01 Explorer (2) AT Strato 18s in a 4th

[slammedincouch]

Awesome box

Thanks man. Was going to make it pretty, but considering how often I sell, trade, and swap things out, I'm thinking it might be a waste of money and time haha. Already have my next amp and subs for it once I fix the subs up.

Andddd she's in. I've only had about 20 minutes total to mess around with it, but I'm really digging this setup for a single 12 off 1200ish watts. Gets loud and sounds nice.

Internals

Would love to see how it sounds with 2k to it, but that's not going to happen unless I sell/trade the kicker for something else. For now though, I think this is great until I fix the 8s. Gotta look at the T/S for those still, but more than likely I'm going to put them in a 4th or 6th order.

Tried to get a picture of the exterior of the truck when it's clean, but couldn't get a good angle, so yolo for now.

Expect more updates in about a month for the 8s/zx2500 build

[slammedincouch]

Just a real quick update today:

Finally have a buyer for some of my equipment (DD sub is on ebay with bidders, Kicker Eq has bidders, back up camera has bidders, etc.) and also traded my M1c for a new toy that should be here on Tuesday (as long as the fedex truck doesn't crash and burn). Getting pumped.

So anyways, whenever I sell something, I always like to have a good 30-40 minute video of it working and getting packaged up before I send it out. With the M1c out in Cali now, I had to toss the 2500 I traded the lvl5 for. Don't really have the time to build a new amp rack or any beauty panels atm for the amp, sooo I tossed this together in 7 minutes today with some spare wood I had laying around:

It isn't pretty, but I just want a working video of the DD playing in case I have a buyer who clips the crap out of it or wires things up wrong (after selling the AT Stratos to that kid who had no idea how to wire from a .5 to 2 ohm load, I don't trust any mfer who I'm selling equipment to).

It's one tight ass fit in the back right now. Good thing I only need to have it like this for a day, because I could see that amp getting very warm on a hot day with little to no ventilation...

will more than likely either move the amp over to the driver's side along the cargo area, or build a false floor for it to chill under the amp. Haven't really made a final decision on what route to go with it yet, but the false floor would be a lot cleaner.

Oh and I also picked up my main bitch from storage on Thursday.

Unsure how I feel about the system in her right now. Trying to decide if I want to sell off the 10s/possibly the horse and bring her back to a trunk car, save the horse and sell the 10s and do a new wall, or swap the horse to the explorer, save the 10s and do a new setup in there. Too many options for me to consider.

Someone give me some feedback on what I should do next in each vehicle. I've got (6) 10s, (4) 8s and (1) 12 to choose from. What should go where? Warhorse in the explorer, 2500 in the boom?

Updates to follow on Tuesday.

[boom50cal]

static or bagged? I'm in love, the stance is perfect..

[slammedincouch]

static or bagged? I'm in love, the stance is perfect..

She's bagged and hard to tear down and start over. I wish I could get her tucking a little more in the front, but I don't feel like getting into the hassle that comes with it.

Here's what the inside is looking like (love this picture):

Trunk is pretty nice too but I need to snap an updated pic.

[slammedincouch]

Feels like forever and a day since I last updated my build logs. Not that I haven't wanted to, but I hit a rather large bump in the road with things...

So traded the m1C for a new toy. Toy got here:

Super pumped for about 10-15 mins after getting her out of the package until...

So that sucked. Guy I traded with said he tested and read coils before he sent it out, but I never received pics of the readings, so dumb move on my part. Got too excited too fast and I paid for it. Luckily we worked out a deal to cover half the cost of the recone (basically what it would cost to send the sub all the way back to him for my amp). So sent it off to someone local to get repaired.

Well it got there, he pulled the cone, former and spiders (coil was blown and the leads burnt as well) out to find out the basket was cracked...awesome. Welp no use crying over spilled milk. Unsure when that happened, but was told the likely cause was from the woofer being shipped with the weight pulling down on the motor or whatever. Already left feedback by this point, so another lesson learned the hard way.

As a result of this, I will absolutely positively never ever trade with someone over the forums again (unless in person). I can't tell whether or not people are genuine and make mistakes (I know it happens), but I have a more than I wanted to spend into this sub now. Whole point of the trade was to have something in working condition with a few scuffs in the surround that i could have used. Could have traded for 2 15" hdd motors and basket assemblies instead.

That being said/ranted about, at least with all the bad news comes some good news! Had to wait for Corey to get the specific parts I need in, but the sub is almost finished. I'm sure a few of you have seen some pictures of it, (think Jan and Shawn are the only two dudes on here who know a few of the specs) but I'll post the final pics once I have it back (either this week or next week). All I'm going to say is that it is an absolute BEAST of a woofer now.

Also have a pair of the m3 8s with corey that are getting reconed as well. Might have a quick mini build log with them in the future if I have the free time and motivation, but I'm mainly looking to just get them back and sell them as they get fixed. Gotta get rid of what I don't need.

Only other thing I need are some sensa track load adjusting springs for the explorer to get her sitting pretty again. Will update with pics once I have the sub back in my hands!

[boom50cal]

is it an HD or HDD 15?

I could get you Murphy's cell number, I have it somewhere. He's cool as fuck to talk to. From what he told me and how I've been reading shit, the HD's can handle up around 3k each before running into thermal issues....and there's guys running HDD's on 3.5k's all day long sooo Tantric FTMFW

[slammedincouch]

is it an HD or HDD 15?

I could get you Murphy's cell number, I have it somewhere. He's cool as fuck to talk to. From what he told me and how I've been reading shit, the HD's can handle up around 3k each before running into thermal issues....and there's guys running HDD's on 3.5k's all day long sooo Tantric FTMFW

Was an HDD 12 originally when it got to me, but I had it sent out to SPLAudio who lives ~2 hours away from me for upgrades. He just finished putting the dustcap on today, so I should have some pretty awesome frankenwoofer pics on here by the end of the week/beginning of next week...getting Pumped after an almost 2 month hiatus on this build!

[sencheezy]

sucks about the sub man. probably shipped with UPS I'm guessing? lol. Anyway, nice build on the explorer.

[slammedincouch]

sucks about the sub man. probably shipped with UPS I'm guessing? lol. Anyway, nice build on the explorer.

Thanks man and surprisingly it came via Fedex haha. I'll take it as a learning experience- bummer that it didn't arrive as it was described/trading is too much risky business, but at least the motor was salvageable and I'll have a kickass sub in t minus a few more days

[slammedincouch]

Oh.My.God. She's here. And she is absolutely beautiful.

Pretty much I've been up since 9am waiting for this moment. UPS said they'd be here between 915 and 115 to deliver the package, but it didn't get here till ~20 minutes ago. With the exception of going to pick up watch dogs and grabbing some coffee, I've been sitting at the door pretty much all day. SO WORTH IT.

Anywho onto the pictures.

Specs on this bish:

18" TI basket

HDD motor

3" 8 layer coil

Nightshade v3 spider pack (DEM TRIPLE LEADS)

Beefy as fuh sundown surround/cone assembly

CF cap (color per choice of SPLaudio- told him to surprise me with the color- matches the colorway of a Monster, which this thing definitely is)

So0o0o I'm just going to probably go stare at this thing for the rest of the night and smile while playing Watch Dogs. Need to get a box design going for her next. Kind of bummed still that Buck is out of the design business until further notice still, but it'll give me a chance to check out some other designer's work.