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It's weird how often threads on this topic end up like this. I guess this was directed at me but I'm glad everybody got a chance to share in the hilarity. I keep thinking I'll respond to one or another of your rambling points but without knowing if you are being deliberately dishonest or are just an incoherent imbecile, it's kind of hard to zero in. Just for the fun of it: Does your claim about bicep size relative to waist size apply to fat people? How critical is this concept to your self image. It really doesn't have to get into fat people territory - anything but the waist of a skinny child is freak show territory. Why should we argue with you instead of cthedinger? He's already stated that you don't know what you're talking about. You said you were partners. Three possibilities: 1) Business partners (would make sense since he's promoting a business). 2) Domestic partners. 3) Old timey western pals. Are you two cowboys?

Recently i've decided to upgrade my front stage. I've thought about it for a year, but made the first move when my left speaker went out. When i bought the car a year and a half ago there were 4 speakers in the car. The front 2 5.25 were dead, beyond my understanding of why they were still in the car. The morning after i got the car home i took those out and put the rear 6.5s in the front doors. Still this didn't do much for the "music" they made. But i dealt with them 'till now. Within a few months i got a new HU, the JVC KD-s100. I'm happy with it, it has all the features i needed at the time, but i plan to upgrade that in the future with more crossover settings, if possible. With this i was able to hook my sub amp up and put the 15 in, luckily enough it fit in the back. It was built for a trunk, so it's not the best box for a trunk... oh well. Planned upgrades: Solid 4 channel amp: The summer before i even bought the CRX i came across several deals to do with this. First was a guy on here that sold me a 75.4 kicker amp, brand new. Then Jacob started a trade in program, so i turned in the kicker and gave some cash up for the 100.4 that's in my car now. Sundown FTW! Mids: My first plan was to get some MLi-65s from Mach 5 audio. But they were out of stock for do damn long (are they even stocked yet?) i started shopping for new mids. I wanted to do as little fab. work as possible, so i was stuck on 6.5s. After weeks of scrounging the internet for info on these i hit up a dealer on SSA and asked a few questions about them. The only thing holding me back was the price; there were nothing but positive reviews on these drivers, i figured they have to be worth the price. Tweets: after seeing what everyone else was running their carbons at (~2500hz) i figured i needed a tweet that could play pretty low, while being able to perform on 4 ohms, to keep things simple. I kept coming back to the Seas Prestige 27TFFNC/G (H1396) 1" Textile Dome Tweeter. https://www.madisound.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=45_229_324&products_id=1466 These can go all the way down to 2500khz! perfect! Misc: You can't upgrade your front stage without a little deadening, so i sent Don at http://www.sounddeadenershowdown.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi to see what needs to be done. I couldn't really do the "whole meal deal" because of funds, so i did what was really bare minimum. I ordered 14 CLD tiles and a roll of extruded butyl rope. Doors will stripped and stuck. On with some pics! Car and a stock door.

So i have finally built up the courage to cut the big hole in my cab that i have been wanting to do for about 4 years now... I went to my local DC dealer (that rusty helped me locate) i then ordered some level 3s for a decent deal, then came in a couple days later to pay to find out that rusty HAD just ran out of level 3's and upgraded me FREE OF COST to the level 4s. so i pretty much got some level 4's for half price. so to anyone wondering about DC audio, there customer service is absolutely superb, i cant say enough how freakin excited i am about this deal. Stereo Solutions and Rusty from DC audio, i thank you guys soooooo much, i cant emphasize enough how happy i am. if rusty only deals with guys like the ones at my local shop then i would recommend them to anyone!!! and i havent even heard the subs yet!!!! anyways enough with the rant. Here is my tacoma, 96. 2wd beater. got a 1/4 million miles on the ol girl now. have had the truck since i was seventeen, turning 23 next month. got it with less then 100k miles on it. So what ill be running is: Pioneer DEH 3200UB Big Three/Gel Batt up front (900cca) Small Batt near amp. Hifonics Brutus BXI2008D Two DC Labs level 4 12s. D1 coils wired to 1 ohm at amp. Box is 3.45 Cubes after all displacements tuned to 33hz Subs should be here next week sometime... got a bunch of work done today on the bed. took the old beat up piece put and made a 12 gauge plate to mount the box flush to. then the bot will go from the steel plate to the cab. should make it easier to seal all up. as im going to leave the box in the elements! ya no bed cover yet. just gonna resin the box then bondo/primer/paint to match my truck. gonna have it bolted down and and bolted against the bed wall. it will be pretty touch to steal. lol. and the lanky ass guy in the blue shirt. thats me. my buddy took a lot of pics

