Team IAK IronMan Explorer

[Sencheezy 689]

So I've decided to finally start this build after procastinating and having some free time here at work. Equipment list is as follows:

Pioneer AVH-4300DVD

Boss REV-655 (Mids/High)

AQ1200D (Sub)

IA I series Coaxial (rear)

IA I series Components (front)

10" SSA Icon D2

DC Creations Enclosure (Coming Soon)

47 Feet of Welding cable (Awaiting Shipment)

3 15 Feet Monoprice RCA's

100 Feet of 12 gauge Monoprice Speaker Wire

This is a on going project that would soon lead to for some more serious output, but this will get me through till then. I will keep my plannings under wrap to keep the suspense and will reveal whatever shows up at the door . But for now, I will show pics! Sorry for so many, I tend to be a camera whore lol

The following pictures you can see how I threw everything in, and after a few days, I began to clean it up.

And thats where I am as of this moment, again, sorry for so many pictures lol, all was taken with my Kyocera Echoe. Right now, my new cable is in the mail, 15 pounds worth lol. And enclosure is being designed by DC Creations, so just waiting on those two things at this moment.

But for a quick review of where everything stands right now, watching Transformers in here sounds fucking amazing. Once I get the sub in there, it will definately be better than going to the movie theatre for sure. It gets so loud in here now and I'm glad I can finally hear the words with minimal distoration at high levels. I would like to thank edouble and Sean DeYoung for their amazing contribution

On a side note:

Heres me slaving 12 hour shifts at work

KITTY!!

[jonbearsmt 919]

thanks for the incite into what is "you" i like that.

nice build coming too.

[Sencheezy 689]

Seems I left out a few...

Do NOT ever buy speaker adapter from Sonix Electronix, I would only recommend Car-Speaker-Adapter.com

Ohhhh How I wish I could Put this on... (Aaron)

[S.DeYoung 968]

Looks good! Can't wait for more updates! Enjoy that icon. It's an awesome woofer!

[Sencheezy 689]

thanks for the incite into what is "you" i like that.

nice build coming too.

Thanks Jon, I love your build

[liljestrand 244]

Sen I think the IA's just seem to be a little bigger. I got adapters from car speaker adapters and I ended up having to dremel out quite a bit to get the IA's to fit.

Otherwise looking good so far.

[ssh 924]

Nice set of equipment, always wondered how those IA speakers were.

[steveo50 3]

yes very nice. let me know how you feel about the ia comps.

[Sencheezy 689]

Looks good! Can't wait for more updates! Enjoy that icon. It's an awesome woofer!

Thanks! More updates to come for sure

Sen I think the IA's just seem to be a little bigger. I got adapters from car speaker adapters and I ended up having to dremel out quite a bit to get the IA's to fit.

Otherwise looking good so far.

They are a bit larger than normal, but atleast with car speaker adapters you have the option to dremel an opening where as these POS is just cheap plastic and aren't no where near user friendly. Thanks for the kind words

Nice set of equipment, always wondered how those IA speakers were.

Thanks Stefan, yeah, I like em, will be upgrading these as well, but curious to know how these will sound once sub is installed.

yes very nice. let me know how you feel about the ia comps.

Thanks

I like them a lot. Especially with good audio recordings and DVDs. Sound really clean and loud to say the least lol, especially once I took the time to tune the amp. Very pleased plus the price was a bonus.

[steveo50 3]

very good my friend! im re-tuning mine on my next day off. the subs over powers all the mid bass i got from them.

[Shogen 325]

Good stuff !!! You're horrible at wiring, I'll fix your work.

[Sencheezy 689]

Good stuff !!! You're horrible at wiring, I'll fix your work.

Thanks!

[Ohjay 116]

It's coming along nicely. Cool pics showing a bit of what you do for a living. That cat looks a bit heavy, or did the camera add 10 lbs? lol

[Sencheezy 689]

It's coming along nicely. Cool pics showing a bit of what you do for a living. That cat looks a bit heavy, or did the camera add 10 lbs? lol

Thanks Ohjay, No, no camera tricks here haha, She's just a fat pussy. I work at a Datacenter.

[Sencheezy 689]

Got some more pictures to post today

Began Very shiddy box build today. I've made some contact with DC Creations, I guess they have a lot on their plate ATM, so this box sole purpose was to be a fill in till their enclosure gets here.

