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The only reason I'd rewire into the door is if I were running two+ sets of wire into the door. Considering I am flat out pretty opposed to any comp set this means I always get to. If I was using something passive and had a good spot for the passive in the door then there is no way I'd bother. The stock wiring is really fine.

So I've decided to finally start this build after procastinating and having some free time here at work. Equipment list is as follows: Pioneer AVH-4300DVD Boss REV-655 (Mids/High) AQ1200D (Sub) IA I series Coaxial (rear) IA I series Components (front) 10" SSA Icon D2 DC Creations Enclosure (Coming Soon) 47 Feet of Welding cable (Awaiting Shipment) 3 15 Feet Monoprice RCA's 100 Feet of 12 gauge Monoprice Speaker Wire This is a on going project that would soon lead to for some more serious output, but this will get me through till then. I will keep my plannings under wrap to keep the suspense and will reveal whatever shows up at the door . But for now, I will show pics! Sorry for so many, I tend to be a camera whore lol The following pictures you can see how I threw everything in, and after a few days, I began to clean it up. And thats where I am as of this moment, again, sorry for so many pictures lol, all was taken with my Kyocera Echoe. Right now, my new cable is in the mail, 15 pounds worth lol. And enclosure is being designed by DC Creations, so just waiting on those two things at this moment. But for a quick review of where everything stands right now, watching Transformers in here sounds fucking amazing. Once I get the sub in there, it will definately be better than going to the movie theatre for sure. It gets so loud in here now and I'm glad I can finally hear the words with minimal distoration at high levels. I would like to thank edouble and Sean DeYoung for their amazing contribution On a side note: Heres me slaving 12 hour shifts at work KITTY!!

our view from our condo just got to the beach before we ate at DOCS (loved that restaurant) our view from the doc where we had our dinner just beautiful at dinner i was on another level lol my girls took a pic with amy she is popular monkey in port a jons big cup of JAGER he took down to the pool we love the beach last pic there (jon is hung over) we love our shirts

Cory and I where sitting around thinking of some funny stuff to come up with our upcoming video's at competitions. We came up with a few funny ending lines that will be spoken out and typed on screen as our TeamSSA disclaimer. Read through what we have, then perhaps think a few funny things yourselves, and we'll add them if they are good enough. Here we go... #1. Team SSA is not responsible for you blowing up your equipment while trying to keep pace with Team SSA. #2. Team SSA is not responsible for your girlfriend dumping you for another and/or multiple Team SSA members. #3. Team SSA does not supply kleenex, so please bring your own. #4. Team SSA is not responsible for any "Public Displays of Affection" toward our products and/or teammates in the public's view. #5. Team SSA is not responsible for your un-controlable URGES towards our equipment and/or teammates and/or multiple teammates. Feel free to share any thing that comes to mind. I will add anything to the above list if it's good We are going to put this at the end of our team video's as the "out-tro". PS, this is obviously in fun, so lighten up!

Winner in my book! thought you might like that

I can't decide

do we get to see this on judge judy?

Yay for updates! This was a fun day. First a big thanks to my buddy Rick for coming over early in the morning just to help me load this monster up. No amp on the box, just too much weight. O_o Amp installed. A little bit of the wiring. A couple of install picks. Barely enough room to shut the barn doors. Looking over the drivers shoulder. Finally, some subs in view. Up next some the smoke test. O_o

Sorry dude. I told you don't buy that stetsom.

looking great eric...

thats one large bucket of jegger!!!!! fuckin right !!

Now the part that took all damn day! If you notice the braces are not attached to the skin. So I used epoxy from my father in law and got busy. The braces are solid and covered in SS.

With the batteries up in place it was time to connect the cables from the alternators to the battery bank. In getting ready to make the connections I was stopped in my tracks. The fuse panel thingie that I made to go inbetween the alternators and batteries was in bad shape. Here are a couple of pics of the item and location in question. The fuse holder panel. Fuse holder panel in position. Here is said part after a year. I think what really did this part in is for Christmas I drove the Suburban to El Paso. It was a freezing drive, I-10 was salted to keep the ice to a minimum. Here are some more pics of what I had to work with. The backside. I used a wire cup on the drill press to knock off the lose paint and rust. I followed up with a scotch brite pad to get into the corners. Lastly I followed up with some metal conditioner to neutalize the rust and prep the bare metal for paint. Here is what I used. Here is the part in my quick drying contraption. This is what the part looked like before painting. A close up of the neutralized rust, well sort of. There is still a little bit of rust red in there. When properly done all of the rust should be a black color. Another treatment would have gotten all done right. My quick drying contraption in action again getting the job done with the fuse holder panel painted. The finished part, ready for installation. DOUBLE UPDATE!!!!!!! A little something extra for tonight. Some of you know, some don't, but the front stage was being powered by a Crescendo 1000c4. I sold it. Now here is what's taking it's place. Yes sir, today we merge the old school with the modern era. A US Acoustics USB-2080 (2x80) for the components, and a US Acoustics USB-2150 (2x150) for the mid-bass. One last pic at a funny angle to make you tilt you head to the side as you look at it. The end is near.

