Sold 1988 Chevy Astro SPL Van Ready to Compete . . . 160 Db+ Kove Audio, Us Amps

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For Sale is my 1988 Chevy Astro SPL Van, it was built by Steve Hann in PA. It is the old Speed of Sound van, the stickers are still on the sides. Some people who have been around Db Drags for awhile will recognize this van. It has been to World Finals back in 2001 and 2002. It has the 4.3 motor in it and it runs strong. It has an upgraded suspension, fiberglass leaf springs and coilovers in the rear and I think the front may be stock coil springs, not sure on that I have to check with Steve. For the system it has 4 Kove Audio Armageddon 18" woofers, one of the woofers is blown but I have 2 complete rebuild kits for them, I also know a guy that has about 15 of these 18" woofers left so there is plenty to be bought. For amps there is 9 US Amps 2000x's with the protection and SAT clipped out, at full load their output is roughly 3500 watts a piece with 2 amps per woofer. This is just for competition, on a normal basis they are turned down. But two of the amps are blown and I haven’t had it repaired yet, so 2 of the amps would need to get set to US Amps for repair. It would be 300 per amp to fix them, that’s what I was quoted on the phone. It will come with a Moroso Power Charger, it charges these batteries pretty good, the batteries never had a whole lot of discharge to them since I only went to 1 competition. There are 16 Brand New (as of July 06 ) Trojan Batteries, I forget the exact model number of the batts but I will add that as soon as I can. It will also come with an Audio Control SA-3055, I had this sent to Audio Control to get calibrated and had a new battery installed so it is ready to go and it has been plugged in, charging unless it was used to meter the van. It comes in the blue Audio Control bag along with the instructions and 2 mics, the standard mic and the SPL-180 mic, both were calibrated along with the meter itself and I have the box from Audio Control in case the buyer may need it. The van has a xenon body kit on it but the side skirts are not installed or painted obviously, I have them just never got a chance to install them. The rear door seals needed to be done so I cleaned the doors and seal areas and painted it all but I did not install the seals yet as the new owner may want to paint the van and it looks better to install the seals after the painting. I also have a new tube of 3M weather stripping sealant, it is supposed to be the best stuff to use. The van has an Ohio Generator alternator on it now, it has an output of 300 amps, and I have a second Ohio alt that can be added where the stock AC normally is but I don’t have the brackets for it and the output on that is 2xx, I need to ask Steve exactly what it is. The system is controlled by " The Lunchbox" its an old snap on/igloo lunch box that Steve added a radio into to be able to control the van from the outside during competitions. It connects to the van via an XLR cable(included) above the license plate(Ill add those pics tomorrow). There is also an adjustable regulator in the dash to control the charging of the batts in the rear. There is also 2 digital voltage outputs in the dash that display the current voltage of the front battery and the rear batts. Next to each display there is a switch to enable charging of both, and either or. This is done so that while the van is running the charging of the front battery is no existent while the full output of the alt gets sent to them batts in the rear, via the adjustable regulator. The normal van electronics couldn’t handle the 15+ volts. I had the van weighed on a truck scale, and it came in around 6000 pounds without me in it . . IIRC, it was awhile ago.

Im sure there is more I could add but I cant remember it right now, so if there is any questions feel free to email me, you can email me at: don.moore38@comcast.net, I am also on aol im, my screen name is bumpinford. And for people who are seriously interested I will send you my phone number so we can chat about it. If you would like to come see it that’s fine just send me a message and we can set something up. Id like payment by cashier's check or cash, and we can go to the tag place around the corner to transfer the tags. Thanks for looking----Don aka Dinty01

Sorry, forgot to add the price, geez, Im looking for $12,000 obo. This ad will be listed on another site as well(termpro).

I want to add this link, it is for the guy who built the van and competed with it in Db Drags. This is his stats page where you can see the scores this van has put up in the past, click here

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thanks man, if u offered 10G's Id probably take it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/yumyum.gif.0556df42231b304b9c995aefd13928a8.gif Im not sure what the box is tuned to, I used to know but I forget //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif Its an awesome van and if I had the money Id love to keep it but the timing just isnt good any longer with going back to school FT for another year and a half. Ill probably put some 12's or 15's in my truck though and compete with that. . . .

 
thanks, yea it would be a long drive, but a quick flight //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/up2something.gif.dd110ecf3ae4b76050d87598f2f8de7c.gif

 
your buddy is the guy who sells the kove armageddon u2s on ebay? these are the u2 18"s I take it?

nice van man. I don't think anyone who has 10g's was looking at getting an spl vehicle atm... ebay will probably do you justice, don't put up a buy it now and see how high it gets. maybe get the recone on the blown sub and pull the broken amps and run one per sub so the install is fully working and musicable //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif just some food for thought //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 
the guy on ebay isnt a buddy of mine, i talked to him about buying some woofers but I just dont have the cash right now and when theyre gone and done thats it since Kove Audio is no more and Ive checked with everyone I could check with for recones. Yea I know its kind of a bad time of year to list it but I wanted to get the word out, if I dont have any interest by the end of february then ebay will get it, maybe sooner I dunno. I have 2 recones for the woofers but I wanted to see if the new owner would want to use those woofers or sell them, as it sits, 3 woofers are playing and its still d@mn loud, i did a 158.4 at the competition I went to in DE with it this summer and I disconnected it after the one run since it stunk, didnt actually blow but its hurt. So one of the next runs I did the 158.4 with 3 woofers, not bad since it was the first db drag show it had seen in almost 3 years, maybe 4. Hadnt had any work to the box in that time either. Well see though, thanks for your input---Dinty

 
ttt dropped the price a grand, lemme know if anyone is interested and or make some offers, would like to sell this thing

PRICE IS NOW 11K OBO

 
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