CadillacMatt
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Looking to sell my RE Audio MT 15" sub, has some damage to the surround that I've fixed with silicone, plays perfectly well.. DVC 2ohm sub.. I've thrown up to 2200W RMS at it with no issues.
Recently totaled my vehicle and having trouble paying bills so it has to go unfortunately... Asking $350, looking for local buyers (I'm in the San Antonio/New Braunfels area) or anyone who would be willing to drive down here... Box not included (can't get it out of the car in tow yard) anyone interested please shoot me a private message, thanks
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Been out of the game for a while but still rocking with my 15" RE MT. I still see a lot of familiar faces on here! The last Caddy I had is RIP but I'm working with a 2008 Mitsu Outlander now, freshly plastidipped, recently scored a vintage 1971 Sears Kenmore sewing machine and lookin to get into upholstery soon..
Look forward to talking with you all again!
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Holy crap... I get too attached to cars to go through them that quickly I guess you could say... problems and all! Looking tight as always Jon! Can't wait for our next SSA meetup.
P.S. Sorry I haven't been on in a while guys
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Whaaaat?
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Nice score! Tell me you took that sticker off already??
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First time I seen this thread Chop... lol... I remember my first ticket for music when I was 16, it cost about $400... all the ticket said was "excessive noise"... lol! And that was when I had my Sony Xplods
But I think it was because the Pioneer coax's I had at the time were effin LOUD
Down here in S.A. they've all but eliminated the cruise spots... Me and two buddies got dragged from the car by two cops at gunpoint one time while cruising downtown, they had come up to the window even though the music was barely audible outside the car, and claimed that they saw my friend trying to pull something out of the seat so that's why they reacted like that... it was a shitty night lol! It got bad downtown for a while, in order to eliminate the cruisers they started setting up checkpoints around the downtown "loop", at a stop sign a cop would walk up to your window, and if anything looked out of place, you had expired tags, or if they saw you pass by more than twice they would search you/your vehicle and tell you to leave the area. A$$holes.
The only spot left was Fuddrucker's on the westside, there was about a 300 car turnout every Saturday for cruise night.. slabs, hotrods, bikes, tuners, bassheads, trucks, exotic vehicles... cute chicks... but due to kids being stupid and shooting off guns that's shut down too. So down here you're pretty much down to meeting up in groups of 5-10 until you get shooed off from somewhere.
In S.A. they tend to treat loud music like a felony crime. Whenever I drive with the music up I'm constantly looking for the fuzz. It sucks.
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Anymore updates to the Creampuff Hugo?
It sounded great when I heard it yall, sound-quality wise the subs blended in perfectly with the music, he gave me quite a range of music to listen to and it sounded great on all of it! Somehow it creates the illusion of midbass coming from directly in front of you as well, I thought he had 6.5s hidden in his dash I was surprised when he told me they were only 3.5s!
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Well that prick was looking for trouble, he found it and got his ass beat.
So have they done the rematch yet?
lol I don't think so, you saw it on Tosh.0 too?
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lol... just watch if you haven't seen it already. Don't mess with Vietnam vets!
And an interview with Tom:
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I love fiberglass projects man, that looks awesome.. and some killer speakers! Where can you find them?
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Holy hell man that is awesome! I'm loving the enclosures and those woofers are killer!!
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Well I'm being held up by the fact that I don't have any more resin, I'm going to have to wait til payday to get some more to finish the port. In the meantime, I finished the box, mounted the port and hooked it up.
First impressions, it's definitely as loud as my Q's were, strangely enough the bass also seems much "punchier", quick transitions in bass notes sound sick and a lot more defined that in my old setup, the low end extension is pretty sick as I predicted, my only qualm is that long constant bass notes tend to sound a little muddy, but I'm chalking this up to the fact that the port needs a flare on the back end.
Sub is facing up firing into the car through the rear deck hole, and the port is facing back towards the trunk lid. Will try and post some more pics tomorrow.
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UPDATES!
After an hour drive from work today I couldn't wait to get home and work on the box! I started by demolding the port tube, after about 15 seconds of prying I realized this mold wasn't going to survive for very long. Oh well, sacrifices must be made! I broke the Sonotube free from the base, and cut it from the inside all the way down. The cardboard came right off leaving me with a perfect form!
