How you spend 50k+ on a vehicle known for reliability and still don't make it work is a skill few possess.

LMAO This is how you know Zach's actually a car guy, installing a sound system while the car is broken. I love it hhahahahaa

Ive installed numerous subwoofers over the last twenty years of car ownership. Ive never had the foresight to put the box on my head. Jimmy is a gd genius. Protect that man at all costs.

Seeing Nolan properly using a rasp is the most proud dad moment of this channel.

Clearly a sound system helps the car run. Donut got their priorities straight.

Brings me back to the good old days when modifying your car meant installing an earth-shattering sound system.

I've worked on car stereos in the past, and here are some things they didn't talk about: 1) even if speakers are the same size, replacement speaker magnets are probably larger, 2) on older cars, consider using dynamat to cut down on rattles and keep things tight, 3) speaker cable (gauge) is important, but you don't usually need to get expensive cable like Monster, 4) if you're really driving bass, you may need something like Thundercaps to hit the highs, 5) consider running component speakers than all full range - separate woofers & tweeters, but you'll need to cross them over, and 6) depending on the power of your system, don't run it off the battery too long unless you have a separate battery for the stereo.

Can we do a series about the audio side of things? Beyond wiring, there’s crossovers, sound deadening, I’m really interested in seeing a custom fiberglass speaker door pod creation. That’s great sensory footage too!

You guys are doing the most civic owner thing I could think of. Installing a bangin system when the car still doesn't run 😂

I love how speaker packaging always looks like it's a old unit from the 90s

I think it is better to mount the amp to the car and secure the sub with ratchet straps. It makes things a lot easier if you need to remove the sub in order to carry something. And you can go to the track listening to music, remove the sub to make some laps, put it back and go home listening to music :)

Love this! My only complaint will be the missed oportunity to use james pop up headlights for testing😂

Even if it is just ply wood, gotta respect Nolan’s sub-woofer tray fabrication

Love how committed you guys are to this civic. Really being loyal to the car community lore and their love for this vehicle

as an at home audio engineer who's been building his own speakers for quite some time now, you can get away with a very nice sound system for way under 850 if you know what you are doing. You can get as complex or simple as you want to, from using stock speaker wire and just splicing in the new speakers for an ok result to rerouting the speaker wire and doing a full bang up job to produce better results (i went for this). Currently my daily driver runs 4 speakers, 2 4 way 6x9"s in the back running a peak of 450w a piece with an a 90 w rms. In the driver and passenger side doors i have two 6.5" 3 way speakers running 400w peak combined, 200 w alone, 400w combined which they are. My head unit came with a built in amp but i dont use it, it maxes out at 50 peak wattage which would be way too under powered, i just got it because its a pioneer and i have had a good experience with their audio processing equipment (this is what i spent the most cash on, about 200 bucks) its analog because i hate touch screens in the car. I have a used amp i picked up off craigslist for like 40 or 50 bucks, and its right in the goldilocks zone for my setup up (finding used audio equipment is easy) so i went with it. The speakers are also pioneer, about a little over 100 for the set of 4 (they are A+ series, the trick is not buying the ones registered for the us, buy the international market ones, same quality, same result, 50 to 70 dollars cheaper depending on the model). Hardest part of it all was routing the new wire, but if you use a little big of carful thought you can have an easier time than i did. before you remove your old wires, tie a string to them, and tie the other end to your new speaker wire. as you pull the wire out it will feed the new wire in and through, and you wont have to worry about the logistics of it at all (i didnt do this and spent like 3 hours trying to get my wires where i wanted them to be routed). I dont have a sub because its really not necessary. with the 4 speakers i already have the car shakes enough to loosen the mucus you have stuck in your throat/ lungs lmao. If my car shook any harder i would be concerned about bolts and other cosmetic fasteners getting loosened. Quality of head unit is above all else. its literally like 50 to 60% of the end result. no high quality audio processing, no good sound. period. Next is the quality of the speakers, higher price = higher rms and peak, meaning you can have higher peak volumes, as well as higher sustained volumes, without loosing out on clarity. Next in line is the amp. you dont need the best or most high quality amp. 99.99% of people will never even see a sound system that justifies the expensive amps they are looking at buying lol. just get a decent one, used even better. nobody ever sees it, after you set it up you shouldnt be touching it again unless you really know what you are doing, and so long as it can support the constant as well as peak draws, then there should not be any problem whatsoever. oh, and one final word of advice. skip the component speakers. go with coaxials. Components are nice, and very high quality, but its a waste to put them in a vehicle. 1, the road noise is going to take away from the experience you get from component speakers. 2, they are expensive as all hell. 3, they are more difficult to set up, and require you to actually have some understanding of what is going on. 4, cars are no where near well sound isolated aside from high end luxury vehicles, throwing a pair of components in your door is a great way to hear every last loose piece of plastic trim vibrate like a mfer. 5, you are too distracted in the car to take notice. so long as the music sounds good and clear, thats good enough, you aren't going to be having a profound listening experience while weaving through rush hour traffic on your lunch break lmao. All that being said, i am a huge fan of them. Component speakers belong in a room with purposeful acoustic panels, your favorite drink in your hand, sitting in a nice recliner. I have my own monitoring boxes. one set made with alpine mid subs and tweeters, and one set made with pioneer products. LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING. sound is a physical experience with these things man. a living breathing entity. anyone who is an enthusiast about music i highly recommend making, or picking up a pair for at home listening. I dont say this often, but the things changed my way of life.

