Ranger Front Stage (pic heavy)

[Duran 387]

*gasp*

Hiding the SLS?! No problem there

I'm now tuned in for more pictures

[cobra93 47]

*gasp*

Hiding the SLS?! No problem there

I'm now tuned in for more pictures

I'll have more tomorrow.

[edouble101 314]

I love all of the DIY custom work. Is that a 110v welded? I want to get welder, lathe and mill...someday. I was a fabricator years ago. I love that type of job shop work. Being a machinist pays the bills but gets boring fast.

I have to chck out your mid bass thread.......

[cobra93 47]

I love all of the DIY custom work. Is that a 110v welded? I want to get welder, lathe and mill...someday. I was a fabricator years ago. I love that type of job shop work. Being a machinist pays the bills but gets boring fast.

I have to chck out your mid bass thread.......

Thanks edouble!

Yes that's a lincoln weld-pak 100, innershield wire, it really does a great job.

I've had it for more years than I can remember.

[Mark LaFountain 1,054]

haha, sweet man, love the metal work.

[cobra93 47]

haha, sweet man, love the metal work.

Thank you Sir!

[Jay-C76 333]

Nice work so far.

Ohio huh.......

Where about are you located?

I'm 15-20 minutes from Cincy.

[cobra93 47]

Here we go again, day....whatever.

I played pierce lake golf course around Ann Arbor, yesterday with my buddy.

It was so windy I was loosing 40+ yards into the wind and gaining about the same with it.

I've never played in hurricane "like" conditions before, the pro's at St. Andrews can have it.

My ball was getting blown away before on the green before I could put it.

Have you ever had to adjust for the wind when putting?

Sorry, you aren't reading this for golf stories. On to today's progress.

It's getting cold, I don't think it got above the low 40's today windy as hell and drizzling on and off all day.

I had the 88's pods with one coat of resin over polishing cloth ready for me to start on this morning.

I cut the cloth off the openings.

I removed the temporary wood from both before glassing the inside with mat.

I have ~4 layers all around the inside, should be plenty for the FR88's.

I kept rolling them to keep the excess resin even as I could, but I got busy on the doors and well.......

This is the pass. door, with a big friggin hole in it.

That's a 6-1/2" sds for reference.

How do you think this will sound?

I had to cut and flip the window track mount to make clearance for the enclosure.

I grabbed the pass. enclosure and started to deaden it.

I had to get the heat gun out to warm it up so the P-n-S would stick to it, this took a while.

I ran some wire for the sls's and the 88's while I still could and installed the enclosure.

I placed some sound barrier over the holes and the rest of the inner door panel.

Test fitting the door panel and marking it so I can trim the pocket around the speaker.

A view down into the pocket.

View into the stock speaker location.

Some batting I had left over.

Stuffing the enclosure.

The SLS's in their new home.

Inner pocket.

Trimmed with thin snips.

I will probably put some speaker grill cloth over this opening before someone puts something in the pocket and destroys the sls's.

Pocket installed on door and panel installed.

I sprayed everything visible with black paint, but I must not have taken any pics of it.

View down into the pocket.

From the drivers seat.

I moved over to the drivers side.

Once again the victim about to be violated and it knows nothing.

You can see the original location for the window track mounting bolt in this picture. It's below the hole, to the right and just below the wiring harness. There's a dirt ring around the original slot.

Another hole.

You can see the window track bracket below the harness in the above pic and this is the bracket.

I cut and flipped the mounting point and drilled a new hole for it.

The gold colored bolt to the left of the lower speaker hole is the relocated track bolt.

Drivers side enclosure installed.

Poly-fil again.

The other 2 sls's in their new home.

I was cold, tired and had enough for today.

I still need to track down a noise issue with the head unit power wiring, mount the sax 125.2 and cover the FR88 pods.

I should have this wrapped up tomorrow, if not early Saturday.

[cobra93 47]

Nice work so far.

Ohio huh.......

Where about are you located?

I'm 15-20 minutes from Cincy.

Thanks Jay-C76!!

I'm in the Toledo area, near the Michigan border.

No tornado's last Tues. in your area, but allot of wind. Indiana and Michigan got hit I believe.

Edited October 29, 2010 by cobra93

[onebadmonte 235]

Nice work. Those mids have beefy surrounds. I like it.

[xAndrew225x 8]

Dude the custom metal work is badass! Really looking forward to the rest of the build.

:drink40:

[cobra93 47]

Nice work. Those mids have beefy surrounds. I like it.

