18" Fi BTL build log *PICS*

[SHiZNiLTi 10+ year member]

how dark is that tint on your back windows?ive been thinking about getting darker tint on just the back of my blazer, but have been kind of worried that 3 tones of tint (back, middle, front) might look bad

On the side triangles, rear sides and back window it's stock privacy glass with a layer of 5% limo and a layer of 40% Huper Optik {80% heat rejection film}. On the front two doors it's 5% limo with (2) layers of 40% Huper Optik {80% heat rejection film} the Huper Optik is used on the $1000 tint jobs for Schumacher Mercedes-Benz of Scottsdale, AZ - I used to work there so I got the hookup. My entire front windshield is just basic 35% film with a 7" 20% visor on top.

Since I had stock privacy glass on all the rear sides and back it didn't make a difference what type of film I put on because layering film only brings out the original 1st layer's color. For example the Merceded Huper Optik film is greenish/blue morror type film, but since I layed 5% Black limo tint down 1st then layered on a couple sheets of the greensih/bule Huper film it doesnt look blue only black because thats the fist sheet that was layed down and thats what you see from the outside.

See how the triangle and rear sides match perfect in the image below? That's the stock privacy film with limo and huper layered on it. Then on the front sides it's a basic 5% limo with (2) huper sheets layerd on it, then the front windshield is just 35%. There is a little bit of color difference with the black between the front doors and rest of the vehicle, but other then that its pretty even, another thing that I did was paint the rear pillars black, the dealer did that for free before the warrenty was over....

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lol, sorry for rambling on. pretty bored at work right now //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[kballa422 10+ year member]

sometimes my CD skips as well, im running 2 15" Mags sealed right now, plan on running them ported, subs up ports back in my 97 Jeep Grand Cherokee. My hatch already rattles like no other, its not deadened tho, if I faced subs/port to the rear, the rattles would kill me, lol.

Would you have skipping problems if you plan on using your ipod, like thru an ipod adapter? Thats what I plan on doing eventually.

 

[SHiZNiLTi 10+ year member]

sometimes my CD skips as well, im running 2 15" Mags sealed right now, plan on running them ported, subs up ports back in my 97 Jeep Grand Cherokee. My hatch already rattles like no other, its not deadened tho, if I faced subs/port to the rear, the rattles would kill me, lol.
Would you have skipping problems if you plan on using your ipod, like thru an ipod adapter? Thats what I plan on doing eventually.

Not at all the ipod will work perfect without skipping, I use a Monster 2.5mm heaphone jack to dual RCA cable from my old school IBM laptops PCMCIA Soundblaster 24bit sound card which is inputed into the AUX jack in the back of the Prioneer headunit and get no skipping at all and the SQ is pretty **** good, but CD is still a little better. Most of the time when driving I just use my laptop with a 300gb external drive filled with 60,000 songs and a bunch of recorded TV to entertain me //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[SHiZNiLTi 10+ year member]

BTW a lil update on the output of the BTL....

I was driving down this major road bumping some young jeezy today at pretty much full volume and the closet car to me was about 4-5 cars length in front of me we were traveling about 40-50mph and then all of a sudden the car in front of me pulled over to the side of the road to a stop and as I passed by the lady in the car held two hands up in the air like she was trying to say WTF. This is the 1st time I've made a moving vehicle pull off of the road due to bass. Times like that I wish I had a custom license plate that says "2LOUD4U" I'm coming to relize I need to pay attention to my surroundings when bumping it that loud.

 

[sku 10+ year member]

BTW a lil update on the output of the BTL....
I was driving down this major road bumping some young jeezy today at pretty much full volume and the closet car to me was about 4-5 cars length in front of me we were traveling about 40-50mph and then all of a sudden the car in front of me pulled over to the side of the road to a stop and as I passed by the lady in the car held two hands up in the air like she was trying to say WTF. This is the 1st time I've made a moving vehicle pull off of the road due to bass. Times like that I wish I had a custom license plate that says "2LOUD4U" I'm coming to relize I need to pay attention to my surroundings when bumping it that loud.

Nice //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif That must be some serious bass...do your outside listening test man...do you have 1 of those handheld db meters from RatShack?

OK, I figured out why I want more now...it is because of the skipping issue I have.

Here's some pics:

Young Jeezy at 149db with major skipping issues:



Turn it to a radio station and break the EPIC-150 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif



My MT 18.



I think if I can get it to play 151s without skipping it would be "enough" for now..