5:03 The aero press coffee maker actually is very good. Originally bought it as a simple camping coffee maker but now I use it all the time

Love seeing more of this little nugget. I don't even care if it rips faster than a modern civic it's siiiiick

it’s possibly broken issue is the electrical system is struggling to keep up with the amount of current draw you have on it. even with the lithium battery you should look into upgrading your grounds and positives. also look into high output alternators

4:20 Dude our boy just violated that cars stereo dude, oh my god no hesitation no nothing. Straight menace💀

I would bet dollars to Donuts they just turned the gains and crossovers to some random setting without giving it a second thought. Should have used a DD-1 distortion detector and set it up properly. It would sound much better :)

When I was young me and a friend had a little speaker shop in my garage. So many people had no idea what they were doing. We had probably 30 cars in town we did and many more out of town. We would buy used parts and re use them. If you had a system and wanted an upgrade, we would give a discount to trade speakers and head units. It was super fun and taught me a lot about electrical systems in cars and making custom boxes taught me a lot about sound. I have always been an "Audiofile" and would never take those few years back. Now I have nothing in my car and a gnarly system at home with 2 15" Solo-Baric's. Makes my house feel like an earthquake.

Man, it's been AGES since I've installed a stereo system. I used to be such a bass head. lol Not only am I just older now, but so many new vehicles stock stereo systems sound balanced enough to keep me happy these days. Fun times. Miss those simplistic installs though like in this Civic. Now the head unit runs half the car. lol

God this took me back to high school putting a $1500 system into my 93 Saturn sc2 I bought for $500. Also what taught me stick and how to work on cars to fix….due to my ignorance. Also, the lovely alternator issues that weren’t thought of at the time 😂 Old cars were so fun and “easy” to put systems in. Thank you for the nostalgia blast!

Love the videos! Just a normal planned build. A couple of important things on speakers you left out. You want to match the Impedeance of the speakers and amp. As the power draw will be equal. A mix match could make for terrible sound quality or worse over draw power and possible fire or damage to amp and speakers. Peak wattage rating is very important for your speakers as well as RMS. Peak wattage can be hit more often than you think with out Kick and Bass heavy music. Last thing Class D amplifer, it is a digital amplifier, while not the smoothest sounding amplification it is often one of the cleanest. It's sick, I'd ride in it even if it's broke with that sound system!

