either varsol or acetone should work. dip a peice of left over carpet in it and rub the glue away. goo gone should work aswell.

 

I've used Goo Gone in the past.

 

Are you using a backed carpet that doesn't stretch? You should pick up some unbacked stuff - you would be able to cover each side with one piece easily.

 

wait so you use goo gone to get off the spray glue on carpet?
I want a tutorial lol

 

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1. Saturate rag with Goo Gone.
2. Rub on glue until gone.


Personally, when I have made a small error like that, a little spray paint takes care of it

 

I used backed carpet. I had it laying around and didn't want to buy more. Thats the problem with living up in northern BC, you can't find a friggen thing that you need and have to order everything in online. there's one store in town that sells a little bit of car stereo stuff and the only things he carries are SONY base model JL and kenwood decks/amps. The biggest power wire he has is 10g. He wanted 50 bucks for the dash kit for my mazdaplus $ to get it shipped to him(I waited to buy that out of town). And he's a rip off.

thanks for the tps on getting the glue off everyone. I have a whole bottle of acetone, I'll try that.

 

Nice work, you should be doing this for others... if not already.

 

I've had lots of guys ask me to do something in their vehicles, but thats all I ever hear from them. I think I'm the only guy in town that accually build anything for stereos. Everyone else just buys what fits and buys prefab boxes and just throws them into their vehicle.

 

Sorry for the long pause and no posting for awhile. I was waiting for a few supplies to show up. I had ordered magnets to hold the sub grills in place, LEDs, rear speakers and stearing wheel interface. Everything has finally showed up, today my rear speaker came to the door. I guess I have to stop fishing and start doing some work on the car. Although, I'm going fishing again on sunday.....lol

Anyhow, today I mounted the LEDs in the sub rings and installed the magnets for the sub grills.

Here is a pic of the rings lit up.

another pic that looks kinda cool


I didn't take any snap shot of the magnets installed. I also removed the rear door panels and stock speakers in the car today, but it was getting dark and had to stop there. First thing in the morning I'll be making baffels for the door speakers. I didn't get the rear speakers that I wanted because they were out of stock, so I just bought a set of JL 6" coaxals, and I'll be putting my 6" JL components in the front. I'll have more pics for you all tomorrow.

 

well guys, I don't have much to post, it was raining out until mid afternoon and seeing as I don't have anything to park my car under I couldn't start the tear down.
I did get a little done though, but I spent alot of time screwing around with the stearing wheel interface.

Anyhow first thing I got the speaker rings cut out and painted.
Sorry, crappy pics today

Then I pulled all the door panels, mounted the rings and the driver side speakers(except the tweeter for the front door). I didn't install the driver side speakers yet because I haven't finished running the wires for it.




I have the HU installed, but not quite all the way because I'm still playing with the stearing wheel controls. I ran the RCAs, but they are not yet strapped down. I got the whole trunk area gutted and the whole driver side of the car pulled apart. I somewhat have the driver side speaker wires run, but I still have to run them into the door, and I need to run my turn on wire and tap into the driving lights for my LEDs.

I doubt that I'll get anything done tomorrow because I'm going on a short fishing trip with a friend. I might get something done in the morning.