scott watkins

Guys, after years of not being able to decide if I could bring myself to change out the original hifi system, finally did it.

Went with an Alpine CDA117 head unit, Hertz Energy speakers (doors and rear deck), JL sub, and JL amp. Also included XM and BT.

The system is outstanding!

Kudos to Chris Franks and his team at Custom Car Stereo!!! www.customcarstereo.com

ABCar

Fantastic. Is that bass enclosure custom made at the shop or did you do that? Where did you mount the amps?

scott watkins

Yes sir, custom made by the guys at Custom Car Stereo. I'm amazed that the material they used to cover the enclosure appears to be an exact match to the material on the rear chairs.

Amp went under the front passenger chair.

There is also a cable in the glove box to connect to my new iphone (sure miss my BB). Now if I can just figure out how to get all my cd's onto the phone...

Kika

BIG SD micro card...

johnnyC4S

Scott - looks great. How did they do the front speakers. Did you keep the original baffle in the door that the speakers attach to?

Ed Hughes

Nice. I'd think you'll get over the BB soon enough.

scott watkins

John/Ed, thanks.

Not exactly sure how they mounted inside the existing door panels, but they removed the old speakers and the baffle. If I had to guess, might have removed almost 50lbs. in unsprung weight

They installed all equipment to be able to bring the car completely back to original.

johnnyC4S

Got it... so the stock HiFi speaker grills are still intact?

I may give the guys at Custom Car Stereo a call to learn more.

scott watkins

Yes sir, door panels look original.

DC from Cape Cod

They might have INSTALLED 50 pounds of weight...but if all they took out were the factory speakers then they weigh about 6 ounces each.

4X4SCHE

Anyway it is "sprung" weight.

scott watkins

4X4SCHE, thanks for the correction, got a bit too fast on my respsonse.

hardtail15

Just picked up a Saturn Ion for a DD and put a Sony XAV64BT DVD receiver in it. It has a native Pandora app on it that syncs with the BT on your phone which I really like, plus the USB, front AUX and normal BT sync. The sound quality is very good imo

M. Schneider

Pictured is a Pioneer TS-WX77a active subwoofer, it's sold in Europe, Japan and the ROW, just not in the USA. I'd order the unit through the eBay.de store of caraudio24.de, the seller then handled the DHL shipment to the states. $229.00 in Euro's all toll. The slooow DHL ship took approx. 7 weeks.

Anyway,,,, here's the sub. It fits "tailor made" when the rear seats are in the down position; pictured. The sub’s operation is intended to be adjunct to the 993’s HiFi speaker option w/ the CDR-210 . (my HiFi option front doors have been fitted with VW OEM Dynaudio drivers, the transmission line bass reflex enclosure tunes quite well. The excellent Dynaudio 3" soft dome midrange is plug n play dam near.)
The signal input can either be a high (speaker) or low (pre-out) level,,, and in this experiment I'll use the rear speaker signal as the input. The subwoofer being the active type will not be relying on the stock CDR-210 for amplification. Additionally there’s a tethered control pod for gain, frequency crossover and 0-180 phase control. With the right wiring termination the (12lb) flat sub enclosure will be (easily) removable from the car – it stows in the front trunk believe it or not. The exterior is made of a tough polyester cover which is scuff proof - pretty sturdy.
Try to Google TS WX77a as there are a few YouTube video's installations of the sub. It might work just A-OK in our coupe's.

I'll hook up the sub in a week or two and report.

911 Crazy

Great info, thanks.