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Have seen brand new TH's at $20k off MSRP. Ought to make a lease payment super affordable.

Me neither, but the other options in the category are worse. The Cayenne Turbo even is underwhelming. Thought I wanted one of those until I drove my bosses for a few days. The BMW X5M is a turd, the X6M somehow is made of unobtanium and I am sure is a mechanical nightmare. Leaves the Trackhawk as the only non-Escalade option. I am at a segue where I either need to drop $10k on my truck or get something new....and I've never been one to part ways with my money so easily.

Just pretty sure I don't want to spend 80k on a jeep

That or selling my truck

Just a bit bitter

Contemplating spending another $3k to replace them with z06 brakes

The order is strange. Tried that, conventional and confirmed with wilwood direct. Brakes are fine for track but it was a waste of $4k on my truck.

Nah. Wilwoods suck.

No floats. Super simple systems. Started doing this on mountain bikes and relayed it to snowmobiles when I tried to do it the conventional way and it wouldn't bleed. The MC is so small it doesn't pump enough fluid to move the air. Not really possible to bleed them the normal way. Realize it may never be super clean, but am not concerned. Most people never flush theirs ever. Mine get completely flushed (I extend the lines so I drain them completely to deal with my higher bars) and then from that point on out I just pump a little fresh fluid in to make sure that the fluid is in good condition. When it is darker than new I pump it up until I only see new and call it a day. Is it a perfect method? Nope...but for what I am working on it works. New cars are a bitch. My Wilwoods bleed like shit. I blame the anti-lock nonsense. You will get a firm pedal and then bleed another and it all goes to hell. Never gets how you want it. I used the stupid Snapon tool to do it as well which fundamentally just dumped 4 qts of brake fluid into the receptacle and didn't get it all bled right.

I bleed my sleds/bikes/wheeler differently. Pump the fluid up from the caliper to the master cylinder. Find it easiest to flush that way. Push up and suck out until clean. Amusingly I get to tomorrow perhaps as my brake lines aren't even on the Honda right now and I have some new stainless ones sitting on the work bench. Neighbor brought me a rum at the beach....shut my night off.

Except no tours in nashville anymore though, no?

Staying in downtown Fargo tonight. Feels weird to be "home"

HBD Indeed!

RTA and cheap mic is complete meh

Memphis doesn't make LP, just 535 and other plectrum guitars.

Then I'd pick drivers that are ideal in the tonality ranges and go from there. Screams sealed or ported 3" to me although if you really spend time you could tuck in a 4. I can't imagine the sails will do what you want except widen the width.

Even with crazy venting 5's are HUGE on that dash. My original plan with my Escalade was a pair of 3's up high with 8's in the doors and no tweeter. Do realize, I set my car up solely for me and could care less about competition. I also listen nearly exclusively to live recordings and/or musicians that fundamentally play live even when they record. Being a guitarist and bass player accurate reproduction is paramount to me and I will forego coloration even if it would be judged higher. That all being said, the dash on my truck and aiming made me feel like it wasn't worth the battle. Have to say I spent a lot more time with my Silverado experimenting and it naturally soured my expectations here so diligence wasn't as good. I also had children by this point while when I had my other cars that was not the case...outside of the ML63 which I left stock as it was leased and warrantied...so I could drive it like I stole it everyday. I draw no conclusions for you. My problem with your truck (or mine) though is that I don't think a dash install is ideal, personally I am also not a fan of kicks (realize I am 6'7" if I were 5'8" then space considerations would be way easier), which doesn't leave many options in the truck. Not trying to be discouraging, but hey it's car audio everything is a compromise. That being said, if I were in your shoes and really felt like getting the mid up is ideal I would a single driver that can play as much of the audio spectrum as possible. Most likely that would be a 3 or 4 sealed on axis, but chosen specifically for it's FR. The challenge there is the dash hump and keeping the driver low. Based on the space in mine I am not sure I can even see a 4 fitting. I expect you will stretch that the other way though and deal with less of a direct response and compensate with other drivers for not being able to get the mid positioned right. Personally I wouldn't. Of course that means you won't be running a Blues mid if you choose my route as it would be self defeating. Either way. Throw out all bias's, competition desires, and instead truly focus on what is important to you. What do you need your stereo to do for you. Then build it to do that. Just don't cheat yourself into compromising because you have something. That to me is the biggest mistake I have made over and over and over in my life. Of course to compensate a while back I just bought one of everything which I realize everyone doesn't have the budget to do. For me, I didn't have the time not to. Once you truly nail that desire down things will be easier to decide.

I don't like the 5's up high. Can't imagine you can get enough volume enclosure wise to make the extra cone area a benefit.

:welcome: I am a big full range fan. Can't wait to see/hear more.

Awesome!

Sweet. Android Auto/Car Play? Which unit

A Gibson factory tour is a must. My kids went ape shit

Я не понимаю

What sort of HU are you looking for?

While I appreciate that, I think you all know me well enough that isn't exactly the problem. Needing to apply consequences, doing so and having permission all don't line up.