Hell-Razor

Sub being ordered sunday sometime. Ill be tossing up pictures of ALL my gear sometime tomorrow =)

I have changed my subs to: a single 15" level 5 DC. this thing should BAAANG when its on the 3500D

I can only imagine how much longer the 4500 is

Well after a lot of talking with Shizzz and screwing up not being able to fix the box in the trunk (and realizing I cant fit the box and the amp and the batts back there) I am thinking I am best to go to a single woofer. Now I was reading around and it looks like a single Fi BTL 15" can be used in a 3 cuft box. I am going to be throwing a SAX-3500D at a woofer by the way so I will be over-powering almost (I think) any woofer out there. But after talking to Shizzz some more he says that he recommends the level 5 12 at a minimal 2.5cuft box. I can do that seeing as the original box was about 5.5-6 cu ft. But wondering what would be best on the smaller box size -- either a BTL or a level 5(or another subwoofer). I am almost complete on receiving everything and would like to get this ordered in the morning (the most important part...hah). After I design some boxes and look around at some 15's and see if I can reduce the box size a lot I will see what I can do with you guys recommendations. As of right now I don't know what the single level 5 15" woofer requires for minimal space. I believe Shizzz told me 4 cuft but not sure. I was told by a few people (not sure if its the bad advice thing like ///M5 says) but the more power a sub has the smaller box is needed. Is this true? And I have been reading on the level 5 woofers and everybody says its mainly a spl not a "music" playing sub. I don't think this is true but I could be wrong. My main concern going with a btl (12 or 15) and a level 5 (12 or 15) is that i am throwing almost 75% more power at it than what its recommended for. I also know DC subs are nothing to joke around with either. So your guys .02 cents is well welcome here. just found this for specifications, that will help a lot. Im thinkin I am going to stick with DC unless someboy has a good reason to go to something else. This says they can peak 20k , daaaamn

Yeah I decided to listen to him and stick with the level 5...now I need to find a mod to delete this post cause I feel like even more of an idiot

++ for 1phatclipse

When the UPS guy walked up with it the first thing out of my mouth was "oh my god, I didn't know it was THAT big". I had to show the UPS guy after lol.

Yea, no amp to the box. Dont want to rattle it to death. Im thinkin to the back seats and push the box back a few inches.....

Thats actually a good idea and i will do that when i ship you the replacement so this doesnt happen again I have shipped out quite a few of these already and this was the first to get damaged I cant really say if the packing was sufficient on this one though because my brother packed it and he may have made a mistake although he has watched and helped me pack several of the others and none of those were damaged They must have dropped it pretty hard for it to do that much damage anyway I will have you another one out shortly and sorry man........UPS SUX lol Thanks man. I know we talked on the phone before, good response, ++

hahahaha

whats jacobs handle here?

you could use some sort of wooden board that's bigger than the terminal (terminal is shaped as an L. The bottom part of the L s attached to the battery itself) to help spread out the impact if it does get dropped like it did. But the wrapping was not sufficient by any means.

IM NOT SAYING its the sellers fault. IM NOT telling you who the seller is unless they dont take a reasonable approach to this.

Though so. GRRRR

I got it from a guy on here. Ill email excessive amperage though and see if they can fax / email / mail me something on it. The big battery for the trunk I was looking at is pretty screwed up (so I have more time now before I install stuff). But I want to talk to who I got it from first.

I have no idea lol. Ill talk to my mechanic tomorrow and see. I want to do all of this myself but may not have all the tools.

Engine compartment --- Battery close --

Ill post a picture of the battery...THATS in a very very very interesting location...brb

No idea lol... I know the ribbed tube thing that goes around some wires (two I think) goes to the screw / bolt.

Alright, you asked so you shall receive...Beefed up alt, TWO prong, not three (my mistake): Alt wiring inside car (Couldn't get block shot, too far away) and sorry for it being blurry but you can see the two wires connecting to the prong, the other one is connecting to the bolt: Back of beefed up alt (you can see prong and bolt): Now the alt inside of the car, you can see why I cant get a good shot of the wiring. But I should be able to take off the fan and have enough room once that's removed and the top hose is removed.

Just about ready to get everything setup here with building the box. But, where should I run the wires? Should I do it through the port or cut a little hole between the two subs at the bottom? Also, should I mount the amps behind where the subs are firing? I wont want to rattle them to death. (my subs will fire forward). There is nothign really stable though to mount them to when it comes to elsewhere in the trunk

Alright lets first start off with I have gone through about 20 different woofers (talked about) and still have not picked one to install yet. I went from 18's to a single 15 back to 18 then to 4 10"s now it seems I am stuck once again. I am putting all this inside of a 2002 VW Passat GL with a 120 amp alt. The trunk space is roughly 40w x 18h x 42d. Now I have enough room to fit a 18" in there but not enough room to allow adequate airflow. Well that's fine so lets downgrade to a 15" or 12" or 10". First I was talking with Shizzz and we decided on 4 10" sd2.5's. Would allow for more cone area than a single 18 and therefor move more air. But here is the problem, I would also like to try to compete in some events. I was also told by Shizzz to stay away from evens with 4 10's cause they wouldn't work. So here I am once again, back to the drawing boards. Before he left yesterday he said that he would think about 2 12's for me and I have not heard back form him. I know he is a busy guy and that's fine I just would like some other inputs here as well because maybe there's something him or I missed that may be brought up (others also liked the idea of re posting just on sub suggestions). Well here is my .02 on all of this. I don't think I should go over 3k watts because of my stock alt and budget. I can downgrade my deck unit to allow for maybe 200$ tops towards something else. The brand does not bother me. I have looked at several different brands and right now I don't know. All of the online dealers seem to know their stuff and seem to be the best at what they do. So down to the main question -- for daily driving / comps and running about 3k watts (I could also do 2500 to save money), what sub(s) would you pick and why?

Alright, I have been looking and looking for these but I cannot find (on DC's website) where to order them. I find the specs and everything but no "order now". I have no idea how much they cost either... Any "hey dumbass, go here" posts would be good =) Thanks in advanced.

hahah, thanks.

Where do I order the 3500D now? It seems so easy but I cant find the price or where I can snag one at