Build Logs

aight after the 3x event i went to this weekend it made me want to give my g/f something she can bassrace with cuz she actually enjoyed it alot. so i figured hell we got a new vehicle together and she still has her old car. so i decided i am gonna wall it off with 4 of the cheapest 15's i can find and im gettin a fosgate 1501bd *old school badassa amp* for 200 from a buddy of mine. i just spend $129 shipped on subs and $200 on an amp. so im at $330 i have a head unit, got some wire, pretty much have everything covered. probably gonna buy some cheap car batteries to throw in the back. tryin to keep it under $500 for the whole build. my goal for her is a 139.9 bas…

hey fellas. so I work 6 days a week. I don't have a lot of free time so this will be a bit slow so sorry for that. I have some pics of a build I did May of 2014 that I'm going to post right now. I'm planning on rebuilding it completely. so here's some pics of what ive got going on right now.

I'm in the process of rebuilding my system and figured why not post a few pics. Any reasonable suggestions would be most appreciated. my system will be installed in my P.O.S. 02 cavalier and will consist of 1-An audiocontrol eqx 1- set hertz hsk 165 comps 1 pair of 10" peerless sls (for midbass) 3- rockford fosgate 25th anniversary punch 150's and a pair of Custom SSA Icon 15's(awaiting recones at the momment.) So far I have made some mounting brackets for the hertz mids and my amp rack. more pics and updates will follow but I don't have alot of time to work on my car so finishing this will be slow going. Here is how I made my brackets. The green marks the angle…

I'm transferring this over from another forum/ Some things might be out of order. I'm getting the car for next to nothing but it needs some work. So far I have replaced both front control arms and sway bar links. I'm redoing all of the front end (P/S pump, racl etc.) The sway bar bushing look swollen, so those are going to be ordered too. I'm hearing a slight "clunk" when I throw it in to reverse which I believe is either a bushing on the rearend or the flex bushing on the drive shaft. The carrier bearing is new, so I don't think that's it. The car has 209k on it. I'm also going to be ordering new plugs. Service the trans and rearend. I have a fair amount of cosm…

hey guys. i did this build over the summer with my brother at his house over about 4 days. I got the radio, 1000/1 wiring and a bunch of Second Skin MLV and Ensolite for "free" from him for finishing his home entertainment room in the basement. Equipment Selection Raammat BXT II sound deadener Second Skin Luxury Liner Pro Overkill Pioneer DEH-P880PRS Stinger 0 gauge kit Stinger 16 gauge speaker wire JL Audio RCAs JL Audio VR 6.5 components JL Audio 12w7 JL Audio 1000/1 JL Audio 300/4 i acquired all this over the last 4 years. i just now decided its about time to use it all. I won't bore you with sound deadener photos. we've all seen them picture of the zero gauge RCAs, …

Here is my attempt at a loud build... The beginning of the box The internal window bracing using 8 4" circles The double baffle and port Before final assembly Assembled with Herculiner box liner on front and carpet on the rest Close up of the flush mount and box liner Box in the truck

Well im gunna go ahead and start the log even though i won't have everything in until monday. Whats going in - 2 DC lvl 4 xl 18s Sundown 3000D Batcap 2000 All knukonceptz wiring Pioneer DEH-4100 What its going in - Shitty pic but you get the idea. More to come..

You take 2 audio geeks, 2 cars with similar installs and 2 of the cheapest 10" speakers. Add some particle board, a huge port and try to lay the smack-down Here's how the box looks, 2 $20 subs, in a push-pull configuration. It's going to have to fit in the cargo area, initially designed for my car but my friend and I were both anxious to hear the thing before the wood glue cured and it's pretty awesome. The Honda will get a custom-fit box once I exhaust all the ideas in the Jeep. We even did 2 burps with a short port. Considering the end goal for the system is 142+ dB, how about some educated guesses on the actual score today?