Alright so i thought i put up my build of my accord on here but i didn't. So here it goes. I'm not done yet so it obviously won't be a complete build! Car in the shop ready for work View of the floor before we started with the DC sub hooked up and just free airing Old amp rack Battery in the back, HC1800 soon to be 2 Picture of the wires and engine False floor in Looking at a back panel to put in Box without the top back panel Panel fits! Semi finished box just sitting on it's butt Bbbbracing Hole cut AND sanded Will it fit? Yes! So we had to take it apart and put it back together but after we finished the box we thought it wouldn't fit when we tried to get it in. So about 2 days later i said screw it and just took out the seatbelts in the back + the panels and boom, it fits. We were first off by a half inch lol Side view, it will stretch to the B pillar Back view of the box From the front This is all dry fitted in, so i am not done at all. This is just test fitting and stuff like that. Bracing and stuff will be done soon. This box will also have a removable port, the hole sitting where the port should be isn't a port, just the cut out. The front will have mdf sitting in front and more will come. Again, don't assume this is my finished project, there is still a lot to go

Try to have 1/2" behind the pole vent, it needs it for cooling.

If that is what you do best, you shouldn't be in business for yourself. There is customer service fail all over a ton of your posts. If you are so good at service why delete your own posts?

lol yeah my girlfriend stayed at her house tonight so i said why not... and thanks i love my dog soo much, more than the girlfriend.... (of like five years) anyways i just swept after each cut i made, kinda blew everything off. i work pretty clean, i like to clean up as i work. kinda a habit i had to get into working on aircraft, cant leave tools laying on top of engine deck then have it fly off. hahaha. i dont have many wood working tools obviously, not table saw, no router. skill saw, which i started using a fence but then got lazy and started free handing... =/ they cam out pretty damn good though so im happy. hopefully it holds up...

The two braces going front to back is gonna be 5/8 all thread. will this be strong enough?

BENCH SEAT honda killa. sooo i said screw the rain and started cutting tonight in my kitchen/living room. hahahahaha!!! good thing i live alone.... anyways one 4x8 sheet was just barely too short. got every board cut except for the double baffle so im starting to assemble tonight also... boot should be here on tuesday, as with the subs (yeah i know i said friday but they didnt come in yet) think i might run out of money, lol need to get sealant, resin and bedliner (if i got that route) but i get paid next tuesday so push comes to shove ill be getting the rest of the stuff then... also posting a picture of my current sub stage. gonna be one helluva difference.

Yes, I got it at around 33hz. But your port area is really suffering.

Well, i hope your about 5'1" tall or something cause i HIGHLY doubt your going to get the PROPER enclosure back there for an 18". Dont think ill be able to talk you out of it so good luck with your build.

The owner referenced a prototype and then a product they are coming out with. Not that is out. Perhaps a misunderstanding. Either way, he seems to be shooting himself in the foot pretty early in the business plan with his poor methods of promoting his product. And having cronies like yourself certainly don't help the situation any. Turning off customers and recommendations before the business really gets going is a great method for failure. Because I know I sure as hell won't be buying any now, nor will I ever recommend the product based solely off of the you and the owner's behavior. Great job. Keep up the good work. Losing sales is a good part of any business model. You must have me confused with someone else. I have no product for sale and affiliation with no business. Thank god. My dick's bigger. There, glad we have that out of the way. LOL....

