Angelboy863

There's a review from Russia, was on the Sundown forum.

Hey guys, my friend asked me if i can install his first aftermarket car audio system. It consists of a 12" jl audio w3v2 single 4ohms in a ported box about 1.75cubicft tuned 35hz. Powering it is a quantum audio 2000w monoblock @ 4ohms. Car is a 2010 chevy cruze. He doesnt want to upgrade his headunit, so the only option is a line out converter. Im not too familiar with these and wanted to know if anyone here has had experience and can refer me to a good one? There are so many out there and i really dont want to mess this up for my buddy.i see the ones on sonicelectronix.com. im thinkin about picking one of those but before i do, there might be one thats on another site? Thanks everyone, greatly appreciate it.

I went ham on the pt test today. 2 minute pushups: 101 2 minute situps: 108 2 mile run: 12:41

Thank you. Will try that out tomorrow.

Hi guys I'm in a little trouble, well my friend is and he's relying on me to fix it. The car is a 98 civic coupe. He has Rockford fosgate t1 components in stock locations (door and pillar) powered by a rockford two channel (not sure what model I think it's the power series) They have sounded great but now he says that on the right side of the car he can hear a static-like noise from the speakers at low volume. Can't hear at high volume (because music overpowers the static, but when turntable down the static is heard. I've done everything to my knowledge to try and troubleshoot. I checked the speaker wires, all good and secure. The wires are running to the amp safely. I switched the channels to see if static would now come from left side, nope still right side. I played some songs from a album (drake - take care) to kind of make sure his audio tracks aren't what is messing it up, and noise is still there. I checked gains, eq, filters, etc. everything seems to be good. I asked if maybe he overpowered them but he said no he hasn't gone over max listening volume and amp is tuned with dmm. It's only the right side speakers that's making the static. It got late so I told him I'll do some research and I'm helping him out tomorrow. I've done research and I think I'm going to change out some speaker wires and the RCAs bit that's all I can come up with. Any thoughts? I appreciate the help, let's keep this audio thang goin! EDIT: they are actually the t2 components and powered by the Rockford t400.2

Never mind then.

SQ and some loudness, I recommend the Incriminator Audio I Series Components. I'm currently running them with a sundown 100.2. Very clear audio I have them on the hpf around 100-110 hz. I listen to mostly rap and hip hop and the music is great it's also pretty loud. The mids are in my stock door locations and the tweeters are in the stock pillars/pods by the side mirror. I'm very satisfied and if you choose them I'd hope you would be satisfied as well. Just stating my experience. Good luck!

Ran 3.5 miles this morning. Headed to the gym. Today is biceps, chest, back. Curls, bench press, squats.

Lollll. But hey the IA comps are very good man. For the price I don't think you won't be satisfied. It's clear, and can be loud. I'm still tweaking with it but satisfied 100%. And I agree with everyone else about the 6x9s in the rear just be powered off the headunit. If you're going to spend that extra money get a good amp for the front and not the back, I learned the hard way when I wanted to amp some 6x9s in the back. I bought the Rockford fosgate t1 coaxials, amped them, than just ran them off headunit and there wasn't much difference. (amp was a Jensen 2 channel) Good luck with everything though. And about the shop, I have a shop here that everybody always trusts and I always question why, but now when I think about it, they actually are very good. I guess it's just the generalization that ALL shops are just out for your money. Not true in ALL cases. There are good ones every once in a while. Just sayin.

Yeah, we got everything installed, and sure enough, there was bass drop off at higher volumes. We were all confused and figured it was the PAC or did I do something wrong? Im honestly not sure if i hooked it up correctly but whatever i did, it has the sub bumping. Radio max volume is like 45 so we adjusted his max volume to be 30, but while tuning it the sub was just flexing in and out like free air and it "sounds" like theres a loss of signal. So we kept trying to adjust so we can hear the bass the way we are supposed to and had max listening volume at 18 because when we go to 19 the bass starts to fade. Our conclusion is to get an aftermarket head unit. Is that a possibility? I input the 2011 Chevy cruze on sonic electronix and they only show me oem replacement head units. We talked and we're planning on getting a single din with flip out, if we can. I know earlier I said it was a 2010 cruze sorry I was mistaken his car is a 2011 Chevy cruze. The dash kit on crutchfield, how do I know which radios will fit? It just says single din or double din, so I assume that would be any aftermarket radio correct?

We fixed the problem! We needed to ground out the rca's. Now the whining is not as loud as it use to be, almost not noticeable.

