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  1. addiction2bass

    BTL + subzero temperatures

    like any system and vehicle as well... you let it sit for afew mins warming up at idle, just like your motor, stereo on low volume. this gets things moving alittle but not to much so any moisture frozen gets heated up and melts away before it causes damage. as long as you dont hop in your car and crank it up within the first 5mins youll be fine!
  2. ready to rebuild my bass system, not i just need money and time.

  3. ready to rebuild my bass system, not i just need money and time.

  4. ready to rebuild my bass system, not i just need money and time.

  5. addiction2bass

    Big Dave's Truck Project

    very nice setup! i love those amplifiers! only thing i hate about them is the internal vent screen! broke the plastic melted tabs and the metal screen fell onto the board and fried my amplifier so i suggest to everyone with it pull the amplifiers face off and reemove or use some good epoxy all over the grill to the back of the face so it never falls off and fries yours!
  6. well thing is i had my alternator guy build me a high power one for my truck and for some unknown reason at times, mainly early in the morning when its cold out still my alt will be charging from 14.4 bouncing up and down to 15.5v ive takin the alt to my alt guy and he put it on the bench and said it tested good no problem... well thing is it only does this early in the mornings every now and then, but later on in the day it charges normal 14.4v just fine. i got no warrenty on the alt so anything that he does to it ill have to pay for. so if 15.5 wont hurt any of my equipment ill just leave it alone for now, otherwisee i gotta pay him to put anew regulator in it and just hope thats whats wrong with it! if it doesnt fix it i might ask him if he can build me one with a external regulator that i can adjust the output voltage with tho im sure thats more money. but anyways can 15,5v hurt my trucks electrical? so far its been about a month or two with no real problems. just my dash lights getting brighter with the voltage hike in the mornings.
  7. well you sure the belt size you have is the right size? when i upgraded my trucks alternator to a high powr alt i had to buy a longer belt at frst for the belt to fit, then when i swapped out the alts pulley to a overdrive pulley i had to buy another belt that was slightly shorter. or it would skwal like nobodies buiseness! so just be sure your belt has the right tension on it... but id agree 99% of the time the alternators bearings dont go bad. typically its another pulley that bearing is going bad... like the tensioner pulley or even a guide pulley. simple way to test if its the alt or not simply pull it off and have it bench tested. if it makes the noise on there bench machine then you know its the alt... otherwise pull the belt off and spin every pulley and find the one that does not spin as freely or makes any noise and replace it.
  8. dito for such low power that is odd. you must have some corroded wire connections. but the big3 upgrade should help alot. hell my old civic only had a stock alt of about 90amps or something low like that, hell the stock ground wire is only maybe 6gauge so you definatly wanna upgrade that at least. and just have the alternator and battery tested on the car to make sure they are both good condition. but if your wife doesnt beat it up like that at full tilt then i wouldnt call it a real problem. as long as the alternator is charging most of the time it should be fine. hell i ran a solid 12.6v for awhile in my truck while stop light thumping sinc the idle was so low the alternator wasnt putting out and when i put my larger amplifier in my truck it was even worse at full tilt while driving but as long as i wasnt FULL TIL thumping from point A to B the battery always had enough power to start the truck up no problem.
  9. addiction2bass

    adding a relay control for trunk release?

    well if you want your system to be protected from opening the rear, then relocate that simple pull handle somewhere else... i would recomend under the back seat somewhere preferably some what hidden. and be sure to not just relocate the old one but run to your local junk yard and buy another pull lever so you can put this FALSE pull handle in the stock location, this way they will think O CRAP this guys pull handle is busted now ill have to pop the trunk lock if i want in th eback. and thats going to take even longer for me to steal... and put a remote poper on the trunk itself just like for shaving a door handle. they work great for trucks as well!! wiring them up is very easy. just 12v relay and power and ground to the solenoid on the trunk lid. then its just tap into a ignition source to activate the relay when you push a botton or use a alarms trunk poper wire if you got a alarm which you should since its the first step to saving your system! main thing i recomend is using a good quality solenoid! and dont go for the weakest one, they may work at first but in time they could grow weak and just not have enough pull to get the job done. and if you live in a bad area or just park your car in a bad area at work or what not... then simple way that is proved to work but alittle ghetto.... a chain and strong pad lock, simply attach one end of the chain to the floor of the trunk and connect another piece of chain to the trunk lid itself around the latch area good and strong, then when in doubt simply put the lock on both chains making them just long enough to lift the trunk lid about 4-6inches so you have enough room to get your hands in and unlock the padlock to open your own trunk. then just use some duct tape or electrical tape all over the chain links to keep them from rattling when bumping. ghetto but dam well effective! not to many stereo theives carry bolt cutters with them!
  10. addiction2bass

    Calculating resistance

    might want to retype those numbers the / can throw people off!!!! i just use divide by number of terminals. its alittle clearer.
  11. addiction2bass

    false floor.

    those cross flow fans are pretty nice. just be sure they can get air from somewhere fresh.. if you hide them under some carpeting or small crack they cannt push/pull to much air. so if you have to build some kinda duct work you might want to put a extra fan on both ends at the ends of the duct work. if you dont mind cutting into some factory side panels then i would say get some air vents out of a junk yard to your style you like. i personally like the camaro or PT cruiser air vents, the camero has small 1inch wide by about 5inch long vents that are pretty flat so you can just cut a hole in your hanel and run the duct work to your fan setup and it shouldnt stick out to much. my favorite so far is the pt cruiser air bents since they are round and vents can be turned to any angle and also fully closed this way you can paint them to match if you wish and simply push the vent over and have it closed so it just looks like a cap when showing off the car, then just open the vents back up for the system.
  12. addiction2bass

    Second Skin Promotion - 10 free Door Packs

    1. Post your SSA user name 2. State that you qualify to the terms and agree to follow through with them as they are written above. 3. Post a description of your car and system 4. Post how you plan on helping promote Second Skin including the other web site you will post your build log in. (Rembmer build logs and videos are always better for us) 5. You must tell us something about yourself that nobody on this forum knows about you 1. Addiction2bass 2. I qualify to all terms and conditions and are willing to follow them as written 3. I have a 1997 Chevy C1500 extended cab truck lowered 4/6. I have two Alpine type R 12s with a Rockford fosgateT10001 bd mono amplifier, with two optima yellow top D34/78 under the hood with a 250amp alternator, all 1/0 gauge wire. Also a alpine IVA-D106 flip out dvd radio. 4. I have several websites that i have build threads on with all of my trucks work and i am a picture/video post whore. I do all of my own installs from wiring to custom boxes and other misc custom touches here and there. I also plan on rebuilding my bass setup this winter to get me past the 145db mark and still have a daily driver with no blow threw setup. 5. Embarrassing yes, i haven't been laid in almost 10years now, just haven't meet that next right girl for me, guess im just to pickie.
  13. o some times i think you just like the smell of resin looken good! so that mirrored plexi gonna be between the subs in that channel? that will look sick when done!!!!!
  14. dang that amp looks bad@ss!
  15. looks great like that! tho he might wanna paint that back window so people cannt just look thru the window to see what hes got...
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