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Not to mention it has shit ass products installed in it. It is now worth nothing because of that install

I prefer the Jim Breuer approach to stress relief BINKBINKBINKBINKBINKBINK

Bright purple!

Sounds quite good actually.

The Evil is a different breed of sub. I know every time I am listening to good music the Evil just starts hurting my ears and trying to tear my 4runner apart!

Looks like I have me a new (old) toy to work on ... a 1949 Ford 2 Door Custom Sedan !!! I know, i'm primarily a Chevy guy, but this one I just can not resist ... These are my dad's favorite body style cars and he has always fixed them up origional ... Not me !!! It has a Flat 6 in it now that runs great, so we plan to leave the drive train stock until we get the body and interior up to par ... Just not sure yet as to go with a Ford or Chevy drive train ... guess it all depands on what I can find to fix her up with at that time ...

which vvme are those 1000watt or 800watt? Like the videos phatboi. First one was the best nothing better then a system walk through CLEAN AS HELL on the install specially the battery bank and the ground pounder! nm found out 1000watt.

WinISD can model the response of each driver in each alignment, though it does take a little time to input all the T/S parameters. It's not so much "should" as "could". Since speakers are dumb and only do what we tell them to do in the environment we choose to make them do it in, it's still going to work and do it's job. Given all the conditions are right it CAN perform better in the optimum enclosure size than in something smaller, all those conditions dictate what that difference is. For example, in a trunk as small as yours the gains from running the sub in an optimum sized enclosure could be negligible compared to the 1.75cuft enclosure, or it could make a bigger difference than it would in the back of a Suburban per say. I'm no acoustic engineer and quite frankly, while I have seen, read and somewhat understand the way to figure for all that I'm really not capable of doing it. WinISD will give the response of each of those drivers and alignments but only for a given set of conditions and one thing I can tell you now is that those conditions do not match that of the trunk and cabin of your car, or mine, or anyone elses. Vehicles have what it called cabin gain on the lower frequencies due to how the air pressurizes in the small environment. WinISD doesn't account for any of that and what you see on the graphs will in most all cases not match what it really does in real life in a given vehicle. Which like many others is where I find myself, just trying to figure for the most of what I can and hope for the best. It sounds bad, but how many people really figure for EVERY variable, or even can? As for the PR's, they take the place of the port. The passive radiator is basically another sub but without a motor or voice coil. When the active sub moves the pressure changes in the enclosure move the cone of the passive radiator. By adding weight to the cone you can tune the frequency the PR resonates at and therefore tune the enclosure much like you would that of a ported enclosure. The pros are that the enclosure is smaller than a standard ported enclosure as it only needs to be as large as the NET volume is required to be and you get the same response as a ported enclosure. The cons are that it's not a BIG savings in space in most cases, it can be difficult to find space on the faces of the enclosure for the PR(s), and they're more expensive since you have to purchase the PR(s) as well as the active sub. The power doesn't really change anything as far as the enclosure is concerned.

I mean, the 12" ICON could be used in the enclosure I mentioned, but it sure won't be running at it's optimum performance capabilities. The 10" ICON could definitely get to it's optimum performance. The 12" ICON sealed may really surprise you. There's been plenty of SSA customers who've used the ICON's sealed and had no complaints on the output. Another, more costly option, would be to go with a passive radiator for the 12. Though I'm not sure how much good a PR setup does with only one PR matching the driver's size, but it would be another possible option I would think. I'm currently working on one for a 10" XCON for my Jimmy. I'm just listing the other options because I'd hate for you to get the ICON and not enjoy it.

Awesome news for you.

Personally I wouldn't use it. There's not enough port area and the volume is smaller than I would want to use for any 12. 12.5" height seems like that's all you have due to the trunk height, what are your max dimensions on width and depth. I would be glad help you with another enclosure design. Any chance you could get 13" on height and be okay?

Now this is cool ... (quoted from CA-F) Absolutely ...

That is awesome. Added to the bucket list, restore an old car.

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Happy belated birthday haha nice alt!!

Looks great Nem!

Special color.

Little more progress. Ready for carpet and lining on the inside.

This is where we are at now ... Behind Dad's shop on blocks. We have the brakes completely tore apart waiting on parts ... we are going to completely rebuild the Master Cylinder and Wleel Clyinders and replace the rubber brake lines. From what we can tell, the "hard line" brake lines are fine ... For now Will I ever replace the drum brakes with power disc brakes ??? Yea later when I have the time and money. But for now, the drum brakes should work just fine ...

Interior ... Well, there isn't any ... LOL What do you think about our temporary gas tank ?? It works !!! As soon as the primary things are done to make this a running / driveable vehicle ... This will be my first place to start rebuilding and customizing !!! As you can see, we have plenty of room to work with when we get ready to set her up for stage and image !!!

