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Vehicle: 1996 GMC JIMMY 4 door 4x4 sittin on 10's( I keep em clean though) Alternator: Iraggi 356 amp MONO Amplifier: Stetsom 5k2d 2 ohms pushing 6850rms H/U: Alpine 117 Front stage: Front doors Polk audio DB 6.5" with Polk audio 4x6 in the dash Rear doors Crescendo super tweeters Multi Channel amplifier: MB QUART 100.4 Batteries: 3 D3400( 1 under the hood and 2 in the back!) Deadener: Spectrum Sludge (3 layers) Power wire: 3 runs of monster cable 1/0 for power (2 directly from alternator and 1 connecting batteries) Ground wire: 6 runs of monster cable 1/0 for ground (1 ground connecting batteries and then 5 grounds directly to chasis less than 3ft a piece) SUBWOOFER box: 18 cubes tuned to 34hz with 220sq inches of port area! SUBWOOFER:2 18" ZCONS Straight BEASTS!

ok, this is what it better look like when u build it! And i'm not playin either.. u better have white and purple mdf or else it's gonna fail, lol The purple underneath the front of the box is your vehicle's floor. I had drawn out the cabin area then drew the box within. And remember, the 2 back corners are 4x4s. Titebond then into place on both the side and back wall and Poly Adhese them once the titebond is dried. Build your 45s in front, and fill them in with foam. to build this inside a vehicle, you will want to go out and buy a LOT of L brackets. 4,5, or 6" brackets is all fine. You just need something to keep a grip on things when waiting for the glue to dry.

A light tint on the rear lights ... .. .

Some shoots of the Phillips HID's

Some more updates..... Lights..

It's funny you say that. Lol I'm getting an EXPENSIVE ass oil change right now LOL!!! I don't even wanna get started about my brakes. Lol you know the BTL single mag "UFO" has more motor force than the n2 right? The n2 had motor force backed off to drop the saddle shaped response curve lol. The gauss in the gap on this Orion is far much larger than any of my old btls lol. It's a tripple stack motor with a 4" coil STRAIGHT BEAST. Amount of ferrite, and coil size does not dictate motor strength. Your being ignorant Chris, try and be a little open minded, eh?

welcome!! It sounds like you want more of daily driver system. one that gets loud and doesn't sound like crap. i would probably recommend the ssd's. they are great sounding drivers and can get very loud too.

Uh, because it is not recommended.... If you want SQ that is what the Flatlyne is for

Thanks. Bored all the body mount openings out. They are the exact size as the original opening so the body mount will sit on the reinforment plate instead of the stock frame. I'll trade the body sitting 3/16" of an inch higher for the gain in strength. I had to make an adapter for the tube adapter since I'm not using round tube. I plug welded all 4 side and welded each end of the tube to insure it will hold up. Made a mock up arm to check out how the geometery is going to work with all the mods. Once I determine the final length and shape needed for the upper arms I'll do the real arms. Just grabbed some scrap pieces out of the pile that were close to the shape needed. I know the spindle is for the other side but it served it's purpose for now. I'm waiting on the tapered reams until they get here I can't go any further.

I guess being a good mod makes him a troll. Are you mad that you're the only one hanging from kevin's scamming nuts? I guess scamming car audio people isn't enough, he's going to scam the shipping company as well. Adrian_D, nice ninja edit. Wait, you're a mod, you can always ninja edit. lol. Rather rude. Phi - He must not be the only one, but instead one of 3,000 unique customers I've dealt with this year alone in the last two months. Let it rest - I am helping this guy out, this is not a public bashing topic It only takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch... While helping you still lie. Which is not cool. It's your freaking name at stake, be on top of the situation.

