hondakilla98

I mailed back my v1 and v1.5 subs today. Hopefully in a coupe weeks, I'll have my V2's. I'll be sure to post some unboxing pics when they arrive. I also got the alt builders number from John, so I can see if he has any idea what my issue is. I hoped up the new alt plug backwards when I first hooked it up. I think I may have fried the voltage regulator, or even worse the part of the ecm that tells the alt to produce more voltage.

I sent payment for my sub trade, now I'm waiting on shipping labels to mail my subs to sundown.

I have installed the fountek's. They sound good on some songs and very harsh on others. I haven't made any adjustments other than basic gain adjustments. I also heard back from Jacob with sundown. He's offered to trade in my v1 and v1.5 motors for v2 subs, at a great price.

Thanks for the post John. If I was driving a crown vic, I'd just have them do a p71 flash. They raised the idle on the cop cars to help idle output. But I'm not, and rarely rev it. So a few more rpm on the alt shouldn't hurt. I'll hit the parts store tomorrow. After finishing my wiring today, I hit the hardware store for some ABS or PVC to make temp speaker pods. I ended up with a 3"-2" reducer, 2" end cap, 1.5" of 2" pipe, and some kind of bushing to neck down the opening of the 3". Here's the finished product. 1/3 of a liter stuffed with polyfill. That was as big as I could go and still fit them on axis on the dash. I've been talking to Jacob at sundown about the recones for the 3 sa8's. He said he's low on v1 soft parts and asked if I was interested in trading them in for v2's. I'm waiting to get a price back from him.

Battery to 240v alt 1/0 Battery to body, and body to engine block Body to engine block Everything put back together

I added an alt to starting battery +, starting battery to engine block -, starting battery to body -, and body ground to engine block -, all in 1/0 gauge. I left the factory wires in place, cleaned up all the connections and coated them in battery terminal protector. I also cleaned and coated my rear battery to frame, rear battery to body, and rear frame to body grounds. I have 13.3-13.7v at idle in park. Idling in drive it drops to 12.5-12.9. Driving around it is 13.9-14.0. This is with a 240 amp alt I bought used. In the previous install it idled in the mid 13's, so I'm not expecting 14v@ idle. Should I put one size smaller pulley on it to speed it up? Or not worry about it?

I picked up the next size smaller belt today, cleaned the pulleys with some brake clean and a scrub brush. No more belt squeal! Tomorrow im going to make some rings to mount the fr88ex's in. Then I can work on aiming. These will be much easier to glass into the pillars than the hds. They have a narrower mounting plate and magnet, and they are lighter.

I've got some belt squeal with the new alt. I'm going to pick up a new belt one size smaller tomorrow and I'll hit the pulleys with a scotch brite pad. I got my fountek's in the mail today. I demo'd one of them playing down to 400 hz @24DB. It sounds pretty good, and these will be a lot easier to fiberglass in the pillars.

Congrats on breaking 160. And good luck in Indy.

I have Scan-Speak Discovery D2608/9130 in mdf rings mounted to my dash and windshield with double sided tape. One of them came off the dash on a hot day. When I picked it up I realized the double magnets aren't glued together anymore. Here are some pics. Can I just clean up the surfaces with some denatured alcohol, apply some CA glue and clamp the magnet back together?

Hey, we both know a neon will never be a collectors item. Unless you're talking about it collecting dust. Lol

I've been busy with other projects. I put the 240 amp alt I bought from Bigjon yesterday. And I ordered a pair of fountek fr88ex's to demo in my front stage.

I'm going to get some glue and clamp it togther. After it's setup, I'll try it out and see how it sounds compared to the other one.

I have a lot of hobbies, and tend to focus on one at a time. When I get burnt out on one of them, I cycle to the next. Lately it's been my garage remodel taking up my time. I never seem to finish my stereo installs. They are up and running but never completed. I emailed Jacob about the SA8 recones and I'm looking for some fountek fr88ex's to demo in my front stage before I fiberglass my pillars. Here are a couple pics of my garage progress. Before And now

Yes, they cling to each other. But they won't stay lined up. They want to be offset like in the second pic.

This thing gets better everytime I see it. Congrats on the windshield!

This keeps looking better and better Steve. I'm looking forward to seeing the recones with the CF dustcaps.

Looking good John. Congrats on breaking 150!

How much was the woodgrain kit and where did you get it?

Lol. Another illiterate internet tough guy. Way to be the bigger man John (no pun intended).

Looking good as always bigjon.

Looking good, you are making pretty good progress on this.

Awesome work, I'm excited to see it finished.

This is looking better and better. When do we get to find out what you're going to be running for amps?

Why are these two subs being compared? He's only going to run a 2500 on two subs. Buy xcon's, or icon's if you are going to buy ssa. Why bother with the zcon? Or maybe a pair of bl's or q's from fi.