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One of the local audio companies in Newcastle, Bassmechanix, have chosen to use a mk3 as their new demo car. Monty, the owner has been posting progress pictures on a local site each day, so i thought i would post them on here for you lot to see!!

Project Rolo.

Progress for today! (3rd April 2006) this is just the day it gets posted on the local car site, not necessarily the day the work was carried out.

Suspension - Bilstien front and rear.
New altenator
New charge wire
Uprated dry cell battery
Sound deadening started!

Tomorrow's List:

Finish sound deadeing (floor and roof is left and little bits on the 3/4's)
Install all cables
Link the rear battery up
Secure rear battery











2nd day progress report. (4th April 2006)

Suspension on
Wheels on
Roof deadened
Signal cable installed
Power cable installed
Boot solenoid installed
3/4 Windows removed for headlining removal - and refitted










Reply on other site....
Styling is going to be kept to a minimum at the mo. The car was bought to proove a point for the audio side of things so styling is'nt really a priority - Having said that we'll be staying close to the euro route, low, deep dish, smooth etc ....

Once the music has done its thing and the engine goes in then the styling starts!

Whats going in? LOL - A pair of 10's!!!


Progress for day 3! (5th April 2006)

Earth cables in.
Power and earth fully grommited
Signal cables fro front amp run
Speaker cables run
Headunit installed
Kick builds installed with mid-bass drivers
Tweeters installed in origional location for the time being
Crossovers installed
Car put back together! Carpet in, seats in, dash put back together etc.










I will keep you's updated.

looking good so far mate, look forward to seeing some more updates as they happen.

Progress for today ... (6th April 2006)

Not much in the way of pics but..

Buzz bars for the batteries in

Front battery secured

Rear battery secured

Earthing system in and tested

Front amp in and working

Preliminary bass box built

Started working out the panel Q - should be done for tomorrow morning

Hopefully we'll have some sort of sound tomorrow night!

If I'm honest, ICE isn't really my thing, but that looks like a really well executed install right there. I'm impressed with the way it's being done.

I can't help thinking the footwell speakers are gonna be a complete pain in the cock though.

Theyre not bad, my mums got them in the footwells on her beetle and they dont really get in the way at all

hmmm will be interesting to see how that turns out!!

but just try cleaning them after a few muddy autumn days

Lol good point! .....Laminate them! haha!

now there's an idea

there's probably a host of audiological reasons why not however

it's not an actual risk anyway - it's a show car, come on - anyone going near it with muddy boots will be shot... repeatedly.... in the groin.... but only after being bloodily dismembered and the stumps dipped in salt

.................... sorry, i'm in a vindictive mood at the mo

How do people - Its my Project Rolo!

Well not much to report tbh - We did approx a weeks worth of testing, building new enclosures, tuning them, re builkding etc - A total of 12 enclosures were tested with the same woofers and countless vents and on the n'th moment - Wednesday night we smoked the last pair of woofers we had!!

So it was a case of either sack the competition till a new pair of woofer came in and play start again - or build a new enclosure for something we had in stock - Which is what we did.

Results - 1st plase at Donny!! Chuffed is not the word! lol



We also got another 1st with a customers car, a second and a third!

2006 - The year of Bassmechanix!

Congratulations mate! Polo power! lol

What're you using for the split charge?

For a SPL car you dont use split charge relays. They cause a voltage drop making the system less efficient.

If you are creating a car for audio purposes then a split charge relay is a good purchase. A couple of point people fail on is that the batteries must be the same age and same type. Make sure the relay is live on ignition otherwise youd end up with a battery drain.