If you're only running two speakers, I'd bridge the 4 channel part of the amp. You'll roughly gain 3 dB which will help the mids sound even better. If you're ever interested in if a custom subwoofer enclosure makes a difference over a pre fab I'd be up for shipping you out a custom built enclosure. I have over 14 years experience designing and building. I can email numerous pictures of my work for examples.

Wiring a speaker out of phase (positive/negative flipped) wouldn’t create a no sound condition coming from the sub. Not sure if that was just a little extra drama or theatrics 😂 Great content my only recommendation would be to also touch on the resistance of the speakers as that directly plays into the RMS power / speaker pairing. Car speakers are pretty standard at 4 ohms, but subs can be a little trickier depending on if the sub is single or dual voice coil, and the minimum impedance the amp can handle.

I went budget in my van. I used all skar audio, kenwood deck. 5 channel system. Can't beat bang for the buck. Sounds good hits good.

For stereos I always use a standard computer building approach, test your system before final wiring and sealing it up.

You guys should do a software tuning vs hardware upgrades test. So many people I know will upgrade their hardware without even playing with Equalizers, high quality audio files, and even HD audio drivers. This is all possible with a phone and can easily make a bad sound system good, or make an amazing sound system sound even better. Cheapest way to get better audio quality is software. Apps like wavelet and poweramp are MAGIC

I cannot wait for the paint job/wrap/body mods you guys decide to do on this thing. Salute

i was gonna get a older civic as my first car but i can’t find any that’s cheap and actually runs without any problems and this car yall built is truly amazing i want to build a civic sometime in life and this is an amazing car

I'll always love donuts content. You make a video and I know it isn't a 5 part series of an exhaust install where one video is unboxing another is looking at it and a third of installing the clamps with 15 mins of filler video. You guys don't click bait. You make dope content.

Kinda miss building sound systems in vehicles and spending thousands while doing it. Luckily I've worked some cool projects even some SEMA stuff back in my 20's for the MTX Juggernaut van. Also did lot's of SPL & DB Drag competitions..