Ok, so here a decent build update, hope you guys enjoy. I started yesterday(Thursday) at 6pm and it is now 9:20 (Friday). Wasn't a lot of work done persay, one job, but just involved a lot of time that I really haven't had lately. I'm dead beat right now though lol, covered in saw dust and sticky glue fml. Well what I did was flatten my false floor to be flush with the rest of the cargo area, I wrapped it in the same material as my box, cleaned the interior of car, I ran cable under the false floor and mounted both amps. Here are the pics. I used these blocks to level the false floor. In place, one on each side and two and the far ends of the hatch side. Stacking them prior to above image Here are a few imaged of what it looks like underneath. Good amount of area down there, I will be utilizing this area later on Amp guts of the Aq 1200 Installed mounting feet of the ZED Floor wrapped in Pleather from Hobby Lobby Floor installed Most wire ran Amps installed VERY tight fitting on all wiring Another view Not so blurry version No wires are visible with seats up Anotther angle of the amps, rear passenger door Notice it is now light out >.< I love this photo here, ZED and Got Port? Notice how flush it looks!! And of course the Z And thats it for this update, overall, I am VERY pleased with the results. The thing that inspired me to do this was, well it was messy, but also, I am a new member of my first car club! Project Mayhem of Nashville. So now the new challenge while competing in MECA will be to be loud AND looking good while doing it Thoughts?

And thats all she wrote. Box is about 98% complete at this point. Should be playing tomar. Box looks very stout in person, as this, all about buisness feel to it, I like it.

Got the 45s in

So here the progress on new build. All thanks to swift, who does amazing work! Cut outs Looks damn good to me

So this was a little different experience for me, haha, opening a product I've never seen opened before. I haven't seen any ZED equipment unpackaged, as far as newer model amps are concerned. Usually, when its time to open a present, you shake the box, listen for noise, look at the physical size of the package and w/e other technique we did as children, to nail it down to a few things of what might be inside. Well, I knew what was inside, I've just never seen one in person, where as christmas presents, we usually see our gifts at w/e store. So instead of ripping up the package, lol, I carefully untaped it There was no pretty pictures on the box, which is fine by me uhhhhhh, and then hold your breath There she is! Like I said, I didn't know what to expect, I actually just let it sit there in the box for a few minutes as I was sort of nervous lol I was really like this, After four weeks, I haz a Zed Leviathan 3 Its rather large, but not so heavy, which is good. maybe less than 10 lbs, I suppose you could put it in the "small thing big package" category:D As you can see from the picture, It has a decent size foot print, but the picture still does no justice. The big circle thing with all the copper coils wrapped around it is like, one big mofo lol. 3" in diameter to be exact. The caps are huge as well. There was quite a big of scracthes on the plexi, which kind of scared me at first, because some of the scratches are pretty deep. But once you remove the laminate cover, its squeeky clean. Ummm, overall, I really love this thing. Not sure when I will be installing it, most likely not for a while. I would like to get those 4 drivers and 4 tweets installed first. But like I said, 10/10 as far as first impression goes

Plus 20 bucks

its your build log. you can post as you like. everybody has opinions. even edouble. i just stick up for what i love.

A few pics to show what I'll be working on for the next few hours.

Thanks @16k Small update During assembly of the box, I was wondering HTH am I going to cut the circles, so after a lot of stressful thinking and trying to get my roomates router to work, I decided to bite the bullet and just by some sort of damn tool myself. So before heading into work today, I stoped by lowes and bought the cheapest jigsaw I could find. Its pretty neat though and took little effort to make the circles. So now that I have just finished the cuts while at work, once I get home, I will glue the last 3 pieces together after test fitment and adjustments. Here are a few more pics. So just waiting for these next few hours to past, go home, and try to start "wanging" tomorrow sometime hopefully.