Here is a shot of the mock-up for the amp layouts and DQXS. I am trying to cram three pounds into a one pound container and it sucks! This shot shows a couple fuse holders and my relay for my volt meter and turn-ons. I need to seal the trunk off yet. Finally have my volt meter designed and wired up. It is clearly visible from any seating position within the cabin. Vehicle on, HU is in "Standby" (off) mode. Vehicle on, HU is in "Ipod" (on) mode

Hey man I currently own 2-sets of Zapco RB13.2 (the blue 5.25) and let me tell you I have both sets hooked up to a 100.4 and they are amazing! my sub stage is 5krms 2-12inch NS v1 and they keep up with those no questions! very loud and not to harsh at all! keep in mind mine are the 5.25 mids they aren't as loud as I would like them but they do the job nicely! well that is my opinion on the zapco very loud and they can keep up no issue there with the smaller set I have the midbass isn't quite there though! but please don't buy based on my report of them. you need to listen to a set and go from there it is how i choose my comps! and I liked them so much I made a second purchase! my purchase price was 350/set off ebay! enjoy and I hope you find what you are looking for! I vote for zapco though lol!

If you have a 4 channel amp, going active is almost no-brainer... I am not sure the type of crossover that amp has, but you can get a really nice outboard one for around $100, even less used... Also, with that type of budget, and if I were going active, you could do alot better than most of the stuff on that list.... If you are building pods could you fit a full size tweeter? (like 3.5-4" round) If so, you have literally 100s of choices if you look into the higher end "home audio" drivers... To be honest, even the top end Focal/Dynaudio/Hertx etc are no better than the $40 tweeters and woofers you find on the home audio DIY market... Read the tweeter tests and midwoofer tests here: www.zaphaudio.com You could get an idea of what I am talking about.... Additionally, $125-150 in Dayton Reference drivers (2 woofers and 2 tweeters) from Parts Express with a decent active crossover would probably (well almost definetly) be better than everything mentioned above in all but the bottom octave (say 50-100Hz)... Just some food for thought.... There is no reason for a 3-way set if you are running a substage..... I, and a few others would be willing to help you pick some drivers out once you figure your space constraints...

So right now you are "selling" vaporware? So you didn't get an idea for a product, you got an idea for a price point then had someone else design a product (that you didn't understand) to fit that price point. At present, said product doesn't actually exist. Your marketing plan so far consists of promoting a product that doesn't actually exist and that you don't actually understand, making apparently outrageous claims about it's performance then deleting those comments, and finding reasons to trash competing products such as the picture of RaaMat you posted earlier? That's pretty tactless and demonstrates terrible business ethic. It also helps if you type in English. Your grammar and spelling is atrocious for an individual promoting a product and business. Sounds like a solid plan you have going there.

The root of all of this is the thread on another forum that I mentioned earlier. I would post a link to it, but cthedinger deleted all of his posts from it. It's fine for him to act like he has been victimized by me here, but I only became aware of the other thread because members there were outraged by the false allegation cthedinger made against me and my products and asked me to join and respond. It doesn't seem reasonable to attack and expect there to be no consequences. Unfortunately, since cthedinger chose to obliterate his contribution to that thread, the evidence is gone. It's also disingenuous to cry foul after stating that he wouldn't trust RAAMmat BXT II in his car when what he showed as his reason is pretty obviously a physically damaged sample. He never mentioned this damage in his review video leaving us to imagine where and how the damage occurred. At the same time, we're being asked to trust the superior quality of a product that's different than the prototype, doesn't seem to exist and apparently hasn't been seen by anybody, including cthedinger. Very strange development cycle, IMO. I'd suggest sending out samples of a shipping product. I know I'd be interested in seeing it. Oddly enough, I'd give an honest opinion. There are posts all over the place where I've commented favorably on competing products. Dynamat, Cascade and Second Skin all sell very good products. Cthedinger may too, but it's obviously premature for anybody to be claiming anything, one way or the other about his products. At this point all we have to evaluate are his antics

