stefanhinote's volvo v40 build

[ssh 924]

Love your dad's car. Just something about them, but then again, i like most all Volvos. I've thought about doing some powder coating.. Need to look into pricing. Is it expensive (i know it's a locaton/shop type of thing, just curious)?

Most shops have a minimum job price. Meaning if you want something done it's $100. But they'll do multiple things for the same price. If your talking about small parts. Wheels I checked locally and they wanted $200 for a set of four wheels. If you have room. You could powder coat yourself for a few hundred dollars. You need an old oven, a sand blaster, powder coat gun and powder. You can pick up a sand blaster and powder coat gun and powder for about 175 at harbour freight. Then get a beat up old oven and find a 220v outlet to plug it into.

Sounds like a lot of work verse just paying them to do it

But then again if your planning on powder coating a lot of stuff then that's a different story.

[ssh 924]

Okay I'm bad at build logs...

I installed some hertz coaxial 5 1/4" speakers in the doors yesterday, sound pretty good, obviously not going to keep up with the sub stage but that's okay at this point

Also installed stinger volt gauge in my dash, voltage at idle with radio, ac, etc all off, was ~12.2volts. Driving at 2k rpm was about 13.5v

Added some wire from the output stud on stock alt to front battery... yes it's calibrated.

Now well just see how it does with the saz1500d

[Sir-Lancelot 216]

Glad to see some pics. Thought this was going to be just a chat to stay in touch.

Am I understand you correctly that you added wire from the alt to bat and your voltage jumped up that much?

If so, that's damn great!

[ssh 924]

Glad to see some pics. Thought this was going to be just a chat to stay in touch.

Am I understand you correctly that you added wire from the alt to bat and your voltage jumped up that much?

If so, that's damn great!

Yep, just added one run of 0/1 welding wire from output stud on stock alt to positive terminal on battery, no additional ground wires.

It should be enough to get me by for a few months until DC can make an alt for my car

[ghost28 0]

Looking good.....Volvos rock........

[ncacoates 104]

Looken like someone might get the magic brown boxes tomorrow.

[ssh 924]

Looken like someone might get the magic brown boxes tomorrow.

Hell yeah! So excited!, just wish I had a box to put them in

I'll post teh pictures of the xcons, maybe even try and make a wallpaper

[Ohjay 116]

coming along nicely, reminds me that I need to redo the tint in my Bronco

[ulrisa 26]

What size Xcons did you end up getting? Edit: Nevermind, I just saw who you bought them from.

Volvo's love Xcons btw

Excited to see the damage they do

Edited February 25, 2011 by ulrisa

[Shogen 325]

Glad to see some pics. Thought this was going to be just a chat to stay in touch.

Am I understand you correctly that you added wire from the alt to bat and your voltage jumped up that much?

If so, that's damn great!

Yep, just added one run of 0/1 welding wire from output stud on stock alt to positive terminal on battery, no additional ground wires.

It should be enough to get me by for a few months until DC can make an alt for my car

did you fuse the wire stef?

[Iced2 5]

Looking like a pretty good start

[ssh 924]

Glad to see some pics. Thought this was going to be just a chat to stay in touch.

Am I understand you correctly that you added wire from the alt to bat and your voltage jumped up that much?

If so, that's damn great!

Yep, just added one run of 0/1 welding wire from output stud on stock alt to positive terminal on battery, no additional ground wires.

It should be enough to get me by for a few months until DC can make an alt for my car

did you fuse the wire stef?

No, and I don't plan on it.

[ssh 924]

So my cousin is saving up for a system and wanted something temporarily, and I had a buddy that needed to sell his mtx amp and subs cause he needed the money, So I bought the mtx stuff to help him out and my cousin will have something to listen to in the mean time.

So any way stuffs just been sitting in my room for a few weeks, figured I mine as well hook it up and test everything out for a few days

I haven't had any bass in my car for a few months now, so this was pretty loud

Also excited because I know my xcons and box will murder this

Update: Xcons just came in! Pictures will be posted later, thanks again MemphisMzd.

[ssh 924]

They smell just like my icons and bls

[ncacoates 104]

looken good hope they were up to par! sorry about the bottom of the gaskets they had alittle paint stuck to them. Glad to see they made it alright good thing i saved the boxes. I cant wait now ive been without bass for a week now and my new btls are taking awhile to be built.

[ssh 924]

looken good hope they were up to par! sorry about the bottom of the gaskets they had alittle paint stuck to them. Glad to see they made it alright good thing i saved the boxes. I cant wait now ive been without bass for a week now and my new btls are taking awhile to be built.

I haven't had bass for a few months

xcons look great, only way I could tell they were used is cause they had some of the paint or whatever stuck under the gaskets, which is nothing

I'm very very excited to hear'm

[ncacoates 104]

Good deal and your in for it especially if you haven't had bass in months.

[ssh 924]

Good deal and your in for it especially if you haven't had bass in months.

oh yeah

made a wallpaper for those that have xcons...

[Sir-Lancelot 216]

You can spray a rag with WD40 or gas get the paint wet and wipe it right off. Been there done that.

Looking really nice Stefan.

[ssh 924]

You can spray a rag with WD40 or gas get the paint wet and wipe it right off. Been there done that.

Looking really nice Stefan.

Yeah I'll probably try rubbing alcohol then wd40 or something

Thanks

[Shogen 325]

You can spray a rag with WD40 or gas get the paint wet and wipe it right off. Been there done that.

Looking really nice Stefan.

Yeah I'll probably try rubbing alcohol then wd40 or something

Thanks

denatured alcohol will do wonders as well...

[sefugi 166]

I know your happy to have some XCONS, what's the enclosure plans?

[ssh 924]

I know your happy to have some XCONS, what's the enclosure plans?

long story

Had Andrew start building me one for my jeep back in Nov. Then the beginning of this month I told him to hold off cause I'm getting a new car and the box likely wouldn't fit.

Got a new car and the box dimensions fit, so he's going back to finishing it up. Only change is moving the aero ports around so they don't butt up against fenderwell or glass/hatch.

No pictures, but specs are:

31 deep

34 wide

19.85 tall

7.6 cubes @ 33 Hz (3 6" psp aeroports)

single baffle w/ flush mount.

wooden dowel bracing, 45s in corners

So it should be pretty cool

[j-roadtatts 1,129]

The new ride is pimp! I am tuned fo' sho.

[sefugi 166]

I know your happy to have some XCONS, what's the enclosure plans?

long story

Had Andrew start building me one for my jeep back in Nov. Then the beginning of this month I told him to hold off cause I'm getting a new car and the box likely wouldn't fit.

Got a new car and the box dimensions fit, so he's going back to finishing it up. Only change is moving the aero ports around so they don't butt up against fenderwell or glass/hatch.

No pictures, but specs are:

31 deep

34 wide

19.85 tall

7.6 cubes @ 33 Hz (3 6" psp aeroports)

single baffle w/ flush mount.

wooden dowel bracing, 45s in corners

So it should be pretty cool

Sounds great! Love seeing Andrews work. When is he gonna post up some pics of the enclosure coming together??