cobra93

Thanks Denim! It was a pain in a** to remove from the inner door skin when I put the enclosures in, only time will tell. I think I'll be changing to another vehicle next year, we'll see.

Thanks!!!! Need some sauce to go with this spaghetti of wiring... A good chunky tomato basil would be the choice. I'll see if I can't get my wife to get a pot started!! What time would you like us over for dinner? Should we bring anything?

spaghetti, looks like an all you can eat buffet! I'm sure you've got it covered.

My thoughts exactly. you could do some serious motorboatin with those. :boobs2:

You really grabbed the bull by the horns on this build!!! You did a killer job on EVERYTHING!! The steal door pods are just evil. The amp rack is super solid looking. Amazing job on fitting those 3's where you did. You and me both wish we had a reference vehicle. Always glad to be of some help. Thanks bro. I'm happy the way everything turned out so far and just in time, weather wise. I can only imagine what 2 10"s/12"s must sound like after hearing the(4) 6-1/2"s

yeah thats how they are You should flip the bolts around. Put a nut on the outside to hold the ring terminals for the sub, screw head on the inside. Then put the ring terminal for the amp and add another nut for it. That way you won't have to remove the sub to disconnect the wires. That's why I asked what the inside looked like.

double post, sorry.

looks good, but i don't understand the terminals. What does the inside look like?

I've been in these doors before, so I had a general idea of what I needed to do I installed the alarm in this truck back in May or June and had been thinking about the doors since then. It did come together pretty well in the end. I don't know of any shows around here to go to. The trucks got better then 100,000 miles on it now and I can't keep ball joints on it, I need to change the drivers side lower again in the next few days and get some tires quick. I need to find something else next year, but I don't know what.

Not a problem.

Tuned in That a nice car, I'm a ford guy, bleedin blue. What does the door panel look like? How much clearance is there depth wise for mounting speakers? Sorry to hear about the bad luck.

:drink40: :drink40: Those ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ led me here. I was looking around for something audio related one night and BAM, there you were and here I am.

I like the new, but you should increase the bold titles like in the F.A.Q. section, otherwise they run together. I hope that's the only time I'm ever on a site like that!

It's in the log. I have 4- 1/0 runs (2 pos. 2 neg.) form the battery to the rear seat on the drivers side. They are tied to the frame and enter from the bottom of the truck. I used water tight strain reliefs to bring them into the truck. 1 pos. and 1 neg. go strait to the saz 2000d. 1 pos. and 1 neg. go to the terminals under the 300/2 and supply power to the the 300/2 and the sax125.2 with 4 ga. runs. I also have a relay coming off the pos. terminal to use battery power to turn on the amps and run the fans, controlled by the head units remote turn on. I'm not sure it can be seen in the pics. Sweet nice set up. What are "water tight strain reliefs" ? These: strain relief You drill a hole in whatever you want to pass through. Insert the strain relief. Push the wire through the strain relief and tighten the nut. A rubber grommet and some teeth grab the wire and seal around it.

Wow, you guys are right along on this build. I can't believe how good the engine bay cleaned up for over 200,000 miles. The engine bay looks killer! Should be one hell of a nice ride when you guys get done. The four bucket seat looks way better then the bench. I can't wait to see what you have planned for the sound system. Keep up the great work!! I'm definitely

Thanks stefanhinote, it turned out pretty good and keeps the amps out of sight.

Thank you!!! They were worth the time it took to make and install them. They sound fantastic. I had some running to do today. I'd listen for a while, turn the sub on for 10 seconds, turn the sub back off again. The sls's really hammer, excellent speakers!!

Thanks very much!!!

Thank you sir. I'm pretty happy so far and I still have allot of tuning to do. I'm a leg/ass man myself, but are great to. My camera is pretty crappy, but I'll get some when I fix the clearance issue.

It's in the log. I have 4- 1/0 runs (2 pos. 2 neg.) form the battery to the rear seat on the drivers side. They are tied to the frame and enter from the bottom of the truck. I used water tight strain reliefs to bring them into the truck. 1 pos. and 1 neg. go strait to the saz 2000d. 1 pos. and 1 neg. go to the terminals under the 300/2 and supply power to the the 300/2 and the sax125.2 with 4 ga. runs. I also have a relay coming off the pos. terminal to use battery power to turn on the amps and run the fans, controlled by the head units remote turn on. I'm not sure it can be seen in the pics.

Ha, I drove right by you. Lookin' good so far Thanks ///M5 for the compliment and your help.!!!! :thanx: You are 100% correct in this equipment being worlds better than what I had before. You were in Michigan, I wish I 'd have known that.

