Build Logs

Here is a few pics of the whole trunk with Fat Mat rattle trap (this stuff is half butyl and half asfault). Trunk Lid Floor Area left side Right Side Latch area Here is a few pics with the new rims. They are 24 inch Menzari's with 255/30/24 Nexxon tires. I know a few of you are going to like my license plate. You might have to click on pic to view the whole thing. Passanger side Close Up Rear Driver side Front Driver side Here is my set of Rainbow 3 ways I just put in. plate put in place of factory 6X9's Factory 3" Cut out to a 4" size after factor 3" replaced with rainbow 4" Here is pics of all the wires that make up the madness. Here is a pic of the amps…

2 Nendo 6.5s, gonna be bedlined, building these things fast got about 3 hours of work into them if that so far, just need more resin, lil mat and theyll be ready to be sprayed. trimmed up and resin pooled in, solid as fuck now, bout to do a few more coats of resin on the fronts, give em a light sand n shoot.. have pics later today or tomorrow. stay tuned

I decided to post some pics of my build. This build is gonna take some time, still waiting on some parts and Uncle Sam's good old tax rebate check!!! Basically I plan on running 2 Fi 18's off of 2 Alpine PDX 1000.1's I am leaning twords the Q series but i havent made up my mind. I want something that is going to stand up to everyday driving and will sound good with all kinds of music. All this great equipment is going to be installed into a 2000 GMC Safari van. Here is a couple of pics of it.

but it's what i do. for work, lol. it's the start of a set of simple channel letters. these will be LED lit, on a raceway with a different font set of letters that are neon lit. i'll add pics as the process moves along. supposed to be done tomorrow, lmao. yeah. that's going to happen!! these are cell phone pics, so don't judge too hastly..lol anyway... how it all starts. a pattern, a piece of .090 aluminum for backing, and 5" wide strips of .063 alum for returns (or the sides) look closely, that red line? it's the carbon paper tracing i did of the pattern onto the alum. a few bends gets you this a few more bends gets you that..... to be continued. wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…

Been a while but I am finally back at it... the DIY'er in me got the best of me once again. This is the current system: Stock Head Unit Front Stage: JL C5s Front Stage Amplifier: Sundown 100.2 Rear Stage: Stock. Has been about a year and sounds awesome to me, but we can always get better (plus I miss subs). It will be a while before it is all finished but this is what I am planning for the new set up. HU: Alpine W505 Processing: Alpine H701 Active Front Stage: Cd1 Pro Minis for the tweeters and X69s for the midbass Rear Stage: JL C5s Substage: (2) FI Q 15s sealed Amps: (2) 1.000 Alpine PDXs, 4.150 Alpine PDX, 4.100 Alpine PDX. Pics coming up...

Figured I should start a build log since I've gone through so much trial and error in getting this stereo to sound good. I'm already done with most things but I did take pictures along the way so i'll get that all uploaded when i get photobucket or imgur figured out. I bought my passat almost a year ago, the weekend after black Friday to be exact, and knew immediately that it needed some love in the bass department. I had a rockford p-300-12 powered enclosure lying around that i once had mounted in a big self-propelled sprayer that i basically lived in for 3 summers, threw that in along with a rockford loc, rockford rca's, and some ebay 4ga cca to get it powered. …

Hey guys, just wanted to show my build I just got done a few weeks ago. I've had a quite of few different setups recently and am finally very happy with how it is now. My box is about 22 cubes after displacement with 320" of port area tuned to 32hz. All walls were doubled up, and the inside was fiberglassed and braced, its very strong and HEAVY! Each of the 40.1 amps are at 1 ohm, and my electrical consist of a DC power 250 amp alt. Kinetik 1800 up front and 600AH battery bank in the rear. Havent got in on the meter yet and honestly I'm not to concerned with it. This was meant to be a daily driving ground pounder, and it is definitely that. It gets LOWWW and loud and that…

A friend of mine from work listened to my setup about two weeks ago, he said he wanted better sound in his car but couldn't spend much, I asked his budget and he gave me ~$300 as a limit, so I told him I'd get something for him. I worked on a design, and approached him with a 12" SSA DCON S4, a Rockford Fosgate 200.2, and an enclosure 2.25 cubes tuned to 32 Hz. He liked it, and gave me the go ahead. The amplifier was the first to arrive, no pictures of it though because it was shipped to his house. Then we got the DCON, and I much say it's an impressive driver. I wouldn't consider it entry level at all! It is extremely well built, now time for the woofa porn My dog …

