After a very long time, I finally got this car finished (well pretty much), although I plan on doing a few more things before Spring Break Nationals 2012. I have just returned from the 2011 USACI World Finals in Shreveport, LA this past weekend and my car WON BOTH XTREME SQ and Q classes and I posted the highest (w/o SPL) score at the entire event. XTREME, formerly the EXPERT class is typically for manufacturers but I chose to build my car for this class on a limited budget and be competitive in it. We also had two other of our (TC AUDIO) builds that WON also in their classes. We build SOUND & INSTALL cars, NOT pounders. We have won over 30 World Championships in CAR AUDIO since 1990 so none of this is just "thrown" together. The car is functional and sounds awesome. It may be hard to believe but I have over 1200 hours in this build spread over about 10 months. I also have over 1000 build pics on this car, in stages, so let me know anything that you are interested in and I will post them up.
GOALS FOR THIS BUILD:
RETAIN STOCK OEM HEADUNIT
RETAIN AS CLOSE TO STOCK INTERIOR APPEARANCE AS POSSIBLE
ACHIEVE THE BEST POSSIBLE SOUND QUALITY WITH STOCK DASH & SEATS
BUILD THE CAR TO COMPETE IN USACI, IASCA, & MECA Organizations
PROVE THAT YOU CAN WIN WITH A STOCK HEADUNIT AND THE RIGHT SETUP
KEEP ALL EQUIPMENT COST BELOW $5000 at RETAIL ($4,900)---
(DOES NOT INCLUDE PARTS & MATERIALS OR INSTALL LABOR)
BUILD "FLASH" INTO TRUNK AREA BUT RETAIN AS MUCH USABLE SPACE
AS POSSIBLE!!!!
