Yaris Sedan Deadening and Sound system upgrade

[derickveliz2]

Originally Posted by MyzticZ3r0

Hey D! Any updates with your new ride? ^^"

It's awesome!
I'm still trying to get used to, me and my Yaris was like "all is one"

This baby it's bigger, heavier, and everybody looks at it, everybody is looking to race against.

I just made it a little over 2K miles, and even though this car is capable of 38 MPG (measured manually at the pump (miles/gallons) an average of 34 MPG it's a good number and cruise control pulls down the MPG to 30 but that's also because the up and downs in New England, but cruising on a flat highway at 65 mph and the MPG goes up a lot, it peaks at 49 MPG.
But the real problem it's the Turbo!

Yes this car is so much fun, the little Turbo and 7 speed double clutch makes you floor it down at every light/intersection or just passing trucks/cars on the highway, shifting from 7th gear manually down to 4th gear at 70 mph the Turbo comes alive and in seconds you are above 120 mph. The CLA transforms from a little mellow ride to an explosion of speed and acceleration, the gears change so quickly and the exhaust just makes it a real pleasure.

I have to keep an eye on the speedo, 80 mph comes very quickly and I just can't tell how fast I'm going without looking at the cluster. On the corners it's not as fun like a Lowered Yaris with a rear sway bar, here is where my Yaris was better, besides the 42 MPG I was getting on regular gas.

It's very quite, still my Yaris had some better deadening, but in general it's a good ride and I'm not going to have to treated top to bottom.

Next week it's schedule for Tinting (50%) to keep it legal.

I really like the Blue Tooth and how it talks to my iPhone

The sound system it's impressive for a stock set up, but it's not great! and it's driving me crazy, even though has good tonality the image it's all WRONG! and I'm dying to have my stage again.

I'm waiting for some stuff I ordered:

-4 Gauge cable
-RCA cables
-a couple of speakers (no I'm not telling what kind of speakers I'm getting) but I'm going to proof that it doesn't matter how much you pay for your speakers it's the way you install them and tuning what makes them sound good!
-a pair of ID Horns (YES horns for the CLA)
-and more

Yes! The system it's going to be simple and sound really good. Everything I learned here and with my Yaris will help in this set up.

This is the plan so far:
2 way active system:
Mid/Bass from 80Hz up to 800Hz in kick area
Horns from 800Hz up to 20kHz under the dash
12" woofer installed in the trunk as Free Air (IB)
1 amp 75 watts x 4 + 200 watts x 1 to keep it simple but... (I'll have an extra amp for Mid/bass if need it at 175 watts x 2)
1 DSP (an Audison Bit Ten D) looks like buying a Bit Ten + Control it's more expensive than going with the Bit Ten D that includes control.

My first plan is to keep all OEM audio system, so I get to keep the Blue Tooth and other cool functions, and have my system completely apart and have an iPod feeding the Bit Ten D

This way I can Demo OEM and Custom for comparison.

Wish me luck, install starts next week! or as soon as I make space in the garage, you know how that goes lol

D.