Ok, small update, I didn't finsish the enclosure today Simply because we don't have anything at the house to cut perfect circles, but I believe my roomate is going to be kind enough to buy some adapter for the router, so I'm hopeing I can finish up tomorrow But I was able to put 4 walls up and 4 bracing in. Check out the pics Icon - Zcon Icon - Zcon Icon - Zcon Painted daily port Box from angle 1 Box from angle 2 I've also notice, replying since board update doesn't place nice with the latest version of FF But thats where I'm at right, just gonna let all that dry, then tomorrow, Place the double baffle and flush.

SSA subs are yummmmmmy!

ok, last update for the night, I've been at this for 15hours today, and I'm beat, will conitnue tommorrow. Not really much of a progress since going to get food, I cut my daily port to length, will pain the outside tommorrow, but I layed gorilla ducktape in the inside walls, to help with the flow of the air. Maybe it will increase .002 dbs?

I am feeling very good about this box build so far! The Zcon showed up in great condition, thank you very much Edoub. I am taking a small break right now as I've been working at this since I woke up (12ish). I'm making great progess, and I usually don't stop till I'm finish. Also, with the help of a friend, we have taken out the third row seating, and the stock subwoofer. After this update, I'm going to go back and finish up So for now, enjoy some pics! Gutted out third row Stock woofer location Stock Woofer My friend Dj installing the legs to keep the false floor level. Draw out of 4x4 displacement plate Another Third Row Zcon Shipping Zcon 8 Cut Outs, Double Baffle, Flush Clamps, Dowels, 10" Concrete Foam Tube New Tube vs Old 10" vs 8" And after 10hrs of updating with the board update Thats all I have atm, will now go back to work!! Also, for the dowels, I'm doing 2 Vertical, 2 Horizontal, and 2 Depth. I hope this works! Can't say enough thanks to Stefan, great guy

So yesterday was my first event, and I believe I did ok? I competed in S1 and scored a 140 flat with my Icon and AQ1200 and was beat by 1.4 dbs from a IA LI on a memphis 600watter in a late 90s Nissan Sentra <img src='http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=''/> even though I swear his sounded like a POS and not nearly as loud as mine which makes me very angry!!! lol, but it was fun, and I gained a lot more knowledge which was the goal. I wanted to get my feet wet before I walked in there with an updgraded system, just to get my feet wet kind of thing. Saw some great system and got some demos as well. And boy does 155 make my panties wet <img src='http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/peepwall.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=''/> Well on with the pics. I also got some professional pics taken as well that I should have available this week and of course will share them. I can't wait for the next one!

So the past few days, I've recieved a few packages in the mail. http://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/seas-soft-dome-tweeters/seas-prestige-27tdfc-h1189-textile-dome-tweeter/ and http://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/seas-woofers-6-7/seas-prestige-u18rnx/p-h1571-7-curv-cone-woofer/ Also http://www.arcaudio.com/product-pages/processors//equalizers/xeq.asp I will be running two drivers and two tweets per door. I'm no glasser and I want it to look as professional as possible, so I've decided to take the doors to a local shop around here. And he will begin on my doors starting next thursday if all goes to plan. I've decided to place the eq inside the center console department. Reason buying it was to give me some control over certain freqs as well as being able to control the volume of the subwoofer amplifier on the fly and hopes to cut out some engine noise at the same time. I haven't finished completely yet, ran out of day light yesterday, so I hope to finish it up today before heading into work. Now let me start off by saying these drivers are the best thing I have ever layed my hands on in regards to speakers. I've never seen this kind of craftmenship and design within a speaker before, only in upper model subwoofers. I was blown away by looking at them. They are huge as well. About 5" in depth and 7" wide. I cannot wait to get these in. Also, I'm hoping my new amplifier for these will be in before the doors are finished. The guy said about a week from start to finish. And I ordered the amp a few days ago. On with the pics!! I tell you what, my camera does these drivers no justice. I thought my IAs were big, these literally dwarf over those lol. I wish I had a better camera. Now, I don't have small doors, but just to give you guys an idea of driver placement. The next pics will show you my progress on installing the XEQ. I will need to order some Elbow shaped M - F rcas because these damn Monoprice RCAs are just too big Rerouting the RCAs that go to the amplifiers. And thats where I stand right now. I hope to get everything finished and cleaned up today as I've only been listening to ONE speakers for the past 2-3 weeks! Idk what happen but some channels went out, I'm hoping to fix that as well here. Good thing these IAs get loud lol

Thanks Chop! On with some real progress. Here is the wood flooring to brace everything down for the Freeze Fest on the 21st. Here is a photo of my new box being built by the mad scientist Shizzzon Heres a video that I've taken a few weeks ago, never uploaded/posted it for some reason. Pretty nice footage.

