If there were such a thing as your "average Ferrari 360 Coupe, this is not it. This is a very limited production Ferrari 360 called a Challenge Stradale. It features many factory performance upgrades as well as dramatic weight reduction, and a Carbon ceramic braking system that is as impressive looking as it is advanced.
This particular car came from the factory with no audio system; a "radio delete" model. The customer brought it to us and asked us to install a sound system, but didn't realize it wasn't just a car with no radio in the radio spot. There wasn't even a spot for a radio: there wasn't an electrical system for audio, and there weren't speakers or a factory place for them anywhere in the car. So what to do? We made it.
This is not the kind of car you permanently alter. Everything we created was made to mount to existing points in the car; the electrical system was created in parallel with the factory system, so no wires were cut, and the radar detection system was mounted to custom brackets that then mount to existing mounting points on the vehicle. Everything could be removed and the car could be returned to showroom stock condition in less than a day.
We were not about to be the guys who ruined a car that could be worth multiples of today's value today by bastardizing it to install a sound system.
The Subwoofer enclosure is a lightweight fiberglass part that comes from a mold we constructed in house. It is mounted through custom designed brackets that mount it to studs and/or bolt locations that already exist in the car. It is light weight and performs incredibly well, mainly due to the "loading" effect created by its position. The primary support bracket was even drilled to reflect the light weight theme of the car.
As for the head unit, there wasn't a factory spot for one, and there was no OEM way to mount one, so we carefully created a factory look fiberglass housing and bracket system that "clips on to the underside of thee factory dash pad to keep it aligned and has a secondary bracket to keep it in place. The cover panel was then covered in factory materials and the head unit face was trimmed in aluminum to match the factory aluminum interior elements.
In the front trunk compartment, the amplifier was mounted to a shaped and welded metal frame assembly that bolts into the factory trunk trim panel receptacles. In order to then protect the amplifier and its connections, we designed and CNC machined a factory look aluminum panel to cover it. During the process, we drilled the panel to stay with the light weight theme and engraved the Challenge Stradale logo by scanning the owner's manual and carefully recreating it in our CAD/CAM machine program so that it would be precise.
The radar detector/laser diffuser installation was given the same level of care as the rest of the project. Custom brackets were created to hold the front and rear sensors. Factory like wire loom was used to protect the cable and connections. The indicator LED was installed into an easily replaceable snap in plastic housing. And the cable for the rear mounted laser sensor was run through the factory license plate light lens so that no integrated body part of the vehicle was drilled.