1999 Chevrolet Blazer - Stereo Integrity, Ground Zero, Soundstream

[Colin - STAPUFT]

Making wood look good isn't an easy thing- but yours looks awesome. Amp rack looks great btw. I love how each wire has a spot and how tidy everything is. Console insert for the usb, knob, & volt/amp meter looks choice as well.

On the headliner bit- I did that all myself on my van too. It was a bear to take out, but putting it back in seemed easy. I don't get it either.


Keep up the super clean work and keep the updates coming. Every time you do an update, I go through this whole build over again. Good Stuff!

[gckless]

Making wood look good isn't an easy thing- but yours looks awesome. Amp rack looks great btw. I love how each wire has a spot and how tidy everything is. Console insert for the usb, knob, & volt/amp meter looks choice as well.

On the headliner bit- I did that all myself on my van too. It was a bear to take out, but putting it back in seemed easy. I don't get it either.

Keep up the super clean work and keep the updates coming. Every time you do an update, I go through this whole build over again. Good Stuff!

I appreciate it man! The headliner confused me as to why it was easier going in. Made no sense! Lol.

2 of 3 batteries and bus bars will be next week, and then I will have all equipment I need to get the stuff in. Then just need to run all 4 1/0ga runs and connect things up. Should be tuning by the end of the month. I'm excited, long ass build finally coming together.

[gckless]

1 coat of stain, 2 coats of polyurethane. Let it dry 24 hours before this:

Prepping for carpet.

Behold!

SO happy I didn't screw it up. The carpet cuts along the bottom aren't the cleanest but most of those are hidden. Very happy with this.

[Amart88]

Wow... Looking nice!

Very clean and not to complicated.

Good work.

[gckless]

Wiring done

[gckless]

I'm just gonna leave these right here:

Also picked these up on my way home from the airport:

And this was waiting on my doorstep:

[gckless]

Was outside literally the whole day. Got my wire ran, soldered a few remaining terminals, got the amp rack in, amps wired up temporarily. This is what under my hood looks like now:

Lololololololololololol, here's the inside of my amp rack:

That's only temporary. [MENTION=33]PapaGeno21[/MENTION] is making me buss bars right now, should have them by next weekend, and everything will get cleaned up then.

But here's a quick, blurry pic of how it looks:

Didn't get speakers or anything wired in yet, that will be tomorrow. Got a dude coming over to help me get the sub box downstairs too.

The voltage meter/ammeter lights up too. I didn't fry it KHA

Will just have to see if it's actually reading amperage once I get some music going. The voltage is accurate, measured with my DMM.

14.8V cold idle, fell to 14.6V warm idle. I'm good with that

She lives today. She breathes tomorrow.

[gckless]

So, ran into some issues. Leviathan took a dump

Good news is that @Vertex Audio is amazing, and gonna work with Zed and get the amp fixed with no costs to me. They are awesome, if you haven't checked them out, do it now.

Anyway, I found an old MTX 50Wx4 @ 4ohm amp, so my mids are very underpowered, but I have a front stage.

Here's a pic of the amp rack with the Zed still hooked up. I love it!

And the 5.0k wiring. It's so smexy!

Here's the temp amp in the battery box:

And a wider view of the clusterfuck of wiring. Can anyone see why I have engine whine????? Lmao!

And suddenly, I haz da bass!

Now, I don't know if it's just because I haven't had music in here for like a month, or if I just haven't been in loud vehicles, or it's just because it's mine, or what it is, but this is the loudest vehicle I've been in. Here are some vids:

Vids don't really show much, I did a decent job deadening I guess. It's much more impressive inside the vehicle.

Voltage is rock steady with only one additional G31. The ammeter does work! But I think for some reason the scale is way off, seems as though a reading of 010 means one hundred. Not sure, I'll watch it more, but I don't think I seen a reading of over like 025, so that makes sense based on where my gains are and the size of the amp.

Right now, the PR's have no additional weight. Haven't found the tuning right now, haven't done any testing like that yet. Gain was also set by hand, so it's not tuned at all. This was day 1, it's only getting better from here

I'm not worrying about my front stage right now until the Zed gets back.

[gckless]

So, tuned at 35Hz as of now. That's with no additional weight on the PR's. Want to listen to it a bit, get a baseline established in my head, that way when I change things and add weight I have something to compare to. Here's a quick video on finding tuning without math:

Edit: My font is all screwed up from copy-paste

[gckless]

So, drove around for about an hour and a half. These are starting to break in. Truck sealed, passenger door open, sitting in drivers seat today was the first time that it messed with my nose and breathing through my nose. My rear glass now squeaks when driving around with no music just from road bumps lol. I'm gonna have no car left in like a month

Can't wait until my Levi gets back so I can start playing with and tuning the front stage, and see what I can do for SQ. Love the PAC LC-1, I'll be able to get these subs to blend pretty decent.

Got a couple listening notes pertaining to my substage (which is crossed at 63Hz):

- Tuning is higher than I like it. I can hear I'm missing some notes below about 30 or so.

- Output falls fast. Tuning is 35, output falls but is audible until about 30, and depending on volume, is basically gone by about 28.

My plan is to tune down in 2Hz steps, down to about 22Hz. I'll play each tuning frequency for atleast five hours of listening time in order to make a decent determination of what my impressions are.