Man this takes me back. My first car. 1993 Honda Del Sol aka the Del Slow! Bought it used of course. Came with an aftermarket Kenwood headunit and (at the time) no clue what speakers. IT SOUNDED LIKE ASS. The speakers rattled, sounded fuzzy, and listening to the radio was aids. Even putting a disk into the unit it still sounded god fucking awful. My first brilliant upgrade was going to walmart and buying a cheap $60 pioneer headunit plus wiring harness. This is around 2008/2009 price/performance wise. Went home, got some tools, installed the headunit. I even soldered the wires between the headunit pigtail and the wiring harness. Perfection. Most of my sound issues were fixed, but the speakers were still rattling. They were clearly "bad" to begin with. But the fuzzy radio, fixed. Clean signal from radio. And as far as CD's went, I could now play MP3's which was huge because I could have more songs per disk.... anyway, I knew my next step was to get speakers. I knew what I wanted, I just had to get them. AT THE TIME, Newegg had just started selling car stuff for some god awful reason and the prices were cheap as hell. I picked up a full set of 6.5 kicker speakers for mad cheap. I think I paid $120 for both ($60 each). Which was a killer deal. They got delivered and I went on an install spree. Fantastic, sound was now off the hook AND I could crank that bitch to MAX VOLUME with no distortion. AT THE TIME I had no idea about power matching or even tuning a system. All I knew was, I could max out volume and it sounded fucking fantastic. My buddy used to be like "holy shit your system is LOUD, I can hear you coming down the road blocks away" which was funny as shit to me. I like it loud. Next stage? subwoofer!!!! I already had a kicker 12" subwoofer from when I was in highschool. I worked for pepboys while in highschool full time (I was 18 senior year, not held back just early birthday, feb) and was in the schools work program. Essentially you went to school half a day, get out early, then had to work so many hours in a week (I think 15?) but since I was an adult I worked full time. The class HATED me because "there is no way he's working full time when I barely work 15 hours" but they were just lazy shits. I had a strong work ethic so fuck them. My teacher even came to my job MULTIPLE TIMES to check up on me to make sure I wasn't lying about working full time. But even my manager confirmed I was actually working and not just pretending. And that I was indeed being paid for full time work. They showed THEIR records to my teacher showing the hours I put in. Long story shorter, I set a record for most hours worked that my teacher gave me an award for at the end of the year, that "I am pretty sure no other student will ever beat." So yeah I am a legend. HAHA. Anyway, I had the subwoofer which was installed into a box my father brought home from work from some customer who wanted to trash the gear. Two subs, one JVC (that classic teal color, was missing the dust cap) and one Sony Xplode (you remember, those red plastic ones with the funky cone shape). And they were installed in a dual sealed box. Even had an amp. I DIDN'T know the amp was bad so when I was using it, I was upset it couldn't go higher volume but later in life realized (when I gained more knowledge) that the amp was bad. Anyway, I used to run my kicker in that setup after the JVC woofer blew (again, was already bad, just got worse with use). Eventually I went to bestbuy with my dad and we got one of those "origami make-it-yourself" boxes. a 12" sealed box. You know, its T shaped and you simply glue the edges, and then use zip ties to hold it together. I thought that was dumb so my dad had wood screws in the garage and I made sure it was screwed tight. Anyway, now I just needed an amp. I ended up going to walmart again and buying that Crunch amp for like $60 bucks. Plus wiring kit for another $40. Hooked it all up, wired in, and man, not a bad difference in sound. HOWEVER, the del sol has that back window that rolls down that blocks trunk access from inside the cab. And there was only really 2 holes on each side for air to pass through. I remember seeing the JL $1000 twin 8" box made specifically for the del sol. It would mount behind you where the storage trays were and had TWO tubes you would stick through those holes on each side to "port" into the trunk. so subs inside cab and then port tubes into the trunk. Back then I didn't understand why until I had my 12" in the trunk. While I had bass, it was "never enough".... eventually I moved the subwoofer into the passenger seat and BAM. HUGE bass output. That was the golden moment. I removed the passenger seat (no bitches rule and was single so lmao) and just had my subwoofer next to me at all times. Even when street racing. The old days LMAO. The car after I had was my 2006 honda s2000.... putting the sub in the trunk, fuck me, basically no bass. horrific. drifted a lot, crashed a lot. eventually traded it in. but I had tried all kinds of gear. I tried a JVC headunit (sounded like ass) I tried JBL Speakers (didn't like the sound profile and still didn't know about using the EQ to change that sound profile) and eventually settled on a pioneer DEH-80PRS along side some POLK MM speakers. That was the "golden" combo to my ears. I just needed a subwoofer. After that car I got a 2005 STI and in that I had my polk audio and headunit installed, tried a few different subs. at one point bought a twin cerwin vega box, ported, and I HATED how it sounded. pure ass. at the time I wasn't sure why but ended up realizing that I don't like ported systems. too much noise. I prefer sound quality which means going sealed every time.... anyway, after that built my own transmission line box and put in a 12" pioneer sub, low profile, which blew. "you can't use low profile in a t-line" learned that lesson. got a 12" full size pioneer and it still didn't sound right. the bass was there, but only really noticeable when OUTSIDE the car. inside you felt like you wanted more. had to do with the t-line and how the audio wave amplifies, while in the car you are in the early path so its not much bass but outside the car it was boomy as fuck. so trashed that system. now I don't have any system, sold the sti and only have my 2015 mirage left, but i can't drive it because I was injured (spinal cord) and can't walk anymore. hell can't feel my lower body (t9 complete). i want to heal so bad, but most likely wont happen and modern medicine isn't really modern, doctors are stupid as fuck. so no cure for me.... stuck as a cripple.... but if I did heal, I would end up going back to a kicker setup. I would get a sony headunit, kicker speakers, that new 5 channel sony amp (100w to all 4 speakers at 4ohms and like 500w to subwoofer) and then a kicker sub in a single 12" sealed box. that would be the dream build for the mirage. also if I healed, I would want to find another del sol to build again. since its my favorite car of all time.

