onebadmonte

Ha, IB3 backplate looks silly. Reminds me of a bowling ball.

Yay! How much $$$? Where's the 18"?

That second video kicked a$$.

Looking good. I'd like to hear how those BG neo-3s and Sundown neo 8s sound when you have some time. Text me, I'll take the suburban so you can take a listen to it.

Here is one that I've always wanted to see in person. Maybe you've already had the pleasure Stefanhinote? Horseshoe Bend

Another moving photo. Enjoy.

Ay, ya, ya, ay!!!... Hey what's with the modified caulking gun on the steering wheel? Is that to keep the engine revving, or is that the just in case brake? Pretty hard core.

Yep, I'm a fan of his work. I especially liked his documentary "Exit through the Gift Shop". Good viewing.

One more, one more, just for laughs. This was my desktop background at work till they gave some local officers a tour of our facilities.

Well said. Only other area I'd look is the RCAs. Bad RCAs tend to make funny noises. Good luck, let us know what turns out to be the culprit.

I have no idea what's going on so I'll just sit here and

The PPI comps I have are pretty good. When I picked these up they were all the rage because supposedly they were a re-badged high end A/D/S set or something like that. As for the ones linked I have no experience with those. My guess is they'll play pretty good, but it you want them loud you'll have to up your crossover point to them. No it's a manufacturing facility I work at. The parts were actually cut on a CNC Plasma cutter. I've got a vid of some of the parts I cut a few pages back in case you want to watch. Thanks. I'm guessing output should be pretty flat since it's for music. I'll find out for sure when I get it on the RTA. It is pretty loud. I just eye balled the gain and set the power output to 50%, just to play it safe. I'd like to know what the limits are with an o-scope for comp purposes, but for music I'll just wing it by ear. Thanks. That will work. Drop me a PM a few days ahead. No Troopers this time.

Could use it for battery banks Haha. Exactly what I thought when I saw the design. Looks cool.

