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You know, the metion of the Blues 6.5s made me think of the HAT Legatias, another small company started by SQ competitors. http://www.hybrid-audio.com/products.htm The Legatias have a really solid and somewhat aggressive midbass. I have never heard the Clarus series, but I understand they are solid as well. I do have to forewarn you though, their off axis extension is greatly exaggerated. I have read people boasting favorable dispersion up to 4K... just not so. You just can't defy the laws of physics, and while they do very well with their phase plug, don't expect true off axis response much above 2.5KHz where beaming begins to occur.

YES! Any subwoofer that gets abused is easy to blow. It isn't an Fi issue, it is a user issue.

I think some people forget it's a business and it's beneficial for a business to sell their products and generate an income... Yep. I think a lot of the time people forget that people don't go into business to stay a boutique company, you want to grow and become successful. I think this is a great thing for Sundown. I remember Jacob before he was running Sundown, with his big ass collection of amp guts pics. The guy has always had a passion for amplifiers, and it shows. I don't think this is a bad thing. I think this will generate more cash for Jacob, and allow him to get better pricing on parts as demand climbs and his order sizes increase (yes, I believe Sundown will benefit from this, there is no doubt in my mind). That could mean better pricing to those of us buying his gear. I see him staying true to his business model, and making Woofers a dealer is sticking to his guns, so you guys should be happy for him. We should all only hope that we should be successful enough to have Woofers carry our gear as an authorized dealer. Again, congrats to Jacob and Sundown.

Yes, low impedance units too. I run an older Motec engine controller. I am not sure if you caught it, but my runs are on 24 pounds of boost and I am running 8.5:1 not 8:1 compression ratio. I need fuel . No, I don't do the Buick forums. I used to work at Lou's Auto (if you go to those forums you know the place), so I worked on the nasty GNs for a living for about 2.5 years. I don't really get much out of those type forums. Besides, I work on cars at least 5 days a week for 9 hours a day... when I get home, the last thing I want to do is argue with a shadetree about how to properly fix or tune his car. Are you going back to stock on your car, or doing performance mods? Yes, it did have the stereo in it, but at the time it just had the Brahma in about .8 sealed, so the box weighed less then 1/2 what it does now. With all that said, a Brahma MKI and MKII weighed in at about 45 pounds all by itself.

Maybe for my next time around I will use dual Anarchys, I hope to buy them soon. Should I be looking more at a mid range driver and just let the sub do the bottom? TBH I think tht you are suffering using the extended range driver and a 10 inch midbass. I feel a 3 way set is definitely best, given a proper install, but expecting that little driver to fill the void above the 10 inch midbass is asking a little too much. If I were dead set on a 10 inch midbass, I might look into either a dedicated 6.5 or 5.25 midrange and a tweeter. But with this type of install you have to have a more on axis install because the midrange can start beaming being so large. Granted you can find certain drivers with phase plugs or odd shaped cones to aid in off axis dispersion, but still, there are limits. You could skinny down to a 4 inch midrange and a tweet to take away some of the beaming that may occur with a 6.5 or 5.25 midrange as well. Just a couple thoughts for you to ponder. I know that leg space is limited though, so you really need to figure out what will work best based around the space you have.

Too bad you have a 10 inch hole. I might suggest the Anarchys. They are a steal right now.

Did I miss something? Is something amiss at the Clinton household? http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/national/earthquake-dc-maryland-virginia-0716101279280754559 I am sure they are fine, just want to make sure. Oh I see! 3.6 is something you can barely feel. I lived in Southern California, so trust me I know what I am talking about. I am sure they are just fine.

Did I miss something? Is something amiss at the Clinton household?

I agree. Selling out is making trash gear. The gear is still high quality, but suddenly it is gaining exposure. I say props to Jacob for making a big move. This will make his product much move visible and accessible. It is simply good business. Congrats Jacob! Nice to see a good dude with good products making it. I hope that good things come from this for you.

I love me some big blocks. My favorite car I ever had was a 1970 Olds 442 W-30 ragtop. It had that nasty 455 olds motor in it. It had like 325HP but almost 600LbFt of torque from the factory. When I got done with that car I could only run it on race fuel. I had 12.5:1 compression, a stump puller of a cam, an 1150CFM Holley Dominator on it, and glass packs about 2 feet past the headers which is where the exhaust ended, and 4.11 gears with a 3 speed transmission. I put suicide swivel bucket seats in it. I could pull the front wheels off the ground at 1/2 throttle. Great 1/8 mile car but the thing ran out of gear at about 85MPH. You would ride down the highway doing 65MPH turning 4000RPM. It was so frikken beastly there just aren't words. It was just nasty, nasty loud. You couldn't get a system in that thing and hear it no matter what you did. Sadly I got drunk and wrapped it around a tree.