Yall should go over "stuffing" a sealed box vs non stuffed sealed boxes, and capacitors, bridging amps, etc. Watching this episode brought up alot of mid 2000's Era system instal myths too me.

My second car and my first brand new car was a 95 civic DX hatch. I drove the wheels off that thing until about 200k miles in 7 years. I did have to upgrade the wheels to some wider 14 aluminum because the stock 13s rolled so bad in turns. I know you guys had to replace the engine to get some speed, but lets just appreciate how bulletproof these civics were. I know the CX was like 70 hp, but my DX was DOHC and 102 hp. Not screaming but it could go a bit. This one was 30 years old with 400k miles and the thing was still doing ok.

Aeropress for the win personally. I have been using one since the 1990s. Main reasons to use: makes an excellent coffee, easy to clean, requires no cord, takes very little space in the kitchen. I have one at home, one at the office, one at a cottage. Also price.

Nice to see Jimmy and Jer make themselves useful 🙂.

That civic is the dream civic it's beautiful. Great job guys.

nice to see people still do this :) Brings back good memories.

FYI for some of these cheaper sub boxes it helps to add some MDF bracing and polyfill inside. It will keep the sub from resonating and giving you that "cheap" bass sound.

For the record, speakers will play in reverse polarities. They must have had a bad connection.

Looks great! You don't need a fancy touchscreen for day to day operation. I think you picked a pretty good setup.

That Civic has gone from zero to hero with your touch.

Zach is my favorite dude on donut. So informative and so funny. Love this stuff

850 is very low for a decent system, but the one thing I could harp on is the best deck you can afford. Saving for a better one if possible, a good deck will make the world of difference

I have that same head unit, you can tune in and adjust the speaker setting and bass to make it sound even better

I bought a 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander GT with the upgraded Roford Fosgate stereo (includes subwoofer) and I have never enjoyed road trips (even trips to the grocery store) so much in my life. Music makes all the difference.

Another very important aspect of the remote line (small blue wire) is that it also tells the amp to turn OFF, if that isn't there and the car is turned off, it will keep the amp on and continue to run your battery down.

Thank you soooo much for doing this civic! Please keep doing builds like this.

The amount of videos and info you can do on car stereo/ sound is crazy, could do a whole video on tuning, getting phases polarity, and crossover points

Not going to lie, as a subwoofer box designer and being big in the audio world, this was kind of upsetting. Not that everything you purchased was really "bad" but definitely overpriced and that budget could have been used much better. I have designed and built systems for cheaper that would easily outperform this. Still, cool video though! Also thank you for mentioning to RMS ratings, its crazy how many people fall for the hype of "MAX" ratings they won't ever see but chase anyway and end up damaging their equipment. OFC wire was also great to mention. So there is definitely some good info in this video. If you ever want to upgrade that prefab box for one that is louder and sound even better, hit me up. 😉

Civic is about to be sounding amazing inside just like the outside

I love the sound system videos donut posts! Keep em coming!!

When I got my current car a couple years ago I put those exact door speakers in lol. I also have two 10" MTX thunder subs in a sledgehammer box powered by a MTX Amp so the factory door speakers were not cutting it

I hope y'all didn't run your RCA wires on the same side as your power wire. (will create noise) Did you "gain match" you amp to your headunit? ( To prevent clipping ) Also in the engine bay you want some kind of wire loom to help protect your + cable. Last thing you need is a dead short.