These are my thoughts on my trials and tribulations installing the tejcurrent quad alt bracket. My ride, a 2004 Chevy Suburban 1500 4x4 with a 5.3l V8 This is what comes in the box. The hardware is good quality stuff. The bracket is nicely finished. The instructions are of the standard issue variety with some nice color pics. Lets get to the installation. I read over the instructions a couple of times just to get familiar with the installation process. At the same time I checked the hardware against the instructions to make sure I got everything needed. A packing list would have been nice. There were a couple of typos. This one was a little concerning. The instructions call out for 100mm bolts to mount the alternators, but 90mm bolts were included. The 90mm bolts work, so no biggie, but still should be addressed by the manufacturer. Right off the bat the bracket didn't fit. I removed only what the instructions indicated to remove, and pre-assembled the bracket/alternator assembly as required. When it came to placing the assembly in the vehicle, disaster. The vehicle ECU interfered with the lower alternator. From here on out I was on my own. o_o Here's what I did, hope this helps you. First I removed the fan shroud and the cooling fan. I took out the battery and battery tray. From there I unmounted the vehicle ECU and temporarily located it to where the battery mounts. With the wiring pushed back towards the firewall I tried once again to get the assembly in place. No dice, something wasn't lining up. I removed the power steering pulley. I unbolted the power steering pump from the factory alternator/power steering bracket. Not to worry, the power steering pump is still held in place by a steel bracket on the backside attaching it to the engine block. I proceeded to remove the factory alternator/power steering pump bracket from the engine. With the factory bracket out of the vehicle I'm able to take some measurements and see what the deal is with this mofo not fitting. :\ Here is the bracket I removed. Giving the bracket the evil eye I could not tell if the bosses that the quad alt bracket mounts on are of equal height. I ran the mounting bolts the quad alt bracket came with through the backside of the factory alternator/power steering bracket. With the bolts protruding through, I am now able to measure how much of the bolt extends beyond the boss. If they all measure the same, the bosses are of equal height. Here is how I measured. If you're like WTF, a wooden school ruler? Let me explain. I am going to get this bracket going with the bare minimum. No fancy depth gages, digital micrometers, or CNC mills. Just real simple, real basic tools, and tons of manual labor. See what I do, learn from what I do. If you got fancy tools, have at it your way. If you don't have any tools, and have no clue, here is one way to skin this cat. Back to the measurement. I got 3.5cm for all three mounting bosses. Cool, they're all the same height. Now to get a quick measurement from the boss to the face of the factory alternator/power steering bracket. Here I get about 1.5cm. If your wondering about that little bit I missing since zero on the ruler isn't on the edge. I consider that bit a constant. Since I will be taking all my measurements with this ruler it's not going to throw anything off. Obviously the numbers I am using are not absolute, but they are consistent. That's all I really need, consistent numbers. Now onto the quad alt bracket. Since the bosses on the factory bracket are recessed from the face, the quad alt bracket has three spacers welded on to the back side. In theory, these spacers put the backside of the quad alt bracket in-front of the face of the factory alternator/power steering bracket. Let's see what my little ruler says. 1.4cm is what I got for all three spacers. That's a difference of 1cm, about a washers thickness. Therefore I'm going to have to put a washer at each mounting location. No fun, I can hear the washer falling off the bolt as I try to line everything up. Now that we have that out of the way let's see how everything lines up, or doesn't. With the bolts still in through the backside of the factory bracket I added the necessary washers, and then installed the quad alt bracket. This is what I got. Two thing here are wrong. First, the hole in the quad alt bracket inside the yellow circle is noted in the instructions as being 1" in diameter. It measures 5/8". Secondly, that same hole should be lined up with the hole behind it on the factory bracket, not overlapping it. There is a steel bushing in the factory bracket that interferes with quad alt bracket because of this hole being undersized and in the wrong location. The simple fix would be to remove the steel bushing, but there is more to it than just that. Take a look at this. The steel bushing in the factory bracket is in a raised boss. This raised boss and the ridge next to it are keeping the quad alt bracket from properly seating on it's mounting bosses. Here is a better look at the offending boss on the factory bracket. First things first, out with the steel bushing. Here's what I used. Now to remove the offending boss and the little ridge next to it. Check this out. I basically took a knee, putting all my weight on the foot over the bracket. Then I took a file and with both hands, filed away till the bish was flat. Let's take a look at how everything lines up now. Looking good now. Now just to get the setup to fit in the vehicle. Here is a shot of the vehicle ECU and it's mounting location. For reference the top of the pic is the front of the vehicle. Rivenuts to the rescue. I moved the vehicle ECU about three inches forward in vehicle. Here is the vehicle ECU in it's new location with the battery tray in place The next area of concern is the factory power distribution box. It is mounted onto the factory alternator/power steering bracket, in the exact location that the quad alt bracket mounts the lower alternator. Here is the little booger in it's original location. The instructions mention nothing about relocating this little booger, but obviously something has to be done. I took a closer look at the pics in the instructions and noticed that it is still used, just in a modified position. With nothing else to go by but just a pic and my ingenuity, this is what I came up with. I added a new pair of mounting holes and gave it a slight bend to keep it from hitting the valve cover. Another shot with the alternator in place. Alright, now we're in business. Time to test fit the assembly in the vehicle. The bracket went on, getting the washers in place over the bosses were a pain. A quick visual inspection revealed this. The return line from the hydro-boost braking system to the power steering pump reservoir was being pinched by the lower alternator bracket. Fhawk! This is going to be a real bish to fix. First off I removed the drivers side inner fender, just to get a better view of the area in question. Here is a close-up of the main offender. This is a very delicate fix. I am going to bend the fitting straight. o_o True to my word, only simple tools. My main concern is cracking the fitting where it meets the reservoir. I did my best to support the fitting where it meets the reservoir. I used the biggest hex key I could fit in the fitting and slowly bent the fitting straight a little bend at a time. I re-installed everything back in for the umpth-teen time. This is what I ended up with regarding the hydro-boost braking system return line. Finally, the bish is on. That belt didn't go on without a fight. Now that's it on, concerns still linger. Here is a pic of the belt tensioner with the factory accessory driver system. The marks are there for reference. Here is the tensioner with the new setup. The belt is tremendously long, so I'm not sure how much if any this belt will stretch. All I can say is that the tensioner is fully compressed. Unfortunately, the instructions do not mention what the alternator pulley diameters were used when this bracket was developed. My alternators have undersized pulleys, as my high output alternators do. :\ The bish is on. Final thoughts: The bracket kind of works, the instruction manual sux. Good luck, I'm out.

Lol, that sum funny sh!t, that pic and all. The jokesterr that designed the box scoffed at me for asking the same question. Here is the designers reply. "The enclosure isn’t “tuned.” You may be confusing this for a bass-reflex (ported) enclosure; this is a rear-loading horn with an effective response bandwidth starting in the upper 20Hz. For the woofers’ protection, set your subsonic filter between 25Hz and 30Hz." Wonk, wonk wonk. Thanks. I figure I post every detail for legitimacy. I don't know about in good time, but I did have a good time through out.

Thanks fellas. I've got a busy weekend with the little ones. Next week is looking good. o_o Oh my, thanks. Plexi? I phucking love plexi! Sounds like someone's puttin' the pressure on to go for broke. More peer pressure! Stay tuned fellas. I'll get this bish tuned right then I tidy things up a bit.

