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I think you've got it figured out for certain.

Another item to keep in mind is the belt tension. Since the tensioner bracket is somewhat flimsier than the stock, the tighter you tighten the belt the more it will tend to pull on the bracket. A reworked case, gusset, whatever the steps taken to beef things up, the belt should still only be tight enough to prevent slippage.

Just wanted to share these with everyone. My little brother slid on the snow and ice Friday night and hit a curb. Instead of calling me he let the cops call a tow truck and tow it to their garage which wasn't open over the weekend and the car had to sit inside, so he was bummed. Now, for the good part. He has a 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix, a very nice car. He told me when I picked him up Friday that he was only going 5, maybe 10 MPH when he slid into the curb and damaged the car. I'd like your opinions on the speed he was likely going, lol. Sorry for the pic quality, phone camera FTL. Busted the steering knuckle in two, bent the control arm, ripped the CV joint apart, and the front wheel is bent and about 8" of bead was broken off as well (sorry, no pics of that). So, any opinions? LOL

Welcome to the forum!!

WOW, that would be wild, and not horribly difficult. The box for the extra 4 could be designed around being removable with the amp staying attached to it. You could use connectors like THESE to make/break the power and ground connections, though it would probably be best to use a whole set of connectors for each wire considering the 175A rating, that way you'd have 350A capacity through them, but it's DEFINITELY do-able!! :morepower1:

Since the v1 E8's are discontinued, you probably need the mounting depth for the v2's, which is available HERE and is, according to Jacob 4-9/16" and yes, should be from the bottom of the mounting ring/flange/area to the bottom of the motor/magnet assembly.

This is pretty much what was going on with him. Turning a corner after leaving his buddies house, and to my eyes the marks in the snow/ice show he hit the curb at a about a 45 degree angle. When the front hit it swung the rear into the curb as well, but didn't cause any damage to it at all, luckily. He's been havin' woman troubles (3 of them) so I know for a fact he was driving pissed off, which is why I highly doubt the 5-10 estimate he gives. When he drives pissed off he could give any given nascar driver a run for their money, LOL. He's no mechanic, so I'll be the one having to do all the work to put the damn thing back together. He's going to owe me a VERY nice steak for workin' on the car and what I went through last night to load it onto a trailer, haul it home, then turn around and go pull his ~girlfriend's car out of the ditch she slid into on her way out to the house to see him. Last night was so much fun.

LOL.... yeah... it's more fun to give him a hard time though.... He's only 18, so he can handle it.....

Just hard to imagine, no more than that car weighs that it could do that damage at <10mph which he claims. 10-15 maybe, 20-25 certainly, but <10 just too hard to imagine...

Welcome to the forum!! Lots of good, knowledgeable people here to help with questions and problems.

I have Goodyear Assurance Tripletread's on the van and LOVE them. They offer fantastic traction no matter the road conditions, are 80,000 mile rated tires, not too bad on price and have so far outlasted any tire I've had on the van yet. They've got a little over 50,000 on them now and still have ~half tread, so they're keeping up with their rating so far too.

That's too cool dude, lucky shot there. Something that nice could never happen around here, as a matter of fact the way the judges/cops are around here on the last day like that they'd probably double the fines, the bastards. On another note, these Venture vans are pretty good platforms for systems aren't they? LOL Though it might be more fun just to see the looks on peoples faces when they notice all that is coming from a mini-van.

Well, the cable would do that for you. One end has a 3.5mm (headphone plug) end on it, that would plug into the headphone jack on an MP3 player, Ipod, portable CD player, alarm clock radio, basically anything that is a source other than your HU. The other end of the cable has RCA's on it, that would simply plug into the inputs on the amp.

I would imagine if anything was really really wrong with it would have a protection light lit. It keeps trying to work, almost has to be something wrong with the incoming signal, would you happen to have a 3.5mm to RCA cable that you can plug into an MP3, Ipod, or some other portable device to verify the integrity of the amp?

I have a KDC-X492 in my Jimmy running the PG RSD's in it. I run that thing right up the first hint of distortion and back down a notch on a regular basis and that level is often 28,29,30 or higher depending on the recording level of the material I'm listening to. Not only has it always sounded pretty damn amazing for HU power, it's never done anything like that. I have a KDC-X991 in the van, but everything is externally amplified so comparing to it is no help. I can't imagine any reason why it would do this, except maybe it's driving through a factory amp, damaged that amp and is now causing some sort of short issue. Other than something like that, I dunno without it being the HU itself. Wait for the replacement and see what happens I guess.

They're also built a little differently. *EDIT* I read Maxxsonics went with a semi redesign on the boards and whatnot, along with the cosmetics changes.(easy to read misinformation on forums though) I had a BXi2006D that was a plenty strong amp, a little current hungry, but plenty strong. I'd say just get whichever one fits your budget the best, the 200 watt difference between the two will never be audible.

Thanks man, I've already done the checking up on the time frame for Slamology and not only am I not on call that week or weekend, I have taken Friday and Monday off on vacation in an attempt to make absolutely sure the planning is less likely to fall through. Hopefully, not only will I make Slamology, but some of the other shows planned up there and around as well.

Alas, I was planning on attending.... Until work got in the way. I'm on call that week and weekend and the last I checked Louisville is more than 45 minutes away (which is max response time for callouts) so I'm afraid I'll have to respectfully bow out on it this time. There's always Slamology and plenty of other shows going on I plan on attending, so I'll see you all at another one.

I'm ready NOW.... Let me know when/where to send the monies.....

Here's one pretty decent place to get it, fairly inexpensive as well. All kinds of colors, including pink. Here the same place has braided sleeving.... Better way to go IMHO!!

WHEW!!! Thats good to hear.... tho I have seen this kind of stuff as permanent many times.....

You may need to clean your computers cache or cookies, my shipping price per woofer is $17.49. Something is wrong on your end. No idea what is going on, Jay-cee your amount sound much more accurate. I believe he means that it's $49 total..... $29 for the sub and $20 shipping.....

Thanks!! Afraid not, the sound deadening, component installation, etc. was all done before I was ever worried about posting pics of the builds online. I'm going to have to go in and redo some things when I change out the front components since they're starting to get old, very used and showing it, and I'll definitely have pictures and a build log of that when it's being done.

What you have to understand, is that the design I posted is not going to function as a true horn, period. The waves are so long in the REAL sub bass frequencies as Impious and M5 has stated a couple of times now, that the horn has to be so large in size that it will never fit in a vehicle. As for the guy who's getting ~180db, it takes up pretty much the entire vehicle and is still probably posting those numbers at higher frequencies (~70-80hz). You will go through a LOT of trouble trying to build a "folded" horn design and see no real benefit at all. Sure, you have room for the design I found and posted, but that's money and trouble that you could get more out of spending on a perfectly built and designed ported enclosure and probably get better performance from it.

Thank you! I love the Neutrik's as well, ideal for keeping an enclosure removable in the car environment. Thanks man!!