Great video! Did you guys thinking about setting up a sort of quick disconnect subwoofer? A simple way to unplug and unbolt the sub when you take it to the track? Reduces the weight and risk of things flying around

This brings me back to my Mazda RX-8 with its 2 10" Alpine Type R's in the trunk with Focal 6X9's and Tweeters, just creating havoc anywhere I went lol I still remember playing N.W.A. - Boys In the Hood and I would just let the bass roll

Aeropress came outta left field, what a pleasant surprise! Cars and coffee - I'm all for it

Gotta have those tunes with some bump or it's not custom. Awesome little setup!

Love this! But I would’ve liked to have seen you guys explain ohm load. Single voice coil and dual. Series and parallel wiring also that setting on the amp gain/boost. Phase and high pass/ low pass filtering all these things I’ve ran into helping other buddies out trying to get there systems in and if you don’t know these you won’t get as good of sound quality even out of a budget set up like this. 🎉

for maybe some people out there that dont know too much and are starting to get into it. if you have a sub and poke a hole in the side or gash it. if its not too bad you can use some good silicone to seal it up, make sure you dont get too much in the inside, like kind of put a base coating over it. let it cure for like 30 minutes depending on the silicone you're using and then put some more on evenly and make sure to get a decent square evenly over the gash or hole and boom. it wont last forever, but it will do good for a long time. had a audiobahn 1200w with an alpine type r and gashed the side just a bit when removing it to put in a new box and had to do this trick and surprisingly it held up for over a year before it finally started coming apart. could possibly add one or more layers after a full cure to make it last even longer but too much will compromise the entire flex of the sub itself obviously.

I mean as a fellow civic I love blasting music in very calm neighbourhoods

MDF is not that expensive , but you will have to buy a sheet . A box requires a lot less money that a sheet , If you have more than 1 projects to build or you like to build staff in general , then is ok to buy a sheet . But keep in mind that it requires some tools to cut a sheet . Zak is giving good advice :D

when i had a sub in my car which was a Vibe CBR-12 on its own amp with a JBL 280w for the rear speakers i had the remote wire on a switch on the dash so i could go calm driving or loud driving ;) only thing i didnt like was if i used the LOUD function my mirrors would vibrate to the point they were useless so rarely used that.

Man I did a very similar set up in high school for about $350 box and all but that’s was back in 2004. Back to bacis love it

É muito massa ver a Aeropress patrocinar eles

Top tip, route all the cables down the passenger side 👍 That way, you wont have to worry about cables falling on to the pedals 😁😉 And you could've just swapped the cables over on the amp, rather than taking the sub out the enclosure again 😉🍻

I don't usally comment about sponsors but I have to vouch for the Aeropress. I have used it every morning for over two years now and nothing makes a better cup of coffee in the morning. Love mine and will be upgrading to the clear one soon.

I got the same pioneer head unit on my 03 jeep liberty works great would highly recommend it.

Perfect timing, just wanted to install a sound system in my 1990 audi 80, just need a head unit that looks a bit more classic

I actually like the look of the opening on the hood, with the air filter poking out. Heh, you could even get one of those fake scoops and use it as a real one! 😀😀😀 Oh, and wookwork...! Cool! 👍 Oh, and the sound system too! 🙂

Aeropress is a great product! Got one for camping, but ended up using it daily at home for more than a year, before we got a fancy machine.

If you're running a subwoofer amp only... Add a simple toggle switch to the blue wire. Sometimes you want to listen to the radio without bumping your ears off.

Another thing you would like to add is a capacitor to stop the engine from bogging down when the bass hits and the interior lights dim, also add a cut off for you sub and door speakers so the sub isnt trying to produce frequency's out of its range and so the door speakers aren't trying to produce bass, trust me.makes the whole system sound way better

The original Miata head unit video gave me confidence to change my entire audio system, hope this video makes someone do it too. Cheers Zach/Nolan

Jimmy is such a lovable sidekick - we all need a Jimmy in our lives.

