98 Malibu

[Lbox88]

Twill be revealed Friday

And must be installed and metered by MI state finals on the 18th.

And a hint...

MOAR POWAH MUAHAHAHAHA

[armykyle1]

nice build man! I went through all of it. I bet that amp sounds sessy

[Lbox88]

nice build man! I went through all of it. I bet that amp sounds sessy

For being at least 10 years old, I have not been let down. The next one that is supposed the be here today should be more efficient and much louder.

[Lbox88]

Oh. My. God. I fucking hate Fedex. Packages got stuck in Ohio for the entire day yesterday and finally made it to town today and got loaded on a truck.. but then they don't deliver on Saturday. 2 day shipping my ass.

[Lbox88]

My bad, the last couple of days were crazy busy and I uploaded pics but never had time to post them here. Soooooooo, here we go

Two nice boxes

0 gauge kit that came with the amp for $17 more. Figured I would try it, its only $17.

And a little more wire. Forgot to order more terminals, like a jackass.

The amp

All together

and THIS

And since I got all of this and then had to leave for a week to Whitestown IN, the wife got this

I am going to try to get this all in next week when I get back and hopefully have it done for state finals. I won't be competing or anything, just want to have it done so that I can show some of the other members here if we meet up down there.

[lem43606]

Dude pm me date has been changed to the 25th. Indiana has their finals on the 18th so we pushed it back a week

[Lbox88]

So............ put everything in last night. Didn't take any pics or vids, just trying to get it all in before it gets dark out. Woke up this morning to dead batteries.... FML.

I'm at work right now, but at my lunch I'm going to get my batteries and alt load tested. I'm wondering if it's the amp? When I put everything in, it was fine until I went to put the fuse in for the amp, which sparked a little bit, but didn't blow the fuse. I drove 20~25 minutes into work today and then let my car sit for about 2 hours and it's sitting at 12.46V up front and 12.43V in back. My alt sits at 13.8~13.9 hot.

[Kevin M]

Looking forward to pics

[Lbox88]

shit. Checked my alt after lunch and it's sitting at 13.39V hot. Guess I figured out what's going bad. Anyone ever hear about Powerbastards.com? I think what I'm going to try to do is get Advance Auto to give me a replacement until I buy a new one. Crappy thing is they'll probably give me a stock 102A alt since they no longer carry the 150A Powermaster. fack.

[Lbox88]

Couple of updates, no pictures though. Had the alt out and tested and read out 14.4V. Put back in car and took the Kinetik out and was still sitting around 13.3V. Had front battery tested... checked out okay. So I said okay, start checking ground. Then realized I never did the engine block to neg. DERP Put a new chunk of 1/0 to the front of the battery and it starts charging up at 13.8V when measured across the battery. hmmm. Put kinetik back in the back and still charges at 13.8. Measure from Alternator + to top of engine block. Sitting at 14.4. DAMN. Take new engine ground back off, old body ground off, and alternator. Then remove shock tower bolt, take off paint with wire wheel, new 1/0 ground to shock tower, and new engine ground to one of the bolts that holds the alternator on... hook everything up and start car... charging at 14.56V