Audiowrap makes his deadner? Same build house. I know you know that. Not sure why you'd want to reveal that. "Build house" is an interesting choice of terms. Audiowrap is a side project for Protectowrap. Protectowrap is a roofing materials manufacturer. Audiowrap may be a good product - don't know, haven't seen it, but I have seen several other of their roofing products that other people have cynically sold as vibration dampers when they were noting of the sort. I also know that it was only a few months ago that your partner announced his product, was asked on another forum to explain how vibration dampers work and e-mailed me (under false pretenses) to ask how they work, unaware that I was watching that thread. I explained to him why his announced configuration would perform poorly. Since he re-announced the new configuration within days, I have to assume this was the extent of his testing. All of this and some of his past appearances have led me to certain conclusions, most of which I'll keep to myself, but cover everything with vibration damper as a solution for every application is a ship that sailed several years ago. "works extremely hard to portray a professional and honest image" is putting the cart before the horse. In any case, my post stands and you confirmed my assertion. I was a little bitchier than I like to be but your partner's previous behaviors have rubbed me the wrong way. Good luck with the endeavor. Dynamat is manufactured in sheets, as is Cascade VMax, Second Skin's products and several others.

yeah i was thinking about bedliner also. i might even bedliner THEN paint over the bedliner... well see. either way the bitch is gonna get heavy coats of "stuff" so it dont leak or soak up water. thanks man. my dad and i have a machine shop. i used to work on helicopters, got experience doing a lot of different mechanical things at a young age. have done vacuuming composits (sucking the air bubble out of fiberglass work basically) lots of metal riveting and "like" metals studying, metal tolerances. Have done a lot of engine machining, used to build engines with my dad. (my dads occupation) have built a few hotrods and worked on my 71 nova and have been helping with my dads 8 second 68 camaro since i was a toddler. needless to say i have a pretty fair mechanical background...

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Got most of the 1st round of welding done on the frame today. I even welded all the lower corners. I want to do as much of the welding as I can while the frame is locked down on the jig. Also welded the housing ends on the rearend. I full welded the inside for now. I'm holding off on doing the outside, I may take it to my friends shop and use his tig welder for the outside weld. Then I started polishing down some weld. This section is ready to be rounded over. This section will need some more weld first. It's a little hard to tell but the white looking areas are low spots. Basically I will end up grinding all the welds down then going back over everything again with another bead of weld to build the shoulder up then grind it all a second time to get the perfect squared corner. After I get the entire frame to that point I'll round all the corners over. The corners have got to be smooth and straight without any bondo.

DO. NOT. EVER. MENTION. R. D. ON. HERE. EVER. AGAIN. Unless You're Talking Trash About Them. /thread.

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.

I have posted numerous times to keep this in emails and you are posting here...quite simple. I told you to email me tomorrow...

If you continue to bash on forums after I answer every email you send me within 2 minutes via my phone (being swamped in the office all day) I will see no further reason to help in this matter. I have done everything in my power and you continue to make a point of calling me out. Kevin

So there is a lot done. Just haven't taken picture of it. Sorry. But i do have pictures of some "new" upgrades. I use quotes because this is kinda old for me lol. Yeah no cut off yet, they are projectors, but still don't shine in any ones face. Security light Viper

Exodus EX 6.5" and Viper Audio 6.5"

Here is the auxiliary battery mounted in the trunk Power and ground wires to battery Aluminum ground distribution block with electrical compound to help prevent aluminum to copper corrosion. Battery ground wire to frame sprayed with a frame coating Under hood wiring Idle voltage at battery under hood with engine running Idle voltage at auxiliary battery

I have been working a lot of overtime the past couple weeks so my free time now is at zero. Hence not much of an update. Our offer was accepted on a house and we close March 18th so now I really have no free time for awhile! But here is a 'lil something: The horns I recently bought do not fit for safety reasons. I only have about two inches of pedal clearance...damn it . Back to a three way. The waveguides are for sale. I ran my RCA's, turn-on and speaker cable on the passenger side. The door jam boot is a connector on the firewall side, totally unexpected. I had to run the speaker wire a different route through the door jam. Currently I only have the midbass wire ran. I was stunned to see that the doors were completely sealed from factory.

