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Here it goes, I finally got back into town and off my butt and am installing my front stage. After a month of looking at the compromises, I have decided to go with tweeters in the A-pillar (Alpine D2904/610001) and to mount my SEAS (W18E001) in the kicks. Being my car is a 5 speed I couldn't lose much foot space either so the directional mounting won't be optimal, but surely a lot better than stock! Three pictures for this post: 1) My bare kicks--drilled to accept glass 2) My baffles--the glue is still drying so I can't do anything 3) My kicks reinforced with glass and a hole chopped for lining up my drivers with the open area in my fenders--to be vented so they will be mounted IB

Skip it!

Yeah, come on review....I just got mine plugged in last night and have almost the same setup as finebar (except with the Excel), but I want to hear how you like yours!

I could just throw it out then...

Thanks Dennis. Here is the less clean portion of the install, the trunk.l I just finished balancing the amps and doing a once over on the wiring. As you can see my amp rack is a board painted to match the sub box with everything bolted to it. Please ignore the RCA's as they were what I had lying around, in the next weeks I will be making some that are the right length to hide the rest of the cabling. They too will then go into wire loom. Here it is:

As Flakko says, no problems at all as long as you know how to set your gains correctly. Very similar to the power I am running to my setup, enough overhead so you don't need to hardly even bump the gains. Set them with a DMM or Oscope and you will be fine. If you don't know what clipping/distortion sounds like you shouldn't do those by ear.

Or in city streets to parallel park on the other side, or for going around corners, or for generally pissing off all cars around you. If you pedal stuck to the floor adding fluid won't help, you need a master cylinder. However, I am NOT recommending this but if it were me I would drive the car home using the E-brake to stop. It does not use your master cylinder, but beware your stopping distance will be AT LEAST three times as long. I wouldn' t go fast either, just turn on the emergency's and put home.. Good luck

Music download = porn for carrying disease for the pc indeed. Jmac, you find IE faster than Firefox??? Complete opposite on my pc and it is very noticeable. Most of the website compatibilities were fixed with the last update or so too. Except of course the ones for my company. You can surely use all the software to knock this out, but being a Windows machine being ready to format at any time will save you lots of headaches. You just never have to be worried about what happens then. I had 3 formats caused by spyware that were not picked up by Spybot, Adaware, and Micro Anti-Spy within 4 months. Like you I will blame the woman or visiting friends but nonetheless it taught me to be ready. Now I do it to maximize resources: driver only, no software installs for all peripherals will speed up your machine lots.

*Gas tank? We don't need no stinking gas tanks.* said in voice from Blazing Saddles

Posted this in the hop since there was some vinyl talk this morn, but need some help in figuring out how to finish the vinyl off after it is stretched and glued to the front. There is no place to "staple" the vinyl to the back of the pods so how would you attach it? I have never done this before, but have some really stretchy vinyl and 3M 77 Spray adhesive (and others, but thought this was best). Any recommendations on how to finish or attach the vinyl to the backside of the tweeter pods? As a reference for size the whole is less than 2" and the edges of the pod are about a 1/4". These will be mounted in the stock sail panel locations.

Or get good with the handbrake....particularly fun in the snow/ice

Heard back from Adire......this is what they said they could do: Fs: 22 Hz Qms: 5.2 Qes: 0.42 Qts: 0.39 Vas: 670 liters Sd: 1180 cm^2 Xmax: 28mm one way SPL: 94.1 dB @ 1W, 1m Re: 3.9 Ohms Le: 1.5 mH BL: 14 N/A Mms: 152 grams Cms: 0.35 mm/N With a price tag of around $250 each for an order of 12 Le came in a *little* high, but .25mH I ain't going to complain about Efficiency was only down .9db from what I was hoping. Damn!! If I can find (atleast) 11 other people, I just might gosh darned do this! Interesting, to say the least. OT: I love the way that they (Dan & Co.) plan drivers. VD would be proud, lol. Though, DW > VD far as i know. sorry. i'm loopy today. sick. uhhh... Even IB, I dont have 23 cu. ft. Do You know VC specs? (guage, dia., winding length, dual/single)? and were those the estimated grpahs above? I might be in for one. I also think that I'll trash the conversations that I've had with Thilo.. that unloving bastard. Actually yes, I do: we'll use our 44 Magnum motor, 44mm thick top plate, XBL^2, 3" diameter voice coil, 180mm diameter magnets. It uses a 4 layer, copper clad aluminum wire, 3" diameter voice coil. 22 AWG wire, with a winding length of 33.5mm. Single 4ohm nominal coil. And yes, the driver isn't built yet....so those would have to be estimated graphs. And yeah....true IB would take some room. Toss one in a trunk and it will probably have some affect on the driver in an acoustic suspension sense......but not much. And yes....so far Adire is great to deal with. Very friendly and extremely prompt response! You'll have to count me out,I cant do a single 4 coil. Nor can I do IB in a SUV. You can try! LOL

