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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

Audioque 2200. I have been running mine at half ohm for months now. Never goes into protect or anything

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!

I can't decide

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looking great eric...

That sucks! I hope things go in your favor and you get your money back.

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.

This is what the front doors looked like before I removed all of it and covered it in SS.

It's trying to tell you something about that DD-1.

I would stay under 1000 watts with that alt. You should more look at the SSA Gcon and a 500-750 watt amp. That would get plenty loud

I would worry less about the subwoofer selection and more about how you plan to power a 1600w amplifier on a stock electrical with a 70A alternator.

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.

Alright, not much going on here. Having to completely rethink the amp rack, looks like I'll have to build two, one on each side of the rear. Good news tho, got the PR's yesterday!!! I want to give a BIG thank you to Aaron and Mark for allowing me to have PR's made with the XCON dustcaps and logos on them, a BIG BIG Thank You to you both. With the PR's in hand I can start on the enclosure building and now for a few quick pics of the PR's.

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?

@dbsupra, thanks for the interest! But have been dealing with some issues as of late. I think I've FINALLY found the source, and its my pioneer, I think. Well anyways its in the shop. I have a few pics I can upload though. hope you enjoy! Ordered new RCA's Just a random shot of the ZED installed, it is not currently in this configuration. random shot of the box installed, again, not in this configuration atm Painted L brackets And today is a sad day... now I haz NO boom. But I hope for it to fix some of the issues I am having.

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

More updates! Got the passenger door done yesterday. I have to say the Bravox components are well worth the money I paid. They're super smooth sounding with no harshness and they're very accurate as well. I really really can't wait to get the 125.2 on them and see how they really sound. The HU's small power so limits how good a set of speakers can sound, reaching distortion at listening levels that border on the quiet at times with bass, midbass and often midrange as well. Which is one of the many reasons that everyone should put at least a small amp on their highs. Well, enough of that, onto the pictures. Aside from the fact it's the passenger door instead of the drivers door, everything went pretty much exactly the same so I focused more on what it looks like finished than on the entire installation process like I did with the drivers door. Got the door panel off. Tweeter connector on. Bravox tweeter in with new connector on. Same as the drivers door, got the gasket foam on under the baffle to help seal, decouple, and allow for some minute adjustments. Voila, all done and both doors don't look too shabby.

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.

SSA subs are yummmmmmy!

Small update, I have finished my bracing dowels finally! Omg, that took forever, I got to go and get more screws now tho, and food, I'm starvin like marvin right now! Curse fast matabalizm Bracing Plates pre-cuts Don't mind the mess ups above^^ My excellent carpentre at its best Here they are stacked up, I smooved the edges, will it make it louder? I doubt it, but it looks nice lol And heres the final product And thats where I stand ATM, once I get back, I suppose I'm going to try and place some panels together, *nervous* Wish me luck!!

Lotion next to the trophy, I don't like where this is going.

I finished installing the XEQ today Also captured some comparison pictures of my new drivers vs my old one pre excisting explorer. And here are some comparison pics of the same RF driver and my new tweets I know they size isn't everything, but these puckers are huge! Also, Its been a few weeks now, and with the new CAI and a recent checkup/tuneup at 100k, this is now what I'm getting at highway speeds

Somebody's gonna like this box...

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.

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

The viper The temp grounds since I don't know how to secure them to the frame yet Tried twice and failed The grounds coming into the vehicle.

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

Got some more pictures to post today Began Very shiddy box build today. I've made some contact with DC Creations, I guess they have a lot on their plate ATM, so this box sole purpose was to be a fill in till their enclosure gets here. And then the new power cable showed up today, I'm very pleased The below picture is my attempt to fix this phreaking engine noise that I've been having. At first, it wasn't too bad, and then I set my gains by ear, and it was very present. So I shaved some paint for the ground of the amp, and done the following to the headunit with that wire sticking out to a ground behind the head unit and OMG, it made it even worse, so right now I have no idea what to do I'm guessing maybe I need to get another wire and attach the wire that is going around the rca's to the frame of the HU?? I'm not really sure what could help at this point. But, besides that, this is where I stand, I will probably run the new wire tommarrow, and through this shiddy box in lol