Randal Johnson

Can't check it on my Blackberry ... I will get to it as soon as I get home.

DAMN !!! What a Nice Truck !!! If you EVER decide to sell this truck ... Will you PLEASE let me know !!!

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Well, this past week I pulled my engine down to find out why my truck is drinking more water than fuel ... Turns out ... I had a blown intake gasket. Well thank God it's payday Friday so I can get my new gasket set, get things cleaned up, and put back together by next weekend ... Next weekend (well, may take a couple of weekends ...) is gonna be fun cause we are going to pull the enclosure, remove the bed from the truck, and get my C-Notch and Helper Air Ride set up done ... Looks like I'm gonna get me some practice and polish up my Welding Skills !!! There's alot of work that needs to be done to my truck's frame ...

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Yes it does ... Yea, whatever bro ...

SSA or DSS ...

done a bit of Google research and found this ... http://vmacair.com/product/underhood-air-compressor-systems/

My old bucket truck had air tanks installed ... Is that not good enough ?? It had air brakes and a service tank ... I have my 5 gallon tank ready to be installed but gave thought about running off of the engine and not use battery operated compressors ...

Yep, Seen this car at Finals ... It was a sight for sure !!! I was offered a demo before I actually seen it in action ... Gald I was in the middle of tuning my truck !!! ... Cause I'd still be feeling the effects of that demo ... My demo from Ninja was enough to last me until next year's Finals ... LOL

No A/C compressors will pump oil out with the air. I think that would be bad for the shocks. Alot of construction trucks have engine mounted compressors ... Back in the day they used A/C compressors all of the time ... Never had any problems with oil mixed with air ... I'm sure that today's A/C compressors will cause this oil / air mixture ... Someone explained that to me the other day about newer A/C compressors not being able to work for Air Ride systems ... You might try (if you have room on the engine) some of the old construction truck junk yards for old school compressors ... I know where one is about 30 miles from the house that I may hit up when I get my truck back on the road ...

From what I remember, they took out the section with the defroster ducts on the dash and installed what looked like waveguides or horns (Don't know for sure, sorry), midbass in the kick pannels, and a sub driver somewhere in the dash ... The only thing that I didn't like about it was that driver / passenger seating position and Sound Quality listening position was TOTALLY different ... With him being in advanced class, they extended the rails of the seat's track to where the seats would literally touch the back seats ... Then leaned them back to where it seemed like you was sitting in a recliner ... I'm sure all of this could have been avoided with different time alignment and better tune ...

Damn ... what a detailed description !!! Thank you Sir !!! How is your time alignment ??? Can you actually tell where your stage and image is ?? ... or can you actually tell where your drivers are located ??? ... and most important, When listening to well recorded music ... Can you actually tell where your Sub stage is located ??? Reason I ask this is because once I got my substage time aligned to "match up" with my midbass drivers ... my midbass got tremendously strong, more dynamic, and ALOT easier to tune ... It's almost like there is a seemless transition between the midbass and the sub bass ...

Just went through your entire Van's build log (Nice Ride BTW) and I did not see exactly how you have your front stage set up ... I see in the vids that your dash in nice and flat, but couldn't tell how you have everything installed ... I was just wondering if you could give me an idea on what you have going on there ... I seen a van similar at USACI Finals one year running advanced SQ classes and thought I could go back though my pics and see if I could figure out how he had it set up ... I'm almost positive everything was countersank into the dash with agressive angles and vented through the fender wells ... and I'm thinking his midbass drivers were in the Kicks vented through the fender wells too ... I would like to go back and check, but I do remember that it sounded AMAZING !!!

No place on the frame to mount 2 small compressors whth a small air tank ?? We are planing for everything to be attatched to the frame on mine, but I'm only setting up air for my rear suspension and my bed cover ... Please refresh my memory ... What vehicle do you have ??? Was it at Finals this year ???

Yes it is ... The entire Team Linear Power crew ...

I'm tuned in 4 sure brother !!!

I've always wanted to try this ... but never had the chance. I say go for it and give us a review ... I'm tuned in !!!

This would be great ... but WAY short notice !!! Nowhere enough time to schedule vacations or save money for the trip ... Something like this needs to be posted MONTHs in advance ... My advice ... get with the promoters of the other orgs. and make sure everything is OK with using their points to qualify someone for YOUR events ... Would I travel to Arizona for this event ?? Yes, If I knew about it, had it on schedule, and had the funds saved up in advance ...

Welcome ... What class / org. Do you normally compete ??

I'm not sure about the IDMAX, but ID had a manufacturer's booth this year at finals ... I asked the same question when I seen it Notorious ... and their demo vehicle was really impressive !!!

happy birthday

Why would you cut your mid bass drivers so high and try and make your sub drivers pick up the slack ??? Average cut off for a sub bass driver is 70 htz ...

Make sure that the amp is grounded properly ... My ground cables are no longer than 18 inches (the normal length of a battery) ... Best of luck Sir !!!

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