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Why do you want to put double rated power? Doing this, you void the warranty, and assume all responsibility for whatever damage happens. If you want to run something with 1500 watts, get something for 1500 watts. Pretty simple. You don't buy a sports car to pull a trailer do you? I'll give you a hint also; if the driver is able to handle a lot more power, it's simply because the driver has been underrated to begin with. The driver is made to handle 1000 watts, but the manufacturer rates it to handle 500 watts, then makes videos of it handling more power like it's some super woofer or better than other TRUE 500 watt drivers. People buy the bullshit, and buy the driver. That simple.

If this doesn't come out clear enough let me know, I'll email you a PDF.

Chances are good in most of the instances people are running an amplifier rated for more power than the SA's are rated to handle but they are not truly applying that much power to the subwoofer. As Tirefryr said, purchase a subwoofer capable of handling the power you intend to use or stay within the power guidelines set by the manufacturer of the subwoofer you are using. Overpowering a driver will void any warranty as burnt coils or a wrecked suspension are clear signs of abuse and not covered by any warranty regardless of manufacturer. I will however say the Gcon line was designed to comfortably handle their rated power thermally.

Silicone works great. Nice job Alton at saving him from making a box that whistles with the bass.

The smell from silicone should disappear as soon as it cures, or at least the worst of it. Glue has a tendency to shrink when applied like that and crack, which doesn't do much to help seal any seams, especially if there's a gap. Other people use fiberglass resin and things of that type, but the smell from them is even worse than the silicone. It's not much help, but that's my general findings. Silicone is just hard to beat for the job.

such a good guy alton....

It's in the ballpark of where you need to be anyway. Others may and will have some other ideas, or maybe even a better design, but at least we're getting you headed in the right direction.

Teacher: If you have 10 chocolate cakes and someone asks for 2, how many do you have left? Me: 10 Teacher: Okay, well what if somebody forcibly takes two of the cakes, how many would you have left then? Me: 10 and a dead body.

Heard about the 4ch....FTL Happy for you bro! All the hard work has paid off You're still coming up for finals, right?....you damn well better be! ........& you better have your equipment in & functioning!! That is all....LOL

This thread is done, end of story. Don't stoke the fire. If you need help, search the board, if you don't find what your looking for, post a new thread, and everyone will be glad to help.

Now I'm confused do you need some help? I've been straight up with you and spent a bit of my time talking with you trying to help. I offered to design you an enclosure for FREE. I am willing to help but I don't like being lied to. When you were messaging me you referenced previous times we had talked, if your brother got that "into" the lie then damn I'm sorry.

Pulling a single one wouldn't be so much work and I can help make sure he can walk it in so that he can use it to drive around the grounds. It will take him more than the 4 days to see everything and he'll want inter-grounds transportation. Seriously ridiculous amount of things to see.

That's pretty hard to believe. Didn't sound much like a 14 year old typing.

The detailed pics and descriptions are every bit as awesome as you are! Looks great to me, I would be proud to own it for sure. I can see this being one of my favorite builds when all done. Keep up the good work and thanks for the great build log. Your time on it is well appreciated. Chop