And now, through the magic of time lapse *insert saw buzzing here*
Tada!!
It came out tits, MUCH better than I expected! For only two plies of glass, the flared end is SUPER strong, it doesn't flex at all. However, I still need to construct a mini-mold for the flare on the other side.
Now, to get it into the box!
Circle jig
Just had to drop it in there.... sweeeet!
All that's left is to flare the other end of the port, mount it, top off the box, bracing, and I'll be ready to rock and roll. Stay tuned
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Harbor Freight for the win
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Homeboy, you need a garage!
Gotta work with what I got, lol
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Quick update. Built sides of box, drill crapped out, even after 1 1/2 charging it was only good for about 3 more screws so I'm stopping for tonight. Satisfied with the box so far it's the best I can hope for with a jigsaw.
Oh, and might have an issue with port sitting flush to box due to depth, needs to be 20" long and the inside depth is 22.5". Might build some small MDF blocks to set port out from outside wall. More tomorrow.
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Thanks for the input guys
Wow Adrian those are awesome! I just finished glassing my port tube I put some pics up here, your way seems a lot less labor/material intensive but I couldn't find any PVC over 6" at Lowe's OR HD
And I'm interested in that data as well, I want to see some numbers
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Looking good.
BTW, nothing like a woman who can fill her own antifreeze in the middle of summer. LOL yeah you are right about that!
Okay... well this is where I made one little mistake that could've very well cost me another day's work. I thought it would be a good idea to start off with the fiberglass chopped mat... BAD IDEA. For the flare I used woven mat no problem, but the chopped mat made a huge mess of things and plus it cured with hairs sticking out everywhere... I underestimated the cure time... so I'm going to have to bodywork quite a few voids.
Had about 3/4 can of resin, finished two plies and ran out. Stuff was curing quickly anyways. Will take a look at it tomorrow and see how many more layers (if any) it's going to need. I finished up with a ply of 1800 cloth (coarse thick cloth) around the tube.
Got paranoid; went ahead and taped the radius.
Glassing the radius
Oops! Always double-cup when you are using thin plastic cups! Better on the board then on me!
Having a grand old time trying to get this stuff to hold. Will know better next time.
Ahhhhh prune hands FTL!
Second ply
Aaaaaand done for now
The only thing I'm waiting on is a buddy to lend me his long bar clamps so I can start putting this box together... can't hardly get ahold of him it's frustrating as hell! More soon.
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looks nice i know this is gonna br good!
I know she stays right next door OH you mean the project lol
While the clay was setting I made a jig for the speaker cutout
And got busy with the jigsaw!
Masked off the area around the radius for a smoother layup, I cured the clay a little too quickly which caused some cracking but it will be fine. You can use a little water to rewet it and if the cracks are big enough, you can mix some clay slurry, cure, and repeat as needed.
At this point I waxed the entire mold with my super duper high tech mold wax... or not, but this Meguiar's carnauba wax will do the trick for sure!
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Whew... finally got the radius finished, I changed it three times before I was satisfied with it! Used the edge of a scraper for radius.
Now I'm going to let the clay cure a bit before glassing
Checking out the scenery in my parking lot lol!
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Bonding the tube to the base is the first step to this mold. Cut the form in half to a length of about 24" (Only going to need 14.5" so I might cut it down again for ease of part removal). The top board is just there for pressure.
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Okay Okay one more
Dora cups FTW lol
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After doing a big of research and looking at the high price of PSP Aeroports (they don't even come in the sizes I need) I went to HD and picked up an 8" Sonotube and modeling clay. I'm going to build a mold for a fiberglass flared port
here's a sneak preview
That's all you get lol
Stay tuned
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Hey all
It seems the general consensus is to use 14"-16" or port area per cube for slot ports, and that flared round ports (aka aeroports) are recommended @ 8"-12" per cube...
Now I was thinking about fabricating a port out of Sonotube or the like, and possibly creating some flared ends using fiberglass... What would be a good port area to shoot for? I was figuring if I used a 10" tube that would give me ~78in² Av which for a 6.5ft³ enclosure after displacements nails it right at 12" per cube. For an 18" driver.
Thanks
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RE Audio MT 15"
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Sorry for the poor quality the lights are out at my apartment and my phone has no flash