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Loud & Low 8th Gen Civic - Time to say good bye to her.


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Ok so here's the deal. I was doing a build on this before, and here's a little back ground. My wife and I have been going back and forth for about a year now trying to decide if it's in our best interest to sell this car or keep it. Well after all that back and forth and "we're for sure selling it" to "now we're keeping it" and back and forth, we've decided finally to keep it. We'll have it paid off next year and we're getting by just fine with what we have.

BUT, this works finally for me cause I know that I can now plan a final system in it and get building! That's what I'm doing now.

I've been working with Dre (Ibleedmusik) and Jon Rabe (skyhighaudio) with this build and some of the particulars and planning of it. I want to thank them for their help and constant working with me. I can be a bit crazy and over the top at times and they help reel me back into reality. But what everyone should know by now, is I'm not a typical run of the mill idea guy! I like to be out of the box, or just off the other side of normal and easy. But that all being said this is going to be fun. I have a sketch up of the plan, and I have some stuff built already, but not much. I'm about 98% of where I need to be equipment wise. SO we're about there as far as getting this thing going.

Here's my last build and where I left off: 06 Civic Build

I do have a UBL from the last build, and I'm going to go ahead and leave that up and add to it cause it has all my performance build pics on it, and it's not that long. SO, I'll be linking that in my signature and you can follow along there as well if you don't want to hear all the talk in here.

Most likely, like that one, this one is going be a long thread. I like to make sure that I have all you guys with me along for the full ride. I do experiment with some different things and some fail and some work. But along the way, you guys see it so if you want to try it as well, you can see what works and what fails and can comment on things to try on the things that fail.

Ok enough rambling, I'll be back in a few minutes with some pics! Stay tuned, here we go!

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bout damn time ... LOL ........... Iv been waiting for you to make up your mind and do this build I need the Ideas and how to's to help on my other car (2012 civic ex)

2 12" Jeff Vue Customs
1 set MB Quart FSB 216 in doors
1 American Bass 100.1 on sub
1 Hertz EP2 on doors
JVC deck IPOD control
Stock 105 amp alt
DD-1
big 3
new build in Chevy caviler http://www.stevemead...chevy-cavalier/

last set up in the ZX2 http://www.stevemead...-current-build/


old build log http://www.stevemead...-1998-ford-zx2/

Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, debt is the money of slaves. Just my .02c

that shop needs keep those doors open so they have to charge for it

if people think 10k is a lot then they should get into other hobbies.. like masturbating, cause any hobby cost money to maintain

Lol no, I'm smarter than that bro haha. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice..............go fuck yourself lol

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So if you were with me in the end of the last thread, you knew that I was in an accident back in October. October 22nd to be exact!

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Some jackass decided he didn't want to turn left anymore and went from the left turn lane into my lane, which I just so happened to be occupying at the time. Could've been worse but still sucked either way.

Well in the meantime we'd decided to keep the car, as noted above, and I started building my stockpile while the car was in the shop. It went in on October 22nd. Well here we are, on December 1st, and I just got it back last night. Still have some problems with it, and it's going to go back for sure.

Problems:

Biggest problem is the paint doesn't match. The two doors and rear quarter panel are lighter than the front panel and bumper. This is not even subtle and I can't believe they missed it. Here's a pic:

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Second problem is the driver door window. It's off track or tweeked or something, cause I have auto up and down feature on the window. Well it goes down just fine, but when it goes back up you can see it twist a little about 4" before closing and it stops and goes back down. It has a safety feature on it so no hands or heads or whatnot get caught in there. So that has to be fixed.

Third problem is the alignment that was "perfect" is NOWHERE NEAR perfect! It pulls hard to the left!

That's all I could find at the moment and I've not really had time to look at it better but those are the things that stand out to me.

Now to the good stuff. When the took these doors off, and the rear quarter panel, I lost my sound deadener. They are going to pay me for new, along with time for labor to put it on. Nice couple hundred bucks in my pocket for that.

Then the rear wheel also looked damaged at first, but after a detail, it's only got a little scrape on the wheel outter lip. I can fix that myself, so they're going to still comensate me for the replacement of the wheel. Another couple hundred in my pocket!

So that will be nice considering I have deadener here to replace the old stuff, and I have the stuff to fix the wheel as well since I already did two others. Still undecided if I want to keep these or get new ones anyway. Down the road!

So now we're back on track with the build. So lets get to the equipment. You can see it in my signature but here's what's going in!

Samsung Galaxy 10.1 Tablet:

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Samsung 10.1 Desk Dock swapped with a 7.0 Dock with HDMI output:

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Octava HDMI Converter:

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Alpine CDA-9886

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2 - Crescendo FT-1 Tweets (running 1 per front door at 4ohms)

These were taken when I had the old soundstream stuff and decided to change it up. I'll get better pics of the tweets alone.

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4 - Crescendo PWX8 8's (running 2 per front door at 2ohms)

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DC Audio XL15 D1 Sub: (This may change as I'd love to run a Level 5 in a 4th order, but I have to sell this and it's partner first before I can do that, so I will continue on this way until that happens. If it doesn't I'll sell it's partner, pay off my debt, and be happy with this. But for now this is the plan.)

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Crescendo c1100.4

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Project DB 1/0ga to 4 ga reducers for power and ground on 1100.4 (overkill? Yes maybe, but that's ok)

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Crescendo bc3500d

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Project DB Dual inputs for power and ground on 3500d

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XS Power D6500d x 2 for rear power

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XS Power D???? (undecided yet)

Lots of power equipment, there's more than this, I just forgot to picture it all:

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Forgot these too. Ebay volt meters

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Also I have a ton of Stinger cable. 1/0 ga, 4 ga, 8ga, and twisted 16ga speaker wire.

So that's the equipment list for the most part. I'm sure I forgot a piece or two.

Here's the basic design for the trunk. Sketch up of course!

The enclosure runs approx 3.7-3.8 cu ft, port area per sq in is around 15.8, and tuned around 34hz. Front facing, toward the back seat, and will be sealed off.

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Trunk side amp and battery rack:

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and I've since changed the fuse panels on either side from this:

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to this:

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This new one will have the same plexi cover like the older design, but will clean up the cables a bit better and have the ground cables in there as well, where as the old design did not.

So that's about all I have time for right now. I have parties all day today with my kids, but I'll post more later. Trust me I have tons of pics to post up! Be back later! Thanks for checking it out!

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Thanks guys. Yes I'm in this one 100% and it will get finished! I was going to try and get it done by Autorama in Februaray here in Cali, but we've bought a house and will most likely be moving in January so between now and then it's going to take over some of the time I was going to use to build. So may not be done by then, but I will be working hard on this one in the limited amount of free time I have. Will still try and meet my goal of Autorama, but not being unrealistic about it if I don't get to that point.

I have some build pictures, enclosure is cut and temporarily built, and I've test fitted it with slight issues.

I have some pictures from the old build that are still going to be incorporated into this one, so I'll re post those.

The rest will be forth coming in the time ahead! Going to have some fun with this one. Maybe get my girls involved with it as well, so don't be surprised when you see them in the picture!

My goals are to get loud, and be clean as hell doing it. I want it to be show worthy, while not necessarily be competing. Gonna be fun!

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