Ok well I have some of the equipment and there is a lot to come but should be a good build. Head unit: Pioneer avh P5000dvd Sub amp: 2 Sundown SAZ 3000D's Sub's: Not quite decided yet but more than likely will be 2 DC sound lab LVL5 15's Mids: not decided yet(Probably mach 5's) Highs: Seas prestige tweets Mid and high amp: Probably a Sundown sax 100.4 Rear batts: Kinetiks--Hc800 and probably 2 hc3200's(maybe more) Alt: DC power(not decided on what amperage yet.) The box will be built for daily ground pounding, about 7 cubes at 35 hz, subs up port back, 105sqin of port. I want to have it done by The carl casper show in Febuary, but I have a couple minor set backs right no…

well i wrecked my 08 Mazda 3 sedan taht i had a 15'' FI BL and 1 1500 sundown in.. doing 145 at the headrest.. so im starting over in my 01 volvo s60 T5.. i hope this car gets loud as easy as the mazda did.. anyways what you see here is my incomplete isntall with 2 SAZ1500.1 and 1 SAZ100.4 as well as a rockford 360.2 and two batteries.. one is under the trunk floor in factory location.

Hey guys it's spring break so it's time to start working on my truck again. For those that do not know I drive a 1999 Dodge Ram 1500 Ext. Cab 5.9L Laramie SLT. It may be old but it's only got 45K miles on it. Anyway I plan on removing everything and rebuilding from the ground up. I will be using the same equipment and box, but I will make everything neater and more professional. Over this weeks break I plan on repainting my box, carpeting my amp rack and rear seat combo, installing SDS CLD Tiles, Plasti dipping all chrome and silver parts, along with either an exhaust install or new headlights and hids (or both). Along with these upgrades and installs I plan on adding ple…

Eh i thought i might as well post up my crappy work so far. I am by no means the kind of person that tries to make shit look good from start to finish. As long as it looks great at finish, functions properly, and is pretty well built then i'm ok with it This is going in a 2004 Silverado ECSB. Total vol. will be est. @ 5.2. I'm going to tune lower than i want @ 31hz and expect it to be more at 33-34hz just because that always seems like what happens and that's where i prefer it anyway. Yes that is 1/2" mdf. I had a whole sheet sitting in the shop so i'm going to use that and fiberglass over it so it'll be closer to 3/4. The subs are mounted up and port facing forward wit…

Its a little early as I have not even purchased the subwoofers yet but I'm excited! So here is the plan. Ill be running my 2004 Impala in the street trunk class so I'm limited to 4000 watts. I'll be running two 15" Icons with a nice big aeroport. Still trying to figure out amplifier situation but the Crescendo 3500d seems like a good choice. Full 0 gauge with a group 31 in the trunk. Hoping to do a lot of testing, and have a lot of fun. Representing SSA in the Great White North.

nice lil touch that will come later painted, comin along aeros and 2x4 for bracing going in front loading wall/port installed ready for bedliner

There are two things I have never had since I got "serious" into car audio. A 10" sub, or a decent dual sub setup. So this is my build for two 10" xcons! Im super excited, they should be finished building and arriving soon, I hope. I am fitting the maximum dimensions of my trunk while still being able to fold up the stock floor and access the spare tire. I was left with 3.11 internal cubic feet without sub, bracing, 45s, or port displacement. This is firing into the car, so I also needed the subs and port to be on the same face. The triangle port is unconventional but takes up less volume than a typical slot port inside the box and also has less port wall surfa…

So i got a new truck, 2009 Sierra SLE Ext Cab Short Box (4.8L V8) Performance mods so far: K&N Cold Air Intake, MBRP XP Series Stainless Dual Catback Exhaust Decided to go with the 18 Zcon for a sub. Only 1200watts for now, plan to drop in a AQ 2200 asap. Sounds great already though. System Specs: Stock 145a Alternator Stock Battery Kinetic HC2400 (2 runs pos, 2 runs neg between batts) Big 3 All Kinetic Wiring Tsunami Fuse Terminals Pioneer Premier P690UB US AMPS MD1D (1200rms) and MD23 (300rms x2) CDT ES-6MO, DRT-26a, Upstage Tweeter, 560 Xover SSA Zcon 18 D2 (6.6cu ft @ 34hz) 80sq Feet RAAMmat BXT II (doors, back, part of floor) 25^ft eDead Xtreme (Floor) Just fini…

