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You're in Wisconsin and there is not much demand for doing car alarms, its good to know but you don't need to be an expert on them. Remote Starters is where its at in the Great North. Learn how to toss a few of those in and put in your time for a winter and then stay on in the summer to learn the fun parts of the trade. Also brush up on your Electronics basics and learn from every source that you can. Hell even the Crutchfield Guide to Car Audio has a wealth of information for an aspiring installer. Get in a good shop and learn from the head tech and have fun with it.

Money may not be able to buy happiness, but how often do you see a sad person on Jet Ski?

The boss says we are having a great turn out for entries. I can't wait to see the videos start flooding in. If you know a soldier please tell them about this contest! Thanks-The Junction

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The Junction Inc. in Watertown, NY is having TWO separate contests. The first contest is a makeover on one lucky Soldier's vehicle. Car, truck, motorcycle, boat....It doesn't matter we will get it decked out! The SECOND contest is a home furniture makeover for one spouse of a soldier! All you have to do is send in a Video why you deserve to win and tell your friends to vote for you! This contest is for ACTIVE duty soldiers only, so if you have any friends for family in the Military be sure to tell them about this contest! Here's the link- The Junction INC.

Termpro.com will give you a list and so will MecaCaraudio.com. Also check out Soundmekanix.com, they are the DB judges for the midwest and based out of sheyboygen i believe.

That Terminator package is a hell of a deal for an entry level system. I've tossed a few into some hatchbacks and have had great results. For the money that has got to be one of the best entry level systems in car audio. Now that i've talked about the pros now you need to know the cons. Its an entry level system thats designed to work with everything that comes in the box, with a 1000w amp on those subs you won't even get the amp tuned in before your subs are tore to pieces, and your not looking much better with a 500w amp either. The best way to upgrade that system down the road would be to upgrade to a more efficient box, vented or a well designed bandbass would give you way more output than the sealed box in the package. Then when your ready to make a real upgrade do subs and an amp at the same time. Those subs won't be able to take a much bigger amp and that amp won't power any bigger subs with good results. Since you will be running that system in a small Suv it should sound great. I'd just rock it for a year and sell it to a friend or on Craigslist. Just leave it hooked up in your truck for people to listen to and if you do it right you should be able to get all your money back out of them. Good Luck!

Not the one I was looking for Kranny but thanks for the input. The one I'm thinking about had all 3 subs running free air and a voltmeter hooked up to the speaker leads, and it was an MTX promo so the 9500 had to win. Here's some W7

MTX had a Demo DVD out doing reliability testing on the 9500 compared to a W7 and an L7. All 3 subs were taking over 100V AC free air. If someone could post that then you can see a realistic demo of a W7 on a wall socket.

There's 2 rings that hold the surround in place. The first one is steel and is placed on the surround over the mounting holes, and the second one is aluminum and gets pressure fit around the outside of the basket and it clamps the other steel ring down to the basket assembly. JL has a Tutorial on their website for a more detailed explanation.

Simple reason it looked so devastating-they didn't put all the pieces back on it before they hooked it up.

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Looking good Thor. What did you use to secure your battery in place? I was in Pulaski today and didn't have anything going on, if it weren't for the rain and temps just a few degrees above freezing i probably would have made the trip down for another demo. Keep up the good work!

The only gain you would get from running multiple channels would be the ability to do time delay on each sub. For example if you had a big vehicle with 2 sub boxes, one in the front and one in the rear, then you could make use of having electronic time delay. (BTW this is a bad idea to start with). Also if you were going to be running 2 different size of subs and wanted to use the smaller set as midbass drivers, then you could use the extra channels and run them with a bandpass signal (this will only work well if you have HUGE subs for your bottom end, vehicles that come to mind are the MTX Jackhammer escalade with a pair of 22" subs and running 4-12's for midbass or Steve's Tahoe with 4-18" subs and a pair of 8" rockford subs being ran as midbass drivers up front). If neither of these scenarios apply to you then just get a big monoblock that is one ohm stable, it will be easier to hook up and a lot easier to tune.

Police are intimidated by my mudflaps that say "back off". Police can't get an accurate radar reading on my car because i wax it every day. Police try to harass me all the time because i have a car that they are jealous of. Cops are jeolous of IROC Camaros with flame graphics and chain link steering wheels. Classic. I need to use some of these lines at the next car club meet.

I put a cold air intake on my Grand Prix GTP and me and my roommate went for a ride to test it out. The first thing he said, "that's awesome! Now I can't wait to put a kazoo on my car!" Leave it stock. Please.

I think NY has some DB drag judges out of Buffalo if i remember correctly.They cover a pretty wide area so they really don't do a ton of shows in NY. There's a league called http://www.teamnortheastspl.com/ that is nearly entirely in NY. I'm not a big fan of the class breakdown, but they have quite a few shows and they schedule them nearly all year round. Maybe i'll give their league a try next spring as something to keep busy on the weekends.

You do learn a lot of fabrication at any stereo school. Most of them do not spend much time on the bread and butter that you have to do day in and day out. Problem is when you get your diploma most shops are leary about taking on apprentices. Too much liability if you break something. My opinion would be to try to get on as an apprentice, learn your basics, get paid, see if it's something you like, and if you want to stick with it then head to just school for the Fab courses. That way you can spend about half the money on schooling, and use the rest for a nice toolbox and all your fabrication tools.

I have the alpine cde-102 and I love it! Built in highpass Xover, front panel USB, iPod compatible, Sub control. If your not running an amp for your highs this deck does it all. The only drawback is the amount of information that you can fit on your screen when your looking through folders or trying to find information on a song. I also love the looks of it and its ease of use. I personally haven't had a chance to run any of the other decks you listed but i have owned a few kenwoods and clarions in the past few years. Kenwoods sound nice but tend to have reliability problems on the cd drive. Clarions are nice also (i haven't seen this years lineup ) but they tend to be pretty ugly in their entry level decks.

Those 10's sound great also, very musical, with lots of impact. Best all around system i've heard in a long time.

http://www.teamnortheastspl.com/ Nearly exclusive to NY and the tri-state area. Classes are based on cone area. Rookie classes are 30 sec average on music, everything else is peak sealed on the dash. They put up a good amount of shows and the competitors are all pretty down to earth.

I saw that Cavalier yesterday in Maryland. 2 BIG Stetsom amps and crazy flex. This video makes me want to grow my hair out so i can do hairtricks by myself.

Come on now...We are trying to have a serious conversation and you gotta bring up the Funky Pups. We all know the Pups cost way more than the OP can spend. Chuck Norris can't even get a pair of Funky Pups for $500.

Hey Cracker. When i was down in Rice Lake, WI we had 2 bonnevilles and 2 grand prix in our stereo comp team. We had one guy running a $2000 Critical Mass UL12 vented with 2000w in his bonnie rear firing. We had another guy with both 3 13w3v3's and 4 12w3v2's off of a alpine 1000w PDX. When the bonnevilles had smaller, similar systems to the grand prix's they were consistantly 2-4 db down just because of the vehicle acoustics of the Bonneville. Your gonna have to do some work to get where you want to be. I don't know too much about DC but i would stay with the single 15. If you can step your airspace up over 4 cubes then a pair of 12's should get you closer to your goal with the same power you have now. Next time i talk to my friends with the Bonnies i'll see what kind of numbers they were hitting.