I guess being a good mod makes him a troll. Are you mad that you're the only one hanging from kevin's scamming nuts? I guess scamming car audio people isn't enough, he's going to scam the shipping company as well. Adrian_D, nice ninja edit. Wait, you're a mod, you can always ninja edit. lol. Rather rude. Phi - He must not be the only one, but instead one of 3,000 unique customers I've dealt with this year alone in the last two months. Let it rest - I am helping this guy out, this is not a public bashing topic You continue to lie and try to make the OP hide his bad transaction with you like you have in the past. I guess you can have 3 million positive transactions when you make the bad ones hidden or change your company name to erase your past. Are you mad that you're the only one hanging from kevin's scamming nuts? I guess scamming car audio people isn't enough, he's going to scam the shipping company as well. I am just laughing at this to be honest.....because everyone around the forums I go to has had great deals with kevin. I am just the only one dumb enough to still try and go on these forums where you morons hang out. Only a handful of people on this site who have been helpful to me anyways. I just hate seeing someones name getting drug through the mud because of an ebay deal..... enjoy all your d riding jokes though because at the end of the day my car shits on yours AND I got great customer service throughout the whole process. You think his bad name is only on this forum? Try to ask about him on Ca or CACO and see what you get. And I give no shits about your vehicle. I do my own work and not have to rely on others to build my system for me.

What's up planet earth? After a short hiatus, an impromptu toilet swap, I'm back. The battery rack is at the welder's and I'm wait for some machine time to cut the hangers. For the time being I started work on the doors and figuring out a way to shoehorn a pair of 7" Mpyre Mid-Basses in the factory location behind the factory grills. Can it be done? Watch and be amazed. Le door panel with le mids: Le area to be hacked out: We, those were the tool used, classic onebadmonte hack job Another test fit. I used the factory grill and the mids to make a cardboard template. I transfer the template shape some MDF. Upon further review I decieded to make a multi level baffle to fit the drivers. Here are all the baffle pieces roughed out with le wienie bandsaw. Le test fit of the baffle in le door with le door panel in place. Here I'm making sure le grill fits. The moment everyone's been waiting for. How the hell do the drivers fit? Here you go. Still got a ways to go, but I have an idea of how I'm going to get it all to work. Stay tuned. BTW, sorry for the french accent (le here and le there) I was eating some french fries while I was writing this.

Soo... here's some picof the new hsk 165 Hertz components. And pics of my blown Bravox carbon fiber woofers. (Which I have a question about) Soo... first ar the new hertz comps And now for my question... what is the brownish stuff? It looks kinda like glue that came undone. But idk... but I do kno that it doesn't work... Thanks guys

VID!

Power wire fot connecting Batts! 8 gauge speakerwire! All wires are from Monster Cable my STOCKPILE for when I go to war!

Made the other plate for the side. Also tied the plate into the tubing where possible for more strength. Polished the edge of the balljoint sleeve where the plates came together.

We are pulling out the HU and the EQ. Here is a pic of what's coming out...Both items were not very good quality and it shows. By sefugi at 2011-02-25 This is what was delivered today, hoping to get it installed tomorrow. By sefugi at 2011-02-25

^ here... i uploaded to YT. enjoy.

No truss on the axle. Using semi float stock style 9" axles from Dutchman. They only case harden their axles which gives them more strength without making them brittle. I've bent 1 5/8x1/4" wall with my JD2 but it required an extra long handle for leverage. I have changed my mind on doing the tubular arms anyways though so I won't need to use the bender on this. Got started on a lower A arm today. The coil pocket has been relocated for better alignment with the cylinder and the pocket has been dropped 1" also. I used some 1 1/2x1 1/2x3/16" and some 1x3x1/8" to make a skeleton to hold everything in it's place and add strength. Made sure all the pieces were coped for a tight fit and strong weld. I'm using 1/4" plate for the side plates. The coil bucket will get trimmed down after I cap the top. The tube is welded to the joint sleeve and then the plate is welded to the sleeve on the outside and tied into the tubing also for maximum strength.

