Re: 'Rocco ICE Install.....HELP!!!

[Riley McDowall <mcm@intergate.bc.ca>]

At 10:53 AM 8/14/98 +0100, Ewan Marshall - Frans Maas Linlithgow wrote:
>fixed to the floor,with dynomatting underneath (The full inside of
>the car will be dynomatted,including the roof!).I will then be

Um, overkill? :)  Instead of dynamat, which is super heavy, you might want
to try that spray-on stuff on panels that aren't really noisy.  Seems to
work well, and it weighs next to nothing.

>fixing a sheet of MDF to the floor of the boot,then
>fix my reference 200 amp,alpine V12,inline fuses,4 into 1 blocks and 
>all wiring  to this sheet.I will then build another false floor ontop
>of this with holes cut to show amps,4 into 1 and fuses.All
>wiring will be hidden as much as possible.Once this is done,I want

I like the false floors...

>to fill the holes cut with clear plastic,set so that I can make up
>covers to hide everything when desired.I also want to install 2 fans
>at one side of the boot,blowing cool air over the 2 amps(air will be
>drawn from the original back speaker vent next to the parcel shelve,
>down over the amps,then out the other speaker vent on the other side).

Will this really be necessary?  I've never had a Soundstream amp so I don't
know how hot they get but I don't think you'd need to go so far as to build
ductwork to cool them.  If anything I'd say put a fan or two on teh top
level of the false floor, pulling air out of the cavity (the air would come
in past the amps, cooling them).  

>Do you know of anyone building something like this?Do you know what
>thickness of MDF I should use on the false floors?Will all this weight

Use 1/2" (13mm), and make sure you put a lot of spacers in between the
bottom and top sheets so that someone doesn't break the false floor dumping
their stuff in to the trunk or whatever.  

>affect handling?(I have Turbo Boge gas shocks and H & R springs (25mm
>lowered)all sitting on 15" x 7" Borbet C alloys).Any help is very much
>appriciated!

It will affect handling (we're talking about a good 50lbs of wood
altogether) but not tooo badly.  4 people in the car plus all the stereo
and you might have rubbing problems with the back tires, though!  (actually
you will definitely have problems) :)



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