Pioneerisloud's 87 Prelude Starter Build

[pioneerisloud]

Alright, so here's my starter build. Obviously I'm going to be upgrading it a little bit at a time. But its a GREAT start. It sounds REALLY clean. I pick up literally EVERYTHING from roughly 35Hz-20,000Hz. There is little to no dead frequencies at all. The sub picks up to roughly 100Hz in this car, and the speakers start to pick up around 80Hz.

The Gear:
Dual XR4110 Head Unit
Kicker DS5250 5.25" Door Speakers
Pioneer Premier TS-D601P REV Series 6.5" Rear Speakers
Alpine MRP-T220 250w 2 Channel Speaker Amplifier
Alpine MRP-M650 650w Monoblock Subwoofer Amplifier
Pioneer Premier TS-W2000SPL 12" Subwoofer

The Install:
So, to start off, I had to run two sets of 8ga wire through the firewall. That was a pain. I also had to run new power wires to the head unit as well.

The front speakers were a pain too. Evidentally my Car came stock with 4" speakers in the door. So fitting 5.25" speakers was kind of a pain. But it worked out alright .

The head unit was somewhat easy. I already had a single DIN spot. It was just the wiring that was hard because I had to run all new wiring. This unit is okay at best, only being $40 at Wal Mart. I just hooked up my mp3 player to the USB spot, and it works pretty well.

The rear speakers are still a work in progress. There's only 3 screw holes in the rear deck to install speakers to. And these speakers need 4 screw holes to mount them properly, with the grilles. They sound REALLY clean though. I love REV series speakers.

Now here's where things get tricky. The amplifiers. I started out just running the 2 channel to the front speakers, and the rears and the sub were wired together. Well, this resulted in me not being able to hear the rears at all!! So I wired all four speakers up to the 2 channel amplifier.

The 2 channel amp is at 3/4 gain (yes, it takes THAT much to even hear the speakers over the subwoofer). I have the high pass filter on (80Hz). So they pick up the high bass and every thing else REALLY well.

The subwoofer amplifier is set to 1/4 gain. Yeah....you read that right. 1/4 gain. Anything more than that, and I honestly cannot stand it inside the car. I'm not even pushing this subwoofer at all.

And the subwoofer! This poor thing has been through hell and back. Its the ONLY thing left (other than the REV speakers) from my Celica build. If you're curious, please see my photo albums here on OCN. There's a tribute to my Celica Build in there. Again, I'm not pushing this subwoofer even half as hard as it can take.

And last but not least, a nice video of my subwoofer in action before the dustcap blew off. This was in my old Buick, running off the same amplifier (for reference).

The subwoofer DOES still sound very clean. I know it doesn't look like much, since its missing the dustcap, but you cannot tell that its blown from inside the car.

YouTube- Premier TS-W2000SPL Excursion
YouTube- Premier TS-W2000SPL Excursion Pt. 2

[weshole]

You should glue the dustcap back on.

[pioneerisloud]

Originally Posted by weshole

You should glue the dustcap back on.

I tried to at one point. It kept blowing back off. I was probably using the wrong glue or something. It's missing now. I'm going to be replacing the sub and sub amp eventually, once I get a stronger charging system.

This was just put in so I have something. It hits pretty hard for what it is. I'm guessing mid 130's (just a guess, don't flame me if I'm wrong).