Thanks. Thanks. Prior to the battery rack lift I was considering lifting each rack individually with a single transmission jack and making all the connections in vehicle. Can you say "short" city. I did try making a similar lift board for a 3 ton jack using a pipe welded to a small steel plate then bolting the board to the plate. Lack of balance scrapped that plan. I;m glad I took my time, last thing I wanted was for the battery rack to take a swan dive. Lol. I wish someone would have posted some sort of warning to watch out when hooking up the batteries. That sh!t was scary.

Thanks. For now I'm leaving the cover off so I can get to the gain and power output knobs. The cover over hangs the area where the knobs are making it a pain to get to. There was no smoke once everything was connected. A hellashious spark was let out when I made the final connection completing the circuit. Not a short, but the kind you get when your hooking up a car battery, only this time it was multiplied by 9 car batteries. Needless to say it caught me off guard and left me speaking spanish slurrs as I did an inventory check of all my digits. As for how it sounds, effing loud. This is my first go at something this extravagant. Last time I thought I was loud was in my 86 Mustang GT with a single Mach5Audio SPL12 off a DD M1 and a stock electrical. Needless to say this setup puts that one to shame. No metering just yet. The gains have been precisely set a quarter turn up from minimum and the amp power output knob is set to 50% output in hopes of me not burning something up. With a quick calibration of the MS8 I did a test run. For me it's loud enough to make me want to gag, I can feel it in my throat. There are rattles in and around the rear barn doors that will need to be addressed. There is also a hint of alternator whine coming in through the front speakers. A quick re-route of the RCAs feeding the Crescendo amp should fix that. Then I'll go through the paces of tuning everything.

The last of the major components is finally going in, the battery rack. I've been kind of nervous about this one. Eight batteries at 60lbs a pop are going up all at once. This is how I pulled it off in my driveway. A big thanks to my buddy Rick, who gave up quality family time, to give me his opinion on how it all should have been done and reminded me how my dad could have done this whole install with a crescent wrench and a rubber hose. Thanks. To get the battery rack up in place I came up with this contraption. It's a pair of scissor style transmission jacks from harbor freight with a board bolted a top of them. The board came from an old entertainment center I trashed. Recycling FTW! Here is the fully assembled battery rack on my custom one-off lift. I lucked out that the Suburban was tall enough to allow me to roll the rack in place. Against all odds and reason the lift worked. I used some extra scissor jacks to level out the rack as I got it closer in place since the driveway slanted down at a funny angle. A couple of shots of the final connections. Here are some shots of the rack in place. I took these the following morning since my camera batteries decided to take the night off the previous evening. That's it. It's all wired up and ready for the smoke test. Stay tuned for the follow up.

Thanks. Keeping all the seats was one of my goals. Applying for a bus permit in the state of Maryland was just spur of the moment. :OP Bwahahahah! Funny guy right here ^^^^ He'll be performing through out this thread. :OP Thanks bro. I appreciate you hanging in here till the end. I can't believe I'm almost done. With the install portion that is. I've still got to test, tune and fix anything that got effed up during installation.

Moar progress! I got some coil spacers to level the Suburban out with the added weight in the rear. Big thanks to Sir Lancelot for turning me on the these. Now if only he was around to help me put these in. Boy, were these a bish to get in. Made me feel like an amateur installing these spacers. I lifted one side of the axle and used a coil compressor to get the coil out. I wasn't able to compress the coil enough to get the spacer in. I guess I should have eaten my Wheaties before tackling this job. I resorted to using my uber cheesy orange HF press to compress the coil just enough to the coil and the spacer in place. Here is a shot of the spacers in place. Before getting the spacers in place the rear of the Suburban measured 37" to the top center of the rear wheel opening. The front measured 36" With the spacers in place and the Suburban weighted down the rear now measures 38" and the front measured 37". Weird, but it is what it is I guess. Any ways, check these next pics. Yep, that's three rows of seats. With the front bench, this bad boy seats 9. In Maryland this could be considered a bus. Still need to make all the connections to the amp. Last step get the battery rack in place and fire it all up. Cant wait.

Thanks, finally getting there. Thanks. I took a little bit of searching to find the connectors at a price I felt comfortable paying. Lots of places were willing to sell them to me but at a price that I thought was ridiculous. I'm happy with the way it turned out. Bwahaha! I know. I've been eyeing some wheels in the 4wheel parts catalog, just don't tell momma I'm looking. :|

No, you said pics at the end of the week or ban. Congrats on the new forgings and for forging through in this new direction. I can imagine is been a tough journey. Pun intended.

Meh. :\ Just kidding. Impressive score. A force to be reckoned with.