"The Pimp Van" Rebuild

[micahmye 0]

One reason for the rebuild: Cone Area

This rebuild has been in planning for awhile but it's just starting to come together now

First off I wanna thank the people who made this possible;

Thanks to Jacob at Sundown for having such great equipment, customer service, and for answering all my n00b questions. You are the man!

Thanks to Zach (Nightshade) for helping with the box design and answering even more of my n00b questions; you've been so helpful and generous with your time, I owe you man.

Thanks to Derrick (Derrick824) for helping me with the initial planning for the box, it was great working with you!

Thanks to Torres, for helping me with wiring when I had no idea WTF I was doing

Special thanks to James (SPL4Life), Hell if it weren't for you dude, I wouldn't even be into car audio or on this forum.

Thanks to everyone that has bought shit from me and funded my build

Thanks to everyone on this forum that contributes, It's because of you guys that I have half an idea of what I'm doing now in car audio.

And thanks to Steve (meade916) for starting this forum and posting up the quality work that you do.

Now for some peekturezzz

just a little power on tap

Got wood?

this cuts the wood

This came in the mail today from Parts Express, 1 Day Shipping FTW

I guess the air comes out of these?

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Some pron?

Oh and couple batteries

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You can see my ghetto stir sticks there, got them in my local shrubbery

mixin MOAR resin, ended up glassing the whole thing even the top piece before I put it on but forgot to take pics, I know I suck donkey balls for that.

Doin' some screwin'

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Nice and smooth

Got rid of some rust, went from this:

To this:

Then did some work on the box:

Went a little nuts on the designs

Got the bottom, a side, and the back all screwed together and by then I had ran both batteries for my drill dead so I had to resort to using a screwdriver to finish the side I was doing when the drill completely pooped itself, my arm hurts from tightening all those screws by hand!

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mock up

Got holes drilled for the vertical all thread bracing

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Got the bracing finished

Cut all ports to correct length and cemented all but the last joint together

After the morning sanding session before the routing

Router time

Putting resin on the bracing

Ports are all cemented together

were getting close

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Got a Box in the mail

Soldiered some wire together

Hooked up the batteries, I will be building a shelf to hold these and the amps

Before Battery hookup idle draw:

After:

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Rear drop pictures:

Nothing in the back

Added 440lbs of batteries

Box in

Next up is 240lbs+ of subs

Amp feed wire

Temporary amp rack

Final Drop

Front End

[ulrisa 26]

Nice! I really like the way this is turning out. Great job!

[micahmye 0]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW1U0ZYGGm0

Thanks to Brian (audiofanaticz) for the alt!

Dramatic thinking shot

DC Power 270sp on the left and Excessive Amperage 300A on the right

Sylvania Silverstar Ultra Bulbs

HIDConcept 8k HID's, Thanks Derrick for posting up the discount code for these!

Low Beam

High Beam

[micahmye 0]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTR96_E8Tec

got some goodies in the mail!

Off with this

And on with this

Mock up on where amps will go, I've got a few tricks up my sleeve for that

all the ugly 2x4's will be covered with MDF, then comes paint!

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test fit

That's all for now, more tonight when I get some work done B)

[ssh 924]

Looking good man, I love how clean your install is, batteries and amp box. Can't wait to see the rest

[ChaosWarlord26 5]

That is an awesome build man. When are you going to get it metered?

[j-roadtatts 1,129]

Danm dude, you kicked some as, and took some names!!! AND looked like you were having fun doing it.

Hows it sound? Does it meet your expectations?

[Randal Johnson 544]

WOW !!!! awesome set up dude !!!

I'm tuned in ...

[Dutchie. 10]

That's really cool man.

[Notorious97200 339]

I love this build ! You have good skills!

That's a nice van. You can be proud of it !!!

You even worked on the suspensions!

When come the rims ?

How does it sound ?

[micahmye 0]

Looking good man, I love how clean your install is, batteries and amp box. Can't wait to see the rest

Thanks man! You're the first person to call it clean I, myself, would call it a mess but I'm working on cleaning it up and hopefully it will turn out lookin' alright

That is an awesome build man. When are you going to get it metered?

Thanks! I should be going to a competition in the end of April so I should have some numbers then

Danm dude, you kicked some as, and took some names!!! AND looked like you were having fun doing it.

Hows it sound? Does it meet your expectations?

Thanks alot man! It sounds good to me, tuned to 35hz but still plays lows very well It definitely meets my expectations, but who knows there could always be a rebuild v.2?

WOW !!!! awesome set up dude !!!

I'm tuned in ...

Thanks man! I'll keep updating ya as I keep workin' on it!

That's really cool man.

Thanks!

I love this build ! You have good skills!

That's a nice van. You can be proud of it !!!

You even worked on the suspensions!

When come the rims ?

How does it sound ?

Thanks haha, I got the van for free so no overhead

Yeah the suspension sag was really bad once I got everything in so I decided i needed to fix that, the helper bags have fixed the problem and even made the van drive better than stock!

Hmmm, rims eh? probably after some paint

It sounds good to me! Come get a demo sometime and see what you think

[BanginGMC 23]

A+ on the song, equipment, install, wood work, and pimpness

[jcarter1885 995]

[Mark LaFountain 1,054]

looks great. Nice wood work.

[Jay-C76 333]

Super cool!

[slo2sixty 0]

Dude thats nutzzz and looks really good. I would love to hear something like this in person. keep it up

[klee7013 10]

Defiantly tuned in.

Sickly CLEAN

Keep up the good work