Between working overtime and family stuff I havent had much time at all to work on my install. Biggest update is that I am ditching the 3 way setup I was doing for the front stage. I scored a set of USD A-700 waveguides modified with Selenium DH200E-E drivers :dancing: :dancing: :dancing: I am awaiting funds to purchase SDS products for the trunk then the build will really take off. I made a mock-up box that is the same size as my subwoofer enclosure. It is much easier to move the mock-up box around than the +100lbs subwoofer enclosure. Plan A. Have the subwoofer enclosure mounted rear facing. I made an external skeleton brace. I thought it was going to work...... I think the 15" would be chocked off. My trunk is too small for a box this big rear facing. Plan B. Forward facing subwoofer sealed from trunk

And my mess in the of cords, plus a 8 inch MTX. Can you spot it? lol.

All thread used, here are the pictures Board on top

First strip! Ohhh! Driver side mostly done Everything done, got dark quick... Sorry for the blurry images, my fingers were really cut everywhere lol... Next time i will be wearing gloves. Oh and the very back where my box is going to go

New pictures! Alt in! I just installed it today, pictures tomorrow. Pictures of the floor ripped out and etc And the carpet dirty to clean!! Clean!!

Thanks for the comments! Just got done skiing, 0 degrees outside wtf!!!!!!!!

Xcon made it, love the overall look of it. Thanks Brandonf for the great looking sub! pics

Had some time today to take some pics. Shes dirty but thats how she is supposed to look Interior shots Heres a trunk shot. Additional battery Turbo Timer

The Kenwood is mounted Not really a big deal but I make everything a big deal. Hyundai made this vehicle as small as they possibly could, seriously. There is absolutley no room for anything extra. Even running a 12g wire from the battery to cabin was a pita. I couldn't imagine trying to run 1/0 through this firewall I am wired to the factory speakers for now, need some tunes till I finish my install. HU ground is on driver's side battery ground Fake faceplate mounted Kenwood KDC-X994 <-- nice HU for under $300

The removable fake faceplate is done. Kenwood hu is not mounted yet, still waiting on the wiring harness!! Mounted Backside Front/topside I will post better pics once the Kenwood is mounted.

Interior video. Exterior video. Song is "Don't let me fall" by B.o.B Gotta click on the pics. Sorry dont know how to imbed with photobucket.

Got alittle work done today on the Evo. Due to it being in the shop they took out my Kinetik hc600. So i am picking that back up tomorrow. I ran a longer set of ground so it can reach the kinetik battery. I also mounted the Alpine amp in position. The trunk has been deadened for awhile now but here are some pics. Tomorrow the Alpine cda9883 is going in and also getting my passenger window tinted the same as the driver side window. All and all its going well, I am thinking a single SA 8 in a 1 cuft enclosure will be good for now. Made the ground a tad bit longer. Alpine amp in position and secured down. The Sundown will be bolted down soon enough.

here i got one, its in the shop right now but it coming home tomorrow. I will forsure post more on once it comes back.

Bought this last week from Mead. Overall shipping was fast, good buyer. Wouldnt hesitate to purchase again from him. Love the appearence of the amp, the top is absolutely flawless, will be powering a set of Bravox that will be installed in the spring. I felt bad selling my 100.4 and 125.2 so i had to pick up another one. Heres some pics Her name is Blazin Would love to swap out the Alpine for a Sundown 1000D but the BL is a dual 1 so thats not gonna happen for awhile.

i tore the spiders on one of the subs the other day. so i reconed them last night with 4 spiders instead of 3. put the box back to 5 cubes. and what does an XL coil look like after months and months of 3x rated power? like new. and these are before the vented formers.

alright, i'm working on resizing the photos i already have up, haven't had time to do this the last couple days. Probably will have everything done tomorrow, i'm about to go watch my nephew for the night. Here is a test pic. for size reference. This is the size Sefugi told me to use. Looks good to me!

Teaser pic.

I doubt i'll ever be competing, i just want some loud(er) beats!

I'll def. check that out. just seems like it's going to be too high. but what do i know, they're the pros!

sorry, i finished these a while ago but never got around to posting pics. ill get a finished one later. nothing like glassing in the dark lol. i need a light out here.