rebuild (if u wanna call it that)

[Dubdw7Kota 10+ year member]

had to downsize from 2 dayton ho 10s ported and 2 cadence txa6004 (25" long each) and go with a little something smaller.

Purchased a Kicker 06ZX700.5 for amp duty and (2) Sundown E8's for subs. decided to run them sealed since the objective was to save space. guess we will see if i can deal with it. lol.

so equipment will be

alpine 9887 (running active 2 way front stage)

kicker zx700.5

mach 5 mli-65s in factory door location (well deadened)

seas neo textiles in the kicks

2 sundown e8's

Goals for this were to downsize and save some space and still get decent output, and clean up the wiring some. Will eventually pull the 0awg and go with some 4awg (for now itll just be the 0awg to a dist. block with 4 off of it)

sorry for the first batch of pix crapp quality

So far, I aimed the tweeters on axis (or close to it). My method wasn't perfect, obviously by the pix, but it's better than I could do just eyeballing it without the laser pointer.

The result? VERY chitty, obviously, but I plan to use some filler and clean it up, no matter how much I filed, i just couldn't get the pvc to slide back far enough to close the gap without chopping off 1/2 of one of the mounting brackets due to the position of the holes previously since the tweeters werent deep and didnt need to slide back liek the pvc. Anyways, there are in there pretty solid for now. as said... ill fix the cosmetics in the following days.

Also, pulled out the old RCA's i bought from monoprice, they look nice, but i wouldnt recommend them.. the ends are way to tight and require quite a bit of elbow grease to pull em on and off, and i broke 2 sets of them. So, went to a my local dealer and he hooked me up with a decent deal on some higher end Stinger 4 and 2 channel RCAs.

Anyways, here a few pix of the little I got done, and an old pic of the culprit for those who havent seen.

afaik it was pretty centered due to the drill bit in the middle of the circle saw i used, then just drilled it out to fit the laser pointer

well looky there lol

cute lil e8 against the dayton HO

the equipment (working on some techflex)

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[Dubdw7Kota 10+ year member]

lettin the glue fully set

1/18/09:

as luck would have it... it began raining steadily the moment i stepped out of my car as i arrived to my parents house. luckily, it wasnt near as cold today, so i made use of the overhang/car port area and began assemblying my enclosure. ended up coming out to be 25.25"w x 6.5"d x 11.5"h with a divder puts each chamber at .28 ft^3 net.

as you can see, my free hand with a jigsaw sux! anyways, the subs fit nice with very very minimal wiggle room in the mounting holes. ive got one more piece of wood to cut to cover the rear of the enclosure. i plan to router the edges and run some wire through the box since im not using any terminals.

hopefully tomorrow i can find some inexpensive carpet and wrap it. also start on an amp mounting idea and began finishing up the kick panels.

ugly, but hey, its functional. my woodworking skills are FTL

bundled the remote, power and ground to go to distribution blocks (which i hid, btw)

waiting on the back piece

 

[Dubdw7Kota 10+ year member]

so got the enclosure done and a semi amp "rack"... its functional. not the prettiest thing in the world but hey. ended up getting a couple inches of snow today which is unheard of around here... so ended up spending hours cramped up in my hatch fiddling with stuff.

tweets sound better aimed now, seemed it brought the stage up some, also seems much more centered without an t/a tweaking yet.

impressions on the subs. well, i got the gains cut conservative. they sound good from what i can tell. ima give em a few days to break in (they are virgin tight at the moment) and crank up the gain a little bit.

the lowend isnt as impressive as it was with the 2 daytons. ofcourse not, im running less than 1/2 the power, less cone area and sealed vs ported. ill give more impressions once i cut the gains up.

so far im happy.

not the best job in the world, but hey, it works.

yanked it apart bc something popped when i first cranked it up. all looked fine... its working fine now... ????????????

took a break to pick my fiance up from school (i dropped her off so she wouldnt have to walk in the cold/snow) and stopped by chicfila for some lunch... happened to catch some canadian geese on the way... one of them was pretty friendly... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

(i ***** slapped a blackbird bc it swooped over my shoulder and **** near landed on me, scared the piss outta me bc i was trying to be calm and not freak the geese out) they can be mean

 

[traksta15 10+ year member]

what did you cover it in? I like that....

also, how hard is it to tech flex your wires?

 

[Fiercetimbo17 10+ year member]

Looks like a microfiber suede, and techflex is not hard just time consuming and use 3/1 shrink ratio heatshrink, more expensive but pays off big time.

 

[DonH 5,000+ posts]

kool //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Looks good to me.

I still am not sure why you would want to get rid of your 0g wire, especially since it is split at a 4g block.

Awesome looking Tc to boot !

 

[MmatsDude 10+ year member]

make sure to make vids

loookin good

 

[18inchjeepin 10+ year member]

waffle fries FTMFW

nice build btw