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Got it hot as possible with a hair dryer, way way way stretchier but couldn't figure out how to hold/glue/stretch all at once. I almost made a jig to hold the fabric taut so I could just push on it, but thought it would be easier to sand for paint since it was pretty close already. The painted pods actually look pretty cool installed, perhaps better than the vinyl would. It matched my leather, but the shiny paint makes the shiny parts of the plastic look at home. Thanks for the tips though!

Or stay off the porn and use FIREFOX!!! Sorry, but true. If you have Winsuck XP/2K/98 you need to use Firefox and be ready to format twice a year. You need a backup HD and learn to save what you want to keep on it. It will make life in the next few years, much less stressful. Especially if you keep music, long install video games, and/or digital pictures on your pc. 300gb drives are now $110 so it is pretty easy. Not trying to pick on you, it will just really make things easier for anybody in this situation. I format every 3-4 months just out of habit....

If you think that is overboard, you should take a look at mine. Nice work with the carpet. Have to show us what it looks like installed.

Squeak Buyer feedback for you: http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum/i...91entry123791 http://forums.caraudio.com/vb/showthread.p...199#post1308199

Awesome transaction with Squeak9798. Bought a Coustic DX-28 from him. Paypal'd on Thursday evening the crossover was shipped on Friday and arrived to me on Monday. Wrapped very professionally and safe. The DX-28 was also in better shape than promised as he described the two inconsequential teeny scratches as scratches. Would do business with him in a heartbeat or even Escrow for someone else with Squeak. He also took the time to promptly answer questions about it during my install. Thanks Squeak9798!

Squeak, I wish I still had my 68 Galaxy Fastback. Huge rear deck held 3 15's when I owned it, ran them sealed firing into the car but they went the way of a car audio thief while the car was being serviced no less. A pair of what you are brewing would be awesome IB in the rear deck... I would love one, but currently have no space for 18". Thought about in wall home theatre sub though. Would be cool in a new build house as you could reinforce that section of the wall. A bit of a pain in a remodel.

http://www.davidnavone.com/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=N-1000 Sweet thanks DB.

I finally got too last night, albeit for a fairly short time with the Vikes playing the Pack and of course right when I finished the install and tried to fire up my car the battery was dead from sitting for a week with the trunk and doors open a bunch. Bass response from the Seas is pretty amazing, my buddy was over and I had the sub outputs off and he didn't even realize they was no sub. He isn't a real good reference in that regard, but nonetheless impressive. The rest sounds good so far, but currently I am running with pretty much NO gain accross the board as I didn't have time to go through the process of setting them. Tonight the O-scope comes out and they get set right! I will post a review of my impressions after having some time to listen to them installed and tuned up.

Now don't tell me that "knowing me I will eat those"

Big 'uns

I have been waiting for a while to post here, you guys already know that I am a nut but.... Here is the progression of what I have listened to over the past 15 years. Junior/High School: Started with heavy metal, in the hey day of Metallica, Ozzy, Megadeth The next stop was early gangsta rap: Ice Cube, NWA, EazyE, Scarface Followed by techno/trance: Moby, Messiah, KMFDM, Thrill Kill Cult Early in college things took a turn towards the jam band realm: Grateful Dead, early Dave Matthews Band, Widespread, Hendrix and some reggae: Steel Pulse, Third World, Bob M. This led to jazz, specifically I listened to a live Dizzy show and was hooked, the ultimate jam bands...led to a little fusion with the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Chick Corea. Now I am a big fan of Dave Holland, Dizzy, Strayhorn, and other more acoustic jazz--especially with a jammy bass player DH is awesome Sometime in the middle of getting into Jazz, I found old school funk and fell in love for the same reasons. I still regularly listen to bands such as Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Sly & the family Stone, Funkadelic And of course, right after school I moved to Chicago and starting listening to the blues. Really the only things I don't listen to are: bands that recorded after 1995 (not that it was a good year), country, and hardly any classical. I have found that I prefer to listen to long drawn out jams mostly on my own (perfect for long car rides) and listen to shorter, faster, and more intense music when I have passengers. Today I listen to a little of all of the above! It makes it a bear to try and bring music along in the car though. I can't wait for an SQ deck that plays double layer DVD's in FLAC format, that will be great!

She-i-o that would have worked. Thanks for the note. My wife even has one in the shower -- I don't shower though, but why would I shower after working in the garage.