shmew22 Posted September 22, 2014 Report Share Posted September 22, 2014 Most janky setup i ever had was in my 95 blazer. Bought a Kenwood KAC-849 amp that was missing several of the screws for the terminals, so I crudely soldered the wires direclty to the amp. I bought a cheap "1000watt" (wanna be 4ga) amp kit from wally-world to power it. Pushing two 12" Pyle blue waves in a crappy prefab bandpass box. Ground didn't have a ring terminal and was fastened to a seat bolt. Lucky i didnt burn it down... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pasta Prime Posted September 22, 2014 Report Share Posted September 22, 2014 My first ride was 64 F100 with the tank behind the seat. So to have tunes i took the baffle off of some home speakers and stood them up above the seat in the back. lol Not long after than a buddy and me took the tank out and put it in the front of the bed and built a box for two no name 8's and a single 12 right in the middle. At least we sectioned off the box for each speaker. Also, the first drive after moving the tank we figured out real quick that the tank was sitting at the wrong angle because we "ran" out of gas. That same buddy had a brother or cousin that had a bad ass Nissan mini with all Orion and a blow through. This was around 91 -92 so you know the Orion gear back then. I wished we would have talked to him more. New build coming........ YouTube:http://www.youtube.c...6?feature=guide Old Build Log: http://www.stevemead...d-on-the-cheap/ Old Screen name: Redrebel66 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timc31610 Posted September 22, 2014 Report Share Posted September 22, 2014 My first system was two mtx terminator 15's in the trunk of a 70 mustang in a sealed box ran off deck power. A month later I got a Jensen amp and it would overheat after a couple of minutes of use (Found out I was running it at .5 ohms) so I drilled some air holes in the box under the amp for cooling vents...lol My Build Log 94 Civic http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/188644-94-civic-4-door-build-loq-suggestions-wanted-will-be-super-slow-mo/ Faceebook reluctantly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philrab Posted September 22, 2014 Report Share Posted September 22, 2014 Lol'ing at all of this. Not poking fun at anyone (Hell, we all started somewhere) but some of this makes me feel a lot better about my first install. Either I started off with more knowledge, or just got lucky. Regardless, I think it's really interesting how far we all came. Wish I still had pics of my first install, just in how clean it came out there's a massive difference, not even including how much nicer it is equipment wise. 2015 Toyota Tacoma Build Thread 2007 Mazda 3; 5000K HID's, Kenwood Excelon KDC-X997, Infinity Reference 6.5 comps in front and coaxials in the rear doors, JL 320.4 four channel, Rab Designs built ported enclosure with an SA12, Kenwood monoblock, Redline Leater shift boot/e-brake boot/center console cover, JBR short shifter/shifter bushings/rear motor mount. Build Thread 1996 Mazda Miata: Kenwood Excelon HU, Alpine speaker in the doors, Clearwater (miata specific) headrest speakers. 1994 Mazda Protege: Kenwood Excelon HU, Infinity Reference 2 ways all around, 2x RF Punch 10's in ported boxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefourth Posted September 22, 2014 Report Share Posted September 22, 2014 Bought one of them prefabbed boxes at Pepboys that come with a pair of cheap subs..... Spliced them bitches right in on the the 6x9's on HU power. LIKE A BOSS Thanks alaskanzx5 I might just do thatI can recone a sub myself. About a year ago I took 2 12" power acoustic mofos and made one sub. I took the magnet and the motor off of one and j b welded it to the other motor and magnet. I had to wind my own voice coil so it would work. After I was done hooked up to 2 boss 5000w amps. And shattered my back and all my side windows came to this thread to recommend soundqubed and ct sounds. OP goes with soundstream. oh lawd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlr0412jdr1024 Posted September 22, 2014 Report Share Posted September 22, 2014 I had a 1991 Buick Regal. I thought I was the shit with 7 6x9's jumping from one to the other. I had 2 junk 12's can't remember the name on them. They were ran off of an old American bass 400.1 amp the speaker were in a particle board box that was water logged. The wiring that I had was a bunch of wire spliced together to make it to the trunk. The pioneer HU I had was under the seat in the middle so I didn't have to remove the factory radio. This system sounded like hot shit playing a kazoo. I have came a long way from this nightmare. Current equipment: 2 Dc Audio Level 4 12's Dc Audio 5.0k Alpine Type r components 5.25 and 5.25 Co