She has a 6 volt charging system that will HAVE to be changed to a 12 volt system before any Electronic modifications are done to this vehicle ... This motor will crank up and run great !!! Just needed a hot battery and a gallon Jug of gas ... We drove it to the work location !!! To date, My dad has restored 6 of these cars (I worked on most of them as a kid) ... He has 2 left, the one he is working on now and this Black one. It was bought about 12 years ago to be restored and for the most part, work has been done to it, but put aside SEVERAL times for other vehicles ... He plans to restore the Blue one, but has no intrest in selling the Black one. So, he gave it to me so it would stay in the Family. Over the years the car has been cranked up and moved around in the yard and has been driven up and down the road a few times, but for the most part, sits under the old tree in dad's back yard just waiting for someone to give it some TLC ... We've taken a hot battery and a jug of gas out into the field and cranked up his old cars for years !!! Now all of them are gone (primarily cause of his bad health) except the two 49 sedans ... I'm sure down the road that I will end up with both of them but I am definately not wanting to push that issue !!! He wants to see them completly fixed up and restored before he dies (his words) ... But I have plans to customize mine. Just to see how it turns out ...

HBD

Apparently when I reply to an email with something along the lines of this: The factory is a little backed up due to the huge spring rush. They are working as fast as they can with out sacrificing quality. As soon as we have an update, we will update your order status. It means email me back everyday asking the same question on order status.

Happy Birthday!

Mark and I were on CarAudioResources together back in 2001. He had just started SSAudio.com as a site for upstate NY people and we ended up combining efforts shortly there after in 2002 and became incorporated in 2006. CarAudioResources (as you can see linked at the top) was a very busy site from 2001-2004ish. It died off in 2006 or so, and Mark and I bought it last year and now we are trying to bring it back to it's prior level a decade ago.

I vote no, the Neon may be fast, but it is a poorly built car and the quality is lower then your truck. I never want to touch a car that someone else has done serious engine modifications to it. It is almost a certainty that there will be costly issues.

Looks good, jealous of the air tools.

Surprise, it is a sale! It is a quick sale across the store. Coupon code at checkout: 36HOUR10% Ends tomorrow (Sunday 28th), at 11:59pm

Welcome to SSA. I am in Baltimore.

From the photo's, it appears to just be cosmetic damage from shipping.

Tweeted and G+'ed the topic.

For the Icon, we wanted to bump up the motor strength with the new model, we could add a shorting ring down the road after sometime and modeling/testing etc. with an updated version. But it will only add more machining time and more cost to an already VERY costly to build driver in it's respective market segment, for factional gains in lowered inductance that customers have not shown any signs of wanting yet. The Evil plays so flat and clean as it stands, it does not need it. Side note, the Evil needs less juice to get up and rolling from the start then the Zcon.

Really do like the matte blacked-out mod's.

They will not run out of stock that fast. Crescendo placed this mega order for PWX's back in August, so that is more then enough time for the factory to build and ship to him, but clearly there has been some shipping issues. We are checking with Navid constantly for the orders through us, as it has cost us orders and created some very pissed off customers (read: lost customers) at us when we can only go on the info Crescendo has provided.

Where did you send the email? I am mostly caught up. Your order will require additional shipping to Canada, but the sub's will ship out from NY. Mark has been out of town for a few days (where your subs are), his flight home has been delayed a few times. Soon as he is home, he will catch up with any questions that were sent to him.

A few corrections. Emails HAVE been answered, we ARE stocking many Sundown subs in NY. As explained via email, Mark was out of town for a few days and will be processing the order very shortly, and your order will ship right away.

Had one of my better weekends. Got to hang out with Neal and Ronda, went to an O's game with friends (they won BTW), got to rest a little Sunday and was still up to date on most all SSA things. Just wasn't able to make it to the gym or cut the grass at the house I am trying to sell, oh well try again this weekend coming.

You are the guy that buys the two small pepperoni pizzas for three bucks more than the large even though it is 15% less food. you are the 1 of the guys that scares away the potential new customer with your attitude problem Because he is trying to correct wrong information while being helpful?

Pup spotted! Austin, fun car for sure. I would highly suggest some sound deadening for it. From my experience, it makes a world of difference in those cars. Also, stay on top of oil levels and tire wear, if you don't already know that.

If Scott's number was public, he would get NOTHING done, and I mean NOTHING. He has been forced to change his number many times because customers don't understand that he is ultra busy building drivers as fast as he can which he would not be able to do if his cell was ringing round the clock. If he was on the horn, trying to give up to the minute updates for everyone, they would never be able to catch up. As Scott said, they are adding staff to improve CS.

That is some blood red paint.

Overall I am very please with the result. It took me around 20-24 hours of hand work, measuring, cutting, using the sewing machine, making patterns, failures, stitching. Used : white and black polyester thread, real leather from some dead animal, scissors, shaving blade, 3 needles, glue. *optional : patience, good taste, the internet

" hey this is kevin with skar audio with an un boxing of the new skar audio shirts, know i know alot of you guys have been waiting for this shit to some out and we have been telling you about them on youtube and the forums but here it is, made 100 out of super cool stuff its like no other shirt from any any other company, its skar so you know its great any way this is kevin with scar audio. i like the soud of my own name and the word skar,. lets show you what our shirts can too,. " check us us soon for skar audio tampons and shoe strings and tolit paper coming soon

Fox news sucks.

I kind of like SSAs skar section. It is the only place on the web that potential buyers can see the truth.

I love it when Skar introduces a new product or updates it with info on here, becuase you guys just tear the guy apart lol it's hilarious. I don't know why he would post incorrect info when he knows right away you guys will point out everything that's wrong.