Take some time to treat the factory sub box when installing the RF woofer. It helps tame resonances, etc. (same with the doors, but that's far more time consuming).
Yeah, I agree. The lack of a real oil temp sensor is seriously stingy and indefensible, imo. Re: the baffle, the sad reality is very few relatively affordable cars come with one from the factory. I was surprised to find that the Supra actually has one (!), but I believe you need to spring for at...
I haven't, but I would be, too. (And it looks like supplemental oil cooling is key to controlling both temperatures.)
I'd reach out to PointByPatrol or Siwelnosaj on the FL5 forums re: a good solution for reading oil temps and for general advice re: oil cooling. Specific to your plans, the...
re: intercoolers... not cheap, but initial results are very promising:
https://www.civicxi.com/forum/threads/hpt-microtubule-series-fl5-intercooler.58866/
TLDR:
= / > PRL power levels
> PWR re: cooling (and impact on airflow to the radiator, etc.)
I am with you on the EQ... I can't settle on what I want to do with it. When I do some measurements, I want to test what each of the 3 bands does.
I also don't find my results align with SG's, granted I am now far from "stock". I should have gotten a baseline! Their waterfall graph shows the...
I'm happy with it, but I *think* I'll probably add an amp next year. (Tucked the car away for the winter last weekend.)
My subjective thoughts are that it sounds much "cleaner" than OEM and that it hits pretty hard at low volumes with the low end EQ'd up, but the lower / sub bass goes missing...
They've really come to a great place! Unique aesthetics, relatively good measurements (their passive gear -- i.e. preamps -- are SOTA, their headphone amps are close, their DACs range from good to decent, depending on the implementation -- notably their multibit / r2r designs don't perform as...
Weird, can't find the post.
It looks nice -- flanges, triple tips, retains the valve, etc.
I'm a little worried there might be drone, as I believe it's 3.25"(?).