Build Logs

ordered a xcon 12, waittingggg for it to come in. I figured i would get started. should be finished this weekend with atleast the subwoofer box, trim panels will be a while, until i figured out what amps i'll be using car is a 2007 acura rdx tech with els audio- i'll be starting a build log as i get into it more conservative measurement of spare tire well, 7"high/ 27" diameter yields me over 2-1/4 cubes+box extends above well i should be in the 2.5-2.75 range when all done. i'll packing peanut the whole thing when i get it done. tuning will be sub 30hz depending on enclosure final size i was fine with bringing up the floor level, i could almost make due without raising th…

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…

After my break in, the false floor was contorted and would be a disaster to fix. On the plus side, this gives me a chance to redesign the box fixing the problems with the first one. To save space, this box will be sealed. It will be 2.3 cu.ft., ployfil-filled, and passenger side facing. Tomorrow I plan to get the wood and cut the boards up. My dead line is Saturday, as I move back to school on Sunday. From the rear of the vehicle, looking into the cab. The small box represents the battery and will be secured somehow. The "floor" extension is to secure the box from sliding/falling. From the passenger side at floor level. I will be returning the floor to stock.…

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This is a small build log of a powerwheels I'm doing for my soon to be 3 year old daughter. She loves my music and bass in my truck... found out MECA is does a kids section, so on with a build for her. first pic is her in the truck before anything was done except mocking on speaker hole. more pics will come as I finish pieces. waiting on a few more pieces.

So here I am again, with my slow build. So what i have right now? Headunit: Blaupunkt mp52 - It's quite oldschool but does it work. Has a lot of settings and also 2x Aux in, 2x RCA outputs. Was used and got this with 35eur. In front dash i have Pioneer highs and in doors Pioneer 6,5" Mids. Running straight from HU at the moment. Total cost 45eur. On back i have Pioneer 5.1" Coaxial speakers, running straight from HU, Price 25eur. Riht now I am running old Kenwood 12" woofer from Toxic XT-1600 amp. Woofer 20eur, Amp 60eur. So this is budget build right now. I dont have pic from everything riht now. I will probably keep everything beside woofer. Maybe get Alpine T…

Just figured I'd let ya'll see some pics of my toyota. I'm picking up a few things come first of the week so I can finish my suspension. Anyway, here are some pics.

Just a few snapshots of equipment I have sitting around for this build log since it will start officially tomorrow. No pictures of the car till tomorrow when it arrives, everything under the hood is new besides the engine so right now that is my focus since it has over 200,000 miles. I will replace the primary battery with a XS Power D2400 and I will put a D3100 in the trunk with the sounds. Need to find out how Im gonna go about the center console since I cant find any dash kits for the car, need to find room for either a single-din or double-din and my Audio Control Epic-160. I may take the navigation out but I dont know as of yet, we will see (I dont have the software …

Well figured I had better make a build log for this. I have 40ft^2 of Second Skin Damplifier coming tomorrow and I'm buying another 40ft^2 and 18ft^2 of SS Luxury Liner. I also got my comps in the day before. Rainbow Profi line 5.25" set. I went with the 5.25's b/c I want to keep the truck looking as stock as possible. I'm still debating on were to put my tweeters and the crossovers though. I'm open to any suggestions... I'll have lots of pictures through out the whole process. It will probably take me a good week plus to do it all b/c its my only vehicle and I need it for work so I will have to work small area's at a time. I'm hoping to deaden the crap out of the…

Cross posted from smd Just picked this up today to convert to a show car/competing car. Building starts tomorrow, and I warn you it will be a little slow at first. Car - 1987 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser Station Wagon, 307 Y roller cam. Dual flowmaster 40's Seats 9 Rear 3 way components already installed in the far back pillers, 3 sets of RCA's ran, along with a run of 4 gauge (will be replaced with new 0/1) THINGS WRONG WITH THE CAR (that I know of) Needs a starting battery Valve cover gaskets A/C compressor (probably just going to throw an alternator there) Tune up Shocks The interior on this car is immaculate. No tears, no stains, no cracks in the plastic, no scrapes, n…

ok so the other night i took out the old box that was 10cubes at 28hz so that i could build a new box and seal off the trunk.... im goin to start this tomorrow night with sealing off the trunk cause i am sure that was a main reason for it not being loud, then im goin to build a new box with a little more port area and finish it all off with a beauty panal to mold the box in the back seat cause its no a full wall it more like a half wall...other than that ill being installin a set of alpine type x 6.5's in the front door replacing the crappy sony xplode ones.... the equipment thet will bu used is HU-alpine 9885 alpine types x 6.5's sony xplode 6x9's probably some kicker 1…

Alright folks! Usaci Finals is next weekend....soooooo...time to sexy up my install! The paint and such is drying now but we basically made the box SEXY as all get out and built a new amp rack! We also threw threw a Powerbass 3K @ the LMS today and created a COSMIC ORGASM !!!!!!!!!! Can't wait till my new amp gets here! Now onto the pics! Vids will be up tomorrow...i'm kinda tired...lol A few supplies here.... LMS next to Type Arrrgghhhh 10"!