I love having a nice sound system. I have a set of Focal 2 way speakers, alpibe head unit, and alpine amp. When the car starts making werid noises, just crank up the volume and drive in cheerful ignorance for the time being.

More Jimmy please lol, that kid is a vibe for sure

I definitely prefer the look of an OEM head unit, but I appreciate that they replaced it with a unit that definitely looks period correct for the car

As someone who owns the same exact set of Kicker 6.5” door speakers I will say they are AMAZING. I didnt use an amp on them but they still had plenty of crisp volume up top! Good choice for the money!

OFC is a farce... does not make better signal... keeps wire from corroding inside the insulation... only applies to bare copper wire, tinned wire does not suffer oxidation like bare does... in "theory" OFC is fabricated while the insulation is extruded in an oxygen free environment thus not drawing oxygen into the strands as it is drawn through the extruder not allowing oxidizing gasses to be trapped between the insulation. The only way it would be considered better power is if the wire was say 10 years old and has not been installed high end (sealed terminal lugs) a quality installation can be installed without OFC wires and still sound exactly the same at a fraction of the cost

Nothing more race car than adding a subwoofer and box lol

How the HELL did you guys get AeroPress as a sponsor?! LOL did not expect that 4:26

I feel it. My Impala is broken, has bent front end parts, nasty coolant leak, short somewhere that kills the battery instantly when you shut the car off, and tends to overheat quickly when it runs. But my main focuses are sound system and bodywork 😂

When installing the subs you put your finger between the surround and the screw hole and you go. Hand or power you can slip. With the finger guard your worse case is a blood blister. Before installing you mark and predrill the mounting holes to.

Having reversed speaker cables would only cause to the speaker to play out of phase This means that when one speaker cone is moving forwards (compression) the other(s) will be moving backwards (rarefaction). But it would still play so I’m wondering if something else could be wrong

At least now they can listen to music while on the side of the road 🤷‍♂️

Guys a few things to mention in regards to choosing a box and mounting your amp to your car. #1 Enclosures size will change the resonant frequency of the box, sometimes making your subwoofer inefficient in the frequencies you like most. Do your research and buy the proper size box. #2 Avoid mounting amplifiers to the side of your subwoofer box as the rattling can and most likely will damage your amp over time. The best solution in this application would’ve been to bolt the amplifier straight to the base of the trunk, since its made of wood and would hold it in place properly.

Dude in high school I installed four kickers and a pioneer head unit in my 4 door 98 civic lx and that thing felt like it had subs!! Good times

Yes definitely not expensive. My head unit was half this budget. Once I got to speakers I was at a grand with no sub.

The old head unit:🤰

Buying sound can be expensive when new. Having gone through a number of items mainly because of my own inexperience and lack of knowledge, getting items second hand isn’t always bad. All the speakers I have running came out of cars from the scrap yard. They aren’t anything super special, but 4 x pioneer 6x9 3 way for $60CAD makes things significantly cheaper. Infinity 12” sub was $30. Decks were another $30, and I had numerous boxes from blown subs. Running an old Xplod 2002GTR. Everything in the car currently cost about $300-$400. Wiring came from dad, he does electrical as a hobby and had lots of wiring laying around. Having said that, having all new stuff is nice. Very nice. If you can afford it, go for it. If you’re on a budget, you can find something decent if you look hard enough.

NICE work on the (somewhat of a) hood scoop! Can't wait for the showdown

Nice

Day 424 of asking James to do an Up to Speed on his Dad

balkan sound system (mine), subwoofer from a friends cousin sitting in garage for 4 years, 20$ amp, 10$ cables, radio its already aftermarket when i bought the car, and a whooping 3 stock speakers working out of 4, does the job for me ngl

I popped a hole in my new sub with a drill too! Horrible feeling, but I ran it anyway and it sounded good. I wish they had impact drivers back then.

Your definitely not car stereo people 😂 you could have gotten better for your money for sure.

Great work, dumb choice of song to test out 😑