alaskanzx5
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i say 12 18s and let those baskets show.
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murder it out like the lexus.
I Will never again own a black car. That color is great but also my worst nightmare at the same time. Nooooo thanks!
black paint is a pain to take care o,. any darker paints are horrible to take care of. although i like glossy black paint on cars and my next car if i can manage to get the car i want will be black.
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as long as ita a 160+ and some crazy loud mids and highs i dont care what you do with it. i just want to see it done.
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I wouldn't worry about getting a deck made more for sq if your gonna use the 3 sixty. The processor will make such a huge difference I doubt you would find or hear a difference in sound with the deh 80 prs
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might want to make sure he understand that port to. you put only 1 common wall when most people know slot ports as a port that goes from 1 side of the box to the other an is an L in shape.
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well, hair tricks dont mean its loud, neither does moving air.with those measurements im guessing you want it behind the front seats but below the back window as you said. that might be an issue with moving air as the port has to have room to breath and only 10 of depth the sub(s) would have to be facing the back wall of the truck or the back of the seats which could hurt but im no expert so i cant say for sure.
ive seen videos of 2 12s doing hair trick along with single 18s. the trick is more of low tuning and sub(s) with higher xmax. the sub has to be able to flex back and forth a good amount to getthat air moving and with that you need a fairly big port meaning a bigger box in return. im not saying you cant do it with the dimensions you have or with the power but it wont be easy.
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when buying it from xs power and shipping from there to hear there is only one shipping fee and the batteries are only paid for once. yes a shop will pay the shipping and dont realy charge for the shipping from all the shops i have seen. shops will also be able to ship large amounts of the batteries at a cheaper price by far. then the shop will pay ( and im just guessing here ) 40-60% less per battery then the average consumer would. meaning if they paid 250 for a battery and paid 200 to ship it and sold it for 600 thats still profit but the shop wont pay 200 in shipping a single battery they will buy 5-10 of several different sizes of battery then have it shipped up by freight and get a great price to ship 5-10 times the amount of batteries. shipping a car from alaska to washington avarages about 750-1000 if i remember right but to buy a conex and load it with 2-3 cars will cost 1500-2000 to ship meaning that 3rd car is free shipping or better yet the 3rd car is free and the 2nd car is half priced.
shops can make bigger orders and get the product at a much cheaper price and ship for less then the consumer so even selling at msrp is profit. the amount of profit per may not be a whole lot but not all shops go for big profit off of 1 or 2 purchases but instead go for large profit off of 8-9 purchases. a local shop here has to sell x amount of rockfod subs in order to get them at the price they do and so in turn they do a buy 1 get 1 free sale once a year where they make their money.
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i dont understand his logic... from what i was reading he disagrees with the customer trying to get local shops to carry xs power and that xs power and the local shops should be the ones to take care of it but then he goes and likes my post that says it well worth it just to save on shipping alone?? doesnt make much sense to me.what the fuck did you just say?
This x100000
The murder of the written language coupled with what I believe to be his logic gave me super aids.
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walker with custom door panels? thats it? and i thought you did everything big. i figured an electric wheel chair with 3 d3100 500 watts ran to a single 10 and a set of componets running on a 200 watt 4 channel with a rockford sound processor and an ipad.
happy birthday man, hope you have a great one.
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kenyel, just to let you know the shops up here dont charge for the shipping they just bite the bullet on it unless its a specail order in which sometimes they will have it shipped with their next shipment and not charge you or charge you all depending on how good of a customer you are. i have ordered a hat and shirt from rockford and got free shipping through a dealer here. they have also handed rockford wiring that was laying around because it was just scraps from other installs they do along with a couple free fuse holders and have sold some stuff to me at less then msrp just because im a frequent customer.
the benifit of getting xs power in a shop here in alaska is no shipping. that alone will save me a few hundred bucks and if all i have to do is chip in $300-400 to go towards the buy in cost and walk away from it with an xspower battery without having to pay shipping then so be it. im sure that since i would play a part in helping the shop/dealer to start carrying the battery that i could even get a slightly lower price then msrp. in the end if i buy 3-4 batts and not have to pay the shipping i can save well over $200 maybe even as much as $400 and the chance of getting a slightly better price then msrp i would have saved enough to buy a better amp or even to finish my soundstage or sound deadening...ect ect...
It costs over $200 just in shipping to ship a D3100 to Alaska FedEx or UPS. A shop carrying XS Power could save you a ton in shipping. I don't think people realize the cost of shipping to a lot of places in the lower 48 much less to Alaska and overseas.
i was thinking closer to 70-80 a batts but 200!?!? if i got 3-4 of them that 600-800 in shipping. saving that alone is my front sound stage completed wires, amp, speakers, rca's, faberglassing my doors and everything. that alone is a great reason to get xs power up here. hell their are people with some big builds up here that would be more then happy to buy 6-10 of them but to ship 10 of them would be 2000 in shipping alone they would save on. hell they could buy 6 and save 1200 in shipping and that would pay for another 2-3 batts.
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kenyel, just to let you know the shops up here dont charge for the shipping they just bite the bullet on it unless its a specail order in which sometimes they will have it shipped with their next shipment and not charge you or charge you all depending on how good of a customer you are. i have ordered a hat and shirt from rockford and got free shipping through a dealer here. they have also handed rockford wiring that was laying around because it was just scraps from other installs they do along with a couple free fuse holders and have sold some stuff to me at less then msrp just because im a frequent customer.
the benifit of getting xs power in a shop here in alaska is no shipping. that alone will save me a few hundred bucks and if all i have to do is chip in $300-400 to go towards the buy in cost and walk away from it with an xspower battery without having to pay shipping then so be it. im sure that since i would play a part in helping the shop/dealer to start carrying the battery that i could even get a slightly lower price then msrp. in the end if i buy 3-4 batts and not have to pay the shipping i can save well over $200 maybe even as much as $400 and the chance of getting a slightly better price then msrp i would have saved enough to buy a better amp or even to finish my soundstage or sound deadening...ect ect...