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 recently my brother crashed his car it was his college present from my parents he had it for like 3 yrs and my parents had only liability insurance I'm only 15 and my bro said if i fixed it it would be mine but once im able to drive(1 year) so lil by lil I've been fixing it. The side that was crashed messed up both struts so I was like ill get some coilovers so i got the coilovers on by myself then i needed a fender ordered it and now i bought 2 doors so for now i just need the rear bumper and quarter panel. The guy from the bumper said 1600 to fix it without the parts so i bought him the parts now i just need 1600 to finish it and like 400 for some details here and th…

Ok Guys, Its been going on for a while, but I though it was time to put up some pictures. Just to let you guys know I dont have my own garage and most things have been imported. The problem is good gear are either redicilously exspensive or not availeble at all. First Ill start with my old setup then move on to the work in progress. Here she is in my garage. Below was how it was before. (no comments lol) It is far from perfect hence the change. It played fairly clean, and loud ..mind you it was a bit peaky though. Dont mind the words in the window. The pic was taken of our local forum after one of the meetups More pics coming soon...

So, I guess I should finally put this on here. First things first, my car was a theft recovery I picked up from my dad's work (he works for a local body shop) for $450. It's a 2004 Ford Focus SE 2.3l dark blue. I don't really know why but I don't have a pic of the car? Anyway, what do you do with a focus with 200,000 mi? Make it run of course... Lol needed a fuel pump. Sitting for almost a year and it seized, oh well. After that you do this... 12" Fi bl on a Sundown 1500 v3. I then got rid of the factory speakers and installed some Alpine 5x7" in all four doors on a Hertz HCP4 After getting further into this site, I realized rears were unnecessary and swapped the Alpin…

A few days ago, I won a pack of damplifier Pro on here. I finally found some time to do a little bit today. Took me about 2 hours just to do this!! I'm going to use more than half for the doors from this pack, then the rest on some trunk areas. Possibly Wednesday is when I'll have a chunk of free time before finals week.

its a messy install but its what i got. fi q18 d2 13.35cu before displacment 174sq port area tuned to 28 hz. power is a cadence txa6004 bridged ch3&4 @4ohm 600wrms. sorry no build pics just a vid.

I drive an 06 infiniti g35 coupe and I want to attempt my first wall with 2 fi btl 18's. The deminsions to work with are approx. 44 L, 25 H, 26 D. I dont have any experience with buliding walls so I wanted some opinions on if that would be enough space for the subs and I have to build it inside the car so is glue and fiberglass resin strong enough to hold it together?. I usually see walls that are 14 cu feet after sub and port displacement, mine will maybe come out 12.

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Okay, so as I'm waiting for my SA-8 to get here (as patiently as I can!) I'll put the build of my center console box for it. It's an old beater minivan for my everyday vehicle, but I'm just trying to have some fun. I don't have the area or tools to do the kind of work I'm used to being able to put out (maybe I'll share some of those pics sometime) since I'm working on some flimsy stands with a jigsaw, circular saw, and sander, but it'll do for this project. And so I begin... The wood...good old 3/4" MDF The sides cut out Test fit of sides

Im still new to the forum, but I decided I would post a build log of my truck. The Truck: 2006 Schevy Silverado 1500 Extended Cab, 5.3 2wd. As it sits the truck is stock, when things start coming in I will start the install. Hopefully I will start with the deadening and running all the wires. Almost current pic, before clearing the headlights and tinting the windows They components being used: Head Unit: Kenwood DDX 812 Mid Amp: Sundown SAX50.4 Sub Amp: Sundown SAZ1500D Subs: Sundown SA-8 (2) Mids: Hertz HSK165 Deadner: Raamat and Ensolit…

Got bored and have lots of wood to work with so figured i'd make a box for the big bear, 4 - 6.5' boss marines and a ssl200 amp no headunit, goin to upgrade the speakers soon to crescendo 6.5" cause there louder and nicer heres what i got so far This is the amp i will be using, a ssl 200 watt

System Specs... Amplifiers (4) Diablo Audio Technologies 2500.1s (1-2)Diablo Audio Technologies 4125 Subwoofers (4) SSA Xcons Mids/Highs Undecided, but most likely AA carbon fiber mids Electrical (4) Stinger SPV70s in rear (1) Optima Red Top in front (1) Iraggi 200A alt, soon to be a 300A DC Power Alt. Big 3 in 1/0 3 runs of positive to the rear All wire is TryStar Cable 1/0 Suspension Function & Form Type 2 coilovers to help support the weight 24mm Rear Sway bar upgraded from stock 14mm to help with body roll Moog end links to support the upgraded sway bar Front Strut Bar Misc All wood will be Birch Second Skin Damplifier Pro Sound deadening to replace areas that h…