Okay, the amp rack is done, installed and the 125.2 is running the Bravox components like the clean powerhouse I expected it to be. Those components have been well worth the modest price I paid for them while using them on the HU and with the amp running them that is even more evident. I have A LOT of tuning to do yet with the new found power, but so far the difference is exactly what I expected. Although I do have to say that the internal amp on the HU is definitely a powerful little chip and ran the Bravox's quite well considering the low power. As for the amp rack, I'm quite pleased with how it turned out except for a few little things, nothing big enough to really bother me, I just know I could have done better with it. On to the pictures. Here's the pics of the final assembly. Went together just like it was supposed to. Here's a couple of pictures of the ground for the battery and 125.2. I bolted the grounds to the floor with a cable running to the frame. I also covered that bracket on the frame and where the cable bolts to the bottom of the floor with the bedliner I used on the amp rack to keep the connections clean and prevent rust but didn't figure it was picture worthy. The pics jump right to the installation at this point. I just didn't see the need to include everything in between. Here you can see the amps mounted on the rack with the bedliner all done on it. This is one of my little fuck ups from getting in a hurry that I'm hating. I got my router with roundover bit laid out and ready to go before I applied the bedliner but got in such a hurry that I completely spaced picking it up and using it. So none of the edges or corners are rounded like they were supposed to be. I figure if something ever happens and I have to redo something I'll do it then and refinish the bedliner on it. Got the cables all pulled out straight and ready for it to go in. Here's the XP950 sitting ready to be connected and installed. Got the battery connected and set in place in the rack. Everything was measured so closely that I won't have to worry about it going ANYWHERE in there. Getting all the wires and cables pulled up through the board and laid in place. Here's the rack set in place over the carriage bolts. As you can see with the bolts and wing nuts holding it I shouldn't have to worry about the rack going anywhere and it makes it quite easy to remove again if needed. The last one is a bit of a reach, but again, everything was measured so well that my arm still easily fits in there to get to it. Got the wires pulled up and connected to the amps. The power wires connected to the front battery. And lastly the finished product. The things that annoy me with it finished is that the top board of the rack isn't as close to the side of the truck as I had planned, even though it was just right on the test fit it somehow came out with about a 3/8" gap. Not bad, but it shouldn't have been that far off. The other thing, if you notice the empty hole on the back of the rack there, is that the remote knob wire ended up being about 8" too short to reach the 1500. Easily remedied with a phone wire extension cable, but still annoying. So, besides the lack of rounded edges, the gap and the short wire it pretty well came out like I planned. Onto the enclosure build!!!

Built well and designed to handle their rated power with ease. No worries on either area of concern.

Congrats Cheezy! PS either you have a tiny head or thats a BMF port! PPS looks like that box was hit by a forklift. looks like it is still in one piece tho!

Thank you, I am no different than anyone else really. In my head I think "what if" probably too much. And I really do like this enclosure, I have many many hours in it and if I did change it would be a curiosity thing mainly. Here is a final video showing my setup to complete this build log.

Like I said at the event man, your score's do not represent the way your setup sounds at all. Most and usually all competitors will tell you this, what the meters says, and what the ears says, are usually two different things, and I must say, to the ear, I believe yours sounds so much louder than what the meter says. And to be honest, me as a competitor, I like the way yours sound to the ear vs the meter. Honest to god truth, your setup sounds louder/better than some of the vehicles that did 5 db higher than yours. Way to go. I will admit, to see you double cone and power would be interesting to say the least.

^ note: this guy, he is a tease!

Wu-tang kitties.

Put one of my XCON 12's in a not so ideal enclosure a few days ago, and holy shit I'm impressed. It's only getting ~900 watts and it is damn loud. I haven't run two 12's in years and I'm excited! I can't wait until I get some time to build an enclosure for the two of them and double the power.

I've just watched Tron Legacy, pretty cool movie. And since I listened to the soundtrack beforehand, it made it that much more fun to pay attention to it

Little bit more protein, little less iron, calories, fat, and carbs. Yes, I am quibbling over a few tenths of a milligram, but since both are the same price and both get the job I went with the second option.

Walter White and Jesse?

Just ordered a freakish blend of powder from TP, we'll see how it goes. Hard to argue with $8 a pound.

Thanks man. Well dude was obviously cheating, but I guess not enough proof? I don't know, but a over a 100 votes from fake profiles should raise a few eye brows. So now they're having each company vote. 2 out of 3 wins. I saw that they were doing the whole best of three BS. But I didn't see that he got the first vote until just now. Hopefully they are just prolonging it?? I don't know but if he wins there will be an angry mob lol. Yea I'm sure I'll win the vote for Friday.... We'll see what happens. My friends are pretty pissed off. They've busted their asses trying to get me legitimate votes throughout the whole thing. So it was like a slap in the face for their votes to be disregarded and the cheating to be ok..Hopefully it all comes out in the wash. Pretty awesome thing IA is trying to do. It'd just be a shame for a cheater to win....

A lil bit of sex in the background

started a tiny bit today, but more tomorrow

i didn't get many pics, but it was a fucking nightmare to say the least. But I got them in and they made a HUGE difference they hold up to an additional 1200lbs.. EACH!

new one to add due to todays activities at the house - When you rip and old bathtub out, and get into and argument with the guy helping you. Trying to decide if there is enough airspace in it for a 15" or an 18"