gps69

Yep. Did the wifes Escape this summer. Came out great. Sub and amps are almost completely hidden in the hatch. Double din head unit with Vifa tweets and Dayton mids. Waiting on my Sundown SD-10s and then I can finish my sport trac. Starting the kids rx8 this week. Hope to get that done before he gets back from Afghanistan next June. Did a smaller watt system in my brothers 4runner. He just needs his new sub and then his will be done.

Come next spring I'll be able to bring 3-4 cars. Should have them done by then.

The only shallow sub I have direct experience with is an Alpine Swrt10. Have it powered off an Sundown 1200d at 4 ohms. Very shallow mount depth. Optimal sealed box is .42^ gross. Sounds really good. Does a good job with all types of music. Does a better job ground pounding than I expected. Putting it in the wifes Escape cause I did go with the SD.2 tens. Gonna put four behind the seat. I honestly considered going with four of the Alpines behind the seat but they just cost so much.

Great!!! Can't wait for my 4 tens.

Thanks for checking in gps69. More people we can get involved tne better! I know what you are saying about the "flea market" products. Nobody up here knows what they are missing out on. Funny huh? I can not wait to see the RX-8 with the LS1!!! All my family lives in Lancaster, I travel down there often. Lebanon is only a stone throw away. So far Carlisle might me a good location for us all to plan a meet. Once I get my system ready I'll be up for a meeting. Waiting on the subs and the alt. Then I'll get to it. Son should be home on leave in mid to late October. Subs should be here by then so he'll help install that. He would be up for a get together too. The LS1 swap should be very nice. Will be getting that done around January. Also getting new heads and a cam vefore the install. Have a Paxtron supercharger sitting here now waiting for the swap. Should be around 650-700whp(that's what the engine did ion the Corvette it was in before we bought the SC for the swap) in a 3000lb car. Wonder how that swap will go over at the import shows he goes too?????

My son(TiLL_iT_HeRTZ on here) and I are from Lebanon, PA. Our systems should be completed by next spring. Mine should be all but done this fall(waiting on my Sundown SD10's and DC alt.) but his rx8 is a ways off(needs all the audio installed and the LS1 swap completed) plus he is in Afghanistan with the National Guard till next July. I know he wants to try competeing and will probably drag me along lol. Definitely up for a meet sometime. Two shops local here(smaller town). Both never heard of Sundown and call it "flea market" junk and refuse to listen to it. I bought stuff back in the day from all the shops in Lancaster that you mentioned.

I'll definitely be in on the preorder for these. Can't wait.

Looking to order two alts. late this week early next week. Vehicle 1: 2004 Ford Explorer Sport-Trac. 4.0l engine. Looking at the 270xp. Vehicle 2: 2004 Mazda RX8. 1.3l rotary engine. Looking at the 220amp alt unless you offer something bigger. Shipping to PA, 17046 email: gps69@comcast.net Thanks, Glenn

I checked that link and it appears I'll be OK with the origianl plan. Just wasn't sure I had enough port area. Was going to do a 4 SA-12 box for my son last spring and was told I needed 78"s of port area minimum for those. Didn't know how that was going to relate to the eights.. Thanks!!

This is going in an RX8. Looking for a fairly good ground pounder with the ability to upgrade to 4 SA8's in the near future. Not sure This design has enough port area. Don't do too many ported boxes and would like to make sure before I waste the time building. Will be powered by a Sundown 2000D. Link to pic of enclosure I had worked up.:

Videos weren't going to be the sole basis for deciding on a subwoofer. It was used more as a research tool. He watched videos of the subs that he is interested in and then tried to compare the different amp sub combinations used as well as trying to find the enclosure info. With the Sundown products he watched a lot of the vidoes on youtube of Jacob and Derrick824. He read all the questions and replies that were posted for the different set ups. he also searched the posts on here for those two to see what info he could gather from their posts. So with doing a thorough search on here and then seeing them in action it did help having the visual. We tried to keep the videos limited to good info we could find about that particular set up. The Fi BTL N2's were just released so very little info was found. Was kind of hoping for a miracle in finding any info or reviews other than the manufacturers. I know Fi makes a great product but it seems weird to design an entirely new subwoofer to only have ut perform like a previous model. Yes, the magnet is new, better and lighter but why settle for same old performance. It is great performance but why not strive for better while going through all that work. It doesn't sound like it but I am honestly not ripping them. They have their reasons and my thoughts don't mean anything to them or anyone else for that matter. Just makes me wonder. The Sa12 really seem to be a nice speaker. Many seem to get great results with both daily and SPL type set ups. Four of these would have tremendous potential but would it be beneficial to get a pair of 15" Z v2 or Nightshade v2's? The four the Sa12's would have a cone area advantage but would the extra motor force of the Z's or NS be more beneficial? The Z v2 seems to be a little harder to find info on. Looks like a nice speaker that is just a small step below the Nightshade in power handling. Mainly looking for opinions or fact about how it actually compares to the Nightshade v2. On the same 3500d and both in optimal enclosures will there even be a noticeable difference? With a single 3500d is it even worth considering the Nightshades? Are the Z v2 going to be discontinued once the Z v3 comes out? Worth waiting for the Z v3?

http://cgi.ebay.com/StreetWires-Dist-Block-One-Ring-In-Three-1-0-AWG-Out-/110590258887?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19bfb16ec7 Ring terminal in with three access holes for ring in cover to three 1/0 out. Used one of these in the kids last system.

3 ohms will work on any amplifier that handles 4 or 2 ohm loads.... Which is pretty much all amplifiers. I'm running an Alpine MRV1005 two channel amp. Wanted to run the amp bridged mono at around 500 watts. I could run just one of the stereo channels but the power would be roughly 5 watts less than what the fronts stage recieves per channel. So yeah it would work.