I have a 2005 Honda CR-V EX. This is the stuff I want to get for my system: Head Unit - JVC KD-AVX-44 Sub - 15"Fi Audio Q- Series Front - Phoenix Gold RSD 65CS Rear - Phoenix Gold RSD 6.5 Amp (Sub) - Alpine PDX 1.1000 Amp (Interior) - Phoenix Gold RSD500.4 Enclosure - Made by DCole ( someone from another message board) Install Kit - ??? What is a good Install Kit to use? I know I should use 1/0 guage wires for the kit. I was looking at KnuKoncept Kits, but the one I wanted is sold out. I emailed the company and they said a new kit should be out by the end of the month. So I may end up going with that. Is there anything I left off that i'm going to need? I know I…

This is gonna be completed over the next few weeks as money permits. As of now I have the front stage in and playing. Installed Now Kenwood KDC-X493 AP3002 2- Selenium 6w4p's (doors) 2- Vifa 1" Textile Dome Tweets (on caps wired with 6w4p's in doors) 2 - Sony Xplod Something or Other 6x9's (rear deck) 1 - Run of 2/0 from front to back 2/3- Big 3 done (will do alt-batt when I get the HO alt) DB Link 0 AWG 200 amp fuse after front batt 200 amp fuse in back (will be infront of rear batt when it is installed) Coming Soon 1- 2.8^3 @ 36Hz 3/4" Birch Bass Heads Ent. Box (already have) 1- Audiopipe AP18001D (already have, well kinda, currently resides at Value Pawn but will be re…

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Well, Im finally getting around to doing another install in my fucus... 4way active = yum My front stage consists of: Pio Premier 880PRS PPI DCX-730 Dayton RS225s Vifa TG9s Seas neo alum or XT19s PG Xenon 100.4 PG Xenon 200.2 The sub stage is still somewhat undecided... Currently I have an MJ18 in a 6.5 cube ported enclosure tuned to 45hz, off a lil old RF 360a2... Tomorrow night, Ill be building a 4 cube ported enclosure and playing around with different tunings to see what I really like with this sub. This is what you see behind the seats The two options Im contemplating- A) 2 MJ-18s, 9 cubes net ported, tuned somewhere between 32-35hz, PG Xenon 1200.1 w/ a K…

Nobody cares about the talking, so I'll get straight to the pictures! What could be in these? Smaller, unnamed box: Sundown Audio E12 USA Prototype (DVC 4) Parts Express box: A...catalog? ...and another box... ...oh and this Dayton Audio 240 watt plate amp... The sub and amp together Oh, and the DHL man brought my FREE nintendo Wii today (Thank you mycokerewards.com) All the boxes laying in my room Design for the sub enclosure (2 ft^3 @ 30 hz (per Jacob's recommendation)) Build on the box should start in the next few days.

Hello everybody. Some of you on here know what my system consists of, but this is for the rest of the fellas. I have a 2007 Kia Sportage with 2 12" American Bass VFL Extreme DVC 2 ohm 1500 watt rms subs powered by 2 American Bass VFL-100.1 Amplifiers. My head unit is a JVC KD AR880 CD Receiver. I have a custom bult subwoofer enclosure built buy Derrick Haddock. My electrical consist of American Bass 0 gauge power and ground cable, G34 yellow top and Excide 35 amp hour gel-cell battery and unfortunately a stock 120 amp alternator with Big 3 completed. My mids and highs are still factory. This is my second enclosure in this suv. My First was a PWK Designs Compound Loading B…

Where to start, we are doing a wall in this van for promotional use @ shows and events. System will consist of the following. (6) SSA ICON 15D2s (3) JBL GTO 1200II (temp. until power upgrade) Box Deminsions Volume: 12.9ft^3 before displacement per box (two seperate boxes) Port Area: 180in^2 port are (360in^2 in total) Tuned @ 35hz On to the pics of the build so far, we're pulling an all nighter tonight so hopefully we'll have it playing by sun-up.

Got my dayton plate amp in so I started building the box today. This is the sub setup for my 4.5" BIB's that will be in my dorm. The box will be black, with the black sub and black plate amp, so I have nicknamed it Stealth. Got to start every bo build with this^^^ Actually some of the dimensions are wrong Driver: Mach 5 MAW-10 (Sadly a discontinued driver) Amp: Dayton 240W Plate amp (Will be running 150W @ 8ohms) And The Build.... Dry Fit... First time to use the new Jasper Jig Travis (aka - TMAX98) drawing up the center. Jasper Jig = Perfection Glued, Finish nailed and Clamped More pics to come tonight. I have already put on 2 coats of Shelac and one coat of …