soundmekanixdan

I'm not even sure that it was a deer, i remember seeing something then all of a sudden i'm rolling end over end, then rolling sideways....exactly what happened is still a little foggy

looking into whether the speakers amps and batts are insured - it looks like they could be....not sure yet though

pics at this link... http://audioforum.termpro.com/topic/4/18251.html I'm not posting this to get sympathy, but rather to say that life is precious and should never be taken for granted. I certainly have a different outlook on mnay things after what happened. Live everyday like its your last, you never know when something random like this could happen. I walked away from by God's will alone, had one or two things been different, I could have and probably would have been killed. Please, be safe out there.

Was tired driving home from finals, and about an hour or so away from home....swerved to avoid something that ran across the road (deer?), and rolled the focus at least 3-4 times. The winshield shattered and caved in, front half of the roof crunched, windows shattered, amps and batts were thrown from the trunk, and i guess scattered a good 20-30 feet from the car. I probably wouldnt be writing this if i had not had the wall built in the car, acted like a wooden roll cage....you'll see what I mean when/if i post pics. The car is completely totaled, not sure on teh condition of the speakers. Not sure how, but i was able to get out of the car with just a couple bruises and a small cut under my eye. I cant beleive how lucky i was - air bag didnt deploy because i forgot to plug the sensor back in after putting my seat back in the car after finals, and my good friend mike just happened to drive by just after it happened. Needless to say it shook me up quite a bit and has me counting my blessings. Life is short and precious so dont take anything for granted. And anyone else driving home from finals - be safe.

The wall is about 6in thick in the weakest bart of the wall, and the port acts like a brace, the enclosure doesnt flex at all....cant afford different shocks before finals....she sags like crazy though, hopefully she makes it down to finals and back :-/

still needs another layer of paint....not sure if we'll get to it or not before finals, but hey pretty doesnt make it loud! more pics... the Bl's look huge in this pic...i cant imagine what the BTL's are going to look like!!.... BTL pics....

heres some more pics of the recent changes to the wall to get it ready for bass race world finals...pics are with 18" BL's, BTL's going in for finals...also new amps - 2 x Kicker 2500's, new batts - 4 x Optima g31 bluetops, and several more layers of wood and 2x4's etc etc..... pic of the wall before all the recent work...

My BTL 18's are fully loaded, with all the options.....will be running a kicker kx2500 on each for dbdrag world finals, and am thinking about one of the Kicker 10,000's next season (if they are out by then). Obviously a lot of factors come in to play in regards to power handling....just wondering what everyones thoughts were/are

how much power can you put to a btl 18 for bass race???

I've got 2 x BL 18's with all the options, love em....go with the 18, 18's look way more badass anyway

i'll try and get some videos posted soon, been busy trying to figure out if i can get a bike next summer - looks good and it looks like it'll be either an 07 yamaha r6, or an 07 kawasaki zx-6r hopefully, i'll have the videos up by next week.

I've got about 1500-1700 going to each of my loaded BL 18's and they do fine. i've heard of them taking up to 10k, but that was for burps only. dan

Just wondering if anyone has pics of the BTL with the triple stack magnet, any size, would prefer pics of the 18 though. Thanks. dan

pics to be posted within the next 30 min.

the 150.1s are wired to one ohm....the wall is in a ford focus sedan

yeah, i was as surprised as anyone about the flexing, oh well....we were going to do the bracing anyways. my windshield doesnt like the 18's too much either lol - no more auto car washes in case it starts to leak ....and if anyone is wondering, each BL 18 is running of a gold american bass 150.1

First show with the BL18's finally playing in the wall, didnt do dbdrag, but managed a 148.3 for bass race....I was pretty happy considering we still havent done any testing on it Lots of work to do yet, the baffle (5 layers thick) was still flexing like a mofo, so we def. need some bracing. Still have to tune the wall as well, woofers getting a little warm and smelly :-) Love the subs, def seeing a 150+ bass race in the near future!! I'll try and post pics soon...

sure

has anyone ever done a horn shaped port, where its wide at the baffle then gets narrower towards the back of the enclosure.....just curious if anyone has done this in a wall....

I'll do that, I'll try and get a moer precise estimate as to how big the port is actually going to be, I HAVE to be able to sit a little inside it though, i'll give you a call this weekend. Can't wait to get 'em playing.

The one problem that we're having is we have to make the port pretty big.....I'm 6'5" and the only way I can fit in the car with the wall (still have to daily drive it) is to basically sit in the port....and the only way I can do that is to make the port just big enough to be able to lean my seat back into it.....its well over 300 sq according to the last measurements - closer to 400sq in......might be too much for the 18" BL's.....we'll see I guess

shell is done, now for the 2x4's......

Got the base done last night, it doesnt look like much, but we actually got a lot done, here's a couple pics..... Jeremy Weber on the left taking some measurements for my base, Josh Mertzig in the background Jeremy - you're the man. Thanks for all the help. the table saw used to cut the boards 5 big sheets of mdf, and you cant see them all but 16 2x4's (about 6ft each ....a long way to go but its a start, more pics tomorrow....