Here we go fellas, part two, The final assembly of the battery rack. Here I'm prepping the center rails putting some 9/16" holes at the ends. A little story about this drill press. Pops got it for free from a shop he used to work at. It sat in the garage for 20 years unused. Pops said it needed a new motor, he let me have it. Just for laughs I plugged it in. Snap, it works. Let Pops know, now he needs a drill press. Here I'm laying out the carriage bolt pad centers. I did two angle irons at a time to make sure they line up properly. Here is a close-up so you can see my alignment marks. I also put an indicator at the end of the angle iron to make sure I don't mix them up. This is the center section tack welded together. Here I am laying out the alignment marks for the center section on the battery base. To keep things simple I added up my measurements to I can use a ruler and mark everything in one shot. The finished frames ready to be welded. A couple test fit shots.

Real life progress, yay. I continued work on the battery rack again today. I made the carriage bolt pads. I started off with 4" x 2", 1/8" thick steel strip. I will be putting a square hole in the center of this piece. Here's how I did it. The workpiece, trimmed and ready for drilling. I used work's bada$$ Bridgeport Mill and vise setup to put a 1/4" pilot hole first I followed that up with a 1/2" drill Here I verified the size of the square on the carriage bolt. Get your 3-D glasses on. Here I scribed out the square that I'll cut out. Just wait till you get a load of how I pull this off. That's right, an effing jigsaw. Dios mio! (My goodness!) What a hack job. Not to worry I can fix it. A little file action, and presto change-o, square hole. Test fit. Finished product. Stay tuned for part two of this update.

This picture marks where the 29.5 inch mark is from my last box (How tight it was hahaha) And this is what my old box looked like Assuming your roof is the same height as mine, you might have some problems with the subs facing the roof... same with the depth being 38" and being that tall..... if youre taking your rear seats out, then the only problem would still be the subs too close to the roof being only 2 inches or so away. I think perhaps you may want to look into your dimensions again just in case (prove me wrong please )

Small signs of progress. I updated the battery rack CAD a bit. I think this is going to work better than what I had before. Here is a shot from the top. I added the battery hold downs, and detailed the whole assembly with some hardware. From the bottom looking up. Here is a shot of the hanger from the bottom up. You can see some of the hardware I'll be using. One last one of the hanger from the top down. Now some progress in the real world. This one is me testing the strength of the angle irons that I'll be using. My cutting rig. The rack coming together. This is how I handled the corners. I tacked them together, I'll have a friend with a bigger welder finish them off. Plus he's a better welder than me. o_o

Thanks fellas,,, Heres the latest pic's of The Diesel Finally got the paint done..... No more chrome on this bad boy.. A little dirty but you get the idea.. Putting LED's in the box... And a shot loaded with the sledge hammers.....

Pics of 140 amp HO Alt and final 1/3 of Big 3 installed. Also replaced both belts while I had them off.

And vids:

Sub and box are going in my bro-in-law's build, just borrowing them until my box and sub are done. Sub is running 8 ohms of my AP18001D for ~300-350 rms and it bangs!

Aight, for those of you who hung in there, this is where it starts to pay off, lol. Got my hands on a camera finally. Here it goes...

Hey everybody! Not much got done in the real world today, but tons got done virtually. Hmm, that second part didn't come out quite right..... Any who, here is a little CAD action, and I ain't talking about cardboard and duct tape here. Here is a 3-D CAD model of a deka 9a31 Frame rails. Really! Here we go. Starting to make sense? Battery tray anyone? Tangerine supports? WTF? The semi-complete assembly. How about some batteries to complete the picture. A look from the bottom up. Chime in now or forever hold your piece.