And then the new power cable showed up today, I'm very pleased

The below picture is my attempt to fix this phreaking engine noise that I've been having. At first, it wasn't too bad, and then I set my gains by ear, and it was very present. So I shaved some paint for the ground of the amp, and done the following to the headunit with that wire sticking out to a ground behind the head unit and OMG, it made it even worse, so right now I have no idea what to do

I'm guessing maybe I need to get another wire and attach the wire that is going around the rca's to the frame of the HU?? I'm not really sure what could help at this point. But, besides that, this is where I stand, I will probably run the new wire tommarrow, and through this shiddy box in lol

[Ohjay 116]

what happened to your hair and tan?

[Mtopper 23]

for your engine noise, try ground the black wire in your harness directly to a metal bracket behind your dash. my blazer was horrible with alternator whine, once i grounded it to the airbag bracket my noise went away completely.

great products btw

[RobClay 20]

Very nice build goin! Those new icons look even sexier than before

[PHATBOi 38]

Nice set of gear. That Icon 10 looks soooo effin beefy. Didn't know they where beefed up that much. In for vids!

[16K 159]

Nice set of gear. That Icon 10 looks soooo effin beefy. Didn't know they where beefed up that much. In for vids!

agreed. that 10 looks beefy

[Sencheezy 689]

Update time

[orlando144 20]

That Icon is beefy as fuck!

Makes me wanna make a burger and call it the SSA burger

What am i saying..

Updates?

[Sencheezy 689]

Ok so yesterday I got some more mail, and today. Yesterday I recieved my welding cable and jesus, this wire is unlike anything I have ever seen before. Even a 10 ft cut weighs a ton lol. Well here are some pics.

Note* I also picked up some copper terminals, super duper heavy duty these phuckers are.

The completed box...

The wire is thicker than my fingers lol

Ok, now for the story, opening the package for the terminals, I wondered, HTF am I gonna crimp these ? They are sooo thick, and just, seem unmoveable. So I found a solution, instead of ordering a 400$ crimper, I used some tool, (don't know the name), and a hammer. The pictures will help explain my method which turned out really great actually and I am very satisfied with the results.

Heat Wrap, don't work so well with a normal hair dryer

So I decided to double wrap

And here I layed out the big 3 1 feet, 3 feet and 6 feet

And a quick local stop to AutoZone I upgraded the terminals. Do have a problem though, the postive post of this daily battery is larger than the negative post. The problem this causes is that the new terminals won't snuggly fit on the negative post, so right now, its on there, but isn't tight at all (Yes thats what she said I know), so any opinion on how to fix this?

In the morning, I will complete the big 3 withte positive run. Ran out of time today unfortunately

Here is the ground I used, its the same one that Ford used. I just sanded down to the metal.

And the package today was just my voltmeter that was already dead on with no need to calibrate

Thats it for today

[Julian 641]

for your engine noise, try ground the black wire in your harness directly to a metal bracket behind your dash. my blazer was horrible with alternator whine, once i grounded it to the airbag bracket my noise went away completely.

great products btw

I tried the same thing and it made it 100% worse lol. Some cars all run to the same ground, I know a lot of ford cars are like that. Personally I would make an independent ground.

[Sencheezy 689]

what happened to your hair and tan?

:roflmao: I laughed so hard lol

for your engine noise, try ground the black wire in your harness directly to a metal bracket behind your dash. my blazer was horrible with alternator whine, once i grounded it to the airbag bracket my noise went away completely.

great products btw

Ok thanks! For sure I will try this tomarrow while I'm installing my volt meter, its quit the bothersome.

Very nice build goin! Those new icons look even sexier than before

Yeah they are really heavy! Can't wait to get the, " Its just one 10!!??" lol

Nice set of gear. That Icon 10 looks soooo effin beefy. Didn't know they where beefed up that much. In for vids!

Haha, yeah, they are beefy lil phuckers for sure, can't wait to hear how it sounds, just waiting for my box to be built by DC Creations...

Nice set of gear. That Icon 10 looks soooo effin beefy. Didn't know they where beefed up that much. In for vids!

agreed. that 10 looks beefy

Thanks

That Icon is beefy as fuck!

Makes me wanna make a burger and call it the SSA burger

What am i saying..

Updates?

It is very beefy lol More beefier than any burger

Updates are IN!!