Any idea on where I can put my amplifier without sacrificing the trunk space, if there's any lol (pictures are more then welcome ).

Thanks,
MaC

 

Yea I was gonna say, what trunk space? Would there be room under one of the front seats?

 

There is room under the front passenger seat. But not for a huge amp. There is a significant amount of padding under the carpet. You will have to do a little digging to get the available dimensions. Someone posted their installaion several years ago. You should be able to find it. Or you can always pull the seat, pull up the carpet and measure for yourself. Remember to have the ignition off when you disconnect the seat wiring, and do not turn the ignition back on until you reconnect the wiring. (or else the Airbag warning light will come on and stay on)

 

You could also do a GP and remove one or both of the rear seats...

 

Under front seats

Under the carpet is a piece of polystyrene, I removed that and fitted a 9mm thick board to screw the amp onto. Then cut the carpet around the amp

The amp fitted there is a Genesis Dual Mono and there's another one under the other seat
It measures 300 x 210 x 62mm (roughly 12 x 8.25 x 2.5 inches)

The attatchment shows the available space which someone else measured

 

Here's another example.

 

Thank you Tony66 and Kurvhugr, those look like good places.

Thanks for your cooper-ation everybody.
MaC

 

I'm not too sure what kurv's link showed since it won't open for me... but here is another idea.

Make a false floor out of peg board (plus you can customize the paint job like I did)

 

Thank you shankrabbit, but i dont think that will work for me, i wanna save the trunk space (yes yes what espace? ).

MaC

 

You have a MINI, you dont have 'trunk' space, you have BOOT space

 

Are you planning on putting an aftermarket sub in there too? Or are you just planning to have the amp run new speakers in the current positions?

 

Amp + New speaker

 

Ahh.

Well depending how much dismantling you want to do and on the size of your amp, you could put it in the left cubby hole of your boot. (Although this would require removing some paneling and then re-attaching.)

 

ehehe thats my car!

Ive cleaned things up considerably since then, and also, now have an amp under both of my front seats

nice beefy mono block under the driver side, running my 12" sub in the rear, and a 4Channel amp under the passenger seat running the front/rear component sets.

sounds is fabulous. I can remove the sub box inside of 15seconds. with the sub box removed, I have a 100% oem looking interior except for the alpine head unit, which happens to match the interior perfect

 

Good job ... pics?... hey how did you find those spaces? did you start ripping things off untill you find them?

 

someone else mentioned the styrofoam under the seat. I put a small slit in the carpet, and found the same thing. Just got lucky

No pics this time. Its essentially the same as my old pics, but with better amps under the seat.