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Car: 1998 Dodge Neon 4 door Electrical: Stock alt and factory replacement battery (for now). 2 runs of 4 ga power and ground to sub amp. Amp: Sundown Saz-1500d Sub(s): 2 TC sounds oem 10" Box 3.6 cubes tuned to ~40 hz. Score with car on (legal on windsheild): 140.98 db's @ 50 hz. Car off, legal Street A 140.52 @ 49 hz. Outlaw in port 158.2... yummy. Currently rebuilding for Maryland. Wiring is going to be 2 runs of 1/0 kicker hyperflex Kinetik HC2000 New box going 2.2 cubic feet with 2 4" aero's tuned to 46 hz. Possibly adding a second saz-1500d depending on cash flow. And going to a walled off trunk as well.

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And I can't eat and still gain weight. ....Grrr people with fast metabolisms.

THE SSA beast is growing, awesome alexa #. I am looking at a very good deal for 74 feet of 1/0 Kicker hyperflex and a kinetik hc2000 right now.... I think Friday I am gonna order it all, Pull my interior out this weekend, and when it shows up next week rewire my entire car.... Yummy driving around with no interior.

Jacob, have you gotten any emails from Robert of TC sounds... I sorta pushed him your way.

Woot, TC sounds came through on the push terminal i needed. I can sell something else...

I am sure you will learn a thing or two, as well as liking it over her at SSA

Thermally I am already getting there (when clipping slightly the vc glue smell is evident although no smoke), as far as mechanically I think there is still more to be had during a burp.. And this is off of one amplifier... Going to two and should be increasing power by ~133% of where I am at right now... So should I build this box and meter them both and see where I am at. I am already very much so over the maximum recommended ported size enclosure for my pair of subs by about 3x...

If you don't have perfect cuts how well does Titebond work at filling gaps? That is the best part of Gorilla Glue, but it is very apparent that it isn't as strong. Idk, I use fiberglass and duct tape, lol. (ductape the inside seams and than resin over the tape and once it is dried you will never have to worry about an air leak.

What amplifiers, kind of power would you be feeding said subs.

I have been trying to decide whether or not to go smaller with my box build. All of my buddies that are a little old school when it comes to spl say big boxes are the way to go... But when talking to people I compete with such as TJ in his Yugo doing 52's he says go smaller. My current box is 3.68 cubic feet after driver displacement, but not port displacement. 69 sq inches of port tuned to 42 hz. The woofers are two TC sounds OEM 10". I am thinking of shrinking down to a triple front baffled, double walled 2.4 cubic feet gross, and using 2 4" aero-ports and slightly raising my tuning as the change in box orientation changed my resonant, and building the wall (in the trunk not removing any seats will raise my resonant as well). Is going smaller in this case going to help me? Or is this just another one of those try it and find out spl scenario's? Any help would be greatly appreciated, the vehicle is a 98 Dodge neon, and current resonant is 51 hz before wall.

He could always try the Icon, the TC2k, the IDQ, the aura... I just can't see why a sub like the q can't handle 45-60 hz... I think a better investment than a woofer would be an eq.

I need to find a negative push terminal... The original wearer of said broken terminal was a diamond d1, I am not worried about it matching, unless Scott, or when I call heather at TC sounds will only sell them in sets. I snapped the terminal right off of the basket, but they are more of a bolt through design than actually being part of the basket.

I will attest to the strength of titebond III, on my first box ever, we used titebond III, and when said box had lived out its purpose, me and a friend took a sledgehammer to the box. We could not break the joints, the mdf would break down but the mdf adjoined by the glue just would not separate, so 2 more weeks in the rain and than we decided to run over the joint with his lifted truck which weighs nearly 4 tons. The mdf split, tore, disintegrated etc. But the joint had only cracked once and it was perpendicular to the joints orientation.

Hertz ml165's??

I compete with my saz-1500d. Just one right now, street A style. Two 10" oems in the trunk of a neon. Have done 143.1 in testing with the current box @ 15 volts, best in comp so far was 140.97 (actually not playing my normal frequency) at 12.4 volts. I have also managed a 140.52 at 11 volts at 49 hz. I have little to no testing, I am not a hardcore spl guy yet, but I am working on it. Later on this weekend I should have some new numbers with my new box still running the factory battery, and just 2 runs of 4 ga. Which is all being switched out before Maryland in 19 days. Might be running 2 saz-1500d's as well for the Maryland show.

Welcome to SSA!

I have something for sale, I am a greedy bastard... I want get another amp before I head to Maryland in 3 weeks. I don't need denim to completely embarrass me in his civic.

Happy Birthday nick!

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Ohh and I have physical therapy today, as well as I am supposed to mow the lawn... Sleep is over-rated anyways.

Good morning people. I am really happy, I thought I was getting my bonus check with my normal paycheck on this upcoming Friday, when my Nursing supervisor hands it to me last night at work. So now I am not broke. Just waiting for the bank to open so I can cash it, and order some 1/0, new battery terminals, go pick up some more wood, buy my friend a present, put money on my phone, than fall asleep to go back to work tonight.

I like alot of 8 ohms drivers No reason to rate a car amp for 8 ohms, though, as most "general public" people would shy away since "less ohms are better." Didn't you get the memo *laughs* I was saying something that makes me think uber quality, is having an amps main ratings in 8 ohms. Seeing as so few drivers are 8 ohms, although if I remember correctly, the higher the impedance the greater the channel separation. Plus, most compression horns are 8 ohms.

And I do???? I drive a 98 Dodge neon that I paid 800 dollars for. Either you have a classic or you don't spend a lot of time with your car. Me I spend a lot of time with my car, and am never really awake when home. Plus I can completely destroy an 800 car with stereo stuff and not feel guilty.

I guess its all fair than, we can't have everything after all.