Recent content by Heavy_Sixer

Balls I forgot how stock speakers sound like @ss! With the extra bass I've been listening to more music in the car and realized how bad the stock speakers are. I had some time tonight so I dug out some old Dual 6x8's, patched the hole I poked in the surround when I took them out of my old car...

I've been thinking about that since I fired up this box. Best ideas so far: remove the spring tension rods and use an electric actuator to open and close the trunk lid $$$, widen the center hole for the factory sub and install a rectangular slot port, or run the spring rods through larger ports...

Once the ports were in I wired the woofers and mounted them in. I already had the amp gain set. I played a few test sweeps and tones, check polarity, no rattles, etc., and everything checked out. From the sweeps it sounded like the box peaked above 60hz, cued up 60hz tone and let it rip...

The box under the rear deck was made out of some particle board shelving I got for free. I had to notch the bottom board to clear the wire harness for the fuel pump and the eyelet for the spare tire hold down. I also had to move the tension rods (spring rods) for the trunk lid. There are 3...

To get around this cabin gain issue I needed to get as much sound directly into the passenger area as possible. Back in the 90’s I built a few installs free air or infinite baffle mounting subs to fire into the rear seats or built bandpass boxes that vented though the rear deck 6x9 opening...

For some temporary thump I used some old 12” home speaker cabinets and blocked off the mid and tweeter holes with scrap wood and loaded a pair of old school DVC Cerwin Vega XL12-D’s. I wired the each DVC Vega coil in parallel for a 2 ohm load and wired both boxes in parallel for a final 1 ohm...

Once the HU was in I could EQ the stock speakers to sound passable but they really needed to be relieved of bass duty, which meant time for a sub. Last month we had a day of good weather and on my lunch break I ran RCA's from the deck SUB OUT and two runs of 12 gauge wire from an Add-a-Circuit...

2001 Lincoln Town Car with bone stock audio. I got a Pioneer DEH-P4200UB head unit pretty quick. The dash kit and wire harness were already with the HU since I pulled it out of my older Town Car before the insurance company towed it away. The dash kit and wire harness were both Metra brand, I...

I've had good luck with the Optima Red Tops. When one of mine died after 12 YEARS!!! I didn't hesitate to buy another.