British Racing Green R50 Daily Build

Me and my best mate just finished doing the sound system upgrade in my car too, he used to have his own car audio company when he lived in croydon so he gave me a hand with mine!

He ordered a set of front door speakers and 6x9's for the rear (both sets being Pioneer), he's a magician matching all the wave frequencies ect ect, we decided to leave the tweeters standard as the frequencies were a good pitch for now too.

I don't have many pictures as we done this a while ago!

We also fitted a Sony Head Unit

Bedding in the speakers and giving them a mighty fine tune up we thought it needed a little more bass to give it that extra fullness, so we wired in the bass cable, earth, remote and RCA. I got this Alpine AMP and Type R sub from a mate of mine called Dan who has a Blue R53 running about 240bhp (RAPID!) for an absolute steal, mates rates and all that!

It's nothing special but we mock fitted it, hence the bungie cord, to see how it would fit; sound and overall performance. But after a brilliant crystal clear sound tune it needs to come out and be carpeted and made to look slightly OEM in my mind to fit the part

It's been a few weeks but!
I have added and done a few extra little things so far but today was my most proud of yet. Today I started my boot build, for the sub woofer, the sub box annoyed me and it took up all of the space and kept falling over round bloody bends lol! So I started:

I got some MDF that i had kicking around the garage and got a rough measurement of the boot underneath the boot carpet

Removing the two pins out of the retaining clips i could flip the carpet back to get a decent measurement

After a short while of trimming down the rear quater trim pannels down to fit the MDF board in, along with taking a triangle off the N/S rear edge (as that side of the trim curves more than the right? Strange lol) and it fitted like so

Measuring the diameter of the sub i dotted out, and aligned it all ready for cutting out with the jigsaw

Cut out, it just dropped in flush with no movement

I am going to crack on with the rest tomorrow morning as I have a free day (at last). What needs to be done is to create a nice place for the amp to tuck away, also dynamat the boot floor for some sound damping too, carpet the MDF for some extra damping and to ensure there isn't and rubbing / squeeling from plastic on wood, cut a whole in the boot carpet and then trim the rest of the carpet to fit flush within the car. Stay tuned gang

Oh and sorry for the rubbish Iphone pictures

So after a little while the boot build is complete a sounding great with a carpeted boot floor to dampen and reduce road noise too (Y)

Some disagree with this mod but my buddy has a crazy cooper s and he has upgraded his exhaust once again! For about the god knows how many time lol, thus leaving me with a very nice piper cams exhaust for the rear

below is pretty much on the only thing it doesn't have in the picture is the rear trim, but i have it on now as my other buddy works at BMW stealers and got me it in at mates rates happy days!

I like the stance of my girl now, i think that she is getting there slowly!

Also if anyone wants a sportex cooper/one exhaust it is up for sale

I'm booking mine into the workshop I have my race car at 'fast road conversions Ashford' who are a sponsor for my race car for me ti make a 4 - 2 - 1 manifold and hopefully get taught how to do a custom remap fow her happy days! I'm sure they said with the one you get about 20 bhp from them, as they are the same engine as the cooper just a different ECU layout.

Oh and thanks Adam!
Here are the pictures of the boot build too

You may also notice i wrapped my parcel shelf too :thumbup1: personally I love it as i'm going with green and black theme for her too, she has a tidy little rear end too (i've said that a few too many times )