The following are just some of the many installs that Fhrx Studio's have either created, had a hand in or assisted with. Please note; NOT every single item within these photo pages was created by Fhrx Studio's - some images are borrowed purely to demonstrate what can be installed. There are only ten install photo groups per page to assist loading times. Links to further pages are located at the top and bottom of each page.

Nissan Silvia

When the time arrived to install audio gear into his car, this customer first suffered at the somewhat brutal hands of an inferior installer and was returned a damaged car. Fhrx Studio's were then enlisted not only to repair the done damage but create an audio atmosphere that would keep the owners rigorous music tastes well at bay - with neatness and the desire for boot space being of paramount importance.

The system begins with a Kenwood 6.5" touch screen DVD player monitor and now has the brain carefully removed from under the passenger seat and actually mounted within the rear sub-frame of the Silvia. This required considerable work to make it happen but the unit is much safer there and won't get kicked and is now grounded to the chassic resulting in a much cleaner stronger signal. The signal travels on further via three double shielded RCA cables into a Zapco crossover and line driver, upping the signal voltage and reducing system hiss and noise. From there the signals heads into old but trusted Hifonics amplifiers which are mounted securely onto a 18mm embossed trim panel. They are covered with a trim surround utilising Perspex lit under green neon lights. Fans at each end of the amp rack use a push / pull system to run cool air across the heat-sinks when operating temperatures get high.

A Hifonics 'Gemini' 4 x 50 watt amplifier is responsible for running four sets of Boston Pro Series 6.5" splits - two in the front doors and two on the rear parcel shelf. Both front doors are fully sound deadened with no less than two rolls of Road kill and also feature the mandatory diffuser mats to aid in sound wave dispersion. The rear shelf hasn't been forgotten either and copped a fair amount of sound deadening as well to aid in the reduction of resonation and rattles. Custom trimmed speaker pods give the rear deck a custom but not too over the top look.

The Hifonics 'Boltar' 400 watt mono-block amplifier is responsible for the running of the Boston Acoustics 10" competition subwoofer which lives in a small inconspicuous 0.6 cubic foot chamber located off too the passenger side of the boot.

Power delivery duties are courtesy of an Odyssey battery which is locked down with a polished alloy brakcet and mounted under Perspex for safety. Power is fed via enormous two gauge cable through various Lightning audio and Fusion components before hitting the 1.5 farad power cap and multi-fuse block in the rear, also under green neon lit Perspex. Two gauge earth cable has also been added to allow the current to return to the battery.

Toyota Corolla

When approached buy a Piano teacher of 40 years, we knew the system would have to be perfectly accurate as ears so finely tuned would pick up on mistake right away. Enter head installer Marty Price from Fhrx Studio's. Other requirments included not demolishing the bank account and not taking up any space.

The system starts with an older Alpine TDA-7554 head unit and CHA-S601 shuttle combination. From there it runs into a Audison SRx3 amplifer mounted into the tailgate and under the factory trim. This required a fair amount of work to relocate the rear door lock in order to fit the amp and it's cooling fans. The amp is accessible for servicing purposes via a small door worked into the trim on the drivers side.

Front speakers are Pioneer splits for budget accuracy and live in simple custom buildouts, nessessary to keep the midrange speaker away from the window mechanism. You'll also notice the midrange sit's a long way rearwards in the door and this was due to our 'no metal cutting' policy requiring it's placement be there. Because of this ditance, the tweeter could not be kick panel mounted like our normal split systems as we didn't want channel separation. The rear speakers are Alpine 5 1/4 co-axials and live in customised roof binacles behind the back seats, keeping right away from the luggage area.

To handle the sub bass duties, a 10" Solo-Baric Kicker was brough into the frey. The area surrounding the subwoofer is fully sound deadened using Stinger Road-kill Pro and the sub is carfully mounted into a fibreglass 0.66 cubic foot enclosure behind the drivers side trim panel of the boot. The original panel has been removed and replaced with a reinforced grille for protection as well as looks.

Toyota Prado

When head installer Marty Price came to installing a system into his brother's new Toyota Prado, it required careful consideration seeing as the 4WD was to see a lot of off-road and consequently rough action. The system starts with an Alpine CDA-7962 CD player coupled to a Alpine CHA-S601 6-disc shuttle.

From the front the signal runs into a Boston GT-50 five channel amp and GT-24 two channel amp. The four channels on the GT-50 run the front and rear speakers which are from Polk Audio. The fifth channel on the GT-50 runs the two 8" Polk midbass drivers mounted in the boot.

