6th December 2005
the 8v has been starting on the first turn of the key and running very very sweetly these last few days. I didn't use her over the weekend as I wanted to give the 20vt it's last little run around before she goes. anyways.
Today I decided I needed some ICE installed in her. I still had the kenwood 6031 I borrowed from work and 'found' a pair of 13cm Alpine Type-R components in my room so the mission was to install those. As this headunit will eventually be sold I can't go cutting the loom up so first of all I had to install a ISO plug. This was easy as pie. I even wired it up to the ignition. As I'm a total Golf geek like our JV I knew exactly which wires to solder onto
ISO installed the headunit was tested and worked first time. I then had to install the mid drivers in the doors. Luckily the Type R's were attached to those adaptors which go into later mk2 door pockets so I reused those. As for the tweeters...
We all know those speakers in the dash are pretty useless when it comes to reproducing anything other than Radio 2. I destroyed those and mounted my tweeters with the aid of a blob of bluetak onto where the cone once lived. they work a treat
I shall post a pic up showing my inginutity
I might just go for a stealth shelf with a set of 6x9's in this car as I'm not sure how long I'll be keeping her. Something that'll keep me happy. I rarely turn the system up in the 20vT anyway and all that is is a set of 17cm in the doors and a 10" sub in the boot.