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Thanks again The doors are taking longer than expected, they are TOUGH to wrap right. Have to cut several pieces and sewing sucks. Orlando, I am located around slaughter and 35, the southside. As far as how they sound, the tc's just get nasty low and flex everything. They have no problem playing down to 26hz with authority. Right now, if I had to guess, I am around high 140's. The subs are NOT sealed off, I have terrible rca voltage signal, I am running a stock 90A alt... not enough power especially since my amp is seeing .75 ohm nominal. Car is heavily dampened though, thats a plus. You are more than welcome to hear it, I just need that alt and a line driver before I really start playing them. My goal is a 150 on the mic. We'll see.

i donno but i would not fuck with him... whats he like 6'8 380 or so... dude looks like he eats babies for lunch I think hes a wrestler and I also know he drives a white van on brutus blades. Did you see him compete (OP)? I was gonna go to this show but my doors weren't done.

who's that big ass messican wearing a white tee with his arms crossed muggin at 0:36 on that last vid?

Well I would work on them whenever I was free. I'd say anywhere from 32 - 56 hours. I did take my time on them, especially aligning the pods to the proper angles (and this is my first time fiberglassing).

Thanks for all the compliments! I have a LOT of hours into the doors. In the last pic, they are just primered like the flares. I was thinking of leaving them painted black, but decided on wrapping them. The paint is a House of Kolor Candy Orange (they have like 5 different candy orange paint codes) on a silver metallic base. They also have a gold metallic base but it would be a couple of shades darker than the silver base. On a side note, I tried playing the subs full tilt today... voltage dropped to 11.9 fairly fast. I backed off the volume knob quickly. Definately need more power and won't play it full tilt until I get an alt. However, these are the loudest subs I've ever had.

Thanks Hugo, I will definately let you know when it is done. You do the same as I'd love to have a mini meet and check out the system in the suburban.

It really started as a passive setup with the hsk comp set, then I decided I needed more midbass, so I added the usher 8948a's which are going to be bandpassed somewhere around 70hz-whatever sounds better to the ear. I do not plan on overlapping frequencies with the hsk's unless it sounds better. As for the morel tweets, this was the part I was unsure of. I mainly got them just in case the Hertz ht25 tweets weren't enough, but we'll see. It's all trial and error. If I find the morel's mess up the soundstage (since the ht25's are in the A pillar's) I'll just sell them and cover the hole on the door with something nice lol. As far as paint, I don't plan painting the cardboard part as it isn't visible at all especially with that giant flare in the way. THe flare is just primered for now until I decide on a color. btw, these flares couldn't have come out any better, attention to detail given by Adrian is fantastic.

Here's how they look before getting wrapped in black suede type material. Pics are kinda big, if anyone wants to resize them thats fine with me.

Here are some of the box and port, and how it sits right now. Box is bolted down and secured...everything is so nothing moves as a make quick turns and stops. Flares are just primered until I decide on a color.

Equipment: -Pioneer Avh-p5100 h/u Speakers: -Usher 8948a 7" midbass - active -Hertz HSK 165 comp set (6.5" midrange and ht25 tweets) - passive -Morel MDT-39 tweets - active Amps: -Soundstream Van Gogh 500.4 (powering morel tweets and hsk comp set) -Arc Audio SE 2075 (powering usher 8948a's) -US Amps AX3200DE (powering subs @ .75ohms) Subs: -2 12" TC sounds neo axis (2500wrms each - 3ohm DVC drivers) Batteries: -XS Power D2400 -XS Power S1200 up front Need to order: -Mechman 240A H/O alt -Audiocontrol Overdrive Plus line driver So here's the deal. I had one TC 12 axis neo in a 4th order off the ax3200de running at 1.5 ohms sans box rise. No line driver, and I needed one bad since my highs amp at the time didn't have rca outputs so I had to use y-adapters. Either way it did a 140 outlaw on the tl. Not bad imo since it was for a SQ'ish install anyways. But I missed my old 12" btls and was soon fienin for bass again. So I am redoing my system, in fact I am almost done with it... just need to order the H/O alt and line driver, and need to finish wrapping my doors since I fiberglassed them to fit all my frontstage. I will have no rear fill. Then a nice tune and it's done! I built a birch enclosure tuned to around 32hz and used a 7.5" aero port (home depot sonotube) and had Adrian_D off SSA make me some custom flares which fit like a glove. I also sealed the rear deck and trunk lid gaps and holes with great stuff, and filled the rear inner panels and a,b, and c pillars with polyfil. I fiberglassed sealed enclosures for each speaker in the doors and am adding polyfil into them. I will update this thread as I get things finished off. Please excuse the pics, as I took them over time, they are all mixed up. lol The car:

Same engine in my car. I also recommend what the dude said. Swap out all fluids for sure and a tune-up. Then go from there.

linky no worky

Just saw this, that amp weighs 20 pounds less than my whole birch enclosure, 2 TC neo subs, bracing, and port! Lol You got a beast here that's for sure. Can't wait to see this amp in person...we should have a meet up soon. Are you going to SBN?

What's up? I'm from Austin too. You planning on running some Fi subs?

weight?? Agh all these awesome subs coming out, its hard to decide!

Just as the above posts, hardly. You want to gain, use more drivers/alter box design. Going from saz-3500s to 4500s would only be worth it if you compete.

Definately subscribed to this. You have to give a review on these subs. Especially since you've had the previous iteration btl.

if it helps, on my ups invoice it says 44 pounds each, give or take a few pounds for the box and shipping material but its safe to say that they are right around 40 pounds! each, thats a huge weight loss compared to the 2nd gen BTL's Great! Thanks for that info. Looks to be about 33% lighter...now I wait for a review of some kind to see how it compares to the previous btl.

Wow looks impressive! AllenH427, would you by any chance have a scale you can throw that N2 on? I want to know how much it weighs. Can't find this info... If you could do that I'd greatly appreciate it.

Nice! Yeah I thought you had another vehicle. Do you have a build log for the Suburban? If not, you should make one!

This is going in the cutlass? What monstrous amp/sub combo are you planning? That kit looks amazing! In for pics.

Too far for me...

I've only built one 4th order bp, so I guess my opinion is invalid.

Haha but the spammer was right! Not that I know of, but if I do (which I will soon) I'll let ya know.

damn right about that. well maybe another day huh guys? It's all good.