Our first project was to install a system in the Team Leader's (Program Instructor-Mr Lipp)  2002 Saturn SL2. This vehicle is a "Daily Driver" used by Mr. Lipp to get back and forth to Daniel Morgan Technology Center from his home. This project was initially started when a student commented "You can't be the Mobile Electronics Instructor and not have a system in your car"  - the rest is Team DMTC history.

Thankfully, the Mobile Electronics Competition Association (MECA) has a division for vehicles just like this one. Mr. Lipp was interested in sound quality and did not want to make any major modifications to his vehicle; this was a perfect fit for the SQL "Street" Division in the MECA. In this division you must use the factory speaker location but you can add door mounted tweeters and sub woofers in the trunk.

The current system includes a Kenwood EZ-500 CD/MP3/WMA Receiver, two sets of Kenwood KFC-1680iS 6-1/2" 2-way Speakers , Kenwood KFC-T207 13/16" UFLC (door-mounted) Dome Tweeters,  Kenwood KAC-7202 150W x 2 Car Amp, 2 Kenwood KFC-W2510 10" 4-ohm Component Subwoofers in a  Q-Logic QLH-10D65 Dual 10" Hatchback Subwoofer Box and a 1.2 Farad Tsunami Stiffening Capacitor.

To keep the system as portable and unobtrusive as possible, both the amp and the stiffening capacitor were mounted to the sub-woofer enclosure. This allows the entire bass system to be removed from the trunk if necessary. It also, as you can see form the picture to the right, allows for easy access to the amp controls by simply folding down the back seat.

Thanks to the Daniel Morgan Technology Center Machine Tool Shop for fabricating the aluminum stand-offs for amp & capacitor box mounting.