Ok I'll explain what is in his car, Alt is stock for now (his excessive amperage one just blew, again) Batteries are two kinetik 2000's( one up front one in back) Runs of 1/0 and 3/0 to the back Big three in 1/0 3/0 wires and 1/0 wires and 4 awg wires to amps Head unit is a double din pioneer and 3 premiums on the back, Subs are two 15" dc xls dual 1's Amp for subs is a saz3500 Door speakers are kicker coaxials powered by a boss 2 channel He has four 6" selenium mids powered by a jl audio 2 channel And that was his setup and everything has been going fine. Now, he just bought two selenium horns and two selenium supertweeters (st200's) and a Boston acoustics amp from the ssa store to power them. He wired those up and now we hear a whining noise from the horns and tweets. We looked up what it could be and sites say there is a ground loop? All the grounds on the amps go to the chassis except the boss amp, it goes to the battery in the back. Said something about RCA ground? Can someone explain better? And he used some sort of y splitters from the boss amp to both Boston and jl amps. He doesn't know what to do and neither do I really, I say we must start all over and rewire everything but he wanted me to ask you guys first Thanks in advance.

Did myself a pt test today. Here are my scores 2 minute pushups: 88 2 minute situps: 85 2 mile run: 13:03 Not my best but Ive been pretty sick lately.

Lol this was crazy though, we were under a tornado watch. Craziest winds I've ever felt running but it felt good. Once back on track you'll be running forever!

Ran in the rain. 1 mile run - 6:15

Thank you. I will look into that guide. Yeah now that I think about it I've always heard whine at low volumes. And yes, the speaker setup is not what I would've went for but it's his setup not mine.

So, so far nothing has been wrong with the civic. It all of a sudden started to be normal again. It turns on fine. I checked voltage and when car is on its at 13.6-8. But then again I unhooked all my amps. I'm going to wait another week till I plug the system back in. Thanks everyone, especially shizzzon because I think it's because I unplugged my amps that got the car to run normal again!

Ummm. I redid my big three. I was making a tutorial for YouTube.I added, didn't replace the original wires. In 1/0 i did alt positive to battery positive, battery negative to chassis, battery negative to engine block, engine block to chassis i guess its more of a big four. And battery is kinetik 800. And for a couple of days it was alright. But then I noticed it was having problems turning on, it would crank an extra 2 times or so. Now it doesn't start without me getting a battery charger. Voltage says 10.7 but once I charge it goes as high as 15.8 ? And then it starts up fine. I did some research, I'm still researching... Some forums in hondas, people say its the eld (electrical load detector) it shuts off the alternator when the voltage is under 12.. Some people say its the alternator or battery going bad. Im pretty sure it's not the alternator and the battery has voltage. Any thoughts? Maybe someone here has gone through this? I don't understand... I'm still researching. I don't want to take it to a mechanic because they will try to break my bank $$$$ at least, I don't want to yet... Only power I'm running are two amps, 125.2 and 100.2.

Happy Saturday! The gf and I are about to go run in a 5k charity event. Wish us luck! (more her lol) Gym later with the buds of course. Sadly idk what to workout today lol. I'll figure it out. Edit: we finished the 5k with a time of 21:15 that's a little over 7 minutes per mile! Proud of my girl lol. We got home, she took a shower, and went straight to bed lmao.

Ehh I'm not sure why I do it either but the first time wasn't really much, we were all just trying to see what our max was on the benchpress. I didn't really get a workout out of it but yesterday was a good workout, 10 reps of 185 5 times. The pushup is a very good workout. I can't explain vividly everything that a pushup can do for your body, I just know that it's very good. I agree with you pull ups are damn hard and to me is better than pushups. I'm good at pull ups. Won first place in the cadet challenge at my school with 28 pull ups But yeah I'm not a workout expert or anything, I just go to the gym with buddies to keep myself active.

Thanks for the replies guys. Yes the car runs perfectly fine when it's on. I'll take out the stereos power. I didint fuse the alt positive to battery. Ok I'll go to autozone tomorrow... I have one battery. The kinetik 800.

First day was bench press and maxing out Second day was chestpress machine thing and more reps less weight. Today is future soldiers training which is when our army recruiters at our recruiting station train with us who have army contracts and about to go to basic. I think we're running 4 miles and doing 30/60's today. 30/60's is when we run as hard as we can for 30 seconds around a soccer field and then sprint for 60 seconds, then run as hard as we can again for 30 seconds, and repeat. We do it like 5-7 times.

Thats alot of amp for a dcon or E12. I would go with a gcon. Yeah, I just thought about that. But I'm not even sure if that's 750w peak or rms.

3 mile run : didn't time it. About to go to the gym. Yesterday I did chest,shoulders, Back, triceps. Today it's biceps, forearms, chest, and abs. High five.

Updating this; installed the PAC today and it wasn't as easy as we hoped but after about 6 hours we were able to wire it correctly and run his wires lol. He somehow cracked the JL sub surround so we are planning on getting him something else. Any recommendations? I'm thinking sundown e12 or even a dcon. Box is 1.75cubicft tuned 36hz. and quantum audio amp is actually a 1500D. It's actually very nice and clean looking. It's the beta series. I suppose sub could be dual 2. Amp does 750w @ 4 ohms "supposedly".