Randal Johnson

We cool brother ... Just imagine what would happen if we met up for a fooseball game or two ...

I will buy that the guy has no budget. But when he is doing something that costs more......If the guy with the V8 is trying to show the guy with the V6 how he too can get a V8 for less than the cost of the v6 is that being a prick? Maybe I have brain damage. In my eyes Sean was helping him to spend less, and learn something and he didn't want to hear it. I must have missed something in the thread. All I asked for was not to bad mouth people or product in my build log ... And this was about active vs passive (well, started out that way) and Quention is absolutely correct when I must go with what the sponsors want done. That's the way it is with all sponsors, you want to play their game ... Play by their rules. And I told Sean that if I need to go completely active ... No problem, I have the equipment to make it happen ... Attention ??? Yes Sir ... Because of forums like this, I don't have time to clean my truck or hook up my Astron before people walk up for demos at big audio events !!! SSA is great social media for things like this !!! This is what needs to happen to make car audio a better sport !!!

Alright brother ... Its cool. Let's move on ... This weekend is already planned out with the car ... And with all the stuff my wife wants me to do with her this weekend, chances are the car will not get touched ... Way it goes I guess

Sean ... Please man, lay off my setup. I have alot more things I need to worry about. I know you don't like Blues Car Audio, and I'm cool with that ... But its beating a dead horse. I'M NOT CHANGING ANYTHING WITH MY CAR AUDIO SYSTEM .. And yes, Meeting up with you would do us alot of good I think ... Just saying

If I could buy all the "Raw Drivers" I would need for my car for about 50 bucks ... I would not have the money to spare ... You have to understand that I'm doing all that I can with what I already have to work with ... So please ... there is no more need to ask me to buy different drivers to go into this car ... Especially when you will never make a trip out to one of these big Audio events to meet up with me, have a drink with me, and listen to it personally ... Now as far as driver location, position, angles, things like that ... I'm all ears !!! And If I sell equipment now ... Chances are I will spend the money elsewhere and not have any equipment ... That would be real bad considering I would be losing a sponsorship too ... No thank you, not an option ...

River Monsters is one of my favorite shows !!!

well here is my problem ... Insurance totaled my truck after the hail storm, I'm getting it painted, but I can not insure the truck for anything but liability. So I have no insurance on contents and will be pulling everything out soon since the truck is no good to me any more and the truck will be sold soon (I hope) ... So with all this work I'm doing to the car, buying the wife a new car cause hers got totaled too, AND find me another truck to pull this Ford ... I have no money to buy stereo equipment. So I have to work with what I've got. Did I also mention that i'm paying for one kid to go to college and one will be there in 2 years ?? I wish I had your kind to money so I could just buy whatever I wanted ...

I have all the time in the world to get this thing to work like I want it ... What's the difference, you've never taken it easy on me before ... Why start now ??I actually do take it easy on you. You always take conversations personally and emotionally which makes it hard to have a productive conversation so I greatly limit my criticism. Figured if I posted in here you'd not see it as pooping on your thread but trying to help. Of course, what you see as me not being easy on you in other comments is also me trying to help. its cool man ... and thank you !!! well here is my problem ... Insurance totaled my truck after the hail storm, I'm getting it painted, but I can not insure the truck for anything but liability. So I have no insurance on contents and will be pulling everything soon since the truck is no good to me any more and will be sold soon. So wil all this work i'm doing to the car, buying the wife a new car cause hers got totaled too, AND find me another truck to pull this Ford ... I have no money to buy stareo equipment. So I have to work with what I've got. Did I also mention that i'm paying for one kid to go to college and one will be there in 2 years ?? I wish I had your kind to money so I could just buy whatever I wanted ...

thanks man for your help ... I thinnk if I can get my seats in and get my windows measured out for new glass, I sould be in good shape to start on the doors (window mechanisms and lock setups ... gonna shave the door handles ) next weekend ...

Dude ... Have you seen any pics I've posted in this log ?? This car is a monster lead sled ... I have more than enough room to install anything I want ... I could pull a Mark Eldridge and install 12s in the kicks If I want ...possibilities are endless when you completely gut a car as large as this one and start from scratch ...

Its cool bro ... When the time gets here (with my luck and budget ... might be a while), we will do what is best for the car ... hell, I've got to get the seats correctly mounted and mocked up so we can measure something. I just got the seat frame welded together yesterday.And the passive crossovers I'm running are FAR FROM "Off the shelf passive crossvers" ... I know you don't like them ... but is cool, life would suck if I didn't get to piss off atleast one person a day ... LOL

I'm not ... Well, I am running passive with the tweeter / midrange drivers simply because they are the EXACT same measuremants to the listner's ears so there is no reason to time align them separately ... And since the midbass / subbass drivers in the kickpannels will be at different maesurement positions, they will be time aligned separately ... So yes, for the most part, I will be running an active system, just one section will be passive ...Just so we are clear here ... if for some reason that I have to go completely active and I need to be completely convinced that passive just will not work ... You already know that I have the necessary equipment to go fully active if need be ... But in all actuallity, I do not see this a problem when we get to this part of the build ...

on a home audio system let's say a 2 way setup where you have the tweeter and the midrange drivers in the exact same enclosures (as in a left and right cabinet) ... Would you time align the tweetes and midrange drivers separately ??? I have all the time in the world to get this thing set up the way I want ... thats the beauty of building a street machine yourself !!!

