Well I finally have enough time off to begin my poor man stereo upgrade
I have accumulated some stereo equipment over the last year that came out of my old truck and a few things I went ahead and picked up, I figured it was time to go ahead and give it a go.
Now I will be the first to say that since finishing my driveline upgrade the stereo was the last thing on my mind, after all a great sounding Corvette is really music to the ears IMHO, but I had most of this stuff laying around so I broke down today and began to dismantle the interior.
I plan to go ahead and sound deaden the key areas where the speakers will be and then insulate the areas that remain to help with summer time heat and maybe lower the road noise a little.
My upgrade will consist of a Kenwood DNX 6960 double din nav unit from my old truck with Kenwood cameras, Polk audio components up front with coaxle rears, a Rockford Fosgate 12 for the sub and 2 amps they are a 4 channel Rockford 500 single and 300-4 channel, not the most expensive but for my needs sufficient.
I am in the over 50 category now so loud is not on my menu these days and trying to keep everything within budget was more important.
Day one got everything about 85% stripped and the amps mounted in the amp rack, that by the way was a really great deal from Dennis (Double D) thanks Dennis , he's awesome to deal with as most of you all know.
I've got 10 to 12 days to finish everything including a fluid change and interior and exterior detail so I will update my post as she progresses.
I am really looking forward to hearing how she will sound, I have been running the stock speakers with just the 12 and amp and it made a HUGE improvement over stock so I am hoping this is the icing on the cake.

 

Very ambitious project - best of luck getting it all done in 12 days. Will keep checking in to see the progress you have made.

 

In for pics!

 

good luck

 

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Me too!

 

Well I got the rest of the interior out today, Cleaned the crap out of the floor pans and all surfaces so the sound proofing will have a good clean surface to stick to, and got rear speaker areas sound proofed and the rear speakers mounted, I also got about 50% of the interior covered with the sound deadening, it definitely takes some time cause I worked on the car for about 6 hours. But its going to be worth it.

 

In for the pics!
I love sound system upgrade progressive threads!

 

I was able to get another 8 hours in today, I got about 70% of the sound deadening mat installed and also began running some wiring, I need to hit Lowe's tomorrow, and hopefully by tomorrow night will have all my wiring and sound proofing complete or at least close.

 

Day 3 I think

starting to put a few carpet pieces back in, Tomorrow the amp rack will go in, I still have a little work to do on both the driver and passenger side but not a lot, I have already wired the head unit harness up,
Its going start coming together, I even picked up some regular insulation for the hard to cover areas, I think its going to be alright



I've got a rear carpeted mat that I bought with My front mats that's going to hide the sub wiring Not gonna have anything left exposed

 

worked a little late to get a few more things done, so here is a few more pics, carpet and trim has been going back pretty easy

 

It rained all day yesterday so I lost a day to weather, but got back on it this morning and got the Amp rack and amps in. Gonna keep working till the weather moves back in

 

Keep on keeping us posted, starting to shape up to a loud system.

 

Yeah she is coming together, I really wasn't trying to put together a really loud system, I just mainly wanted to utilize equipment that I already owned, It was a shame it had been sitting in my office gathering dust so I have several weeks off from work for the holidays and figured it was the best time to get it done, of course with me having to run new wiring it didn't make sense not to go ahead and install some sound deadening and insulation while I was at it.
I still have the doors to do and the head unit so still got plenty of work ahead

 

Sounds like a nice project. Coming together nicely. Ive been wanting to replace my audio equipment with upgrades. Just havent decided if i want to do a sub. And if so, where ot put it.

 

Before I decided to upgrade the whole stereo I only had a sub added to the stock bose set up, just adding a sub transformed the stock set up into a much better sounding system, if I didn't do anything else I would at least add a sub.

 

I hear ya. My factory audio has been abused by previous owners. The speakers are at the point of crackling and popping. So Im just going to replace the speakers and put a new head unit in it. Just wondering if the speakers will be able to handle what little bass I want, or should just go ahead and add a sub with it also.

What size did you put in the back? 10"?

 

I had a 10 at one time, but a friend of mine had sold his c5 and I aquired his stealth box and 12 so I'm running a 12 now, it sounds a little better but the 10 was fine for my listening.
If you decide to just upgrade your stock set up without the sub its definitely going to make your other speakers work harder but depending on the kind of music you listen to u may be fine.
If you lived close to someone with another c5 it would be nice to take a listen to help you decide on what you may want do.
Good luck

 

I was able to get the passenger door completed today, I hope to get the drivers door done tomorrow along with get started on the head unit install.
I know not everyone is going to agree with where I installed the tweeter but it seemed like the best place to put em, Just a few more days

 

first dry run this morning to test that everything would power up and sound would come out of the places it was supposed to and everything worked like its supposed to, man I through some steely dan in to check her out and all I can say is WOW, it sounds amazing and it's not even dialed in yet.
Now I got to begin the head unit install.

 

Very impressive!