My Weekend Project. ( pics! )

[LaserRed38 10+ year member]

Cool man. Thanks a lot. And uhh....you might want to have your coolant flushed haha. Or does your 03 come with that newer Gold pisswater stuff?

And if you got any questions about modding the other areas of your car, hit me up. My car is lowered 1.5", so there is no way I'm getting to that other wire....

 

[tsenfw 10+ year member]

Hey fellow 3.8er's, how did you deaden your doors?

Did you cover up those big holes in the door panel with plexi? I have one door deadened but couldn't think of a way to cut the plexi to fit the irregular shapes. I just deadened over them but I'm second guessing it now.

 

[Paaco1981 10+ year member]

I just deadened over mine. has 2 layers of edead on both doors.

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

how do you like the rsd's in that car? and when are you starting?

 

[tsenfw 10+ year member]

Yeah, what kind of midbass are you getting with two layers of edead? I have rev's in there now with one layer of damplifier pro and I'm not too impressed. With the sub on it sounds good but with the sub off the midbass seems weak. I have some rsd's i can throw in but Idk if it's worth the trouble.

 

[Paaco1981 10+ year member]

They have pretty decent midbass. Nothing amazing, but for what they cost on ebay they sound extremely good. Today is my planning day. I have to go to work in a bit. Tomorrow will be my work all day time. I'm off work and will have a friend to help out.

And man I hooked the amp up in there on the current subs just now just to test it. It definately puts out more power than my T10001BD did and it's wired to 2ohm atm. So 0.5 should be loud. I will say though this thing is hungry as hell. Definately don't even try to run one without an HO alt+ extra battery. I don't have the extra battery in yet and it was working on my 200amp alternator hard even at 2ohms. Car was idleing though.

 

[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

ground from batt should go to the engine, not the core support/chassis up front.....

 

[Paaco1981 10+ year member]

It shouldn't make much difference. Theres a ground going from that same piece of metal to the engine 3 feet away. Thats also where every stock ground on the car goes.

 

[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

actually most go directly to the engine and have a smaller ground wire to the chassis, but if you got no dimming it's all good...

 

[Paaco1981 10+ year member]

Yeah I didn't have any dimming with the old amp. We'll see on this one. I appreciate the input though. I'll take all the help I can get. I'm far from a pro //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[tsenfw 10+ year member]

Actually no ... most big 3 descriptions say negative on battery directly to chassis, alternator positive to battery positive, and engine to chassis. All short as possible.

I did the same thing on my stang, just haven't gotten to the engine to chassis one yet.

 

[Paaco1981 10+ year member]

Question for you box building pros. In a false floor in my Mustang, how should I mount the ports to get loud/sound best.

1.) Subs inverted - ports up

2.) Subs inverted - Ports back

3.) Subs inverted - ports forward

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

port back,

do u have 6x9s in there?

 

[Paaco1981 10+ year member]

I still have the stock 6x8's in the back deck. I have it faded almost completely to the components up front though.

 

[Paaco1981 10+ year member]

Still not done as you can see. It's loud and gets **** low though. Ended up at 32hz tuning.