Thanks buddy, gotta go motorboatin.

I started out today by pulling out everything in the back of the truck. Looks lonely, doesn't it. I cut all the wiring to lengths I needed for the final equipment, cleaned up a bit and put the back plastic panel back in. This is the brain for the AV8533 and a SHITTON of wires, and then some more wires. I only need 5 of the 30 or so and there about 20-25 foot long. I pulled the old B-stock 300/2 and replaced it with my A-stock 300/2. I also mounted it right side up since the setting were already dialed in. I painted everything that could be seen with the door panel on black. A little double sided foam tape so nothing rattles on the back of the 125.2. I cut 2" off the frame to make room for the plastic back panel. I mounted the 125.2 and put the frame back in the truck. I covered a piece of mdf with some leftover black suede since I don't have the 4-sa-8's in the truck and the board can be seen. I reinstalled the front cover with fans. This is my 88120 TI dvc in a very old box. So old that at home depot it was called MDF not particle board. I will rebuild this box in the spring and possibly use two 88120 TI dvc to make use of the saz2000d potential, dual 4 ohm coils. I'm sure it doesn't compare to today's measurements, but at a local SPL event, I supposedly scored a 140.1 with one of these in a 4.0 c.f. box tuned to 45 hz. in the back of the 93 cobra powered by a JL 1000/1. I was beaten in the first round by a gut who's last name was Thornbird, sponsored by Rockford Fosgate, if I remember correctly. He, his wife, had a 15w3 and scored a 140.6. She won the class I was in. The classes were done by cone area. I had this inner pocket hot glued on for test fitting, it was o.k. so I put it back on with this epoxy I had left over from the sa-8's Installed and ready for the door. Some pics of the drivers side door. My original plan for the pods was to put some bondo on the and sand them down, but after a little bit of sanding with a 60 grit flapper wheel, they looked pretty good so I left them as is. They don't fit as tight as they did the other day, but they fit pretty good. I bought the same size screws as I already had for the 88's which were too big to begin with so I drilled and countersunk the holes for a flush fit. I used two 1/4-20 bolts to attach each pod to the door panel and added some poly-fil to them. I was going to use some gray vinyl to wrap the pods that I know I had, but I couldn't find it anywhere. The only stuff the local shops had was marine backed vinyl and i hate that stuff, so i used some left over gray suede instead. I didn't get the pics you probably want to see, the seam, it's on the underside. I did the best I could, they look pretty good, but not great. I may end up redoing these in vinyl, I'm not sure. What do you guys think? I took some pics of the Eclipse AV 8533. I'm not sure I want to keep it, but it serves the purpose for now. This unit is weird, You have to choose between Dolby Pro-logic II stereo, movie, 4 channel stereo, and off. It's more like a HT surround system then a car stereo. It will play pretty much everything including DVD-Audio, which is the reason I bought it way back when. It states there's a Pro mode that changes the rca outputs from front/rear/sub to high/mid/low, but I haven't messed with the unit long enough to find it. I'll let you know. The settings screen. The sound setup screen Speaker setting screen. Small/Large/None. Time alignment. It has up to 10ms. on each speaker and level adjustment. The parametric equalizer, 25 bands to choose from, 5 you can adjust. It has 3 "q" setting for each band and 6 user presets. It also came with a mic and will auto tune, I haven't used this yet. I got everything finished up today around 6:00pm. I fired it up, delayed the drivers side 88 1.4 ms. and the drivers side sls's .9 ms.. I turned the sub off and cranked it up!! Holy Crap it sounds great!!! :rockwoot: :rockwoot: :rockwoot: I still have allot of tuning to do and I need to get the heat gun out. The upper sls's have enough excursion to make contact with the stock speaker grill. I thought this could be a problem. I figure with the heat gun I can make enough clearance for them. I have to say the FR88's sound very good, not harsh or in my face. The SLS's sound great and definitely can move some air. I have the sub/infrasonic filter set to ~50 hertz at the moment and they shake the mirror and my pants something fierce. These things are little beasts, clean and tight with anything I've thrown at them so far. I'm very happy with this setup already. It's worlds better than the components I had before. I'll continue to adjust everything and get the sub integrated as I go, but I could almost live without it if necessary. I wish I could here some competition quality setups so I had a frame of reference/comparison. A big Thanks to everyone who that helped me in my mid bass thread and those who kept me going with the awesome compliments during the build, You guys rock!!! i just thought I'd throw some BOOBS in there for good measure!

Thanks Buddy!!! I've got music again!!!! I'll review after I post my log. I just finished uploading pics and am writing my next post.