I suppose I should bring over my door speaker install if the IA's Coaxials. Right now I have the IA's Components in their place, and have moved them to the rear. Here is link for that thread, and I will simply carry over the photos. 07 Explorer door panel removal Comments?

Wow, its been a few weeks now with the ICON, and I am all of the impressed as you can get, this thing is amazing. Just can't say enough none the less. I shot a video this morning after work, it was nice and shinny out. There was a lot of flexing going on, I couldn't believe it haha. Well enough talk, just watch video, also, I recorded with my phone, so quality isn't amazing as it is capable of catching of the flex, but, after watching the video, just times that by two and you pretty much have the right idea of how it looks like in person

Here are the subs I installed for a local, helping grow the SSA community one sub at a time And this is.. Well you know what this is Will take more pics onces its here

Alright, heres the last update for this small build log, from this point forward, I will only be updating once equipment arrives, whenever that may be. This picture is what showed up a few days ago I made several attempts with DC Creations to get a box built for when I had the 10", but had no luck. Very few response that included information such as, Sorry I forgot, or been busy and will get back in the morning, or the most recent reasoning being out for lunch. I am very disappointed with their CS and wouldn't recommend if your not willing to basicaly beg them for an enclosure. This box was built by Audible Enclosures I believe and is huge and is amazing. Made out of birch wood, and specs are 4.0 cuft tuned to 34hz. I absolutely love this thing. Next picture is of the DMM I chose to tune my system I really like it, feels well built. And this picture is where I decided to install the voltmeter, I like it, and oddly its not too bright for me, maybe since its so low I don't see it while driving? It was already calibrated correctly which was nice. I checked with a DMM. My voltage seems rather low tho In the morning on a cold start, its anywhere between 14.0 and 14.3 but during normal driving, its anywhere from 13.8-14.0, I have the big three done, 130 factory amp alt, and a large walmart batt under the hood so IDK... The following two pics are of my finished terminal wiring, not the best but will do for now. And these last pictures are of the goodies And thats it for the camera show. All left to do now is to clean up the wires and vacume up a bit lol. I played around a bit with box placement and I am most satisfied with the port on the passenger side. Other thing on the to do list is to install some sort of amp rack, not sure how I am going to do this, any ideas would be great! I want to keep it clean but security is my number one priority. I have to find a wall to bolt down the box and the amp rack. I have a few bolts around the cargo area, some are holding down the third row seats, and some are holding down a few cargo hooks. The other thing is to install my Viper 5902 which I am NOT going to attempt lol. But shop quotes cost more than the freaking viper did Well thats it for now guys, would love to hear some feed back

update: So, the first batch of photos are my new Short Ram Cold Air Intake. I love this damn thing, a huge improvement for sure. One hour install time as well. Second bath of photos are of the big three complete. Been up for quite some time, so hopefully I can get some rest tomarrow and continue sometime this weekend.

Ok so yesterday I got some more mail, and today. Yesterday I recieved my welding cable and jesus, this wire is unlike anything I have ever seen before. Even a 10 ft cut weighs a ton lol. Well here are some pics. Note* I also picked up some copper terminals, super duper heavy duty these phuckers are. The completed box... The wire is thicker than my fingers lol Ok, now for the story, opening the package for the terminals, I wondered, HTF am I gonna crimp these ? They are sooo thick, and just, seem unmoveable. So I found a solution, instead of ordering a 400$ crimper, I used some tool, (don't know the name), and a hammer. The pictures will help explain my method which turned out really great actually and I am very satisfied with the results. Heat Wrap, don't work so well with a normal hair dryer So I decided to double wrap And here I layed out the big 3 1 feet, 3 feet and 6 feet And a quick local stop to AutoZone I upgraded the terminals. Do have a problem though, the postive post of this daily battery is larger than the negative post. The problem this causes is that the new terminals won't snuggly fit on the negative post, so right now, its on there, but isn't tight at all (Yes thats what she said I know), so any opinion on how to fix this? In the morning, I will complete the big 3 withte positive run. Ran out of time today unfortunately Here is the ground I used, its the same one that Ford used. I just sanded down to the metal. And the package today was just my voltmeter that was already dead on with no need to calibrate Thats it for today

Seems I left out a few... Do NOT ever buy speaker adapter from Sonix Electronix, I would only recommend Car-Speaker-Adapter.com Ohhhh How I wish I could Put this on... (Aaron)