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Good vid steve, wouldn't have guess it pulled as much as it did

I agree its too dark to see the white parts of the gauges including the smd logo, wich is why I will probably cut another piece and redo iy this weekend. I'm going to keep the darkness the same but I'm going to tape off the center so you can see the numbers a little better.

Yeah my truck originally was a bench in front and back, but then I bought some escalade captain chairs for the front. Then I bought some more leather captain chairs for the back and I have the subs running down the center into a custom built center console I built from mdf. If your talking about the cubby hole above the rearview mirror, I think you will have to do some bodywork but that would be cool! I know they make ac controls for the tahoe/yukons/suburbans that go up there but they only control the rear stuff. I did originally think about putting my smd gauges up there, and I still think they would look good up there but I liked this set up the best.

Right below, I'm basically droping them down about 6-8" to the faceplate of the center console. These look better than the controles do and I like having my HU and gauges in one clutster when I'm giving a demo, so I can monitor everything. I could have just as easily mounted the smd gauges down there but I think this looks and works for me better. Besides I live in a very hot town in az. The ac is stuck on full freeze 80% of the year so I dont touch my controls all that much lol!

This is a cool test! 133 watts

Well right now I have no ac untill I finish my center console faceplate this weekend, the wires should be long enough to move your controls down a bit. You may have to pull them back a bit and re-rought them a different way. No a/c in az sux by the way!

I dont know why it's not showing the video on the post but I'll try again http://youtu.be/TFUzNs9gqUw

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I think I'll probably set mine at the same temp, I mean they will be on almost all the time but that doesn't matter as long as they do thier job! It will be an improvement having anything move air back there Soooo tried my hand at some plexi work today, here's how that went First cut taced and cut a piece with the circular saw Wedged in there perfect! cut a sample piece and sprayed some of this night shades to see how dark I wanted it. Used some hot glue and some CA glue to hold it in place, sits in there pretty sturdy and flush Taped it off and sprayed It came out pretty good, maybe a little on the dark side hehe. It's nighttime so it was kind of hard to get a good pic with the lighting I tried a few different ways. You cant see anything behind the glass unless you turn the truck on so it looks just gloss black with everything off wich I like. Also this night shades stuff tends to lighten over time so I'm going to roll with it like this for a while and decide if I like it. So far it's pretty sweet! BTW you can only see the glue when you shine a bright light at it, its just reflecting the flash, normally you cannot see any glue I like it so far, if I redo it I may mask off the white lettering in the center so that it comes out a little brighter when I spray the darkshades. My phone died so I didnt get to take all the pics I wanted so I'll post a few more either later tonight or tomorrow.

I was wondering about how the power supply would effect the lighting, thanks for the info steve! That would have sucked to find out the hard way! I think ill just go grab some good old fashioned computer fans and get them in there, then probably just wire up some led's on a separate set up. Btw, what's a good temp to set the fans to? I live in Arizona and its friggin hott here so sometimes when i get in my truck it reads 110 before the amp starts playing. Just wondering how you set yours

Heres my amp rack, the temp prob is mounted to the RF 2500.1bdcp and I ran wires for the fans back there. What do you think? red lighted fans, or no?

Thanks man! I really like the way the lexus came out! I haven't got any fans in yet, but I did run the wiring for them. Can't decide if I want to go with some lighted red ones or non lighted? Red would look cool and I was wanting to do lights back there anyway so that would be a 2 birds kinda thing for me! Btw I freaked when I saw you posted this on fb! Thanks bro!

/\ /\ /\ /\ Thanks guys! I do take pride in my work, as for the wiring hehe...don't look into my center console too much. Although it's somewhat messy it was really hard for it not to be. Works for me though, I knowexactly what all those little wires do and where they go. This was a fairly simple way to install these gauges, I just wish GM had made the opening a little wider but oh well, I don't want to cut it because I think with the way the opening has a roundover around it, it would look tacky to just take a dremel and cutoff wheel and openen it up a little more. I was thinking about doing some bodywork and gluing them to the faceplate like steve did on his car and kevosinn's van. For now they are good, I may put in a piece of plexi and smoke it because these things are bright! They look sweet at night, but I catch myself watching thd dancing lights a little more than I should lol!

If you want to see the rest of my truck build you can finid it HERE http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/169404-goodvibez-03-sierra-video-pg11-custom-dash-finished-and-subs-playin/page-1 Got these bad boys in last tuesday and finially got around to getting them in First took a piece of alluminium and cut to fit in the original spot for my a/c controls, I'm moving those down to the center console(still not finished) Then screwed a piece of 1/2" mdf made a riser for them, Later decided to add another 1/4" pice on the back to raise it up even more and wrapped that in secondskin sound dampner becuase it's black and had a smooth texture Test fiting, thats as center as I could get them. slightly off but I couldn't move any further to the right so this will have to do for now. Quick disconnects....well with that many it's not reeally quick so...here's my disconnects lol! Wiring for the temp probe, fan power, all the power for the guages and one wire to the sub output. Added a fuse block to the rear and this will power the guages and my rear seats when I install them, those things are so handy! Before I had the battery guage powered off the front main batt and I didn't feel like I was getting accurate readings so I changed it to this set up so I can actually tell how the bass drops effect my voltage. Definatly a difference going right to the source. Was so happy to see these all light up for the first time, they look friggin awesome! used my dd-1 and calibrated the OM-1 then threw um' in! Well there ya have it! Can't wait to get my fans and wire them up too!

I'm with alot of people in saying I'm suprized with the results and have a different view on hifonix stuff. Good luck with the doctor steve! I've had half of my thyroid cut out of my neck and I know it's scary. But hey I got a sweet scar outta the process lol!

5249 Thanks for giving away a brand new amp at your own cost! Pretty awesome shit you do for all the members here, just one of the reasons I don't mind paying for mine

Man that give me some ideas for my center colsole! My stuff comes in tuesday and I'll be rockin those three guages and I'm pumped! You made that look like it was ment to be there, sometimes the best custom work is the work that doesn't look custom if ya know what I mean! Seriously looks unreal man!

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Well just put my order in been waiting for these so I can finish my center console. It's going to be sick can't wait!

Certified mode (test stops @ 1% distortion) 338 watts Non-Certified Mode (test stops @ Clipping) 367 watts Dynamic Burst RMS (test stops @ Clipping) 395 watts

Yeah I agree there's enough factory chrome that when you plasti dip it, it gives it a two tone black look. Looks really sick! Great work, can't wait to see what else goes in this thing!

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Nice hoe bro! I think that was a good deal for the condition that thing was in, looked cherry! The miles for that year aren't bad at all. If I didn't need a truck for work and what not I would have gone with a hoe or a yukon. My mom has an 01' denali and I'm just waiting for the day when she want's to get rid of it

Damn those things are beastly! Very nice set up!

I'll bid 2443 Bob