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Well its not my.fist time being metered but.its my firstbtime on the termlab. Im sure I could gain a little I just need to buy a termlab
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did you have the 26"s before the lowering kit? could be a combination of things. lowering a car or truck could make it a little more of a rough ride along with adding bigger wheels. then better bushing will help take care of some of the vibrations maybe even the engine and trany mounts so that you get less vibration from those. make sure the wheels and tires are balanced and the air is good in all of them. with such a big set of wheels and lowering the truck the slightest thing can make some of the biggest change in vibrations.
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what brand parts did you use to lower it? cheaper brands will give a crapy ride.
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the difference between shitty paint jobs and good paint jobs is prep work, the difference between good paint jobs and fantastic paint jobs is a lot of prep work with high quality paint.
like they suggested, wet sand it bring it to them and have them spray the color on, wet sand it smooth agian and then have them do the clear coat. if you have freinds with the equipment and place to do it for the same cost for the cheap maaco paint job you can get some better quality paint then maaco would use and do it all yourself. start with a door then the other doors and the hood and trunk lid then the body of the car. doing the smaller parts first will allow you to get the right movement down with wasting less paint as you practice.
i would rather do it myself if i was you seeing as to how you would be doing the majority of the work yourself already anyways, the painting part of it isnt even 1/4 the work.
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i would but some foam tape one the edge of the window and the window frame so that when you close the windows its foam on foam and the lock for the window would hold tighter.
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Just got metered on a term lab for the first time. It was at a comp and I took first in my class. Classes where done by speaker size I have 2 12 so I was in stock 1. Not 100% on the frequency but it was between a 44-46hz and I did a 143.5
My question is 143.5 44-46hz sub up port up port passenger side a respectfully number on a termlab with 2 Rockford t2 12 on a t1500.1bdcp wired at 1ohm tuned to 43hz
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Oh, something else.
In Kennesaw, GA, it is REQUIRED BY LAW for each household to own and maintain a gun. Kennesaw was recently celebrating 25 years as a murder-free city.
Looks like I'm moving to Kennesaw!
Oh, and this:
And this:
hell, i will move there with you lmao. 25 years murder free is crazy. most have next to no crime rate...
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Yeah, I kinda figured that. I saw a picture of this van the other day:
But someone linked a photo to someone's response to it:
Lol
well lets do the math here, if 2191 peole are correctly using their guns a day and only 34 people arent how many people use their guns for murder a week and how many use them correctly a week?
238 people murdered a week and 15337 people correctly use their guns a week. well from that i see a gun ban going no where... i mean if nearly 2200 people a day are saved from the proper use of a gun per day compared to the 34 deaths a day then why would one even think a gun ban would work?
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i would suggest the biggest alt you can find/afford. just make sure its from a good company like dc, mechman, or singer. there are a few others but you get the point. rmember you can never have to much electrical upgrades.
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or you could just get an xs power upfront under the hood. you will have to measure the stock battery and look at the xs power batteries to find wich one fits and then maybe a single d3100 for in the back. an isolator is only needed if you are going to run the system with the car off so that if you kill the battery in the back the front battery can still start the car.
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havent done it myself but if heard of people taping/connecting the stock wire to the new wire and pulling it through.
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Isnt getting a product in stores a salespersons job and not the consumers?
a well devoted consumer will always be awarded when helping a business. for us in alaska getting xspower batts at a cheaper price just by being able to save on shipping could and would save us hundreds of dollars. i am more then willing to help out a respectfull business as long as i to can benifit from it even in the slightest way.
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sorry guys its taking longer then expected....but i don't have anyones money so nobody can complain! lol! We didn't want to release this without a mounting "pod" and silk screened, tinted cover. That part is taking the longest of anything. So far here is the plan. It will have 2 different mounting options when its complete.
is the second pod design tinted? i have a great place right next to my dome light for one of these and would realy like it tinted so that its not to bright. i could always tint it myself to though...
About a week or so ago (maybe 2?) on the D'Amore Facebook page, someone asked about the release date and they had mentioned its probobly 6 weeks out.
Edit- Just looked at their page again and he said they are thinking it will be ready in August.
Sweet.
Since my enthusiasm was vanquished, we better make sure that August means August 2012 before we get all moist about the release date.
sorry, we are trying our hardest to get this done! again, we didn't want to release this without a pod. The design of that took longer then the design of the product itself LOL! We are glad you are excited though, we are too!
I have no idea if this has been mentioned, but will it be available through Amazon like the DD-1/CC-1?
yes!
I really need one. I'll give u 40$ for it
no! lol - i am looking at $69 price point, if i am lucky enough to make it available that cheap. I think i can! The problem is though, bringing all this stuff to market is EXPENSIVE. It does not just fall out of the sky.
maybe a $65 group buy for all of you smd forum fans?? would be a quick way to sell a good amount which would only open the door for others to buy when they see such a great product in their buddy's car.
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SMD VM-1 LED Volt Meter! (its back!) Pics/short vid pg. 19 (new update pg 35)
in D'Amore Engineering - High Quality Car Audio Installation Tools & Accessories
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thanks for the vid steve. maybe the some of the haters will stop hating, lol.
i noticed in the vid ( before you explained it ) that the vm-1 would drop to the mid 12s while the x brand meter would only drop to about 13.7-13.9. i will need one of your volt meters for sure.wouldnt mind having 2 of them to be honest.