Sorry if I'm cluttering up you're thread, I will make my own...just wanted to report back after my Costco trip //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Intrepid Bass 10+ year member]

As someone said before this makes be want a 18" BTL lol. Seems like your really impressed with its perfomance.

 

[Immacomputer 10+ year member]

What's the second song in this video?

http://media.putfile.com/18--Fi-BTL

Which Jeezy cd is it from?

 

[Intrepid Bass 10+ year member]

What's the second song in this video?http://media.putfile.com/18--Fi-BTL

Which Jeezy cd is it from?

On thug motovation 101, the song is "Thats How Ya Feel".

 

[SHiZNiLTi 10+ year member]

As someone said before this makes be want a 18" BTL lol. Seems like your really impressed with its perfomance.

LOL, ya it's impressive for only (1) sub, has more potential in it too then what I've shown you.

What's the second song in this video?http://media.putfile.com/18--Fi-BTL

Which Jeezy cd is it from?

I think the album is Thug Motivation 101.

1st song: Young Jeezy track 19 Air Forces

2nd song: Young Jeezy track 17 That's How Ya Feel

3rd song: Paul Wall track 9 Internet Goin' Nutz

I allways put this song in when people demo my setup because it starts of with what sounds like the song's main bass line, but it isn't that loud. While the softer bass is playing I say something like it's hella loud huh and people are liek "meh it's ok then after 15 secs or so BOOM, it goes into full excursion and it kicks in hard and low and suprises the hell outta them.

 

[baseballer1100 5,000+ posts]

BTW a lil update on the output of the BTL....
I was driving down this major road bumping some young jeezy today at pretty much full volume and the closet car to me was about 4-5 cars length in front of me we were traveling about 40-50mph and then all of a sudden the car in front of me pulled over to the side of the road to a stop and as I passed by the lady in the car held two hands up in the air like she was trying to say WTF. This is the 1st time I've made a moving vehicle pull off of the road due to bass. Times like that I wish I had a custom license plate that says "2LOUD4U" I'm coming to relize I need to pay attention to my surroundings when bumping it that loud.

interesting.

 

[sku 10+ year member]

Yeah, that's a great story...

Since it was an old lady you should pull over and interview her on camera and post it here...

Kinda like that other dude that pulled up to you last time //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[SHiZNiLTi 10+ year member]

interesting.

Wait till you get your (2) 18's in that sweet box up and running, thats gonna be insaine and you will definatly have a few people pull over for ya and let ya pass by if your not carefull with that bass knob //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

Yeah, that's a great story...
Since it was an old lady you should pull over and interview her on camera and post it here...

Kinda like that other dude that pulled up to you last time //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

LOL, ya I don't think this one would be as nice. It wasn't really even an old lady, I'd say mid 30's, but she was definetly anti-loud bass.

 

[Lil_KB 10+ year member]

i know it must sound damn good...b/c you obviously don't wanna take it out to make it shiny.. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[baseballer1100 5,000+ posts]

Wait till you get your (2) 18's in that sweet box up and running, thats gonna be insaine and you will definatly have a few people pull over for ya and let ya pass by if your not carefull with that bass knob //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif
LOL, ya I don't think this one would be as nice. It wasn't really even an old lady, I'd say mid 30's, but she was definetly anti-loud bass.

I Cant wait.

 

[SHiZNiLTi 10+ year member]

i know it must sound damn good...b/c you obviously don't wanna take it out to make it shiny.. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

I know, I've completely gone off my tasklist with painting it.

I kinda want to build another box before I decide to do my glossy black paint process which takes like 7 days to complete. Once I test out both box's I will choose my favorite and paint that one.

Right now my box is tuned at 32hz with 100sq.in. of port, but sounds more like it's tuned at 36hz because it gets hella loud between 35-40hz and doest have as much oomph at the 30hz range as I want. I know for th DB's you want it loud at 36-40hz range, but I want to try a design that will really hits on the 28hz to 33hz range focusing on killer lows.

Here's my dims of my current box...

Outter Dims:

37x26x19

My Cut's:

Bottom and Top: 37 x 26

Right Side: 24.5 x 17.5

Left Side: 25.25 x 17.5

Front: 30.5 x 17.5

Back: 37 x 17.5

Port:

18.75 x 17.75

5 x 17.5

The sub takes up .26

So thats about 6.6 cubes after sub and port, tuned to 32hz with 100sq.in. of port right?

Any ideas on what to do for my next design? I want it to really hit stong on the 28hz to 30hz range focusing on killer lows. I'm thinking of doing a design where I can have one big straign port out the side of the box and have the sub fire up, the sub would be located close to the port.