nadcicle's 97 Suburban rebuild

[nadcicle 77]

Holy hell! You got Senchez to do something??!!

Lol, yah. If it weren't for him I would of had a catastrophic failure from one of the major components. Luckily he seen it early and I was able to remedy it. At this point I'd rather not say what it was out of respect to the maker. I'll leave it up to the close-minded to assume its my horrible CT-Sounds amps for now.

Over look on my part bring stingy with the glue. Spent all day today addressing the situation. If any of the other spider packs delaminate let me know and I'll send out recones.

Thanks Q, I'm making sure before I make the final mount tomorrow. I'll beat them at slam and remove them and inspect again before the next show June Jams in Lebanon TN the week after. I have plenty of CA glue and accelerant in case any others have this same issue. My eyes are tired and I would have missed it if not for Senchez. We hope to get DSS the recognition it deserves even if it's two completely different build styles.

[nadcicle 77]

Got port area?

Right at 56.5 per sub and the things want 75. While not impossible it was improbable to run the length needed for a proper tune lol. I'll likely have some Lolo's in there if these do well in testing.

[Drew513Ryder 7]

looking good, I should be at slam so maybe I can hear this thing play

[nadcicle 77]

Another little update. I always tend to overlook all the small details that i've done, but I do take pics of most of the finishing to the small projects leading up to the completion.

 

So here we have Senchez and I doing our best to get these things playing by any means necessary.

 

 

Bracing a little bit.

 

 

Little bit of ass showing.

 

 

Subs mounted.

 

 

So we got a little play with all 4 tonight at 2 ohms. Doesn't seem peaky at least. 

 

 

So I'll be building a second shelf and mounting my second amp on another shelf along with my mids/highs amp soon. More to come.

[mccleery3 166]

Very nice!

[Sencheezy 689]

So loud!!!

[Lee Carter 150]

Cool! 

[nadcicle 77]

Preliminary numbers

 

[Sencheezy 689]

awesome score!!!

[nadcicle 77]

Hey, look. DSS Ethos got an award at Slamology.  

 

[nadcicle 77]

Test fit.

[Lee Carter 150]

Looks like rocket boosters.  i love it!  Congrat on the Show hardware too.

[nadcicle 77]

Looks like rocket boosters.  i love it!  Congrat on the Show hardware too.

 

In a way they sorta ARE rocket boosters!

[mccleery3 166]

Very nice

[Quentin Jarrell 671]

What was the trophy for?

[nadcicle 77]

What was the trophy for?

 

2nd place in dbDrag 4000watt limit class.

[nadcicle 77]

Little more work on the truck today. Put this off for far too long IMO.

 

 

 

[jcarter1885 995]

I spy horns

[Quentin Jarrell 671]

Do it to it.

[nadcicle 77]

Kinda tossing up the idea of using the mids from my Image Dynamic cxs 64's vs my USD audio mids. On one hand the ID's mid's are some of the tightest hitting midrange's i've heard, but I feel they become lackluster with sheer output. The USD's are more of a boomy midbass that just hammer my doors all around and just keep taking power, but require a bit more finessing with the tuning. Oh, and they look like crap from repairs. They will be hiding behind the doors anyways and I feel i've kind of talked myself in to it. I can always resell the ID's later I guess.

[Sencheezy 689]

Woot

[nadcicle 77]

Well, hooked up and sounding great with the USD mids. 

 

Tuning will never be done, but I got it started for now.

[nadcicle 77]

Well, decided against the second shelf and am going to grab a crossflow fan for cooling. Running gain matched and ready for some shows this weekend.

 

[antoinez28 62]

How are those doors coming alone

[nadcicle 77]

How are those doors coming alone

 

Just finished my last set of rings last week and forgot to mention I ran in to some rules in my organization that stipulates that I cannot run legally with unfinished doors. Well, I'd be working on the doors by myself and just might have an incident or 2 where i'd of had issues with this rule.

 

So, I contacted the commisioner and asked for suggestions. He stated that as long as I cover the door with any material whether it is paint, carpet, vinyl and have the holes filled with speakers, carpet, or vinyl then i can still do my SPL, park and pound, and duelling demo runs without issue. The build shall commence extremely soon as I am ready to get these front doors rocking now.

 

Took a first in duelling demos street today with absolutely no intention of winning with a 20 year old set of USD audio mids and set of Eric Steven horns so I'm doing something right according to the votes.