Trying to catch up with the work I have been doing on the van in the last few months.
LOTS going on. Going to start with the oldest one, which is the ICE.

As you may or may not know, I had an "OK" system in. Based around my 90's Genesis amps and Rainbow speakers, along with a 'thin' JL Sub.
I just wasn't happy with it and couldn't get it to sound the way I wanted. Just didn't blow me away.

So I took a trip to see Lee Dyson at Platinum In Car, who I had hear from lots of people in the know, was THE person to go and see.
I explained what I had done, talked him through my ideas and showed him my setup.
Being the top, no-nonsense bloke he is... he didn't sugar coat it. Said I had fallen into the same trap a lot of people do.
I had researched online and bought all the "top of the range gear" that was the best you could get... in the 90's!!!

So, I set about selling all the amps and speakers I had amassed and placed myself in the hands of the multi-EMMA award winner himself.

This is the install we (he) came up with.

Stack of hardware, mostly Hybrid Audio.
Cutting edge Class D, high punch, low temp, low power.


Metal amp rack, built into the rear drivers side skin, to be hidden behind a beauty panel.
Helix DSP.2 Digital Signal Processor, for running 'everything' active.


Two Unity U5A amps


Good earth, close to the amps, with a proper sized cable.


Power is taken from the leisure battery, which is hidden in a box under the van.

3-inch Hybrid Audios in the dash. Put in "SOLID" with 15mm ply.
There are NO tweeters on this install, these go up so high, you really don't need them.
3U's perform perfectly up to 20khz!




Needed a bit of a kick but also well balanced in the mix. So we went with a 10" C10SW-D4, dropping down to 33hz, which is plenty low enough to me.


Yes, it feels ACE on your bum.




That does leave us with a "gap" between top end and sub.
So, lets fill it!

I used a pair of "thin" speaker pockets from Audio Sport .. and just started hacking!


Used Rivnuts to attach them to the doorcard, so they will be solid bu also let me take them off, if I needed too, until they were painted/finished.








Going for proper Sound Quality (SQ) here. So tried to solid up the door, stopping them rattling and 'sealing' them, as best as I could.


Then I just built it up with a combination of Fiberglass, P38, Putty Spray Primer, Bumper spray, "Manhatten Mist" textured spray and a few other bits and bobs....



































Filled the pocket internals loosely with packing, to help with back waves.


Bolted the whole lot to the metal door itself, to stop any rattles and make it solid.


Added just a little bit of bling to the door pulls and handle.




Finished job...






Then, Lee spent a day setting it all up.
Never heard anything like it before. The staging is incredible. Feels like you can reach out and touch the musicians in front of the dash!
No mental sub, no SPL.... just award winning (I hope!) sound quality, that envelops you. VERY happy.