What's up everybody? Not much here, just got some work done on the box. With regards to tools, I got what I got and that's that. Working solo it's a pain trying to manage a full sheet of MDF on a wienie tablesaw. As it happens the cargo area of my Suburban measures 49" wide. Sheets of MDF in this area come in a 49" width. I had my box designed to a 49" width. This way I had the guys at the local Home Depot cross cut the sheet to the length I needed with their fancy panel saw. The guys were pretty cool about cutting the wood for me after I told them what I was doing. They thought I was nuts though. I used my table saw for the finish cuts and all the angle cuts. Here are some pics of what I got. I opted to paint the inside of the box plain ass boring grey. I have no creativity. I used some threaded inserts as a foundation to run some bolts through the wood for wiring. Here is the wires I ran through the port. Double runs of 8 gauge wire, because I can. So far so good, more on the way.

I got my screens in. The alpine NAV-1 is okay. To be honest I'm not too impressed with the graphical interface. My wife has a Pioneer 920Bt in her car, I like it better. Oh well, what is nice is that I can play a movie to the rear screens and listen to the radio at the same time. That way the little ones can enjoy a flick through headphones while I keep my sanity through music on long road trips. I used "The Black Box BB-R3" bypass from buysellauction on ebay. It was cheap and USA made so I figured what the heck. It works and I couldn't be happier. Any ways, here are some pics. Here is a close up of the Alpine NAV-1

Hahaha. I hope soon, but I've got a ways to go. I've got to figure out how to mount my babies, I mean batteries. Here is a pics of their arrival home.

Here are a few pics of how I got the components into the q-logic panels. I didn't have a 4"+ hole saw, so I improvised. I used a smaller saw to cut out the center. I sketched out the profile of the hole I needed to cut, then I scored the plastic with a blade. I used to some pliers to break off the scored pieces of plastic leaving me with a semi-nice large diameter hole. I decided to make a backing ring to secure the mid to the panel. Here is the ring I cut at work using a CNC plasma cutter. I am using rivnut style inserts to mount the driver. Here is the installed product. More on the way.

Latest pics..... Box pics.... Our Logo in the box...

Are you mad that you're the only one hanging from kevin's scamming nuts? I guess scamming car audio people isn't enough, he's going to scam the shipping company as well. I am just laughing at this to be honest.....because everyone around the forums I go to has had great deals with kevin. I am just the only one dumb enough to still try and go on these forums where you morons hang out. Only a handful of people on this site who have been helpful to me anyways. I just hate seeing someones name getting drug through the mud because of an ebay deal..... enjoy all your d riding jokes though because at the end of the day my car shits on yours AND I got great customer service throughout the whole process.

Lmao because I didn't fiberglass my own doors and build a wall only a handful of people could build I am not allowed to admire it being my car??? You sound like a damn fool saying that. This isn't a feedback thread it's turned into a whiney bash thread..... And I never spoke of phis daily life at all, but I could care less if his is good or not. I know I am extremely happy with where I am in my life. I don't know why you even car about it so much tho to be honest. The my car>yours comment was to those who feel like they can talk shit about me for the sole reason that I'm sticking up for someone they are bitching about. You preach about it being a feedback thread but WTF can't I post my positive feedback to offset all this bullshit? And Jaycee my head is far from my ass, trust me. And LOL about you crying about my car now!!!! Now I can't make my car a show car bcz in the eyes of the allmighty Jaycee it isn't worthy lol. I get compliments on my car multiple times a day, I could care less about your whiney hater opinion. Should someone only hook up escalades and chargers? Lol. The good thing about shows is the number of diff cars with customization....apparently you are to close-minded to see this though..... Commense more whining....

lol uh yeah! I wouldn't mind a set of cheater/adaptors to mount my 2nd alt though, so i can get more power from the four AP30001Ds wink wink That's a great idea!!!!!!!!! I think you'll need a bigger table to put all of your recones on though. Looks like 4 more, coming right up. Haven't bottomed out one time, only made them stink one time because I was parked and had it running full tilt...voltage drop...but youre a genius and have it all figured out, so what am I explaining myself to you for? The recones on the table were from getting TermLabbed, blown and bottomed on purpose, like so many competators do every competition... but I guess that's different somehow?

I say Eff Eye

M5 is a troll