan...

Cheers for the info.