New Install Pics and Info

[josh99ta 0]

I'm a lurker overe here. I'll read the board from time to time but never really post. Alot of familiar names around here though. Figured I'd post this over here as well to get some feedback.

http://community.webshots.com/album/24687221wpDWUOwhuS

All comments are welcome; good, bad, or otherwise. I finally got most of the install done in preparation for the SI.Net Midsouth Meet. Only thing left now is to build a stealth cover for the 8W7, build some underdash padding, and get a dashmat.

Most of this stuff was in the car before (front stage, amps), but I swapped the amps around giving my front components 125wpc and knocking the sub down to 300w since the 8W7 didn't need the full 500w and my front stage could use a little headroom. The breakdown: tweeters play down to 6.5kHz, midrange 6.5k-200Hz, midbass 200-50Hz, and sub from 50Hz down at 24 dB/octave.

As an overall package, I've never been as pleased with any of my systems as I am with this one. Every single piece does exactly what I need it to. I've never been happier. Can't wait to see what type of improvements I can get with tuning. Haven't even touched the EQX yet. Not a single frequency has been boosted or cut yet.

The most impressive part to me was the 8W7 since most of the other equipment I've already played with. I've heard a 12W7 in car, and a 10W7 in a sound room. Neither impressed me. Not the case here. I bought the 8W7 on blind faith with high hopes and it met and exceeded all my expectations by a mile. This thing is a jackhammer. It packs a hell of a punch and it tonally infallible, and I've threw alot of stuff at it. Never misses a beat. I was worried about the low end, but it's a monster down deep too. I'm in awe of this sub. I think it has gained the spot as my favorite sub by just a hair over the Magnum, just because I wasn't expecting this much out of it. Wow. Just wow. So fun watching it move too. Drew quite a crowd at the SI.Net MidSouth Meet when I was playing some tracks to really get it jumping.

I'll end the review with a little porn for you bass junkies No mechanical noise, no distortion. The little sucker loved every minute of it. Thanks for any comments and/or suggestions on the car.

8W7 Outward Stroke:

Edited June 29, 2004 by josh99ta

[bigger_george 2]

I saw that over to SIN, that is quite an awesome site for an 8" and definitely a clean nice setup

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

I think you did an awesome job, very clean, I would love to listen to some Sq standards in your car

[strong*I*bumpin 0]

wish I can hear that lil'o 8,must be amazing

[josh99ta 0]

Thanks guys. I'm trying to pick my brain and remember where you are located, but can't. denim and strong, where are you guys? Maybe we'll run into each other at a show somewhere. dB Drag Finals is in Nashville just a few minutes from me and MECA Finals is in Louisville just a few hours north. I'll be at both of them just hanging out and catching up with old friends. You guys really ought to come out.

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

I am all over the baltimore and DC area

I was supposed to be down for the CA.com meet but it did not happen I would have come down but people bailed on it

[strong*I*bumpin 0]

Fuhgeddaboutit,NY over hereeeeeeeeee!.....just a lil' out the way thats all LOL!

[josh99ta 0]

Bah! People drove 10-12 hours for the MidSouth Meet. You guys ought to make it out to MECA Finals if you're interested in seeing and hearing some really nice cars, as well as seeing some loud ones, and meeting a few faces from the boards. Should be second weekend in November. I remember the year I went and competed, two girls came down from NY to compete in SPL, and the DC area isn't "too" far away either.

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

hey Im always up for a drive, heck I just got picked up for a soccer tournment in Pittsburg this weekend, silly 8 hour drive

[josh99ta 0]

So I'll see you at MECA Finals then, right denim?

Update: No more grill cloth on a-pillars. Gave it a shot today and the curves around the base of the dash towards the door make it near impossible for me to get it looking like I want it too. Tweeters just flushed up there doesn't look bad at all though, so it'll be fine.

[josh99ta 0]

Today may not have been good, but I was brainstorming at work and came up with an idea. I want the tweeters either A) hidden or B) looking like they belong, and in a sea of grey up on my dash and my a-pillars, the silver domed tweeters with the black grills weren't cutting it. So when I got home tonight from work, out came the grill cloth and the hot glue gun. I already knew I couldn't hide them, so the only thing left to do was to make them blend a bit better. Pics suck cause it's night time, but you get the idea.

Fifth row of photos, hasn't updated yet. Takes about 30 minutes for Webshots to update: http://community.webshots.com/album/24687221wpDWUOwhuS Might try to get some better pics tomorrow. Burned the living poop out of myself with the hot glue gun, but it was worth it.

[Tirefryr 1,742]

I love the look of the system, but one question.......... How did you keep the glue off the tweeter dome?

[josh99ta 0]

The grill cloth isn't glued to the tweeter dome itself, but glued to the backside of the tweeter, stretched to the other side, and glued again on the backside, then I just did the same with the other two corners and that pretty much did it. That kept any glue off the tweeter dome, but it stretched tight enough that it isnt going anywhere.

[Tirefryr 1,742]

AH, it appeared to me as if the tweeter was actually built into the mount itself...

[josh99ta 0]

The tweeter and the mounting cup are seperate units. I wish they were integrated though. Then I could pull the cup and hot glue to the backside of it. The tweeters blend now but there is a black mounting ring around them. I have to say that they do look very nice now. I let a guy take a good listen today at the local Cruise In, and it took him about 5 minutes in the car listening before he realized there were tweeters in my a-pillars.

[Tirefryr 1,742]

Couldn't you just stretch over both pieces together or must they be separated for mounting/dismounting? Perhaps you could paint the cup the standard GM trim color? I think that would be a viable solution as well. I do kinda like the contrasting look though.

[josh99ta 0]

It actually doesn't look bad in person. The black ring is barely noticable, and like you said it does make it pop a little, while blending in too. I kinda like it as well. But I couldn't cover them both. The way it mounts is weird. The cup drops in from the front, and a metal bracket that holds the cup in tight mounts from the back, and there is a screw under the tweeter than screws them together, so you have to have the tweeter out to mount the cup securely so I couldn't wrap them both at the same time. If I wrapped them seperately, there wouldn't be enough room to get the tweeters in the mounting cups, so the only option to match it is paint it the color of the factory stuff, and I'd rather just leave it black. Call me lazy I suppose.