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Love this place...humbles me and lets me know I don't know everything, in fact I have barely seen the tip of the ice burg of car audio knowledge from a very far distance! Wouldn't have it any other way! Cheers! Thank you SMD for all that you do to help the car audio community, you give us sweet tools, great advice, SOTM, and a place we can all collaborate and come up with more ideas! Again Cheers!

i'm already losing sleep and its not even bed time yet. Haha yeah toys will do that to you! Can't wait to see what kind of mods you do to it I mean these kind of toys are made to be customized! Iterested to see what you do to it audio wise!

Damnit! Was about to change my answer to a polaris razor or an articat wild cat after seeing all the previous raptor guesses... Nice man Your going to love it!

4 door...mainly for off road.... ford 150 raptor? not sure about this guess because I thought you already had an f-150...but motor trend wrote that this was the least year they were going to be made so that would be smart to get one of the last ones

hey Steve you know what you should do......haha jk you got this as always! Fabrication is looking good! Looking forward to seeing all the shca sexiness getting put in! got my order for all my smd meters today...pretty stoked!

Haha Was just talking about this this last week! All of our stock batteries at work are kept on top of a wooden plank or a pallet lol...I'm not the one who is going to get chewed out by a half deaf 70 year old shop manager! Nor do I try and teach and old dog new tricks! I'll admit having 100lb+ batteries up off the floor is kinda nice! for the record all my xs d2700's have been sitting on the concrete in my garage for 5+ months and still rest at 12.8volts

Haha DGAF hell's yeah! Seeing your DGAF attitude more and more...towards the haters and the life of this car! very entertaining!

just my 2 cents but have you checked spark? I mean you should be able to pull the plugs out one at a time and crank it to see if each one is firing...if they aren't then could be the plugs, or wires or distibutor so on and so forth...just saying if it sounds like it's "missing" that's not a bad place to start....but might be good to throw it in another thread...your build though...not telling you what to do

kinda sad when Steve's D.G.A.F build looks better than allot of peoples G.A.F build! Nice goodies! Lookin forward to seeing the electrical all juiced up and pumpin some powa! edit: Those SHCA zip ties are actually really nice! Different from the thousands I've used at work, well worth the 8 bucks a pack!

Oh yeah....so you attached it to the change holder and made it so you can slide the the gauges in and out and still have a little place for some change....thats pretty cool!

ok now its bugging me...have to take another stab at it... Is it that you color matched the dash bezel to the tahoe(along with the new guages)? I noticed it was painted at the beginning of this project but I thought maybe you had done that earlier and I just didn't notice it then... ...if that's not it I give up!

The most unique? Kinda hard to put your finger on the most unique! Seeing as the whole is soo clean and custom! I would have to say other than what people have already said when you turn the meters on and all including the vm-1 sweep the led's from one side to the other and back, because i thought only the tm-1 and om-1 do that? My original vm-1 doesnt do that...but Tony is fixing that for me right now If thats not it, i think you should tell us!

I'm with Nate, maybe he did not read the part where you wrote how about the dash and center console are from eachother in those vehicles? Its kind of a crappy place to put anything because they face two different directions and you are trying to put something in the meeting place of those two. I mean you have to match about 4 different angles to get something to look like it flows with the rest....looks like his dash couldn't follow any direction of any sort...looks like he just made an opening and crammed them in there! Thank you Steve for not being a Dick like this guy and reaming allot of member builds that are not as quality as yours, mine included!

like how he says "looks so shitty" then "not hating friend" If I made something as sick as that and one of my so called "friends" said it looks shitty I would definitely take it as HATING. Honeslty would be offended them calling me "friend." There are ways of saying you dont like something, and there are ways of being a dick!

Nice! Looks great! I have been looking around for some of those molex connector kits to do some small projects...makes it nice for stuff you have to disconnect occasionally

Love the color match! Great choice for the Tahoe and definitely looks good on the dash/interior! Great work all around!

Looking Top notch as always ! Can't wait to finish my little SMD guages project!

that style doesn't have vacuum lines hooked up the the controller its self its just a couple of factory plugs with i dunno 10 wires each? Still not fun extending all of them, I don't know what the best way would be to extend vacuum lines(what to use that is)?

Haha nice! Been there! Back in the day didn't have THAT nice of a system but usually had some big ass box taking up most of the back seat, no room oh well! Last one in has to ride on the box! Nice set up....nice gear!

Nice man! I had the same idea about cutting the faceplates down like that and making one solid bezel with those gauges but went a different rout. But the way you did it came out better than I imagined, now you got me thinking about trying that again! Super clean! Yeah just did a mock up for my fan setup and wired up my TM-1.....it's seriously sooo nice not having to even worry about fans now! That TM-1 works really really nice! Works beautifully! Guages came out amazing....but let's not forget the hvac and other controls relocation.....that was some nice clean work in there! Have fun extending all those wires lol!

Glad to see an update, That's cool about the tahoe possibly being in a magazine! Good work, get to it!

Looks sick man! Love my smd D'amore meters...they are just awesome!

Dude....I'm stealing that idea lol! Seriousely though great work!! that came out awesome...I placed mine where the factory ac controls were and they are bright which is nice but it did distract me so I put some plexi over them and smoked it with some night shades paint I bought at o'rielly auto. Worked prefect! if you were to tape off the rest of cluster with plastic you could just do a light coat...would save you ungluing it. best solution would be unglue it and ask a tint shop for a scrap piece and use that...hope it isn't intense much for you!

Got my shirt in a few days ago....Love it! Thanks for fixing my error and getting it in a large. Fits Awesome!! You the man Steve, even signed the tag...awesome! Thanks for coming out with new gear...it all looks sweet!