So for Christmas i am super excited to say we bought me a new car..its not brand new but in very nice shape and runs great! ...Plus i was surprised (by jon) with my new box that was designed by jblcamry! I cant wait to see what the car and box can do for my #s. I will still be using my icon 15 and jl 500/1 but changes here and their will be made to the car.. i cant wait! here is some pics to start off with. the front of the box (sorry not a great pic) my head unit

So here we go again. car: BMW E39 - 1998 year Engine 2,5 liter diesel Transmission - automatic Audio: HU: Older Blaupunkt, with 2 pairs of RCA in and outputs. Sub: JL Audio 13W7 tuned to 32Hz Other speakers: Hertz mids and highs, front and back Sub amp: alpine 500w monoblock, about 400w rms running into sub. Other mods: Angel eye rings LED interior lightning Plans & goals seperate amp for mids and highs new amp for woofer, maybe kicker KX2500.1 or Spl Dynamics ice-3500D new HU, something from Alpime with orange lightning maybe recoil sub in future new trunk layout lower car LED bulbs in fog lihts Tint tail and headlights Pictures: polished headlights

Ok this has been my goal for a decent amount of time and I marked 2010 as my start date for accomplishing this goal. (4) Fi BTL 18's triple stacked (Basically completed) (10) Deka intimidators (2) stetsom 10kd's (3) DC Alts (300 amps) (14) AA carbons (2) AQ mids amps Kenwood Exceleon x693 A boat load of sound deadener Hmmmmmmmmm I think I want a 16v system but we will see. Ok I have to admit it looks better with the rims, but they were only 20's anyway (outside pics) My personal favorite pic. It looks like my truck is challenging ALL comers. lol still doing some uploading and editing, I want to get this stuff off of my hard drive space and actually use them. lol I…

Trying to make room for a larger box to fit in from the front of the trunk/rear seat. You can see there is some sheet metal in the way that would need removing. Think this would hurt the structural integrity of the car? Lazy half azz drawings...sry The pieces outlined in yellow triangles will bolt out. I would have to cut my rear deck trim panel up to the red line. The orange rectangle is a slight hump that may limit my height of the box getting through, its probably removable but will not be able to be put back after without welding lol. It may not interfere after cutting the top of the opening. I marked a red line on the back about egual to the red line on t…

I was going to wait until I had finished everything, but by the time my subs get here I will be too old to type. haha --- Previous setup (~147 on music) Fi Audio Generation 2 BTL 18 Sundown Audio 3000D 2 Optima Yellow Tops Sundown Audio 50.4 Polk Audio component sets in the front doors and kicks --- What's going in 2 Fi Audio Generation 3 BTL N2's (18s) Sundown Audio 3000D (.5 ohm) 4 Optima Yellow Tops, some sort of group 31 in the oem secondary battery tray not changing the component sets in the kicks/doors leaving the 50.4 adding 3-4 apt super tweeters and some selenium mids for rear fill (just when I'm at shows with the hatch open) And some pictures; First part of t…

For my chics B-Day shes gettin a whole new system. She knows nothing bout it so it'll be a good surprise:D. Anway, she wants some bump an wants it to get semi loud. Figured a 12" SX will be plenty, Powered by a USAmps XT4000D. So the sub should see bout 1000 watts or so. Box is 2cubes @34hz an will be resined(sp?) on the inside. Gonna replace the cheapy pioneer coaxils up front with RE6.5 comps powered a USAmps XT800.2. Each door will have 2 layers of Raamat BXT + Ensolite. All KNU wiring an RCAs. Got somewhat far on the box today. Letting the resin dry over night an will finish it up tomorrow.

My neighbor wanted a new box for his Caprice to house three 12" Kicker CompVR's. The box he had was three seperate, one cube chambers, sealed. After I built the box, I stumbled across what would be any audio guys nightmare. I have never seen so many failed attempts to cut corners and rig a system, from front to back!!! I spent the better part of two hours removing items, no joke. I brought home 5 amps and two Kroger plastic shopping bags full of wire. After everything was removed, I redone the trunk area. I did not take too many pics, however, He will be bringing the car back next weekend and drop it off for me to finish upgradeing the wiring, as well as a big three up…

Hey every this trend is for all you custom box builders who would like to show your box, wall pictures. So post on everyone and lets see your custom work.

