Typically how many hours of labor are we talking about, say if I were to take it to a shop? To throw in a HU, front and rears, front tweeters, and an amp for the sub, and a ZEnclosures box?

Thanks
 

Thanks a TON for this vid post!!! I plan on doing my setup tomorrow and was wondering how I wanted to do it as well as how to do it. FANTASTIC step by step, detailed, clean job!!!

As others have said, great videos! They will definitely come in handy when I begin tearing my car apart.

I've gone back and forth between two 10s or one 12 and I think I'm going to go with one Fosgate T1D212 and a P700-1bd. Still not sure of the amp placement, but I like your choice.

Door Removal Tips
 

I used your door removal video and have a few tips for others.

Tips:

1. Leave the window (glass) up or down.
2. Leave the 2 cables connected and just place the interior door panel leaning up against the door.
3. Remove the 6x9" speaker housing with the 6 1/2 speaker attached by disconnecting the speaker wire clip to gain access to the inside of the door panel. Now one can add sound dampifer material behind the speaker. Check for window clearance with the glass in the down position. (This improved the sound from the speakers)
4. Do not add sound dampifer material pass the interior door panel clips.
5. Temporary tape the thick mass load damping material prior to premanently gluing it.

Thanks for the videos SlikNik they were very helpful.

SlikNik awesome videos man! Do you ever feel like the jl audio 12w6v2 is too much for the 370z? I can't decide between the 12w6v2 or the 12w3v2....any advice or input would be greatly appreciated thanks!

Never enough, think it is a perfect sub for the 370. Better to have plenty there and not need it than to need it and not have it.:happydance:

Great video thanks for doing this it's going to help me out a lot!

Hey SlikNik,

I just started another thread asking about this, but as you seem to know a lot about this topic, Ill ask directly here.

Im currently awaiting the arrival of Polk DB6501 Speakers... Im not changing the headunit (yet), nor amping the speakers. Just using the stock HU for the moment (hopefully by december Ill get something). My question is, what cable connection do I use (source) to go into the crossovers? I would assume using the speaker cable going into the door panel speakers, and closing off the OEM tweeters (as the new tweeters will be powered through the crossover).

Please advice.

Manuel

awesome video props to you for taking the time to make this.

Question.. At 4:50 this might be dumb but how did you mount that one power wire onto the battery mount? like physically on the battery not the process of running the wire through the car to get there is what I mean. Also it was one blue wire but on the battery there are two? Im guessing you spliced them and made two?

Thanks again for making these vids definitely something I'm gonna give a try

Thanks Sliknik, these videos gave me the confidence to install new speakers in the doors. Just a slight change, it is very easy to pop out the power window and door lock modules from the trim unit, much easier that pulling the wiring harness, and then the door panels can be moved to the side. Takes less than a minute to do this. The harness connections are really tight.

Also the wires according to Crutchfield customer service, are Drivers side Blue positive, purple negative. On the passenger side purple is positive(!) and green is negative.

Just finished my Boston acoustic SR65 installs and they sound so much better. The stock units look like they cost less than $5 to make, pretty cheesy speakers.

good video,the cars movie,Fit some electrical tape within the tip of the speaker wire in making a smoother point for that wire to snake via the rubber hose. Start on the door end, along with snake the wire on the door thru the hose towards the connector.

Is there another wire harness adaptor needed for the other antenna? I have the same scoche wire harness but my avic 930bt will not power on.

nice post, thx 4 ur kindly sharing

Usually around 8-10 hours, if they want to throw it in they can be done in 5 hours.