Thanks Monte!

The SLS's have some pretty good excursion, they sound great and play low without problems.

[cobra93 47]

Dude the custom metal work is badass! Really looking forward to the rest of the build.

:drink40:

Thanks xAndrewx!!

This is a quick build should be done today or tomorrow.

I've been a steel fabricator for most of my working life and I've had some great teachers.

:drink40: You better believe it. :drink40:

[Randal Johnson 544]

I'd really like to hear this one ... How low are you going to let the doors go ?? down to 40 htz, maybe lower ... ???

[cobra93 47]

I'd really like to hear this one ... How low are you going to let the doors go ?? down to 40 htz, maybe lower ... ???

I don't know for sure at this point.

I'll see how well the SLS's blend in with the sub and go from there.

I'll probably build a new box for the eclipse this spring and tune it lower, maybe 27 hz. or so.

At this point I think I could go sub-less and still be mostly happy.

When I was testing this system out, I had the sub/infrasonic filter as low as it would go ~10 hertz on the sax 125.2.

I know some of the music I listen to goes lower than 30 hz and they would happily play it with great authority.

Call them what you want, woofers/subs, either way they're great speakers.

When I first tried them IB in the doors I didn't like them at all, but the doors weren't prepped as good as they should have been. There was allot of cancellation going on.

I've yet to hear 2 pairs, only tested with one pair in 3/4" birch plywood boxes,.15 c.f. each. I thought better to have two pair and go easier on them, then one pair and not be happy or kill them.

This is a link to my mid bass thread and how I got to this point. The last 2 pages or so sum it up pretty well.

Mid Bass thread.

Congrats by the way, I just read a great review of your truck a couple of days ago.

[sefugi 166]

Blown away by the modding of the pearless enclosures!!!! Love all the pictures(never to many) the pics help tell the story!!! Can't wait to see the outcome of the FR88 pods!!

[Randal Johnson 544]

I'd really like to hear this one ... How low are you going to let the doors go ?? down to 40 htz, maybe lower ... ???

I don't know for sure at this point.

I'll see how well the SLS's blend in with the sub and go from there.

I'll probably build a new box for the eclipse this spring and tune it lower, maybe 27 hz. or so.

At this point I think I could go sub-less and still be mostly happy.

When I was testing this system out, I had the sub/infrasonic filter as low as it would go ~10 hertz on the sax 125.2.

I know some of the music I listen to goes lower than 30 hz and they would happily play it with great authority.

Call them what you want, woofers/subs, either way they're great speakers.

When I first tried them IB in the doors I didn't like them at all, but the doors weren't prepped as good as they should have been. There was allot of cancellation going on.

I've yet to hear 2 pairs, only tested with one pair in 3/4" birch plywood boxes,.15 c.f. each. I thought better to have two pair and go easier on them, then one pair and not be happy or kill them.

This is a link to my mid bass thread and how I got to this point. The last 2 pages or so sum it up pretty well.

Mid Bass thread.

Congrats by the way, I just read a great review of your truck a couple of days ago.

Thanks Bro ...

[cobra93 47]

Blown away by the modding of the pearless enclosures!!!! Love all the pictures(never to many) the pics help tell the story!!! Can't wait to see the outcome of the FR88 pods!!

Thank you for the compliments!!!

I do what I can whit what I know.

Ask and ye shall receive.

I'm uploading pics now, will post in a bit.

[Sir-Lancelot 216]

Damn nice bro!

I bet you could go subless on most jams with 2 pair of those.

Keep u the fine work my man.

[cobra93 47]

Damn nice bro!

I bet you could go subless on most jams with 2 pair of those.

Keep u the fine work my man.

Thanks Buddy!!!

I've got music again!!!!

I'll review after I post my log.

I just finished uploading pics and am writing my next post.

[cobra93 47]

I started out today by pulling out everything in the back of the truck.

Looks lonely, doesn't it.

I cut all the wiring to lengths I needed for the final equipment, cleaned up a bit and put the back plastic panel back in.

This is the brain for the AV8533 and a SHITTON of wires, and then some more wires. I only need 5 of the 30 or so and there about 20-25 foot long.

I pulled the old B-stock 300/2 and replaced it with my A-stock 300/2.

I also mounted it right side up since the setting were already dialed in.

I painted everything that could be seen with the door panel on black.

A little double sided foam tape so nothing rattles on the back of the 125.2.