I call it the '64 Blazer. It is actually a 95 GMC Jimmy. But everyone calls them all Blazers anyways. The interior is being built to look like a 1964 Impala SS. Hence the name I gave it. Ryan, the owner, calls it Black Betty.

As the title states, gonna fab an iPad2 into the dash bezel of a Hummer H2. To do this, I will be deleting the row of 12v plugs at the bottom of the bezel. I will be deleteing the On-Star. I will be moving the HVAC controls to the very bottom. Fabricating a single DIN Alpine HU mount right above the HVAC controls and below the iPad. Relocating the 4 wheel drive controls and the load managment controls to the underside of the steering column panel. And then of course making a motorized mount for the iPad2. Sounds like such fun doesn't it?

This is yet another build for my good friend. Seems he has to buy a new truck every year or so... What's Going in: 2 Massive Audio DB8000 Amps 8000w @ 1 ohm strapped (the two amps will be strapped and running 1.33ohm) 1 Massive Audio HD1600.4 200w x 4 @ 2 ohm 1 Soundstream Ref Comp set 6.5" (something used I had sitting around that he liked) 3 Rival Mobile Electronics A12.22 4" VC D2 ohm 2000w RMS 2 Shruiken BT120's JVC Deck--nothing fancy 1/0 everywhere... big 3 ect... all tsunami cables **not sure on the rear speakers yet... they're not all that important... he's got some old soundstream 6x9's that we'll probably stuff in there..

Pretty straight forward. Has completed just posting for a reference. Also this is my first wall build so its far from perfect

This is my $600 build. Think I did a pretty good job with the gear for the budget I had. What do you think? SA-12D4 on the AB VFL-100.1 @ 2 ohms in a BHE 2.0 @ 30Hz Enclosure Waiting on a few things to be shipped then the install will begin. Thanks for looking.

Well my previous setup consisted of 2 15" icons powered off a Soundstream pca2000d at 2ohm doing 1500 watts so each sub was getting around 750 watts each. My door speakers were boston acousitc sl60's in the front and infinity kappas in the read powered by a JLe6450 getting 75x4 at 4ohm. Heres the new! 2 15" icons powered by a kicker zx2500! so each sub is getting about 1250 each. A kicker zx650.4 I am gonna replace the sl60's and go with the PG rsd's take. Gonna take out the infinity kappas and just throw the sl60's in the back for the hell of it. I also will be doing big 3 having a kinetik hc1400 under the hood and a hc2400 in the rear. All kicker wiring as well! Heres t…

After a recent break-in, I'm having to rethink/rebuild my subwoofer box and amp rack, as well as replace the equipment. Fortunately my front stage was untouched, so the only change coming is in the rear. Vehicle: 2004 Toyota Matrix Equipment (new stuff in red): Source: Rockford/Denon RFX-8250 Mids: Usher 8945P 7" Tweets: Peerless 810921 HDS 1" dome Sub: JBL W12GTi MkII Enclosure: 1.7 ft.^3 sealed (after sub displacement) Front amp: Kenwood eXcelon XR-4S Sub amp: Kenwood eXcelon XR-1S Processor: Rockford 3sixty.2 My goals for this build are to decrease subwoofer footprint by utilizing the spare tire well for extra airspace in an effort to increase cargo capacity. Hopefully…

Ok I finally made up my mind and im gonna go with 2 Pionner shallow mount 12" subs. Only have one for now, but getting the second one in the next few days. The Truck Soon to be 4" taller rollin on 17" Razor rims with Pirrelli Spider AT Tires The Equipment: Alpine CDE 9885 3.25" mounting depth, can you say shallow 1 Farad Swiss Audio Capacitor, 1400W 2Ch Hitron amplifier Everything together the old way I have no table saw, so i had to improvise. made for some quick clean straight cuts. Again had to improvise to make the speaker cut out Everything wired up and fits perfectly under the seat. Thats all i have for now. more pics to come tomorrow and video of it in…