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At 193: None more recent. I'll get the wife to take some shots in a few weeks. I just took a week off to recuperate, so I am down a bit, but in a few weeks i will be back up to snuff. Take care of yourself. I was invincible... until proven otherwise. Thanks for the kind words though.

Much-ass Grass-ass... but you are Sir, I am sandt

DOT slicks at the track, stock rear with Hotchkiss trailing arms. My gearing was too low (390s) to top out at the track. I ran out of gear. I have 373s in it now and expect better ETs and slower traps.

The ZR1 is a monster, I really like the Z06 too!! While not the SLP variant you have on your desktop... It's my Rally Yellow 1LT/RS. It has been massaged a bit, with an Injen CAI, ARH long tube headers and hiflow cats, Flowmaster Super 44 mufflers and Trifecta tuned ECM and TCM. It has run 9.1 @ 82mph in the 1/8th and has seen it's limited top speed of 155mph. Currently sitting with ~280rwhp and ~250lb-ft of torque. Not bad for a 3700pd automatic 3.6ltr v6, lol! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I had saved up enough cash to get one of those. Unfortunately I got cancer and was out of work for almost a year, and my wife was going back to school. So i used almost all that money to survive for that year. So now we are going to Rome in April with what is left over... so no Camaro for sandt.

Thanks Broseph! My wife found a nice 120GB porn collection and was a tad unhappy about my intrawebz browsing, but I am back from time to time.

Well, you are crazy , but yes, I did post pics. yes, that is an 8" mid in the center channel (rear ported 5.25 surrounds) Ooops, that RPTV is now a plasma

No. DVD Audio and SACD are both audio formats in 5.1. FWIW Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon is fucking bliss on SACD. I love to get a couple valium, several beers, sit in my listening room and hammer it. The effect is unreal. I need to come to your house, I will bring the beer. Any time. My home set-up is pretty killer. All Pioneer Elite with DVD-A and SACD fed through 5.1 analog passthrough and alll custom speaker builds by myself (huge ported mains stay flat to 32Hz in room), with a Brahma rounding out the bottom end. I'll supply the valium

Yes, and yes. A passive crossover will reduce the load across the crossover point. So even though you have 2 4 ohm speakers, the 4 ohm load will remain constant at the handoff/crossover point.

This is an SQ thread, amirite?

Any DVD player will play DVD-A. But it is best with a 5.1 analog out.

No. DVD Audio and SACD are both audio formats in 5.1. FWIW Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon is fucking bliss on SACD. I love to get a couple valium, several beers, sit in my listening room and hammer it. The effect is unreal.

So I gather you are interested in big box/ big name woofers. In that case I might suggest looking into Alpine TypeRs (not a bad budget ported woofer) or a JLW3, again not a bad budget big name woofer. But you can really do a lot better by looking into some smaller name internet based companies. The prices are great and the quality is also very good. In fact, dollar for dollar, you can really get a better product for a smaller dent in the wallet.

It will be much better for the proposed enclosure. It will have the motor strength required to deliver more output in the ported box, where the Pioneers will struggle.

They are decent subs. However, for what the list price is on them, I think you could do better. What enclosure are you planning on using them in? These units lean heavily towards a sealed cabinet. They just don't have the motor strength for a ported cabinet.

It really shouldn't ever need fluid. This is a sealed system, and what that means is it does not "consume" fluid. If it needs fluid, it is leaking fluid. And yeah, if it is low you need to have the leak fixed.

Have you looked into the Carvewright or CNC Shark? They are not quite these large machines, but they may be an affordable alternative for you. I belong to a woodworking site and have seen several builds people have done to build their own as well, and some of them are amazing machines.

FWIW I have also had good luck with sonicelectronix.com as well. Just another inexpensive online store for you to look at. I have bought several head units from them for myself, friends, and customers.

