Focal 165 v2's and a Focal a1 in the center channel make up the separates. "I first had to configure the dash so I could mold in the new speaker location in the furthest corner of the A-pillar with the speakers aimed right at the driver," Roberts says. He framed the dash in stretch cloth, glassed it, smoothed it all out and then taped the area off where he wanted to make a mold for the new pod. Using the factory piece that fit the A-pillars, he cut the bottom off and attached a molded piece from the dash to the A-pillar cover. "I used three layers of 1.5-ounce mat and glassed them together, then built two MDF rings on the perfect circle, glued them in and stretched the grille cloth over that," he explains. He then resined the pod and layered mat down on that, Duraglassed them, ground that down and then layered Rage Gold body filler and poly primer. This process was used through out the vehicle.
The back hatch area is home to four Alpine 10" Type-R dual 4-ohm drivers housed in an enclosure made with 3/4-inch MDF and fiberglass. "I actually had to make these enclosures a little smaller than I wanted to because the tank for the Air Ride bagged suspension is mounted in the enclosure." Roberts likes the tight response from the subs, but because of the size of the enclosure they don't play as low as he'd like. For sound quality, however, and 5.1 movies they do extremely well.
To generate the power needed to feed the 2,100-watt extravaganza Roberts called on two of the popular Alpine PDX amps, the PDX-1.600 for the subs, a PDX-4.150 for the front and rears and a PDX-2.150 for the center channel. "I elected to angle them and give them a little different look so I used the great mounting system Alpine has for those amps and stacked them like stairs," Roberts says. "This actually made the wiring very easy to hide."
On the video front Roberts installed a DVA-9861 built-in DVD video switching unit that feeds Directed Electronics' 7-inch headrest monitors mounted in armrest locations on each rear door. A 7-inch mirror monitor that Roberts says came in an overnight shipment from Japan with no name on the box is connected to a rearview camera as well as the audio/video system.
"I was fortunate to have Joe Flip and Duane Neal help with a lot of finishing details," Roberts says. He also thanks Advanced Auto Design's owner Jim Benham for allowing all this to happen. Also Paul Lopez, painter extraordinaire, deserves props for the trick black over Lambo Blue paint job. Of course, there's girlfriend Nia Conley who did all the sewing on the seats. She and Roberts even wrapped all the panels, headliner and dash themselves. "Everything was done in house," literally, he says.