[MW Mariah]

Well I have only had Firefly (yes I officially named her) for a little over a week now and even though I loved her at first sight that does not mean I don't want to do anything with her.

The "to do" list (Already added dual battery set up)

1. Water temperature gauge (currently not functioning, but looking at it this Friday)
2. Stereo - I have the head unit now (BIG thanks to Eric) speakers and amp are "in the mail"
3. LED Lighting also "in the mail" - thanks Amazon
4. Some trailer upgrades including new LED lights for it, spare tire and mount (hard part is finding another gold wheel!)
5. Underwater LED's

Hoping to have all that done prior to spring launch 2013.

(before the naming)


(and after the naming)

[MW Mariah]

Alrighty!

Water temp gauge is back! (bad wire, replaced)
This weekend is new stereo (Kenwood KMR-550U Marine head unit, Polk Audio 6.5's times 4 and a Polk 10 inch sub to add a little thump, all powered by an MB Quart 6 channel Marine amp.) Oh I will also be adding water proof RGB LED strip lights to the gunwales and front bow as well as under both sides of the dash. (A little mood lighting.) Also probably add the fishfinder/depthfinder while I am wiring all the rest of this stuff up.

I will have pics (before and after) when I am done.

[MW Mariah]

The official "Pile O' Goodies"


I simply can't wait.

[phillycincykid]

hhaa i named my boat Reckle$$ $pending after doing all those pile o goodies upgrades then came the gimble bearing ,shift boot cable, gas tank and floor upgrades!! its definitely
a labor of love

[Jgos929]

Keep us updated on this please. I have the same boat but it's green. I went with green LED's in all the oem spots and it really changed effect and I like it. I would like to add more and I like your idea of adding them under the dashes.

I have the polk db6501's upfront by the driver and passenger seats and the db691's beneath the back bench. I dont have my amp hooked up yet but they sound a whole lot better than what was in there before. I'm gonna be adding the same 10" sub as you and out of curiosity where and how do you plan to mount it? I only have a 4channel amp so I was gonna use it to push the 691's and the sub and just leave the front speakers hooked to the receiver. Im just looking for cleaner sound, I dont need anything that'll make waves LOL

Looking forward to your progress.

[MW Mariah]

Well I will be working on her this weekend. Hopefully the reports of the engines untimely demise were greatly exaggerated.
I will get some pics up soon and any info that might help others.

I specifically went with the RGB LEDs so that I could have lighting of any color including red so that I could have some light while underway. I can also dim and flash and run programs if I want to. The wife thought I was crazy till she saw them in action now she's all geeked up to get them in too.

More to come - stay tuned.

[MW Mariah]

Well the projects are up and rolling. I have the amp, sub and rear speakers in. The head unit is hooked up but not mounted yet. I made a custom console for the head unit so that slowed us down a little. Also started Saturday morning with pulling the outdrive so I could replace the exhaust bellows. That burned a few hours.

So I need to run the front speaker wires and mount the front speakers ... then I will run the LEDs and hook it all up. I am in the home stretch. Pics to follow.

[MW Mariah]

Lets get this going.
We pulled the old stereo and stashed it.


Then pulled the passenger side kick panel as we were initially planning to mount the sub there.

EWWWWW dirty - vacuum please!

The kick panel needed a little clean up too.


Had to pull the bow seating and cubby as well.


Amazing how dirty they get in the places you can't really get to.

[MW Mariah]

The old stereo mounting location was ... shall we say ... rough.



So I decided that since I was putting in a single DIN stereo with Ipod interface that I would make a new one. It will have a cubby for my Ipod and LED remote. As well as two switches, one for internal LEDs one for underwater LEDs.



Decided to paint it for now, I will vinyl it later when I get a good color match.

[MW Mariah]

We decided to pull all the seats to make life easier. Plus we are mounting the rear 6.5's in the base of the back seat. Now I am starting to get excited.







So we marked out the circles ...



And then cut ...