Describe "loose" for me. Is the pedal going to the floor, is the pedal soft, does it work at all, does it not begin to engage until it is low, or what? Without being able to drive the car it is hard to get an idea of what you are talking about. If it is a hydraulic clutch it uses brake fluid. Brake fluid is hygroscopic, which means it will absorb water. Water does boil and become a vapor, so it can create air pockets when hot. This is why we flush brake fluid. But TBH it is an extremely rare phenomenon in your average everyday car, and frankly one I have never seen it occur in a hydraulic clutch. Yes it goes on to the floor doesn't let you into gears. It uses brake fluid. So im guessing its hydraulic. We recently put some in, DOT3 fluid. When this happens the car still turns on but it doesn't go into gear(s). This relly only happens about once every 1 or 2 months. This isn't normal right? No, it's not normal. So I guess if you are putting fluid in it, that you are losing fluid, correct? If so it would seem like you have a leak in the system. You have a clutch master cylinder, which is exactly like a brake master, which is where you put your fluid in. Usually they leak out the rear seal. To check this, get under the dash on the driver's side and follow the rod that connects to the clutch pedal to the firewall. There will be a rubber boot there that looks like a bellows in most cases. Pull the boot back and check for brake fluid. You might have enough of a leak that you will see the fluid there without pulling the boot back if you get lucky. You will also have a rubber line or 2 between the master and slave (which is a cylinder on the transmission). Check those for leaks as well. Finally, that cylinder on the tranny, it will have a boot on it too, pull it back and check for fluid in it, if it isn't leaking very obviously. But the odds are that the mechanic who pulled the tranny to do the clutch would have seen the slave leaking. I would think the clutch master is the most likely culprit.

I checked out a lot of your site. Looks great! One thing, I would make the images into clickable links, as well as the text below it. Also on the AA Mayhem build, you have a typo: Options: Double Baffle, Flush Mount, Keft Port Other then that, it looks great! Oh, and do you guys own that CNC router, or is it someone you know? Those are sweet machines!

no problem. We're cool, man.

I have bought a bunch of stuff from them. Nothing but good experiences in dealing with them.

Describe "loose" for me. Is the pedal going to the floor, is the pedal soft, does it work at all, does it not begin to engage until it is low, or what? Without being able to drive the car it is hard to get an idea of what you are talking about. If it is a hydraulic clutch it uses brake fluid. Brake fluid is hygroscopic, which means it will absorb water. Water does boil and become a vapor, so it can create air pockets when hot. This is why we flush brake fluid. But TBH it is an extremely rare phenomenon in your average everyday car, and frankly one I have never seen it occur in a hydraulic clutch.

So, this stupid broad comes into the shop on Monday asking about brakes for her 2007 Sebring. She said they were grinding. So we gave her an estimate, and told her what it would cost extra should she need rotors. Well, she decided to drive away on her grinding brakes to get other estimates. This morning, the lovely, intelligent young lady brings her car back in. Today she decides she wants us to lift the car and tell her what is wrong. Apparently on Wednesday the car stopped grinding, but she suddenly had a really crappy pedal and her red brake light is on. So I knew right away i wasn't about to test drive this thing, as I knew what I would find. Sure enough I lift the car and see fluid all over the right fender apron. When I jerked the wheel I found exactly what I knew I would. She had driven the car so much that the rotor got so thin that the pad got thrown out of the mount. So she stopped hearing the grind when the piston became her brake pad. But she also lost pedal when the piston ejected itself from the bore and pissed all the brake fluid all over the place. So we give her an estimate to replace the rotors, calipers, and pads. She asked me to put it back together again, because she was going to try to ride around and find a better price. People are so fuckin ignorant. I really hope she runs into a damn tree or some such shit, as nobody else deserves to suffer for her ignorance, but her insurance company needs to be aware of the kind of fuckin moron they are insuring.

Being that a sub is non-directional it's placement doesn't really matter.

I refuse to live in an HOA environment.