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i used to do all kinds of strange stuff @ first...lol but once i decided to build my own isobaric enclosure with 2 different 12s a old crunch pro & a kicker c12. the crunch was "meaner" looking so i put it inverted into my home built box mostly scraps, it was around .75cuft seale& i mean really sealed i used 2 tubes of silicone, we ran it off a pg ms275 this sounded great 100% better than either had in separate boxes! We put this in our 1984 z28 & boomed it till the hu burned up, my buddy took it to our local shop & all they could do was poke fun @ my crappy box, i felt dumb hearing some of them say how bad that must sound! I asked them what they had & one of them said a jl12w6 off a soundstream ref300 in a 400$ box...lol I asked what it did? he says "a certified 123db" i said wow, i wonder how loud ours is? He agreed to meter it after the head unit install, after a few minutes he calls me back with a smile, "you ready" i said "yep" he gave me a test cd, as soon as it first hit he went "damn" not bad"120db" i noticed it was not low so i put a bass patrol cd in there? and asked him to meter it again, all of a sudden he has a astonished look on his face, "125db?" "wtf?" he was pissed my crappy box beat him...lol He offered me a job too...lol
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this 1 aint to funny but its about my dumb @ss causin i made to mistake of having him help me put in my new sony cd player we almost hade it all hooked up and the remote wire from the radeo he told me it hade to be hooked up direcly to the batteryi toled him he was full of $hit and finished hoking up the remote wire to the amp man it pissed him off win i told him that Posts: 11 | From: gore oklahoma | Registered: Dec 2002
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a guy comes into the local shop, right... says "i just bought a 1600w amp, i need some power wire"... so the shop owner says sure, what kind of amp is this 1600w beast... he says cuspid... shop owner says ... "acoustic? power acoustic?"... no, just cuspid.. so they go out to the car to look... damn... sure enough, it says cuspid, 1600w... right on the heatsink
the amp is about 6" long... about square... so he says wtf, 1600 watts... picks it up and throws it across the parking lot to the other guy working at the shop...
1600 watts! he yells...
a look at the power wire terminal comes up as a problem... its too small for 10 awg crimp connectors
he's like uhh dude i dont know, maybe this will work (gets some scrap speaker wire from inside) ... here we go, he says
"badass, dude, so you have some wire for me?"
"yeah, *speaker* wire... an amp kit would cost more than your amp did"...
after that, they go inside and check out the JL 1000/1 surfboard and compare
had to be there, it was great... my memphis 250d was bigger than his 1600w cuspid.
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haha, no thats definately not the funniest install ever.......just look at the new RF demo 350Z.........the color scheme is so gay it almost makes me sick.......i mena its a nice install but WTF were they thinking with the colors???
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yeah, we have all seen some funny stuff...but ya wanna know whats even funnier, im gonna bet someone who has replied to this message has done something like one of these stories when they were a newb!!! Heck, my first box ever had 1 audiovox 12", 1 Pyle 10", and 2 k-mart 8s, and was made of 1/2 particle board, lol!!! So we have all been there, and thats what makes it all the more hilarious to see someone else do it. Ghetto installs, hmmm, lemme think how many of those i have seen and had to cure...well thing is even the "pros" screw up once in a while, kid brought his truck to a friend of mine and I to check it out, says his amp wont work. So we find out where Best Buy, CC ,or ABC, cant remember where he had it installed, had mounted the ground terminal. Turns out it was under the kick plate for the door and the connection was rusted to the NINES! Next install...Kid calls me up and asks me why his amp blew, i go over there and im lookin at it. He has the classic 4ga power, 8ga ground routine goin on, and the ground wire is like 3.5 feet long too. Not only that, the connection was TERRIBLE, and the wire was that 6 stranded or whatever house cable. I have more, but im tired of typing, so im out, lol!!! PEACE
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I must say that this hs nothing to do with this topic.. But i live in Finland (no polarbears etc.. ) and we had a local guy who had a REALLY nice car and ok sound system.. but never any girls we were wondering that why didnt he get any girlies to cruise with.. so we went to talk to him and listened to his system and the reasen was clear! HE LISTENS POLKA ! ROFLMAO Posts: 118 | From: Finland | Registered: Jan 2003
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a funny story that i can remember is at a local competition, i told a kid that if you add stickers to your windows, you add db. the more you have the louder you get. He asked why, i told him that the weight of the stickers makes your windows more rigid. After his run, he left the competition. an hour he comes back, his side and back windows are covered in stickers, every square inch of them. Everyone was like, wtf. He goes through the lane, to my amazement, he went up .2 db. i could only laugh, he came by and thanked me on the tip.
