2017 Fman LSV build - Larson Marine

[JustinH]

2 hours ago, Fman said:

Hey @JustinH was great meeting you!  small world around here...yeah that surf pipe is a worthy upgrade imo.  Maybe we will see you out on the water sometime!

actually I do have one more question for you.  where did you get the cloth bags to cover your speakers and racks?

[Fman]

http://www.speakersox.com/home.htm

I have exile tower speakers with there covers but speaker sox will have anything you need.  Mention you are a Malibu Crew user and he usually will kick down a discount for you.  The owners name is Jim, super cool guy.

Edited May 22, 2017 by Fman

[JustinH]

thanks!

[dhcomp]

On 3/26/2017 at 9:29 PM, IXFE said:

You need to get that box up off the floor in order to push it back and to the right.  As you correctly pointed out, you can't fit a kick panel there where you have it.  Even if you could push it straight back, it would look weird with the sub so far over to the left.  So you want to push it right to center it more also.  If you raise it up you will be able to clear a few more inches of the hoses coming up through the floor.  You will also be able to clear the hull sloping up on the right.  

Look what I did with my Qbomb last year.  I mounted 2x4 blocks of pressure treated wood.  I put layers of Dynamat on BOTH sides of the blocks before I screwed them in to avoid any rattling.  Notice also that I don't have a block on the back right corner.  That's because that side is propped up by the hull elevation at that back right corner (I also wrapped that corner in Dynamat).  Also notice that I removed those silly plastic blocks from the floor that your kick panel was mounted to.  You won't be using those anymore.  Throw them away.  Once your sub is in place you can just mount the kickpanel directly to it with shallow screws.  They will disappear into the carpet.  I held it all in place with metal brackets in the front and a small "L" bracket at the back right corner (had to bend it move of a "V" bracket")

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p24/IXFE/168FB405-C842-4867-96D6-3239F2560A2A_zps3cb2ivef.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p24/IXFE/2FF4E582-EE62-4730-8822-80E9F6E3F48A_zpshqvopymg.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p24/IXFE/8B8281E8-6467-4493-B3AE-96AAFE81BA13_zpsgwpwjkgc.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p24/IXFE/D4D75EC8-576C-4105-880F-566B8B884062_zps57zgtrwb.jpg

 

 

 

Where did you get the matching carpet for your kick panel?  Looks great!

[IXFE]

1 hour ago, dhcomp said:

 

Where did you get the matching carpet for your kick panel?  Looks great!

Your dealer can get it from the factory.  It's "official" Malibu carpet to ensure it matches other carpet in the boat.  

That said, it probably wouldn't be too hard to source locally if you wanted to go on a goose chase.  

[calilsv]

Good luck, I tried for months and couldn't get it.  I even had bakes order it for me, and even they couldn't get Malibu to actually ship it.

In the end I had to get something that looked close in color.  It was for an amp rack, so most of it was covered anyways.  If it was for a kick panel I might have spent a bunch extra and bought something like a carpet kit that almost matched the factory carpet.

 

Took My boat to get a sub installed and they told me the same thing, they haven't been able to get it for a while.  

 

 

 

[Stevo]

I’d be interested to see someone build an Amp rack out of starboard and use the matching soft grip or Gatorstep flooring as the backing nowadays