2006 BMW 325i

What is your reference for sound quality? What do you listen to at home - what type of music and through what products?My system at home is all Harman Products - all Harman processing and playback and all JBL SYNTHESIS amplifiers and JBL speakers. It doubles as a theatre and a high-end listening room. It's awesome!

After watching the episode of you, Steve Brown and Dave "Fishman" Rivera on Unique Whips, we have to ask: So what do you really think of Fishman?That was one of the most amazing shows ever put together. To bring all three of us together along with the crew from Unique was pretty amazing. I'm not going to lie and say it was all peaches and cream! There were plenty of great moments and plenty of not so great moments. We created one heck of a car in one week. Some guys pulled their weight and some didn't. I am one of Dave's biggest fans. He is one of the most creative guys in the industry. He has forgotten more techniques than most installers will ever even know. It was a long week; it felt like a month. We all got a little bit heated at each other at times. But hey, you only get upset with people you respect and care about. "Mooooooo-Cow Tipper"

The trunk tub was created using Select Products Mold Fabric, which was stretched over two oval windows made of 31/44" MDF. The mold fabric was temporarily attached to the trunk edge using pinch welt and then soaked with resin. With the trunk pod formed, a third window was added to showcase the MS-8 processor. The tub was then sanded smooth and painted to match the vehicle.

To mount the amplifiers, Biggs cut a 31/44"-MDF board and laminated a sheet of aluminum to the top to keep the interior consistent. The three visible amplifiers power the stock speakers. The Px300.4 amps that flank the center amp power the front and rear doors as well as the center channel. The center amp, a Px600.2, sends 180 watts each to the factory subs. The amp that powers the JBL 12" GTi is located under the enclosure.

The stock center channel was upgraded with an additional stock BMW tweeter using a piece of 11/48" aluminum, cut to shape and mounted using one of the original midrange mounting screws. The center channel grille was modified to fit and to allow for the LCD display for the MS-8 to be seen.

The LCD display housing was created by gluing 11/44" strips of wafer board to the original grille, then wrapping it with grille cloth and coating it with resin. The pod was then reinforced with Duraglas, sanded and painted with SEM Landau Black paint. The new grille pod was opened for the sound to pass through with a 4" hole saw, covered with perforated aluminum grille material and covered with black grille cloth. The result is a perfect stock-looking grille that is anything but. The rest of the factory grilles in the car were covered in the same cloth so everything matches.

In the left side of the trunk, the factory amplifier was mounted. Biggs and Andy Wehmeyer of JBL used a volt meter to track and label the power, ground and audio input and audio output wires. Using the "Smart Live" software, they determined which output was which and whether it was highpass or lowpass. The MS-8 unit requires a fullrange signal to operate correctly, so Biggs and Wehmeyer decided to use the front doors as well as the left and right factory sub outputs for the input signal.