I cut 2" off the frame to make room for the plastic back panel.

I mounted the 125.2 and put the frame back in the truck.

I covered a piece of mdf with some leftover black suede since I don't have the 4-sa-8's in the truck and the board can be seen.

I reinstalled the front cover with fans.

This is my 88120 TI dvc in a very old box.

So old that at home depot it was called MDF not particle board.

I will rebuild this box in the spring and possibly use two 88120 TI dvc to make use of the saz2000d potential, dual 4 ohm coils.

I'm sure it doesn't compare to today's measurements, but at a local SPL event, I supposedly scored a 140.1 with one of these in a 4.0 c.f. box tuned to 45 hz. in the back of the 93 cobra powered by a JL 1000/1.

I was beaten in the first round by a gut who's last name was Thornbird, sponsored by Rockford Fosgate, if I remember correctly. He, his wife, had a 15w3 and scored a 140.6. She won the class I was in. The classes were done by cone area.

I had this inner pocket hot glued on for test fitting, it was o.k. so I put it back on with this epoxy I had left over from the sa-8's

Installed and ready for the door.

Some pics of the drivers side door.

My original plan for the pods was to put some bondo on the and sand them down, but after a little bit of sanding with a 60 grit flapper wheel, they looked pretty good so I left them as is.

They don't fit as tight as they did the other day, but they fit pretty good.

I bought the same size screws as I already had for the 88's which were too big to begin with so I drilled and countersunk the holes for a flush fit.

I used two 1/4-20 bolts to attach each pod to the door panel and added some poly-fil to them.

I was going to use some gray vinyl to wrap the pods that I know I had, but I couldn't find it anywhere.

The only stuff the local shops had was marine backed vinyl and i hate that stuff, so i used some left over gray suede instead.

I didn't get the pics you probably want to see, the seam, it's on the underside. I did the best I could, they look pretty good, but not great. I may end up redoing these in vinyl, I'm not sure. What do you guys think?

I took some pics of the Eclipse AV 8533.

I'm not sure I want to keep it, but it serves the purpose for now.

This unit is weird, You have to choose between Dolby Pro-logic II stereo, movie, 4 channel stereo, and off.

It's more like a HT surround system then a car stereo.

It will play pretty much everything including DVD-Audio, which is the reason I bought it way back when.

It states there's a Pro mode that changes the rca outputs from front/rear/sub to high/mid/low, but I haven't messed with the unit long enough to find it. I'll let you know.

The settings screen.

The sound setup screen

Speaker setting screen. Small/Large/None.

Time alignment. It has up to 10ms. on each speaker and level adjustment.

The parametric equalizer, 25 bands to choose from, 5 you can adjust. It has 3 "q" setting for each band and 6 user presets.

It also came with a mic and will auto tune, I haven't used this yet.

I got everything finished up today around 6:00pm.

I fired it up, delayed the drivers side 88 1.4 ms. and the drivers side sls's .9 ms..

I turned the sub off and cranked it up!!

Holy Crap it sounds great!!! :rockwoot: :rockwoot: :rockwoot:

I still have allot of tuning to do and I need to get the heat gun out. The upper sls's have enough excursion to make contact with the stock speaker grill. I thought this could be a problem. I figure with the heat gun I can make enough clearance for them.

I have to say the FR88's sound very good, not harsh or in my face.

The SLS's sound great and definitely can move some air. I have the sub/infrasonic filter set to ~50 hertz at the moment and they shake the mirror and my pants something fierce.

These things are little beasts, clean and tight with anything I've thrown at them so far.

I'm very happy with this setup already. It's worlds better than the components I had before.

I'll continue to adjust everything and get the sub integrated as I go, but I could almost live without it if necessary.

I wish I could here some competition quality setups so I had a frame of reference/comparison.

A big Thanks to everyone who that helped me in my mid bass thread and those who kept me going with the awesome compliments during the build, You guys rock!!! i just thought I'd throw some BOOBS in there for good measure!

[Sir-Lancelot 216]

Looks nice man.

I loves me some Boobies too.

[cobra93 47]

Looks nice man.

I loves me some Boobies too.

Thanks buddy, gotta go motorboatin.

[///M5 2,833]

I played pierce lake golf course around Ann Arbor, yesterday with my buddy.

Ha, I drove right by you.

Lookin' good so far

[edouble101 314]

In the pic with the JL300/2 you have your power wires ran through the side of the truck? How is that all wired up? What is the schematic for your electrical?