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I will be down to see the Beast for sure. I just hope Trippi's wife lets his old fart ass come out and play with the Boyz. Sunday is probably vacuuming and dusting day so he might have to miss the show Bring a few more loud friends from NY down with you Beast. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLuHZJdwtEM&feature=player_embedded

Build it under the seat until the kid get bigger. Then ditch the back seat.

I wanna Bop Gun.

I use mainly 26g galvanized sheet metal. Easy to cut, break, bend and form. 24g isnt bad but cutting a lot of it by hand and forming it gets tough. 22g takes a little more effort and is where most of my metal forming machinery stops at. I can cut 18g by hand but would rather not. Even cutting it on a manual stomp shear is a bitch and Im no lightweight. Any of those shears will work. Just may be a challenge getting them in the places where you want them to go. Pretty sure most new cars will use metal in the 22g range. You wont see anything thicker than that unless its an old car.

8:10 right now and the front stage does a good job keeping up with the bass. 16:10 as soon as the 2 other sets show up I get them installed. Will probably wind up at 20:10. Eventually going to put something back in my rear doors.

turbo shear I use one of these all the time to cut furnace openings. Just put it on the front of a cordless drill. Whats nice is you can angle the drill and rotate it from side to side. Im mostly cutting 22g with these. The metal in those decks cant be much thicker than that.

Or use a sawzall with a metal cutting blade. Just watch out for the glass.

17 gauge is pretty thick. They should cut the metal in a rear deck pretty easily. Its more of a can you fit the tool in the places you need it to go to do the work. Maybe drill in the middle and work towards the sides. The problem with the big humps is that the shears have a sweet spot/angle that they like to be in to cut right. To high or to low and they just dont cut. Or maybe I just had an old dull ass shear lol.

They work pretty good on flat surfaces. Cant say I have tried one in a car before. If you have to cut thru double thick material it will be a bitch. Because of the length of the tool getting in tight corners wont be easy either. Sometimes they dont like going over pressed/stamped areas. An air saw with a good metal blade would work well. A plasma cutter would make quick work of it. Might not be that much to rent one.

Think its the M1005. The M605 only had 1 cooling fan on top.

I posted what to do in your exterior thread. Keep all the exterior and interior picts in the same thread. That way when you nominate yourself all your work will be easily accessible. This section is for nominating, discussion and voting. All these new builds in this section should be in Member Builds / Show Offs.

Yea your late. Thats sooooo 30 minutes ago.

Every shop should have a giant tape ball. Table is very nice.

Well deserved. Good job on the Hummer Rick. I will give props to the subs too. Those SMD's sound amazing in the Hummer. They sound good no matter what is playing and at every volume level. The doors, well they will just drill holes in your ears they are so loud. Congrats one the award Trippi. You deserve to have a kick ass ride like this Bro.