car audio fans

[sloshee]

i spent 10 years doing high end custom car audio, and found out that tons of our customers were in to bmx - dirtbikes, atv - car audio just wondering if any you fools are in to sq or custom installs send me some pics please

[banshee04le]

I put a pretty sweet system in my 97 K1500. I stripped the cab and used Pheonix Gold dead mat and some spray on dampener on all surfaces...I had a red top and a yellow top optima under the hood with a battery isolator and a Wrangler 225A alternator through 4/0 which ran to 2-125A circuit breakers and then dual 4awg running to my distribution blocks in the cab which fed a 1,200,000uf cap and two 500,000uf caps. Cable, connectors, distribution blocks and caps where all Pheonix Gold. Power fed three big alpine MRV amps...one for my mbQuart tweets which I made fiberglass mounts for in my a-pillar trim panel and covered in matching vinyl, one for my Boston Pro 5-1/4" midranges which I put in q-logic kick panels which I added extra dampening and a heavy MDF mounting ring to, and one for my image dynamics 6" midbass drivers in the stock door locations. I built a 3cu ft sealed enclosure for my 3 Image Dynamics IDQ12DVC subs all wired in parellel for a .67 ohm load, which was the optimum load for my MMATTS class D 1200W amp which I opened up and mounted with the pc board visible (if you've seen the inside of one of these amps, you know why)...Alpine head unit/changer controller and alpine 12disc changer. Huge Pheonix interconnect hand assembled and soldered by me fed the source to a Rockford Symmetry2 10v preamp-xover-28band EQ. I was able to get pretty good sq out of that system...I liked it. Bass was tight and those 6's in the door made good midbass with several pounds of dampening on each door. I cut apart my center console and made it into a molded fiberglass enclosure with a tuned port for a single 8" sub but it didn't add anything to sound quality so that got axed. Unfortunately I never finished all of my trim panels before the thieves struck. I got most of the stuff back though and slapped it back in so it sounds good but I no longer have the desire to make nice trim panels that thieves will just tear up to get at my electronics.

[sloshee]

nice to see sq is still out there, around here sq died in the late nineties, spl died soon after now people just want crazy stuff to show off, im working on a system in my dodge quad cab with 2 coustic design reference amps from like 92

i had an 05 scion with 8 amps and 4 tens it was wild check it out

also theres a door panel from an is 300 i built

check out my site www.easterncorvettes.com photo gallery mikes installs page 3 or 4 theres some cool stuff in there

[RNBRAD]

I started competing in 92 and retired in 2000. I'll skip the resume but I had a lot of fun over the years and achieved some accolades short of winning finals. The industry is hard to keep up with (rule changes), takes tons of time and money and I was ready to just enjoy the system as I saw fit. I may do it again some day, who knows.