onebadmonte

Wow, another trip around the sun. Congrats buddy, where ever you are.

Some light reading on the topic. Good luck http://www.avsforum.com/t/1274097/lets-talk-about-bracing http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/multi-way/172073-bracing-overkill-yay-nay.html

Well, where do I begin? I'll be up front. Things have not gone the way I imagined them to go. Here is how it all went down. A little filler to smooth things out. Filler for the filler? A little primer, inside and out. By this time I had had my fill of sanding. Little did I know this was just the beginning. I do not own any sort of painting gear besides a couple of chip brushes and some rollers. With that I mind I figured I'd use some high quality exterior paint from the big orange hardware store. The paint being acrylic, I figured I could wet sand it and bam be done. Well..... First thing first, the baffle goes on. After a couple of layers of paint this is what I'm starting with. A couple of passes with some sand paper and it'll be like if the can is on a mirror... Right.... It was a disaster. The fine grit sandpaper had such a grip on the paint I had to use a 3"x3" block to minimize the footprint. Then managing the water and keeping it from wicking into the exposed mdf edges was a nightmare. Then this happened. I said the, "The hell with this sh!t! I'm getting this bish together now!" Before that though, I embraced my flaws. The crossovers in place. Here is the modified brace for proper air flow in and out of the port, because I measured once and now I had to cut twice. :\ At this point I'd like to mention how awesome socket head sheet metal screws are. They made installing the crossover a dream come true after I totally frustrated myself with #10 pan head philips screws. The woofer The finished product. Thank you for your patients.

Where can I get pricing?

Good luck. Inductance is gonna be high on these woofers. No shortening rings used in either. SP4 will be your best bet for hometheater if your shooting for a large low tuned box. Too much motor force in the Team sub for anything other than a ported box. Why the low inductance requirement? You looking to play them high up in frequency?

You got yourself a good woman there.

Congrats. Will be interesting to hear the results.

So u go for it after all?

Fucking bad ass truck.

Happy B-Day.

Ha, so this is where I left this thread. Needless to say, time flies when you're not in jail. Back to the task at hand. So, I wanted to do something special with this build. I am going to wrap the baffle in black leather. I did something similar in my cars' I.B. build. Some might be familiar with the story but for those who aren't, here goes. The black leather is salvaged from the first sofas me and the Misses bought together 15 yrs ago. That's it. I did this, so that when ever the Misses looks at them she is reminded of our time together and not the amount of money I've spent on my shenanigans. Now the pics. The before: During: The after: While the glue dries on that I made some mounting pads for the crossover. Here I am milling out some clearance pockets to clear all the zip ties holding the crossover components. The scissor jack controls the Z depth, and my hands control and the X and Y moves. That just happened. As an added measure I lined the backside of the crossover with a piece of adhesive lined felt. Just because I can. The finished product. More on the way, stay tuned.

I call dibs when testing is over.

Cool beans bro, congrats on the new woofer. When do i get a demo.

Interesting. What's the mold made of? From this angle it looks like pancake batter. I'd like to see it done, my imagination is weak with this one, I have no idea where this build is going.

Not sure what alternator came in ur blazer, but I would upgrade to an AD244 alternator out of a late model suburban. Those put out 145amps. From there do the big 3 and follow up with a battery or two. Good luck.

Looks good, congrats to Mark for all his efforts and to Incriminator Audio, talk about stepping up. 0_o Awesome.

Enjoy the anniversary of your journey around the sun. May your next trip be just as memorable. Dude.

It would be cast and then polish cut. O_o DANG! Compromise nothing. Cant wait to see the results.

That heatsink looks complex. I'm curious to see how it gets made.

I must say, the wording seems off. "Tag a friend wants to see all the new ia subwoofers." I feel there should be a "that" after "friend" in there.

User error.

Ha, I doubt you'd wanna wait for me to build you some cabinets, I'm not even done with my own. No prob on the info. They are suppose to be some nice compression drivers. If that turns out to be the case I might replace my Dayton CDs in the suburban with a pair of these. :-O

The driver is from DIY Sound Group, its their Denovo Audio DNA-360 compression driver. Nearly identical to the B&C DE-250 compression driver, the only differance is that one is made by B&C and the other by DIY Sound Group. Oh, and the price is different. Only 2 verys? Pff.

I'm back with another update on my endless built. This time around I opted to add a little automotive style sound deadener to the back side of the waveguides for a little piece of mind. I started off by making a paper template of the area to be covered. With the template done I moved on to cutting the sound deadener. Guess what I did next. Yep, I puts the sound deadener on the waveguides. Here's a little before and after all in the same pic. With that out of the way I slapped the CD on the WG. Thanks for watching.