I have all the time in the world to get this thing to work like I want it ... What's the difference, you've never taken it easy on me before ... Why start now ??

Copy and paste from the IHOP ... I'm not ... Well, I am running passive with the tweeter / midrange drivers simply because they are the EXACT same measuremants to the listner's ears so there is no reason to time align them separately ... And since the midbass / subbass drivers in the kickpannels will be at different maesurement positions, they will be time aligned separately ... So yes, for the most part, I will be running an active system, just one section will be passive ...

I'm not ... Well, I am running passive with the tweeter / midrange drivers simply because they are the EXACT same measuremants to the listner's ears so there is no reason to time align them separately ... And since the midbass / subbass drivers in the kickpannels will be at different maesurement positions, they will be time aligned separately ... So yes, for the most part, I will be running an active system, just one section will be passive ...

Thank you Sir !!!

Also ... Got me a tow bar ordered so I can just hook up and pull her around instead of loading her on and off of a trailer all of the time ...

Nice Setup

Not sure yet brother ... but with all the work going on at the moment, I do not see any updates to the wheels and tires any time soon.Also in the pic on post #121, you can see that the wheel tubs are kind of narrow if I wanted to add bigger wheels and tires. So there might be some customizing there if we decide to go with bigger wheels and tires ... I haven't priced custom built wheel tubs in a LONG time !!! We may can go with alot of backspacing ... but narrowing the origional rear end is completely out of the question ... I sure that the hot rod builders from Mississippi Street Rod's Association will be helping me out with this at a later date ... I really would like to see this car completely on the ground with some big ass wheels and tires on it !!! Lead Sled style !!! Got my eyes on a set of cool universal 20s at my friend's pawn shop. He said that they are mine if they fit, but I have to get the car driveable (lights working for the most part) so I can get it up there to try them out ... He also has a set of old school Weld Wheels from a pro street car that may fit ... Well, front ones. The rear wheels and tires would require ALOT of work that I'm now wanting to get into at this point and time of the build ... I may look into finding some wheels out from under something like a Crown Vic, Town Car, or something similar ... I would like to have the aire ride installed before I made any kind of final decision on the wheel and tire setup ...

Thanks man !!! Yea, I wanted to bring it home, but the owner said that he was going to put it in his throphy case in his pawn shop ... Oh well

Check this out guys !!! A piece of old school Pioneer history ... pulled it out of the 38 Chevy !!!

The other day I got my hands on a set of bucket seats out of a 96 Chevy Silverado. They need to be recovered, but will work fine for now during the build to manuver the car around to the different shops and stuff ... The only problem was that the seats were too wide for the car. It has a big center console thingy so we too that off to cut off of a section of the seat brackets to make the seats fit properly ... Today I got one of my partners of crime in the Mississippi Street Rod Association Hulon Slay to cut, fit, and reweld my seat brackets ... Couldn't ask for a better setup than what I got. So far, everything is lining up perfectly !!! Thank you Hulon !!! Hopefully I will have the seats reinstalled back to the brackets and installed into the car this weeked ...

Over the last few days I've been working to help out a friend with his car's electrical system. We had to completly rewire his electrical. So we ordered a wiring harness kit for this. Easy to install, Bout the only hard part was gutting out the old rats nest of a wiring harness ... Since I'm doing this to my car, I volunteered to do his electrical setup in return he pays for my wiring harness kit ... Awesome Deal for both of us !!! I should be done with this by this weekend ... Just for an added thank you for his business ... I am wiring up and installing his stereo too (nice Pioneer unit with 4 speakers in fairly hidden locations) ... I will post pics when I'm done if anyone's interested.

Got my Wiring Harness kit ordered today ... Someone is taking care of this (ordering) for me while I'm running a new wiring harness kit in his 38 Chevy Coupe, So I will post the details of the harness kit as soon as I have it ... I'm going to try my best and detail that wiring setup as if the entire wiring / electrical section of this car is being judged in Sound Quality wiring inspection ... The only thing that I have to really concentrate on is the addition of audio / LED wiring in their respected locations ... I'm thinking that the only thing that really needs to be run on their own is the RCA (coax) cables, so I should be able to run them separately at a later date ... One step closer to getting this car on the road !!!