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quote:Originally posted by DrLowfreq: a funny story that i can remember is at a local competition, i told a kid that if you add stickers to your windows, you add db. the more you have the louder you get. He asked why, i told him that the weight of the stickers makes your windows more rigid. After his run, he left the competition. an hour he comes back, his side and back windows are covered in stickers, every square inch of them. Everyone was like, wtf. He goes through the lane, to my amazement, he went up .2 db. i could only laugh, he came by and thanked me on the tip.
here is a sad fact...........In Iasca SQ competition, they give you points for having an Iasca sticker on your car! That is GAY!!!
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hehe, usaci does the same thing if i remember right.
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New guy here, just thought I'd start off by telling a funny story of my own. I am in the Army, and was stationed in Hawaii from 95-97. During this time I worked part time at a stereo shop called Mobile Car Audio. It was a pretty much high end shop, anyway.....we had a guy come in asking about an amp and sub install, which he said we wanted WAY TOO MUCH for, so he left. Two days later he came back and told us that he had a friend install it for next to nothing. Two days pass and I an driving to MCA and I see a Honda Civic on fire on the side of the road(the same guy) so being a nice guy, I stopped.....the cause of this problem....no fuse on the power wire and no gromet coming through the fire wall. I guess our install would have been cheap compared to the price of the car. John
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O sh*t. thats all we need is another guy not using a fuse blowing up cars. good thing it didnt work out when he was outta the car and it kept burning with no one around. that could have blown up realy easily also hurting the car parked next to him. explain that to the insurance company!!!!! and that little fuse is just so cheap when you think of the cost to repair your car. because you might not have a problem with it. i didnt use one on my 66impala but i heard of someone car catching fire like that and threw in a cheap little 40amp spade auto fuse. my old amps where so small the fus never blew. but now ive gone big and using a circuit breaker and wafer fuse
-------------------- clarion dxz835mp MP3 player, RE35-1D amplifier SOLD , and a 15inch adire-brahma SOLD gotta start rebuilding AGAIN..... still saving$$$ for some good mids. "If you can’t hear it before you see it, What is the point" new boy pictures http://www.sounddomain.com/id/addiction2bass old car http://www.sounddomain.com/id/towncarpimpen Posts: 1732 | From: indianapolis, IN west side.......LOL | Registered: Feb 2003
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My first set up was 2 sony 6x9's mounted in their own ported five gallon bucket running on a 20 watt head unit (I still remember playing DJ magic Mikes original Feel the Bass)Maybe I will try it again for finals this year
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quote:Originally posted by deaf tones: oh where to begin! I'll have to find the picture to prove it, but two twelves screwed into the back seat! No box, and only like two screws to hold in each speaker.
I work at BMW. I swear, this guy brought his car in for service and had 2 12" alpine subs screwed into the back seats of his $30,000+ 3 Series. Not to mention, he had them wired to the stock Harmon Kardon amp. No box, no real amp, and no hu. The whole shop laughed at it!
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my first system was 2 no name 15inch subs that a bar of soap is biger than its magenet. and pushing them with a legacy 500watt amp probably about 200watts max.LOL and to make it worse i mounted them free air on ply wood. funny thing was i thought it was cool..... i was so retarded back in the day. but hey i was 16 and for 80bucks for everything. i thought it was good. boy ive come along way!
-------------------- clarion dxz835mp MP3 player, RE35-1D amplifier SOLD , and a 15inch adire-brahma SOLD gotta start rebuilding AGAIN..... still saving$$$ for some good mids. "If you can’t hear it before you see it, What is the point" new boy pictures http://www.sounddomain.com/id/addiction2bass old car http://www.sounddomain.com/id/towncarpimpen Posts: 1732 | From: indianapolis, IN west side.......LOL | Registered: Feb 2003
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quote:Originally posted by deaf tones: oh where to begin! I'll have to find the picture to prove it, but two twelves screwed into the back seat! No box, and only like two screws to hold in each speaker.
I work at BMW. I swear, this guy brought his car in for service and had 2 12" alpine subs screwed into the back seats of his $30,000+ BMW. Not to mention, he had them wired to the stock Harmon Kardon amp. No box, no real amp, and no hu. The whole shop laughed at it!
o man you should have goten a picture of that!!!!!! hahahahahhaha at least my car was a POS and it matched the car.
