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is a kit? who's kit? is it custom setup? what kind of turbo? i enjoy performance builds on suvs and trucks so i'm always curious.

What kind of turbo setup do you have installed?

Well SORRY!!!!! I'm forgetful as are you. i assumed..... oh well

I think he forgot about this thread and is just doing the one in the build logs. Idk though, i scan it all

black guy actually does work? since when?

TeamRamRod- "Me thinks I need a bigger door!" Looking Good!! If it were bigger, it would be 8 8s in there instead of 6.5s haha. we were there until 3 when i finally called it quits and ramrod agreed. day jobs first, audio second for me.

battery box/amp rack looks great. never seen anyone do that before. nice use of cable ties also. can't wait to see what zcons do to a PT Loser.... i mean cruiser. sorry, had to

In a good, well planned out box, they get pretty darn loud and clean. i had it ported in my blazer off a 1000/1 and it was really nice. I've also heard them in crappy boxes and they sounded like pure trash.

I have run nothing but JL equipment for the past 5 years. i've had every kind of slash amps, some of the old E series, and subs from w0-w7. i still have my VR components. i love JL's equipment and always will but do not love their prices. getting rid of the w7 should never happen in my mind. If anything, add the w8 as a pure spl driver. I miss my w7, it was a loud clean sound plus an amazing looking sub. loved the surround

its the same as if you were wiring two subs to one terminal. wire each sub down to 2 ohms. you'll have 2 2 ohm loads. then, wire them into a mono block amp as if the terminals were the subs and the amp were the terminal. tada, 1 ohm load

come on now. only 16 are going in the van. 8 are for my blazer. We've got a few different ideas as to how we're going to do the 6.5s. Soon enough we'll be working on our own vehicles and not some VW GTI or other crappy cars lol

I'm awaiting photos. Driving to Ramrods house now

i'm sitting awake in East Lansing waiting to fricken see the end. I left yesterday at 7 and the box frame was the only thing done. come on now

Ok, from what i understand, in most applications you wire your batteries in parallel rather than series because series will turn 2 12 volt batteries into a 24 volt battery correct? Why parallel though? in theory wouldn't that turn 2 12 volt batteries into a 6 volt battery then? From what i have found, parallel doesnt change voltage but does change the capacity. This is what makes no sense to me because under every law of electronics i've learned, you would be halving the voltage. thanks for any info. this isn't an important question that is dire to a job, its just something i've been curious about and no one can give me a straight answer as to why i'm "wrong" for thinking so.

See, i got that much. series will double the voltage but parallel doubles the amperage. It was just one of those things of. a dual 4 ohm subwoofer wired in series presents an 8 ohm load but in parallel creates a 2 ohm load. Why isn't it the same with batteries. Thats all i was asking, i understood the math behind it but it didn't logically make sense.

Essentially, A nice analogy to this is a grain elevator. Imagine that a bunch of grain is moving along a conveyor belt and it comes to a grain elevator that moves it up 9 feet. This gives it more (gravitational) potential energy - it has further that it could fall. Then it comes to another 9 foot elevator and another. At the end it's all 27 feet up. The flow of grain up the elevators would be just the same as for one elevator, but it would go higher., just as batteries in series can't supply more current than ones in parallel, but they do supply more voltage. But if the grain went up 3 elevators placed in parallel then after the 3 elevators, all of the grain would only have gone up 9 feet. Of course, the 3 elevators in parallel could carry more grain, just as batteries in parallel can supply more current. But the height it was carried to would be just the same as for one elevator, just like the voltage of batteries in parallel. +1 to you good sir. that analogy works perfect. I can tell a person all day long the math and technical terms of it but when its an every day person who wants to run 3 extra batteries and wants to know why i wired them the way i did, i need to speak english not audio to him. the grain is a perfect way to do so

See, it does but logic to me says it doesn't. Its one of those things were the math is correct and makes a good amount of sense but logically its wrong. i don't know, I just want to have a straight answer because when you talk to an everyday person who isn't on forums and into audio but want to know why you hook up batteries in parallel, i want to give them a direct answer instead of "well, it doesn't increase voltage but it does increase capacity". the next sentence out of their mouth is "why?" So Julian, from the way i take your explanation, series pulls electrons from battery 1 through battery 2 and battery 3 while picking up more as it goes. But parallel picks up from battery one and "bounces" over battery 2 and 3. Correct? i'm dumbing this down to every day words for Joe Schmo who sees 4 batteries and asks why rather than talking to you or others on the forum who get whats going on.

looking good man. shitty to hear about the crap shop but at least you're not letting it keep you down

Avalanches are the easiest vehicles to make a blow through with due to the midgate being able to be removed. My brother has an 09 with 2 JL 12w7s ported in a custom made setup. I know JL isn't the greatest for loud but its what he loves and it sounds clean. Hopefully the OP can get his situation figured out. you can fit a rather large box into the truck if you're willing to give up the depth of the short bed

I work for the owner of the brand. I don't want to get yelled at for trying to sell anything on the forum and not being a site dealer or w/e. So, send me a pm or email with what you are looking for and i can talk to my boss. Sefugi, thats a good one

So apparently SSA is all for dogs and dogs alone! haha, i'm cool with that. I'm not a cat person by any means

We're just waiting for the company to get in some good quality flat stock to use before we change it out.

Box does have 4x4s in it. The Juice Box Batteries are a local company that is sponsoring the van and i'm the big white guy in the photos drilling the buss bar/destroying the old box haha. Way to let the cat out of the bag Dave! i thought we were waiting to share the designs until after we started them.

My 70 lbs Black Lab Lucy. we got her a year and a half ago as a rescue. She was abused by the previous owners in Northern Michigan. Nothing but good times with her since. On a 9 hour car ride to visit my brother She needed some ice cold A/C wanting to cuddle Right when we got her at about 6 months old She is the best $200 i ever spent. Currently, she's sleeping on the couch next to me.

Wow, thats impressive man. What speakers did you put in the doors?