Not a GNX, but still sick. Close enough for me What are the differences? Guess I need a refresher. 1 second in a quarter mile... The GNX can be identified by the black 16 inch aluminum wheels where the GN had stamped 15 inch chromed wheels. Mine has the TType wheels on it, as the GN wheels were very heavy and very ugly. I have a shot of the car when i first got it on the road with those GN wheels, I'll pull it up and post it. They also had the Buick 3 port holes in the front fender. There were only 547 GNXs made in 1987. The cars gained speed with a special chip, a ceramic impeller turbocharger, a larger intercooler, and a longitudinal torque bar (a support which attaches the transmission directly to the rear end), and a panhard rod. The suspension is markedly better. I would love to own one. The cheapest I found one that was unmolested was a car with about 90,000 miles on it, and the guy was asking $45,000. I am just too damn cheap to spend that on a car that retailed for under $35,000

While this is true, it also allows for EMI/RFI introduction. Such noise can sound like shit. That is why you see such high pre-out voltages, they actually lower the noise floor. Back in the day with 1/2 volt preouts we had tons of noise issues. That is why old timers swear you have to run the RCAs up the opposite side of the car as your power and remotes. I still cringe when I bundle my RCAs and power wires nowadays... but I know if I do that and have noise introduction I need to fix my ground... Prevents you from melting your terminals

Footing it. I know people would disagree but I just don't think a brake belongs on a street car. I can build 7 pounds at the line and just start to blow the tires away. A break seems counterproductive. If I ran with slicks all the time, I could justify it. But i haven't even been to the track in 7 years You'll have to get me on the same page... a 3.90 is a lower gear then a 3.73. My car is an auto, as all GNs and TTypes were. With an auto we don't need to spool the turbo while moving, we can build boost on the line. When I put the 3.90s in it my acceleration was significantly harder, and I had better 60 ft times by a good margin. But by the time I got 7/8s of the way down the track I was running out of motor. My times actually dropped almost 3/8 second. With the 3.73s I was able to stay in my powerband to the end of the track. If I were to run 1/8 miles I would have likely gone to 4.10s, but I ran 1/4s. Also, as far as streetability, the 3.73s are much more gentlemanly gears on the road... and this car gets driven. It has ~240,000 on it now.

Looks like the amp is fooked! Looks like a short on the output circuit.

I get that all the time. My car is memorable... but alas, I am not

I am a huge fan of sealed, myself, but the DCon wants to be ported in every way. The high BL and very low Qts scream for ported. While i haven't computed the EBP I am positive even if you use the classic formula for selecting the alignment for the driver, it will beg for ported

A few years ago we had just a ton of beautiful sunrises. I was blown away, so I started bringing my camera and taking pictures. These are overlooking one of my ponds. The first one is the pone in the daylight, so you have a reference:

Thanks guys, I forgot to put the info about the rear end in there and just added it. Also, I forgot to mention, I did everything myself. I worked for a shop where we specialized in GNs, and I bought this for a song. I paid $1500 for it, but it was trashed. My wife shit when she first saw the car. It had gold spoked Daytons on it, it was all oxidized, the motor was gone (I mean absolutely thrashed) and the transmission case was broken.

1 guy, and 5 hot chicks. About the only way I can see 6 people getting into one Frankly if it isn't 5 hot chicks, i don't want 6 in my car... Well, OK I can fit 5 very comfortably.

Will do. I was going to join several years back but the majority of those guys were fuckin douchebags. I don't need to sit around and read a bunch of horseshit by a bunch of shadetree mechanics. I read one thread about some dude who popped his headgasket and changed it out in a parkinglot at the hotel he was staying at. He thought it was funny that he had popped his HG several times and was talkin crap about Fel-Pro gaskets. The whole lot of them started in on Fel-Pro... I'm thinking, geez, maybe it is more an issue with you suck at setting up your car and that is why it keeps blowing. I worked for one of the premier GN builders in the US, and built 9 and 10 second V6 door slammers. Lou Czarnota at Lou's Auto. He was an NHRA SS/DX world record holder, and I got to work on and drive that nasty bitch... Anyways, I was around enough people with attitudes like that when I worked for him (I used to work on Art Carr's personal TType, and I got to meet guys like Kenny Duttwieler), I just don't need that in my personal life too. Lou was the worlds worst human being and an awful mechanic. Art was so high on himself you wanted to slap him. Kenny Duttwieler was actually a cool dude, and all those assholes in the GN crowd bagged on him. It kinda pissed me off. He knew i worked for Lou, but he took me around his shop, showed me his gear and some projects he was workin on... Just a really cool dude. Those guys were just envious of what he had and what he had accomplished. I have been around a lot of performance "gurus" and every one of them outside of Duttwieler was a damn pole smoker. Besides, I work on cars for a living. Playing with them at home just isn't that much fun anymore.

GN BABY!!!

I just don't like the ride of a European car. They are so stiff and uncomfortable. Their seats are hard as a rock too. I know a lot of people love them, but I prefer the smooth ride of an American Sedan... or even an Asian. Plus, the money it costs to fix those things... good God. I am a mechanic, and even getting the parts at cost is high as hell, not to mention they are awful to work on and their wiring diagrams are indecipherable. I got all that in my little V6... along with 30MPG on the road.

I took this at the Ripley's Aquarium in Myrtle Beach. The Jellyfish were awesome:

Cosumel Mexico... This was our Catamaran trip. The water is the most amazing blue you have ever seen in your life: Holy shit! Is that my wife with Johnny Depp?!?!?!

Key West... I was more then just a tad fucked up from visiting Jimmy Buffet's joint. Our Margarita bill came to just over $300