The GT-24 is bridged to deliver a whopping 600 watts continuous to the subwoofer. In the boot is a flase floor containing the crossovers for the Polk driver, as well as cabling and three 0.5 farad Stinger power caps for extra power delivery when the cars power system is under load from the numerous off-road accessories.

Both the midbass and subbass drivers are mounted in custom fibreglass enclosure, easily removable in case you want to pack the truck full of camping equipment etc.

Mazda 323

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Toyota MR2

Often the task of finding a trustworthy audio store seems more daunting than actually getting the system completed. Like most Fhrx Studio's customers the owner of this MR2 wanted a high end system without removing what little practical space already had available to him. One main prerequisite for the install was that the boot must remain untouched, so head installer Marty Price opted to utilise the small space behind the seats seeing as this was a hard top (targa top versions stow the roof behind the seats).

The system starts with a carefully installed Alpine CDA-7998R receiver. In order for the 1.5 DIN face to clear the dash when the screen was deployed, Marty used Toyota camry head unit mounting brackets and modified to top mounting point to sit the deck an extra two millimetres off the dash. This gives the deck 1 millimetre of clearance between the face and dash plate. The entire dash itself including gearshift surround has been removed and painted in baked two-pac gun metal grey.

Moving onto the binnacles behinds the seats. The drivers side binnacle is actually a sub enclosure measuring 0.644 cubic feet and is home to a JL Audio 10W3V2-D2 10" subwoofer while the one behind the passenger is an amplifier rack holding an Audison LRx4.300 four channel amplifier. Both enclosures were covered in grain and colour matched vinyl and removing the flush mounted grilles reveals surround painted in the same two-pac metallic paint as the dash

All edges on the enclosures have been meticulously detailed to perfectly match the contours of the MR2. Various red lights light the twin enclosures up at night creating quite an eerie effect. All cable is from Stinger and features a custom mount steel fuse holder in the spare tyre hole. Additionly, the cars earthing systems were also upgraded.

The front end preparation took a fair while to do. Kick panels and door trims both had to be reformed and now hold Kicker RS6 Resolution splits rather than the factory paper dual-cones. Matching the door contour too perfectly butt up against the dash when closed proved to be interesting to say the least. After forming, they're vacuum formed in matching MR2 vinyl.

While not screaming at you for detail, the doors main difference can easily be seen when the factory door panel photo is inset into the finished photograph. Double layers of Stinger Road-kill and a diffuser plate cover the outer skin directly behind the midrange. The inner skin also copped a layer or Road-kill. At the end of the day one very clean install.

Lexus IS300

You can simply tell right away when someone is passionate about their car. Take the owner of this jet black IS300 for example. He wanted the best he could get, in every department. This included shoe-horning a 3 litre twin turbo 2J from a Toyota Supra, adding enough products from Trust, HKS and GReddy to sink a ship and not too mention fully adjustable Tein coil-over suspension all round. So naturally when it came to the sound system, the choice was logical. Fhrx Studio's had to install the best gear around for his budget.

The hardest part of this install according to Marty was the dash. "There are so many controllers to be mounted into such a relatively tiny space. Besides the Clarion VRX935VD DVD / monitor head unit, there is a Tein suspesion controller, GReddy turbo timer, GReddy boost cotroller (including screen) and boost contoller remote handset. Now getting all this in was quite a task, to make it look factory is near impossible.

The traction controls and seat warmers had to be relocated to start with. The traction control switches now live on the drivers side dash while the heater controls are in the center console between the two front seats. The console itself is constructed from three layers of carbon Kevlar and while light remains expemely strong. From the head unit the signal travels down Stinger RCA's too three Audison amplifiers - an SRx4 for channel and twin SRx2S mono-blocks. The SRx4 controls the front and rear channels from the Clarion DTS decoder while each Srx2S runs a JL Audio 12W7 each. Moving to the boot the first thing you're presented with is nothing. Just a matching carpet panel complete with embossed Lexus logo. This keeps in conjuction with the stealth theme demanded be the owner. Pulling this panel aside however reveals a pair of JL Audio 12W7's complete with two-pac jet black fibreglass surround. Peering through the ski-hatch reveals the front of two of the three amplifiers lit under neon light.

The doors are fully sound deadened inside and out and both have sound diffuser panels fitted to aid in mid-bass sound wave dispertion. The doors are home to Kicker R6 midrange drivers and the kick panels are home to Kicker ND-25 tweeters. Stealth was a large consideration for the doors as well so Marty opted to run with the factory trims.

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