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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.

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

Awesome review! I want one so bad.

I'm huge in Japan.

Winner in my book!

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

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

Hey TOPGUN... Torque/angle wrench Here you can see the screen, buttons, and if you look on the top and bottom of the LCD screen you can see the rows of lights that go from green to yellow to red.

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

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.

Crescendo bc2k

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.

@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.

It is regular flat back paint brushed on. It was still wet when he took pics. I will let him give his opinion but it slams hella hard. Threw the box in my truck to test before his and seriously pounds. Very clean, tight, deep and hard hitting. Making me rethink my build and I may just snatch up some Zcon 18's

here are the Dcons installed into a local buddy's ride Early box design by Swift And amp rack, I'm digging the first one Really great guy. Maybe I will finally have some proper music going, this thing was already banging before, can't wait till new enclosure!

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

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.

Thanx, can't wait to get things done! Thank you sir, I'm glad to finally be posting a fairly steady set of updates on this thing. Speaking of updates, here's the pictures from this weekends drive to get things done. I got the PCMforless performance tuned PCM installed this weekend along with the K&N cold air intake and the new Singer 250A alternator along with the Intimidator battery and BIG 3. Things went pretty smooth throughout the installation and the only hiccup I had was that I forgot about a slightly longer belt for the engine with the new alt installed. Quick trip to O'Reilly's yesterday nabbed me a 1 inch longer belt that fits perfectly to finish it and the BIG 3 up today. Onto the pictures. Here's the stuff, Knu Kolossus 1/0 cable, battery terminals and ring terminals, Singer alt and The Intimidator. Love Knu's stuff. The alt is nifty as hell. As you can see in these pics, how the charging stud is done is a little odd to me but it should work just fine. Besides, I'll only be running an SAZ-1500, nothing real crazy. This is how I saw it out of the box. Not drilled and tapped in the center. Working on getting the new battery in I found a little issue as you can see below. I had to make a quick modification to the battery tray. Luckily removing it was a snap and a quick run at the 10" wheeled bench grinder and it fits great. More pics of the alternator and BIG 3 installation. Well, hopefully in the next day or two I'll have the passenger side door baffle and the second half of the Bravox CS60K components installed and the pics of that up. Also, with the week off on vacation I plan on working on the amp rack and sub enclosure in between playing with the kids while they're on spring break. I bought the kids a pair of little four wheelers of their own yesterday so we'll be pretty busy playin' it up this week!!! Thanx for looking at the build.

Update, with box in!!! Still haven't listened to it yet due to many 's lol Internal cable management Yes, I run 4awg welding cable for speaker wire Finished product! T-Nuts to hold Zcon in place Looking through port In the eX Yes, I know, its upside down More ducktape!!! Got port? I hope to make a little bit of noise with this experiment setup And thats it for now, wow that was a lot of Learned a lot through the process. But the build log won't stop here Stay Tuned!!

Ok, so last update for the night, its now 4:18, so I've been at this for atleast 5 hours after an 8 hour shift at work This box build is finally almost complete, thank god, this was a lot of work!! I have gained much respect for box builders. Well on to the pics... Glueing three panels together Decided to try bolt through terminals this time. Inside view of the terminals Inside view of finished bracing view with top baffle on Laying glue down on baffle And this is where we stand tonight, pic of the enclosure all clamped up. This enclosure is very ugly, uneven, and slppy, but at the end of the day, I'm happy with it, I feel accomplished Thanks for looking! Time to get some damn sleep after a nice shower.

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!!

Ok, here are the few pics that was taken by Project Mayhem Car Club/Models I tried to get her to get a close up of the ICON, but since it was back there a little, I guess its hard to see

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

$225 shipped inside U.S. 26.5" deep x 24.25" wide x 12.5" tall 2.5 cft tuned to 32 hertz wrapped in black carpet, your choice of blue, red, yellow, or grey suede

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.

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.

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

The internal fusing is 160-amps per amp, so you can match that for 2 ohm strapped (1 ohm per amp).