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Well ive done nothing but use it to drive to and from work and to run errands but on the odd occasions people have twigged what it is (usually when i am waiting for my other half to finish work) i have had universal praise for the car as it is such a daft thing to do, i have yet to meet anyone who does not laugh and enjoy it so its surving its purpose
Not only do i like loud music but it is quite nice doing something that gives other people a good laugh sometimes so if any PH'ers are around West Yorkshire and fancy a nosey just drop me a PM and we can sort something out
Not only do i like loud music but it is quite nice doing something that gives other people a good laugh sometimes so if any PH'ers are around West Yorkshire and fancy a nosey just drop me a PM and we can sort something out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_xgwiI25BM
Now a nice video of me giving the install some stick with different types of music - not bad on nothing but tickover
Now a nice video of me giving the install some stick with different types of music - not bad on nothing but tickover
Well now it has a bit of a claim to fame
I went down to Oxford last weekend to a car audio meet and meetup with a Mr Adam Rayner who was quite impressed and did an interview with me about the car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJg0Qeethlw
I went down to Oxford last weekend to a car audio meet and meetup with a Mr Adam Rayner who was quite impressed and did an interview with me about the car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJg0Qeethlw
I just think I remember a local lad who was in the news for getting hold of a train and driving about a bit on it then taking it back and I swear he was called Sam Ellis, lol...just wondered if you were the very same, I think he even had a mondeo!..I was just curious as the story made me chuckle at the time.
When driving around with windows closed do the pressure waves cause any issues? Can only imagine it's like getting smacked around the head with a dead trout every second!
Not knocking it though, each to their own an all.
I remember whacking 2 big 15" subs, 1000w amp, 6x9's in the boot of my old RS Turbo back in the early 90's!
Not sure my ears could stand the volume anymore!
Not knocking it though, each to their own an all.
I remember whacking 2 big 15" subs, 1000w amp, 6x9's in the boot of my old RS Turbo back in the early 90's!
Not sure my ears could stand the volume anymore!
Waynester said:
When driving around with windows closed do the pressure waves cause any issues? Can only imagine it's like getting smacked around the head with a dead trout every second!
Not knocking it though, each to their own an all.
I remember whacking 2 big 15" subs, 1000w amp, 6x9's in the boot of my old RS Turbo back in the early 90's!
Not sure my ears could stand the volume anymore!
If you're that old, you'd probably need that set up just to here the music these days Not knocking it though, each to their own an all.
I remember whacking 2 big 15" subs, 1000w amp, 6x9's in the boot of my old RS Turbo back in the early 90's!
Not sure my ears could stand the volume anymore!
You know there are times when i really wish i had a nice practical family estate 
Thought i would share this pic with you - the fun i had getting a bunny cage home
Due to my hobby that thing is a 2 seater that weighs 2 metric tons so i had the cage on the roof, our lass in the passenger seat holding the bunny box and the passenger footwell full of supplies
I have never driven so slowly in all my life - quite chuffed i did not scratch the roof either
Shirt - that is one of the plans we have once the port get another layer of steel on it but it seems to be holding for now
Waynester - its not all that bad if i am honest
Thought i would share this pic with you - the fun i had getting a bunny cage home
Due to my hobby that thing is a 2 seater that weighs 2 metric tons so i had the cage on the roof, our lass in the passenger seat holding the bunny box and the passenger footwell full of supplies
I have never driven so slowly in all my life - quite chuffed i did not scratch the roof either
Shirt - that is one of the plans we have once the port get another layer of steel on it but it seems to be holding for now
Waynester - its not all that bad if i am honest
been a while since i have updated this thread as ive not had much time to do stuff on it
but i got something done - some repair work, as some people who have listened to it will know that the rear view screen had been damaged by the install to the point it beeps/turns off and on of its own accord as well as rattling along to the music
So i pulled it out of the car in this pic you can see how loose the front of the screen had become
Next step was to undo the back of the case and i discovered that the buttons and IR sensor are on a seperate board so unplug that and take a better look at it
The board has touch sensors sticking up on mini spring things that connect to metal pads behind the fascia
Now as it stands i dont want the buttons to work at all as it is a point of failure so i just cut the buttons off and covered the board in electrical tape just to stop anything touching the board
the next step was to put it all back together and sort out the loose front - that was done with some superglue that i could brush on
and job done
the next step is to work on the enclosure, that will happen soon - first step is to build a port for the rear chamber
btw - they are bunnys in the background
but i got something done - some repair work, as some people who have listened to it will know that the rear view screen had been damaged by the install to the point it beeps/turns off and on of its own accord as well as rattling along to the music
So i pulled it out of the car in this pic you can see how loose the front of the screen had become