ax 1 Hifonics brx 640.4 for highs and mids Regular battery and 2 D3400 ALL OF THIS IN A 2009 AVEO 5 AKA THE SMURF TURD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyma1026 Posted September 22, 2014 Report Share Posted September 22, 2014 We all love to see the fails and bash them, but we all started somewhere. In my first car I took an old loose paper surround woofer that came out of a home audio speaker cabinet and siliconed into an ice cream bucket. I ran it off the left channel of my sparkomatic tape player. At some point I cut a hole in the bottom of the bucket (port ftw, lol) and at another I "treated" the paper surround with rubber cement for more power handling! My loudest home audio system was one of my first. It had a two KLH 12" sealed home audio three ways. I also had an alpine 12" subwoofer in a sealed box. I wired the two KLH 12"s in parallel (two 8 ohm speakers down to 4) and then ran them both in series to the 4 ohm alpine for a final load of 8 ohm to be ran off the woofer output of the passive crossover in the left KLH cabinet. I also had two rockford fosgate 15"s in huge ported boxes (4 cubes), both 4 ohm wired in series for a final load of 8 ohm to be ran off the woofer output of the passive crossover of the right cabinet. This was all powered by a 100w x 2 pioneer receiver with SUPER BASS! It god damned pounded. Three sealed 12"s and two ported 15"s. It was like being in the club in my room. I had room tap outs. No one ever complained of cancellation from different drivers/cabinets, lol. Tell us your stories! Ha, I have done something similar when I was like 12. I had an old fosgate 12 in a garbage can. This was like 1992. I feel ashamed now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentandbroken Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 Though i still consider myself pretty naive, I do look back and laugh at some of the stuff i did. I bought a brand new icechest and proceeded to hack three holes in it and put 3 6x9s in it with huge gaps everywhere. Not having a battery or power supply i robbed a 16v, 15amp power supply off an old printer and proceeded to wire it to a car radio i got for free (because it had a channel burned out). I mounted the radio inside the ice chest verically. It was.... actually pretty good sounding as a boom box for team baseball practices. But jank as hell lol Before that i had a 92 Civic and i bought some kicker flea market special, sony headunit, 6x9s, 6.5s, and a couple kenwood 12s/ matched amp/wire kit. I paid $545 to the only stereo shop within 100 miles at the time to install all of it. Needless to say i got ripped off. They didnt even install the 6x9s because the rear deck speaker holes were for 6.5s. Well, I took my car home and whipped out the reciprocal saw and hacked through the sheet metal and rear deck material using trial and error instead of a template. Ohh and did i mention it was with a wood cutting blade? I couldnt get any screws in the speakers so i just had them laying back there in these jagged holes that were a little too big. So every time i hit a pothole a 6x9 wound up in the trunk. But i was so proud of that system haha. Life's a trip. . . Don't fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desiel21 Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 I had a 79 Chevy Luv pickup with 2 Sparkomatic (the old orange surround ones) 6x9's in a weird custom half square/half triangle box cut to fit the driveshaft hump. It was ran off a stock GM deck that had the custom CB built into it as well. Sounded pretty good but I wanted that BASS.., so I drilled 3" holes on each side of the box for that ported BOOM..., I was happy.., but it was never enough. n8ball2013, on 19 Dec 2014 - 02:33 AM, said: man seeing that dollar sign fucking hurt my feelings. they didnt cover it black out windows or add lube even My wife didn't like Decaf.. Until she sat on my subwoofer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retnuhbackwords Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 My first system was....well the one I'm running now lol. Not "janky" but not the most complex system. It bumps though! Currently whipping a O4' GMC Sierra 2500 Performance: K&N Cold Air Intake Hedman headers 3" True duels Flowmaster Super 10's Magnaflow High Flow Cats G2 4:88 running gears New cooling system Superchips Flashpaq programmer Eaton lockers Audio: JL CP208W3V3 Kenwood X500-1 8 Gauge Memphis Power wire Kenwood DDX8901HD Exterior: Fabtech 9.5" lift 38x13.5 Toyo Open Country M/T's 18x10 Fuel Mavericks (-44 offset) Diamond plate bed gaurds Diamond plate tool box Recon Xenon Bulbs in Highs,Lows,& Fogs Recon LED Tail lights AMP Research Automated steps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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