-------------------- clarion dxz835mp MP3 player, RE35-1D amplifier SOLD , and a 15inch adire-brahma SOLD gotta start rebuilding AGAIN..... still saving$$$ for some good mids. "If you can’t hear it before you see it, What is the point" new boy pictures http://www.sounddomain.com/id/addiction2bass old car http://www.sounddomain.com/id/towncarpimpen Posts: 1732 | From: indianapolis, IN west side.......LOL | Registered: Feb 2003
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Well this girl i am pretty good friends with at asked me about three weeks ago if i could install her system for her. Just some cheap Deck, 2 RF 12's, and a RF amp, and a prefabbox she got from BB. I told her i would do it and told her i would need her car for a full day and told her just to get me lunch or something. She was like a full day. I told her yeah...if you want it done right. She called me the next day and said she got free install on the deck from BB. She asked how long i would need her car and i told her the same thing. I also told her she needs to buy some wires. I tole her just to get a kit from BB. Now i havent heard from her since. I then found out from her friend she hda some other kid do it cause he said he could do it in a hour at most. Then she calls me today and tells me it dont work. I was kinda in a bad mood and told her the same thing. Gimme your car for a day and i will fix it or find out what was wrong wioth it. She said okay and brought her car by and hour later. She leaves and i got outside to look at it. I first open the hood. Fix the connection on the battery just cause it was ghetto rigged. I then turn on the car and it works but no bass. i then pop the trunk and take a look. Everything looks wired correctly so i go back to the front and check the fuse. It's good. So i go back to the trunk to check the remote and ground. I look at the ground and see that who ever instaled it used a nail straight through the carpet. I look under the carpet and he went straight threw the wooden false floor. I was like no wonder why. So i grab a nut and i redo the ground to some bare metal. I then sit in the car turn it on and i got bass. I spent about 20 min setting the cros overs on the deck and amp turned the gain down to about 1/2 way and went back inside. It literally took me 10 minutes to fix it and another 20 just getting it to sound good. So now i have a toyota camry sitting infront of my house and she is taking me to lunch tomorrow.
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Yeah, I need a camera so I can get my sound domain page crackin. I wish you all could have saw it. But it didn't sound too bad with the volume only about half way up.
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In my 1980 Supra on my first install (in 1987), I ran ALL of my wires down one side of the car. Power, RCA's, remote turn on, everything.
I had a TERRIBLE alt. whine problem so to correct it, I unplugged my highs and bought a PAC crossover for my subs which had been running full spectrum.
Lyrics...who needed em. I could identify just about any song by it's baseline. Mercy!
-------------------- 2001 Tundra Access Cab H/U: P1R Front Stage: Focal Polyflex 165H Front Stage Amp: PG 4150 Sub: 8W7 Sub Amp: Xtant 301a Posts: 163 | From: Lafayette, LA | Registered: Feb 2003
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Well... i'm only in hs but im basically the source for installs and info(even though i dont consider myself a "god" just very interested in the stuff) well this kid i'll call him Tom has a 2002 Tiburon.. he butchers the thing up.. spray painted here and there u know the deal. Well he goes i want to hook up some subs(mind u he's go a stock one in the car) so i was like yea sure ill do it with u.. so i told him what to get and hes like why do i need a wiring kit.. im just gonna use the wiring from my factory sub amp... was not even gonna go there and told him to do it my way... needless to say he still hasnt done it yet cause i wont do it haha.. well one day im doin some installs for him(some pos neons) andi take off his fusebox cover and notice a wire TAPED with electidal tape to a metal bar.. im like Tom wtf is this! hes like its my ground.. i was like dude!!! well he wouldnt let me change it! i was just like aight whatever dude.... Next one day at lunch he goes man i need a new battery.. im like y.. hes like my head unit draws so much that its gettin drained(yea he has a pos sony head unit installed... not gonna kill a battery) and theres sooo much more i could say about this kid. ohh yea.. i was attempting to do his angel eye conversion on his headlights and i was gonna wire a switch into his dash.. he wouldnt let me drill his firewall.. hes also on his 4th clutch hahaha and got the car in june!!
-------------------- 2002 S10 Xtreme ext cab(onyx black w/ silver stripes) w. dealer installed vortex dual pipe - APC Clear Corners(Already Leaked) - TYC altezzas - Pioneer DEH-6400 Head unit - Pioneer 4"x6"s and 6.5"s, Rockford 500s feedin to 2 pioneer 10" dual coils, Audiofonics adf 240 feeding JDLX 6"x9"s - Custom box being built right now - Lite Glow underbody kit on a wireless set up Posts: 1 | From: Jersey | Registered: Apr 2003
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