Next step was to undo the back of the case and i discovered that the buttons and IR sensor are on a seperate board so unplug that and take a better look at it
The board has touch sensors sticking up on mini spring things that connect to metal pads behind the fascia
Now as it stands i dont want the buttons to work at all as it is a point of failure so i just cut the buttons off and covered the board in electrical tape just to stop anything touching the board
the next step was to put it all back together and sort out the loose front - that was done with some superglue that i could brush on
and job done
the next step is to work on the enclosure, that will happen soon - first step is to build a port for the rear chamber
btw - they are bunnys in the background
I love bass machines
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Right well i thought i would update the thread before i go and do some work on the car today
I have put nearly 10thousand miles on the car with the wall and it went through its MOT with just a suspension bush needing replacing and i think that bush has been on the car since it left the factory so i cant really moan
I had a target of 150db this year - sadly i did not get it, got close with 149.8 but the install has done the following
-Played pretty much everything i have thrown at it
-Played pretty much flat out all day on just engine tickover at the shows/meets ive been to
-The woofers have not really got all that smelly
-The only equiptment failure i have had is an 8inch mid dying
As i have said before this year was just about finding weaknesses in the install, not that many but they are
-Lack of midbass upfront (At the moment i only reallyhave a pair of 6.5inch comps against the wall so itsnot too bad)
-Does not really throw sound when demo-ing with doors open
-A bit of flex on the woofer baffle
-Tightening nuts digging into the rear wall
-Continually pushing the sub amp into the last 10% of its power so it is sucking current
-It does not look pretty
So for the work i need to do on it
-Lack of Midbass/Does not throw sound
-This i think i have solved, as i have two seperate amps (one for the comps and one for the 8inch midbass drivers buth amps with fantastic built in crossovers) i am going to replace the single 8inch midbasss per door with four 6X9's per door - it looks easier to get four 6X9's in rather than 4 8inch cone sand i should not loose out on much cone area. For the daily drive the crossover on the amp running them will be lowpassed so they only do midbass duties but when it goes to a show i can turn that crossover off so they play fullrange - this will give me tweeters in the door to throw sound. I will probably use these - http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/jbl-gto938.html as they are 2ohm coils so i can wire four up to show a final load of 2ohms, perfect as my amps do the most power in stereo mode @2ohms per channel
-Bit of flex
-This should be sorted once i build a port for the rear chamber as that will give more support to the existing edge that is flexing
-Tightening nuts digging in
-Thankfully i went and bothered RichW yesterday and he drilled out some square washers i had so i can put them behind the nutss to spread the load
-Continually pushing the amp
-Nothing i can really do on this front as the amp is a very good amp (Massive 3000.1) but it is notthe most efficient so what i am going to do when i have the cash is look at replacing it with two other amps to bring the sub amp RMS up from 3k to 6k - the reason for this is then i will have far more power than the woofers can take - this will keep me in the area where classD amps are lovely and efficient
-It does not look pretty
-When i can afford it i will be taking the car back to RichW to have some fibreglass trim panels made up for behind the rear windows but as the boot has to remain practical it will just be MDF and carpet, in regards to the bodywork when the winter tyres go on and my OEM alloys come off i am toying with getting them sprayed a different colour and when i eventually have the cash the scrape on the side will be repaired and potentially the entire car will be given a blow-over
Coming into the it does not look pretty the dash is a bit of a mess but im going to try a couple of things over the winter to make it look good-this is being kept under my hat though
Also i will need to do some work on the front and rear chamber as it is the general belief that moving the loading wall closer to the woofers will really transform it
Still it did its job this year - been everywhere from Single Make shows, to pistonhead events and through to modified car shows and it ahs made people smile and laugh at each and every one so i cant moan
I have put nearly 10thousand miles on the car with the wall and it went through its MOT with just a suspension bush needing replacing and i think that bush has been on the car since it left the factory so i cant really moan
I had a target of 150db this year - sadly i did not get it, got close with 149.8 but the install has done the following
-Played pretty much everything i have thrown at it
-Played pretty much flat out all day on just engine tickover at the shows/meets ive been to
-The woofers have not really got all that smelly
-The only equiptment failure i have had is an 8inch mid dying
As i have said before this year was just about finding weaknesses in the install, not that many but they are
-Lack of midbass upfront (At the moment i only reallyhave a pair of 6.5inch comps against the wall so itsnot too bad)
-Does not really throw sound when demo-ing with doors open
-A bit of flex on the woofer baffle
-Tightening nuts digging into the rear wall
-Continually pushing the sub amp into the last 10% of its power so it is sucking current
-It does not look pretty
So for the work i need to do on it
-Lack of Midbass/Does not throw sound
