RevoRacings Ranger, X15 KERFS AND T-LINES

[the_garynator]

very cool build man...lots of work into that box!

[revoracing247]

Looks good man. Nothing better than puttin a nice finish on a box.

War Pigs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGPD0ZBiMs0

thanks! and im hoping the finish comes out nice on the box. it'd be a lot of wasted time if it didn't

very cool build man...lots of work into that box!

thanks, and yeah it gets me good practice for when i move on to nicer equipment though!

[armykyle1]

really nice wood work man.

[revoracing247]

really nice wood work man.

thanks! hope learning these skills now help me out later on.

and here's more updates!

got the whole box resigned and now starting to sand it down.

after a brief sanding i thought it was ready and taped off the port cause i was gonna do white primer for the white port and then black primer for the rest of the box.

and then sorry this stuff is still old but i had a weekend trip to be a pit mechanic for my friend with one of his races.

and well after i came back from my trip and had a second look at my box from the break i noticed that there was a lot of texture left in the box. so i decided to do two things.

i decided i needed to sand a lot more and get all that texture out and i also decided to use white primer on the whole box so i sanded down the primer i just did on the port again

the texture

so after that, its time to finally set up the painting booth!

and then here's the box with 1 layer of primer on it

and then here's after a few coats on the sides i could get

and then my step mom was using some sono tubes for some ceramic projects she likes to do so i borrowed them for the night and had a little fun with the 8"

calculated it out and this 4' tube is tuned to 70Hz and it made it a lot louder then just free airing the sub.

[revoracing247]

alright well here's the last of them. now i'll be up to date on my build log.

here's the box finally all primered!

and then northwest spl had a mini meet today and so yesterday i made this quick amp rack to finally get some things in my truck straightened up a little bit

and yeah deffinately gonna change it in the future. but for now it works.

and i have more photos but i need to upload them to photobucket so i'll do it in another post

[revoracing247]

alright so in the process of trying to flip the box over by my self to sand the other side. i accidently did a little damage to my favorite curve area on my box

i threw some more primer on it and sanded it down some. hopefully it won't show too bad in the final coats.

there was also another spot right on the other side that i accidently hit :/

and well after wet sanding it and trying to dry it off as much as i could....

im pretty happy at the moment. can't wait to put black on it!

but before that i looked at my port and pealed off my masking stuff and noticed there was a huge line where the primer stopped.

so i went back to sanding and got it all smooth and ready for paint.

before:

after:

and now im torn, not sure if i should leave the new masking on when i do the color or if i should take it off and let the over spray go into the port. im taking if off when i do gloss for sure just not sure whats the best path right now. if anyone has any suggestions! let me know!

and also got back from the nwspl mini meet and it was tons of fun! it's my first meet and well it was a blast. got to hear my first 150+! lol and also got the type e's in my truck metered.

2 10" apline type e's on 500W rms in a ported box tuned to 36Hz...

im happy with it.

also i figured out that my alt only pushes like 42amps at like 2K rpms lol

anyways, fun day. here's a short vid i threw together of the few short clips i shot.

[zrkie]

Nice video from fest.. Remeber my FIRST experience with anything above 140db........ it kinda changed me a bit

[revoracing247]

Nice video from fest.. Remeber my FIRST experience with anything above 140db........ it kinda changed me a bit

lol from that point you're hooked for ever. it was a little sad being in my truck giving a demo(ish) and not being able to tell if it was my system turned up a little bit or if it was the other guys giving demos like 10ft away.

[revoracing247]

alright so i think i might be finally done with laying down color! and man i ran into some bump along the way.

anyways so i painted the whole back side of the box and the front with no problem but then i decided i needed to do another can of black gloss on the front and well right towards the end of the can this happened.

i think it happened from the spray nozzle getting clogged but it made my nice pretty black all ugly!

so i had to go back and grab my sand paper again and start wet sanding my nice pain i just laid down

anyways after a whole night of carefully sanding

and well after shooting more black and having it happen again in one spot and then more sanding and then more shooting black again (maybe now you can see why it's taken me weeks)

this is the result

and so now it was just time to paint the grey lines

[revoracing247]

so it took me about 4-5 hours to get this thin tapped of and ready for the grey.

i used a razor blade and a cutting board and made this

and then for the leds i made this

and i have horrible hand writing if you didn't notice....

i know this won't look right side up in my truck but i plan on selling the box soon so i did it so it'd be right side up if someone layed it down in the back of a burb or something

and then i had to make all these little triangles for the corners where the 45's would be

part of the way through taping...

and then got done trimming and getting all the lines right.

then i tapped up the rest of the box....

and then i got the grey laid down.

ANNNNNNDDDD well this is where things got interesting. i was planning on having glossy grey lines but i guess the paint decided it had other plans.....

everything came out really textured and well, it's too far to turn back now and plus i like it some.

there is some rough edges and a couple little spots it bled through some but for my first time trying to paint anything. im happy with it now i just have to wait for it to cure and then lay down the gloss. and we'll see how it looks then!