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Well the time has come. Antheny (my son) is finally ready to upgrade his system in his ride. I know he has wanted it from day one but i am always busy and he was always in school during the day. So now that he is graduated high school (great grades BTW) we have more time to do stuff together. He has been helping out a TON at the shop so i decided to help him out with some gear. God dammit my name is Steve Meade who am i not to help my kid get some beat with the resources i have? Anyhow, nothing is free here, it cost me some $ but not too bad considering i am a dealer now. Anyway, we aren't going to go ape shit. We are aiming for a nice clean install with some bump. Over time, if the crazy bass bug hits him, he can upgrade all he wants. I think what we picked out will be a nice, well rounded first system for him...and for anyone if you ask me. Also, we plan on making the box look nice in the back. Nothing to wild. I want HIM to build this and we are going to start out with the basics. I had him open up the book and we are building from recommended specs for this first enclosure. We are going to use 4" Tube ports with a nice round over on them. Anyway, i LOVE showing him how to do stuff and then watching him get it done on his own. He did 99% of what you see in the pics below. I will post updates as we get more progress done. Planned equipment so far: Planned Equipment: (1) Sony CD / Bluetooth H.U. (1) Rockford Fosgate P1000.1 (on Lows) (1) Rockford Fosgate P300.2 (on Highs) (2) Rockford Fosgate P3 12" Subwoofers (1) Set Rockford Fosgate Power T1652-s (1) SMD TM-1 Temperature Monitor / Automatic Fan controller (fan rack cooling) (1) SMD VM-1 Volt Meter (1) SMD OM-1 Output Meter All SMD RCA's The Punch 1000 came in at almost 1500 big ones! DAMN! The 300x2 has a nice birthsheet as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEv7TZPAgZc I created this video because so many customers call/email and want to know what comes in the 40 pound mix box of B Stock Damplifier/Damplifier Pro. The product contains trimmed factory error pieces of both Damplifier and Damplifier Pro, we try to keep it more Pro than regular, the pieces are hand trimmed to remove any unusable pieces and it results in a great discounted box for dampers on a budget. The B Stock does contain pieces that may have wrinkles, uneven edges, and/or +/- 25% butyl rubber thickness but are still made from the same high quality 100% American made butyl rubber and 6.5 mil foil as the A Stock Damplifiers. B Stock products are not always in stock as they only are available upon factory errors, but they do come back in stock in burst throughout the year so always check back if they are out of stock when you first check. The 40 pound B Stock box can be found and purchased here at: http://store.secondskinaudio.com/damplifier-damplifier-pro…/ In this project I used about 15 pounds of the 40 pounds of B Stock. I only did single layer coverage as I do not have a loud bass system or loud exhaust in this vehicle. The 40 pound Box can cover between 60-90 sqft enough to the average sized car floor, doors, and trunk area. Second Skin For The Win!!!!

I just wanted to make an official post and welcome Bob and the crew from American Bass! They are our newest SMD Partner! At this time, they did not request their own section due to not being able to staff it but you can still post in the subwoofer section you will notice they have a few banner graphics up top and the sides of this forum though, you can see what they are about through that link and contact them there. anyhow, welcome to the board Bob, i will see you soon at CES!

Kevin Fickling​ gives me The "REAL" Bass Demo and has no problem pulling off a T-Shirt Float just for good measure. This thing will float a heavy ass pullover sweater too. Thanks for the Demo Kev! Those Sundowns were some serious shit and y9ou do great work!

Thanks for the support Steve. Much appreciated

THIS IS A U.B.L. (uninterrupted build log) of this 2002 Yukon project. It is ALL PICTURES and just myself talking. If you wish to join the discussion, and leave a positive comment, please click here: http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/192667-father-and-son-project-2002-yukon-a-rockford-fosgate-sound-system-install-new-battery-big-3-wiring-etc-11414/ thanks!

i know its not hard to extend wires but if i see it done i wont worry about it. I have wanted to move my controls ever since i got the truck but i needed to see someonelse do it first so i feel comfortable doing it. I know that sounds dumb as shit but its how my dumb ass brain works

Dude... Your work is fuckin killer! Also love that after busting your ass all day on builds, you take all the time and effort to film and edit, showing us what you did and how you went about it!

Damn thumbs up for the mirror like finish ! i hope someday i can get paint to lay that smooth..

Another sweet piece of work from ya Steve!

a couple of updates. It's starting to look pretty good I can't wait to post pics with the VU-Din and the Ipad lit up For now, it just needs to spend the evening drying.

a couple of updates. It's starting to look pretty good I can't wait to post pics with the VU-Din and the Ipad lit up For now, it just needs to spend the evening drying.

The LED's are wired up, there will be a video on how the Mercury switch works soon. If you want to see a 15 second instagram clip, visit my channel @ http://www.instagram.com/meade916 it's just a few days ago. After i post these pics i will work on the latest video. Today's work.... I was trying to find an easy spot to put his SMD VM-1 and SMD TM-1 by the dash not really knowing what we were going to do. I didn't want to do anything fancy because i think he want's to do an Ipad mini eventually in the dash. So before i pull the trigger and fabricate something, i want to make sure he know's what he wan'ts so we don't do the work twice. Then i realized....there is 2 prime spots right in front of our face! I will let the pics do the talking. So i just started pulling it apart, to see what kind of room i had. To my surprise, there is ENOUGH! Ok before you ask why one hole was cut with a hole saw and the other was cut with my air tool......it is because the hole saw would have cut into the top of the factory temperature gauge numbers (dashes) a little bit. It would have shown. So i had to do a circle with a flat spot on the bottom so that would not happen. The hole is a LOT more rough but it doesn't really matter as it gets covered by the new gauge. I just thought i would explain that. As you will see i am capable of a clean hole i was just out of options for the VM-1 spot.

Mids/Tweets + Amp Rack Wired Up & Fired up! Sounds good! THIS IS A U.B.L. (uninterrupted build log) of this 2002 Yukon project. It is ALL PICTURES and just myself talking. If you wish to join the discussion, and leave a positive comment, please click here: http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/192667-father-and-son-project-2002-yukon-a-rockford-fosgate-sound-system-install-new-battery-big-3-wiring-etc-11414/ thanks!

Get yourself one hell of an electrical system to back it up. so with a nice electrical system it can run at .5 easily??? cuz if is like that I'm in 4 alts and 15 batts? jk idk how much you would need but for .5 ohm holy shit thats alot of power!!!