-This i think i have solved, as i have two seperate amps (one for the comps and one for the 8inch midbass drivers buth amps with fantastic built in crossovers) i am going to replace the single 8inch midbasss per door with four 6X9's per door - it looks easier to get four 6X9's in rather than 4 8inch cone sand i should not loose out on much cone area. For the daily drive the crossover on the amp running them will be lowpassed so they only do midbass duties but when it goes to a show i can turn that crossover off so they play fullrange - this will give me tweeters in the door to throw sound. I will probably use these - http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/jbl-gto938.html as they are 2ohm coils so i can wire four up to show a final load of 2ohms, perfect as my amps do the most power in stereo mode @2ohms per channel
-Bit of flex
-This should be sorted once i build a port for the rear chamber as that will give more support to the existing edge that is flexing
-Tightening nuts digging in
-Thankfully i went and bothered RichW yesterday and he drilled out some square washers i had so i can put them behind the nutss to spread the load
-Continually pushing the amp
-Nothing i can really do on this front as the amp is a very good amp (Massive 3000.1) but it is notthe most efficient so what i am going to do when i have the cash is look at replacing it with two other amps to bring the sub amp RMS up from 3k to 6k - the reason for this is then i will have far more power than the woofers can take - this will keep me in the area where classD amps are lovely and efficient
-It does not look pretty
-When i can afford it i will be taking the car back to RichW to have some fibreglass trim panels made up for behind the rear windows but as the boot has to remain practical it will just be MDF and carpet, in regards to the bodywork when the winter tyres go on and my OEM alloys come off i am toying with getting them sprayed a different colour and when i eventually have the cash the scrape on the side will be repaired and potentially the entire car will be given a blow-over
Coming into the it does not look pretty the dash is a bit of a mess but im going to try a couple of things over the winter to make it look good-this is being kept under my hat though
Also i will need to do some work on the front and rear chamber as it is the general belief that moving the loading wall closer to the woofers will really transform it
Still it did its job this year - been everywhere from Single Make shows, to pistonhead events and through to modified car shows and it ahs made people smile and laugh at each and every one so i cant moan
Right i got a delivery today
four pairs of 6x9's for my frontend, four per door
2ohm load so i can wire four of them up to show a final load of 2ohm to get the power out of the amps
A fair whack of cone area
And some random bunnys being nosey
I want this box when your done
For daily driving i will have the tweeters turned off so they will be purely midbass (the existing 6.5 component midrange in the doors will be purely midrange and the tweeters for daily use will be the existing tweeters in my A-pillar build)
For show use though the 6x9's will have the tweeters playing so i have tweeters broadcasting out of the doors and i dont need to be too hard on my nice sq-ish tweeters in my a-pillars
four pairs of 6x9's for my frontend, four per door
2ohm load so i can wire four of them up to show a final load of 2ohm to get the power out of the amps
A fair whack of cone area
And some random bunnys being nosey
I want this box when your done
For daily driving i will have the tweeters turned off so they will be purely midbass (the existing 6.5 component midrange in the doors will be purely midrange and the tweeters for daily use will be the existing tweeters in my A-pillar build)
For show use though the 6x9's will have the tweeters playing so i have tweeters broadcasting out of the doors and i dont need to be too hard on my nice sq-ish tweeters in my a-pillars
So i got some more work done on it
As people know i had mentioned i had a tiny split on the baffle that i reapred temporarely with fibreglass so i could keep using it through the year
Well today i thought i would sort that out
So out come the woofers
Looks empty doesnt it - and they were that tight in the holes i smacked myself in the head a few times when the woofers finally came out
Once i got woofer number2 out i saw this
ohhh a big split in the MDF
Chipped off the fibreglass around the edge of the port so i could get to the wood
I could now see the split better
otherside
So its not the end of the world - next step was to take as much strain of the baffle as i could so i unwound the tension on the threaded rod going from the back of the enclosure to the woofer baffle
Now to fill the crack with good old fashioned wood glue and then clamp the sides togehter
So give it 24hrs to cure now and then see about some fibreglass work to make it even stonger/twist Richs arm for more steel
As people know i had mentioned i had a tiny split on the baffle that i reapred temporarely with fibreglass so i could keep using it through the year
Well today i thought i would sort that out
So out come the woofers
Looks empty doesnt it - and they were that tight in the holes i smacked myself in the head a few times when the woofers finally came out
Once i got woofer number2 out i saw this
ohhh a big split in the MDFChipped off the fibreglass around the edge of the port so i could get to the wood
I could now see the split better
otherside
So its not the end of the world - next step was to take as much strain of the baffle as i could so i unwound the tension on the threaded rod going from the back of the enclosure to the woofer baffle
Now to fill the crack with good old fashioned wood glue and then clamp the sides togehter
So give it 24hrs to cure now and then see about some fibreglass work to make it even stonger/twist Richs arm for more steel
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