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[mahc 10+ year member]

Gonna keep that car longer than anticipated so...

Going to swap the interior for a black one as soon as I find one. That color has no name and simply is an abomination.

The juice:

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[audiobaun 5,000+ posts]

Id drive that vehicle until I couldnt afford to buy parts any more. I havent had a car note since 2006, and do not plan on one any time soon.

 

[audiobaun 5,000+ posts]

I just got in another Alpine Duo-B 3525 today Japan version. Some my favorite SQ type amplifiers.Those V=12s are Pristine you have. Those should sound really good on front stage.Which US amp is That one?? Curious as to what you put on all those. Be a Nice setup for sure.

 

[1aespinoza 10+ year member]

The juice:

I love old USAmps.... amps. Still have a few kickin' it.

 

[mahc 10+ year member]

I just got in another Alpine Duo-B 3525 today Japan version. Some my favorite SQ type amplifiers.Those V=12s are Pristine you have. Those should sound really good on front stage.Which US amp is That one?? Curious as to what you put on all those. Be a Nice setup for sure.

These are the rarest of all V12s. Only sold in Japan. TRUE power amplifiers. No preamp section, independent gains and dual mono design. More Luxman than Alpine. If you're interested, I have a second set I'm about to list.

The Us Amps is a 2000x. This one definitely not for sale.

 

[audiobaun 5,000+ posts]

These are the rarest of all V12s. Only sold in Japan. TRUE power amplifiers. No preamp section, independent gains and dual mono design. More Luxman than Alpine. If you're interested, I have a second set I'm about to list.

The Us Amps is a 2000x. This one definitely not for sale.

Ill deff. Eye candy the V-12s. I am looking at a Reference 1000 ATM to some what be in favor of my 305. I just picked another ED Nine.5 recently as I sold my other on this forum, and regret it ever since Ive sold it.Ill be throwing this one in shortly. I know that US isnt for sale. Those are hard to come by, just as my Autotek BTS amd Mean Machine series.Great amp selection for sure. Should sound absolutely fantastic man.

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

Hell yeah me too! I'm doing something as well

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

That's dope man!

 

[mahc 10+ year member]

Don't you hate it when some doofus starts a build log just to go m.i.a. not even half way through?

 

[mahc 10+ year member]

I ended up finishing that build after all but the car have issues. I bought it super cheap from an estate sale. The previous owner went through the scenery or jumped a curb at one point and all the bushings and mounts were annihilated especially on the driver side. The suspension was also shot. I fixed all that, changed the steering u-joint, also did the whole pcv system and after an alignment, the car was great. About a year after the build, it started leaking oil. At first I though it was the rear main seal but now I'm pretty sure it's one of the rear cam seals. At that point I lost confidence that I could drive that car daily and a leaky car is kind of embarrassing so I went ahead and got a new car full of very annoying big brother features. So back to zero now. I will keep restoring the Volvo but keep it super light with a bigger turbo and a better differential or swap the whole drive train for one from a S60R/V60R.

The system was an active 3-way with one sub all ran from a Clarion HX-D3. Morel Piccolo tweeters powered by one of the Alpine MSV-1050s, Dynaudio e430 mids powered by the other MSV-1050, Hertz ML1800.3 woofers powered by the Us Amp 2000x and the sub was a Hertz ML3000 matched with a Audison LRx 1.2k. Excessive Amperage alt and XS Power agm under the hood.

 

[mahc 10+ year member]

The car came out of the factory with a $5k Alpine/Dynaudio system. The most badass of all cars at the time.

Bruh ...

 

[mahc 10+ year member]

Some pics of me working on the money pit.

Don't mind the crappy plastic air inlet pipe. Engine was crooked because of the busted mounts, I couldnt fit the aluminum one I got.

Doing the pcv swap.

New alt and belt.

Polishing some ground spots.

 

[mahc 10+ year member]

Stupid expensive headlight upgrade.

Bought an Helix C Four with an extra new plexi top locally but sold it almost immediately because I got a deal on something even better. It's somewhere in California now.

 

[1aespinoza 10+ year member]

Doing the pcv swap.

Hot dang! You are audacious in tearing into that Gordion knot of an engine. A friend asked if I would install a steering pump on her S60; one peek under the hood and I was like "nope".

Stupid expensive headlight upgrade.

Those look elegant, money well spent. No offense, the yellow horn breaks the visual flow of the front end. It is more befitting of a sports car rather than a sedan. Wait, is it one of those that plays "La Cucaracha or Reveille?" That grille looks snazzy as well, it matches great with the headlights.

 

[mahc 10+ year member]

Hot dang! You are audacious in tearing into that Gordion knot of an engine. A friend asked if I would install a steering pump on her S60; one peek under the hood and I was like "nope".

Those look elegant, money well spent. No offense, the yellow horn breaks the visual flow of the front end. It is more befitting of a sports car rather than a sedan. Wait, is it one of those that plays "La Cucaracha or Reveille?" That grille looks snazzy as well, it matches great with the headlights.

I ordered a black horn but got a yellow one. I was supposed to move this one to replace the alarm horn in the back of the engine bay but never ended up ordering a black one. I will when the car is back on the road. It's a coupe, not a sedan. I like it but I prefer a more sleeper look. Volvos are not as bad as other european cars to work on by far imo.

 

[1aespinoza 10+ year member]

It's a coupe, not a sedan.

Nice! I had never seen one of these.

 

[mahc 10+ year member]

Nice! I had never seen one of these.

First gen C70 usually are convertibles.

 

[mahc 10+ year member]

The plan was tweets and mids in the A-pillars but I was tired of having no music so I put them in the stock locations for what I though would be temporary but never completed the pillars mod. The magnets of the 430s are too wide to fit them in the stock dome mids locations so I surface mounted them.

I used black speaker grill cloth as finishing.

Tweeters also went in stock locations but with aluminum pods.

 

[mahc 10+ year member]

I don't have many (or can't find) pictures of making the kick pods but can't stress enough how manly it feels to go in a dollar store to buy stockings.

Here's the result also finished with speaker cloth. Remember, I was supposed to eventually get a black interior.

 

[AnthonyO 10+ year member]

Those Alpine V12's are sexy with that link