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Thanks! Means a lot, I can't wait to hear what these drivers can do. It's good to know that my vehicle might be comparable to one of the SSA vehicles (especially after I get the Xcons ). It looks like I'll be getting them in tomorrow, I'm still a little undecided on where I'm going to mount the tweeters. The a-pillars and the dash are both looking good, I guess I'll do a little testing tomorrow.

I will be finding that out soon hopefully

It was $249 shipped for the mids and tweeters.

Ok, so I plan on having the pods done tomorrow, with black vinyl covering them. I took a picture after the first layer. I also sealed up any holes and added another layer for structure. I might need to add a little more tomorrow depending on weak spots or holes that I missed. I took a slightly different approach than other people that I have observed because I couldn't get anything to wrap correctly around my weird back pieces. It worked out anyway, here is the picture. After this I'm going to find a way to mount the tweeters, it might be really easy, or I might have to make more pods. We shall see. Thanks! SDS is the best stuff, I would never get anything else. Don helped me a great deal with my doors.

Thanks man! I think they are going to look sick once I get them in the doors, the pods are coming out great.

More pics coming tonight. I'm fiberglassing the bodies of the pods right now. They are looking pretty good so far.

Ok, so I had to change my plans a little bit. The inner rings I made didn't fit right in the holes, and wouldn't without cutting up the door panel. I had to make fiberglass back pieces for the door pods. They actually came out pretty decent. Driver door with two coats/mats. Passenger door with one coat, one more was added. This is how the driver door back piece came out. Passenger door. This is the mocked up pod for the driver side. I will be doing the fiberglassing for it tomorrow. And this is the one for the passenger side. I'll have to trim the ring a little bit on this one, it hits the dash on the passenger side a little too much. I think just a little trim will do the trick. I'm really happy with the outcome so far. I feel pretty accomplished for zero woodworking or fiberglassing experience. lol.

Ok, so I got the first two mdf rings done. These are the ones that the speakers will mount to, and the two others are solely for mounting to the door. I think they came out pretty good for the first time using any of the tools, and basically no woodworking experience lol. This is what it looked like with the depth taken out for a flush mount, and the outer circle almost cut. After this I cut out the middle circle and sanded a bit to make it more circular. This is the second ring. It came out a lot better and faster. I barely had to sand it, and the speaker fit right in like a glove. I'm probably going to sand them a bit more tomorrow before I start glassing.

Thanks! It's not quite EPIC MIDBASS!! lol, but I think they will sound pretty nice. I'm hoping to start glassing tomorrow I'll make sure to pick up some gloves. I can't wait to see how it turns out. Thanks! I really appreciate it. I researched quite a bit before I chose my drivers, and I liked just about everything about these. I'll post some more pics as I make progress with the pods.

What are you running on the amp? I'm pretty sure I'm going to go with two SSA Xcon 15's.

Ok, it looks like I'll be getting the amp for sure now. I'm getting an Incriminator Audio 40.1! I'm really excited. I was kind of hoping to own an Incriminator amp some day.

I'll be sure to include a review of some sort when I can get them in. I am hoping to start making the speaker pods this weekend.

I had decided to wait to make mdf rings until my speakers came in. A mysterious box appeared on my doorstep today while I was at work. Hmmm... What could be in there. Ascendant Audio stickers? Wow whatever is in those boxes must kick ass. These are the Havoc tweeters. They look awesome! These are going to sound just a tad better than the tweeters on my rockford coaxials. This is a close up of the tweeter at a different angle. Looking good. And here are the carbon fiber mids, in all of their sexy midbassyness. I am VERY excited to put these in. I hope my first fiberglassing experience goes well. These speakers are beastly, I love them already. I might be getting an amp on Tuesday, but I can't reveal it yet in case the deal falls through, but it is going to be awesome! Hope you enjoyed the pics

He's the man. He really helped me out when it came to picking my mids and tweeters and answered every question I had. He also had my package out as soon as he could. A++++ I hope to deal with him again.

They are only available from an authorized dealer.

I just ordered a pair last week. They are going to be at my house Thursday and I'll have something about them in my build log soon after that.

Just like everyone else has been saying, read and ask questions. There is no reason to shell out the cash for a book or movie, hands on experience is the best way. Just be careful if you don't fully understand what you are doing, ask questions if you are really confused, and everything should be fine.

Happy Birthday!!

The zune is hooked up through the AUX port in the back of the radio using a male to male 3.5 mm cable. I wish head units had zune integration, but it's still all ipod. It works pretty well though, sound quality is great it's just not having the control on the head unit sucks. If you have a dash mount it's pretty good though. Thanks! Cranberryyumyum was right, I used a bit more because of all the flex. Didn't seem to help as much as I would have liked (damn sunroof) so I'm probably going to have to do some more when I get the new subs in . I actually already did some deadening with CLD tiles in the trunk and on the rear deck, I just did it before the build log. Maybe I'll try to get a pic or two up of that as well. Going to buy some mdf tonight to make mdf rings for the door pods!

I just posted a video in my build log with my lethal injection 12". I'll embed it here too.

I made a video today of my current system. I thought I'd throw it in here, it gives kind of an idea of where I am now and I'll have another one posted after I am finished (hopefully with a better camera). This camera really sucks, it seems to destroy most of the flex I am witnessing lol, but it's still interesting I think.

So I realized that I hadn't really gone into detail with my plans for the front stage. Right now I have these crappy Rockford Fosgate Power 5.25 coaxials. Not bad for $20, but I need more! My doors only fit 5.25's, so I am going to be doing my first fiberglassing project, and I am kind of modeling them after j-roadtatts' Alpine type R door pods. Thanks for the idea! I am going to have the mid angled toward the driver/passenger. They are going to mount to the door's current screw holes, and be sealed with SDS extruded butyl rope. I am also going to make tweeter pods to go on the A-pillars.

Ok, sorry for the wait, but here are the pictures of the deadening of the roof. With this car, it is pretty much impossible to take the headliner out of the car without damaging it unless you take out the back window. Volvo's FTW! lol j/k. I think part of this build log is to demonstrate that you do not want to do car audio with a volvo unless you are up to a challenge (and I mean, EVERYTHING is a challenge.) So what I ended up doing is just letting it hang while I applied some more CLD tiles. The problem I ran into was that the sunroof tray took up most of the work area, something I entirely forgot about. To truely deaden the roof I would have to take the tray out, so I wasn't up to that yet. This is the car with everything just hanging down. Looks kind of sad. This is the bare sunroof tray. This is the tray with 5 CLD tiles on it, kind of looks like the Purina logo. This is at a different angle, capturing the tiles that I put behind the sunroof tray, near the back of the roof. And finally, this is a little deadening I did in the front. Overall, was it worth the effort? I guess so, it got rid of some annoying rattles that I've had even without the bass. I really wish that it wouldn't be a big deal to take out the sunroof, but it is. In other news, I ordered my AA carbon fiber mids and AA Havoc tweeters today!! I didn't get paid as much as I thought I would so the sundown will have to wait

I have a C70 Coupe that I am building an SQ comp system in and I have had some interesting challenges. Getting 10ga to the doors since there is no grommet and no room in the molex plug, running cables and wires to the trunk and getting the rear seat back off, running 0ga( I had to go UNDER the car instead of in the car), but the car had a lot of deadening in it from the factory which made it a little easier. Yes, the speaker wires through the door grommets just don't happen lol. I ended up running mine into the door panel directly from inside the car. Doesn't look the best, but it does the job. And the deadening thing is so true, I'm very happy for that.

How many days? I get paid either Friday or Monday, that's still May! lol.