coastdweller

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b21_1312458697 Not sure if its been posted.

When I was 6 I played with pops 8 track. When I was in high school there were cars that were rocking the 8 track. It's amazing, download, sync bam. Media has come a long way. Now I'm going to spend all week thinking "What was my first damned head unit" and what is sad is I remember it now. Dad worked at Handy Andy (Tv Stereo place) and it was all I could do to afford what they had laying around.

I'd have to go back to 85... and that's gotta be a sony? Or even a Kenwood. Really no clue, just know it was ripped off haha.

Definitely just try to clean it up. Get it mechanically sound (Check your mileage, O2 sensors etc) whatever is holding it back (Low power). I'd focus on fuel metering and delivery. Love the idea of painting the rims black and polishing the beauty rings, cool idea. See if you can find someone that can sandblast locally and remove the rims and have them done well. Have them powder coated and painted. Will really look different than just painting them. Without lowering it I'd keep it stock as hell until you're ready for that. Lower it right if you're going to lower it and time it with replacement rims. As you dig around you'll find really good deals (just dig and dig) until you find em and have the lowering job done (Or do) and slap em on. That's the number one thing you'll love about the truck's look is when you lower it. That radio location looks like it could handle a double din unit so yea there's that =) You could learn how to take off the door panels, sound deaden the doors before you do ANYTHING so you get the most out of the components. Select components with a decent crossover. Do a couple side firing 10's or 8's in the right box and you'll love the system the entire time you have it. As you're waiting for it, do the research for the big 3 upgrade, collect the wire, deadening and do the system right piece by piece. Start a build log and we'll all follow it =)

Cool box idea =) Easy to false floor it. Thanks for posting this, gives me ideas for my "Age appropriate SUV" I want to build.

Yea um That was fucking bad ass.

You're totally cool to play the larger speakers with high frequencies. They have no effect on their reliability and will naturally roll-off without a problem. In fact if leveled right, will sound better due to the need to fill out the system with a small amount of speakers. Being a SQ guy (With bass head tendencies) I love when they blend together versus one screaming at me. When you can damage the speakers by passing uncontrolled frequencies into a loudspeaker is when you don't cut the bass out for speakers designed to play the higest frequencies primarily (IE: Tweeters, small mid-ranges). Mid-bass speakers typically can handle lower frequencies (Within reason) without ill effects if you moderate the power going into them (Not crank it to kill them with very low bass). You may just do fine with a tuning =) On the things "I want" is an audio analyzer for just this reason. I want to test each driver's response in the cabin to get a real-world tuning.

Do you mean active or passive? A passive crossover is very difficult to create/design from scratch and can cause a great amount of insertion loss at the inductor coil. If you can rely on the active crossover in your amp or control the input with an active crossover and feed to multiple amps. I prefer this method, multiple amps, active crossover ultimate control. If all you want is a mid bass you HPF at a very low level off your amp and be done with it. This is what I meant by "You may be wanting to use what you've got". Have you tried running the mid-bass full range? Also have you tried a HPF of 100-250 and up directly off the amp? That seems like the least expensive route and may be just enough.

A little searching found some resources that may help with your answer. Parts Express's crossover FAQ seems like a good start: Clicky! Specifically to what you need: http://www.the12volt...TID~100789~PN~1 "Crutchfield's excerpt" In a hypothetical car audio system the audio frequencies might be directed as follows: Low frequencies (say 100 Hz and lower) go to subwoofers. Midbass speakers get frequencies between 100 and 250 Hz. Midrange speakers would see frequencies between 250 and 3,000 Hz. All frequencies above 3,000 are handled by the tweeters. Generally we tend to use what we've got and you might be headed in that direction. A crossover is saying that you're tying multiple drivers into a crossover circuit (The correct term) so if you're looking to just use the amp, play from 100-250 and up and let the speaker fall over normally. You could limit it's output with an active crossover ($200 and up) which would give you finite control of the output at "Low level" keeping the power to the speaker to it's maximum potential and limiting noise being added by a high-power passive.

Sounds like a test of another amp, and it won't cost 900 to repair that amp.

Education gained through replacement hardware =) Happens(d) to all of us. Step away from it, shop for a new amp and play. That's what it's about

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We consistently see the HP's. Dell's and the like be slow upon purchase (Just fast enough to not be noticeable). The asus's are always fast, even after years. The main problem I have with people who own Asus laptops is they 1: never understand why they can't upgrade the cpu/gpu (You normally never do this on lappys) and they last so long... that they're skewed. 2: Everyone they know wants their laptop but always buy's dell/hp crap from best buy. When asked what I think about BB laptops I say BUY THEM! buy a lot of them! It keeps me in business. I sell Asus custom machines, but work on bb's garbage =)