BackGround: ok i am car audio installer by trade i have been doing car audio for over 13 years on and off as a paying gig. Last year i quit my job at Show off after three long tiring years of employment and started to work for Custom Sounds.
I am currently a Bay manager at custom and pretty far up on the food chain when compared to how long i have been with the company. Working for a pretty good size company that push's custom work and promotes creativity with its installers .. (well the ones that have a clue lol). But being in the position i am i get to work on some pretty nice and baller cars and get to do some pretty fun custom work.
I recently decided to start taking more pictures of custom work i have been doing recently and decided i wanted to post up some of pics of my "work"
these are the two most recent cars i worked on in the last month:
First a 2008 Cadillac Escalade- Customer wanted to keep the factory nav, but wanted a very high end sound and quality of equipment. Did not want to lose the third row seat and all the stuff needed to be stealthy
So here is the run down - Install #1
Focal 165v polyglass componets (6 1/2 front doors)
Focal 130v polyglass componets (5 1/4 rear doors)
JL 500.1 (sub amp)
JL 300/4 (4 channel)
JL 13w5 (baller flat 13" subwoofer)
Audio Control LC6 (6 channel line out converter allows for oem integration)
Kinetic x600 (xtra battery)
Picks of the inside:
the pile o' equipment
factory nav
components in factory location
amps mounted under the 2nd row flip up captian chairs
custom built 13w5 box
kinetic xtra battery location
the LC6 installed and wired
Now for the Outside:
the lip on the 26" wheels
Strut Grill
strut fender inserts
well the truck turned out great and the customer was happy with it .... for 2 weeks and then came back for a upgrade .. wanted more bass which ment adding a 2nd sub, a 2nd amp and a larger battery. Here is that upgrade ... PROBLEM i used all available usable storage areas for the first install .. so solution .. remove the drivers rear side panel/ the jack and cup holders and make a amp rack to hold the new amp.
amp mounted
panel reinstalled
modified cup holder (i cut the bottom off made a abs block off plate and covered it in matching vinyl)
the new box
new battery and mounting location (no picture of it mounted though)
and we also installed a hardwire kit for the radar detector ( a little custom mount location)
ok thats it for this truck but i have many more to come
