The original installation had five 10-inch subs mounted upside down in the spare tire well and 3 amplifiers on a custom rack in the rear seat to power it all. The new dash pod was wrapped in grey vinyl which was, along with the speaker grill, dyed to match the factory dash colour. The speaker was upgraded with an external crossover network from an SRS1686 component set to better handle the power being sent to it. The factory dash pod of the Eclipse was removed and modified to house an SRR1685 6.5” coaxial speaker. These feature a 1-inch soft dome tweeter and both the mid and tweeter have their own run of cable to the rear of the car. In the doors are a set of Clarion SRP6920M component 6x9 speakers. Likewise, 5 runs of Ultra Cable 12 Awg speaker cable make their way rearward from the dash and doors. Ensuring maximum power delivery means using large conductors, so 0 AWG wire was run from the front of the car rearward. The original installation was wired with Streetwires Ultra Flow cabling. The result is a subtle and seamless look. The radio trim piece of the dash kit was glued in place, then the entire trim piece was smoothed and painted to match the door handles and shifter trim. It connects to a Clarion NX700 DVD Navigation receiver that found a home in a modified aftermarket dash kit. The custom iPod mount in the center console is home to a 5 th Generation iPod Video. Some of that installation remains in the car. In case you haven’t figured it out, that was, at the time, the Marketing Team for Clarion Canada. The original installation was performed by Brad Wisnoski, Patrick Lavallee and I at Driveway Sounds in Burlington. How did Clarion get their hands on the Eclipse? Once you have raced a car, you just can’t sell it to a consumer, so the car sat at their head office in Mississauga for many months before being sent to Clarion for its initial transformation from race car to demo vehicle. The brothers took the Grand Touring class win with this seemingly stock vehicle. The car initially saw duty in the 2005 Targa Newfoundland rally in the hands of Mark and Lawrence Hacking. The car itself is a 2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT, and it was originally lent to Clarion by Mitsubishi Canada. Indeed – this is the same ride, but it has been given the once-over to make it new and fresh so it can go back on the road for another couple years. If you are a long-time reader of PAS, then you might recognize this car from a feature several years ago. But for you lucky PAS readers, you are about to be given an inside look at how this 2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse came to be what it is. As part of the Marketing Team at Clarion Canada Inc, ensuring our small fleet of demo cars is always at the ready for a dealer event or show is just part of the daily routine. Now here’s an interesting perspective on a corporate demo car – a feature story written by one of the people who helped bring the project to fruition.
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