When Curt DeLong stopped in a few weeks ago,  while on leave from the military, he was looking for a few additions to his hot 2007 Mustang. We had done a lot of work for him in the past and he was anxious to do business with us again. What he ended up with was a complete audio overhaul. We removed the entire Shaker factory system and installed a system that was more suitable to the performance of the Mustang.
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Mobile Edge is happy to offer Brand Source Financing to our growing list of customer friendly offerings!  From today on, you will always be able to pay for your purchase at least 3 months from now.  But at certain times of the year, we will be able to offer 12 month financing!  This means that you can get your Nav system, video screens, remote starter, window tinting, etc, right now and enjoy it for up to a year before your need to pay for it.

We work hard to get everyone that applies financed.   Of course, we cannot promise this, but we will do everything within our power to make sure that you get what you want, when you want it!

That is our commitment to you, our customer.

We are finally here, it’s been a long road to get to this point, with the holiday season, Remote Starter Season and other delays, it took us longer than normal to get a job of this size (or any job for that matter) done. But we feel that it was well worth it!

Everything came out just as we had hoped/planned. For anyone who missed the first 5 posts on this vehicle and those who can’t remember them, I will recap what was done up to this point as well in this post.

Brodheadsville Chevrolet wanted to maintain the factory radio so we used a new product from Memphis called the 6iX, which is a 6 channel line out converter.  You can run 2, 4, or 6 channels of input (high level) and run 6 channels of output (low level), 2 of which are sub channels with a remote level knob. We flush mounted this knob and status L.E.D. in the dash above the radio.

For the front stage we chose Memphis Msync5 components with the mids mounted in the factory door locations. The tweeters were flush mounted into the factory A-Pillars, and yes the swival option on the tweeters still work! For the rear fill we chose Memphis MC6 2-way Coax’s mounted in the factory rear door locations.

The rear hatch is where the excitement really comes in. We flush mounted the x-overs for the front components in the taillight access panels and added blue L.E.D.’s to light up the x-overs, these panels were then covered in black ultra suede. We took out the filler panel where the factory sub option would have went if equipped as such. We added a piece of acrylic that we painted to match the vehicle with one of our Custom Installation logo’s in blue on the front, we then edge lit the acrylic with white L.E.D.’s which gives the logo a “floating” effect.

The box/amp rack were built as a single unit and fit into the area above the spare tire well. We added steel angle stock across the back of the hatch for added support. The box was then attached to this steel using 4, 4″ heavy duty hinges allowing the box to lift to give access to the spare tire. The box was sprayed with a black truck bed liner to give a clean appearance. The Memphis 5 channel amp was mounted in the amp rack portion of the box and covered with a piece of 1/4″ acrylic with a hand cut Chevrolet “bowtie” logo in it, we then “frosted” the acrylic to help with the edge lighting effect we wanted for the bowtie. Blue L.E.D.’s were used to achieve this effect.

The sub portion of the box was covered with 1/4″ acrylic that we painted to match the vehicle. This piece of acrylic was also edge lit with blue L.E.D.’s. We added 2 nylon finger loops to allow easy lifting of the box for access to the spare tire. Underneath the box is a 1/2″ metal rod that we painted to match the vehicle attached to 2 heavy duty brackets to create a hinge for the rod, this rod can be lowered into a verticle position to “prop” the box up while accessing the tire and or the vehicle’s battery. To finish off the installtion we added a matching suede covered beauty panel.

A couple of questions that you may have are:

Why didn’t we motorize the box?

While we agree that motorizing the box would have been cool, with the weight of the box, subs, amp & trim, it would be hard to have a standard actuator be reliable with the angle needed to lift it high enough to allow access to the tire but allow the box to still close fully, without getting into a telescoping actuator which could literally have cost as much as if not more than the entire installation we performed. And in all actuality, how many times will you need to get to the spare tire or battery, to where you would need it motorized?

Why did we use the Chevrolet logo for over the amp rack? Why not use something cooler or trendy like flames?

Well, flames can be just that, trendy, this is a vehicle that is owned by a car dealer, a Chevrolet one specifically. You don’t know who will end up purchasing this vehicle, not everyone would have liked flames, or a tribal design etc… Anyone purchasing this vehicle will be comfortable purchasing a Chevrolet, that is why they bought it at that point. The bottom line is: The Chevrolet “Bowtie” is recognized worldwide, and no one would be turned off by that logo being on/in their new Chevrolet.

Well, that about wraps it all up, I hope you like the final product, and as always we look forward to your comments, simply click below to leave one.

Here you can see the final stages of the trunk install. the first photo shows the plexi glass after being routered for the subs and the Chevy Bowtie logo that Bob hand cut for over the amplifier. The second photo shows the basic trim panel before being finished. Finally the third photo shows the steel angle bracing that we used to support all the weight of the enclosure/amp rack. this was necessary for the hinging. The same photo also shows that we have now removed the factory option panel on the driver’s side and inserted a piece of painted acrylic (future pics will show more detail) that will be edge lit for our logo.

We are making every effort with our overbooked schedule to get this vehicle done soon, hopefully the next update will be the final one!

Yet another update here, we are closing in on the end of the project, and everything is coming out just as we had planned.  We would have this done by now but we are very busy right now with remote car starter installs.

Here you can see the general plan of keeping all the hatch space available while still being able to display everything. The amp is a Memphis MCH600 5 channel amp, this amp delivers 55 watt rms to the 4 interior speaker locations and 400 watts rms at a 1 ohm load for the subs. We chose to keep with the Memphis Music Class line for the subs, using 2 MS104D’s. The sealed enclosure we built for them will allow them to play a variety of music without being to boomy. The entire hatch install will hinge up to allow access to the spare tire and jack. Check back later in the week for another update!

This update will start to show some of the custom work for the back. The entire vehicle is wired now, everything in the front of the back seats is back together as well. We flushed mounted the Memphis x-overs in the back Taillight access panels and covered the panels in black ultra suede. The x-overs are lit with blue l.e.d.’s (future pictures will show this clearly).

The box and amp rack are underway. Hopefully we will have some progress shots of them within the next couple of days.