Okay, so now the main update is done, here's the updated audio section.
I've been mucking around with different subs, enclosures and EQ/ crossover settings to get some midbass into the car so the roll off from woofers to sub woofer was cleaner and more complete.
After some research, I decided to bite the bullet, purchase a couple things and give some stereo mods a crack!
I had a pair of JL Audio C2-600 woofers lying around that I was keeping for when the OEM paper cone woofers decided they'd had enough of 100WRMS pumping through them 
. Surprisingly they still worked but the foam surround had started to fall apart on the drivers side resulting in them starting to sound porridge. This basically prompted this whole upgrade/ mod.
I saved the front door speaker mounts from the RSK I dismantled which had the McIntosh system originally, then replaced with some JBL 5" coaxials. Pulled the 5" JBL's and got to work fitting the JL C2-600's in whilst keeping the door seal tight and OEM like.
Basically took apart the McIntosh door mounts, cut and filed to fit the JL's, then using the OEM speaker plug, soldered that onto the JL speakers so they could still be easily removable if need be.
Made sure to re foam the door mounts and the back of the speaker to ensure a good seal
Stopped past Clark Rubber and found some off cut closed cell foam sheets they were getting rid of. $40 (I think) for the whole sheet, which would see all four doors done easily
Decided to keep it thin so the door card would clip back on
Pulled off the moisture barrier carefully in order to trace it onto the foam for both the front doors
As you can see, there's plenty of foam for all four doors. I'm yet to do the rears, but if we get some nice weather down here on a weekend soon, I'll get them done too
Cut it out and with a test fit and some slight trimming, it was on and ready for the speakers to be mounted
Even with the thin foam, there was a bit of a fiddling around to get the door card to seat back nicely.
Now that was done, it was onto the speakers. You can just but some F.A.S.T rings from autobahn or online which effectively does the same thing, but I had some of this thick adhesive backed foam laying around, so I decided to make my own.
Traced the speakers and did a 6yo job of cutting them out
This was re trimmed to look nicer after this photo haha
Thankfully the speakers sit quite close to the door card, so sealing the speaker onto the door card didn't require a very thick foam gasket
I used the left over centre foam as a reflective backing behind the speaker inside the doors
All finished and speaker mounted
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The woofers are currently running in full range (no crossover) with only the head unit providing a high pass filter that's set at 80Hz with a 12Db slope. The tweeters are still OEM and use what ever capacitor they come with as their filter. With this set up, the sound stage is a little off, but it's something I can deal with.
For the $50~ it cost to do all this, I'd highly recommend it to anyone that has a spare couple hours to play cars. Mid bass is greatly improved and general road noise etc has been greatly reduced.
I'd love to do all this to an OEM stereo (with the double din OEM clarion unit) and see the difference. I'm a firm believer that the OEM sound system in Gen 3's is actually really decent once it's set up a little better and even with just an amp, they can sound really really good if you're not looking for ear piercing volume. Whilst it's not anything like the McIntosh system found in the B4's, I'd think they get close.
Thanks for reading all this text in the last couple posts. Will have some more updates sooner hopefully with the clutch replacement!
Id have burnt it long ago lol. Should get a gen 2 instead
Wind noise would see me burn it after the drive home I think haha
. I guess I was smaller too.
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