This weather is totally, utterly annoying. Got a list of jobs as long as my arm to get done. Nothing as big as the engine job, it need to get through it. Difficult when the amount of rain is causing ‘a lot’ of flooding local to me. Ah well.
Happy to report that the oil pressure warning has never been seen again since firing the Genuine Oil Pressure Switch.
Also happy to report that the Dual Gauges are ordered. But…..unhappy to report that they’ve been on order for 3 weeks now, the factory are waiting for sensors apparently.
Got up early today, I have been fitting an active subwoofer from Pioneer since Wednesday. (Juggling with the weather). I like my Hertz components now in the front, that sound great. But they cannot ever deliver the bass a modern car stereo can deliver. So I’ve seen an active sub in a friends car and liked it. I just didn’t want to lose the space, subtlety was key with this install.
The pioneer I’ve got is designed to go under a seat. Definatly not a B5 Recaro seat though lol. So I’ve turned it upside down, and mounted it to the rear shelf. I made an MDF board on which to mount it, I had some sound deadening from another vehicle, stapled that to the lower side then covered in acoustic cloth. Once the subwoofer was mounted, the entire assembly i fitted to the rear shelf on rubber spacer washers. All wiring is in loom conduit, just wanted it neat and tidy.
So finally got the earth and live connected today, and yeah, it sounds how I wanted it. Not in your face, not vibrating the entire car, just enhances the base of the music in a subtle way. Plus I can tune the bass out of the fronts now with the cross overs in the Alpine. So sounds really good.
Also jacked the car up today, undertray back on. Jacked the passenger rear wheel up too, as I got a pry arm and checked all the bushings that there are. There is a lot of movement on the rear diff carrier, not sure if there is meant to be a lot of movement here, considering what it’s holding up. All wishbone bushes are ok though. Moving the hub though, there’s definatly a good amount of ply in the drive. Cant quite see if it’s in the driveshaft joints or the diff. The clunk on changing gear/acceleration/deceleration is really annoying now. I actually though it could be subframe mounts, but the are solid really.
Sub install for reference.