My new Project!

[WrenchGuy]

Well my Avionics pal Matt (red shirt) came over and we figured we'd wire the console up to have our harnesses before the final build and so I can jam in February!

If he wouldn't of came to help I would have been bored as **** and gave it up for the day.

The daughter likes her car audio too if its out. She is my little helper, I cant wait til she can run wires and do deadener...lol

I'm not good with solder just yet so bare with me on that.

For a days work with Halo 3 breaks and pizza we did damn good. Its ready for power and a mock run I like it.

If goes well and my fuses I ordered come in tomorrow I will throw the alt in and run power and ground from the bat to the console. Put the A Pillars in and uh the amp rack is pretty much ready to go too I can jam tomorrow if things go right.

Oh yeah my plan is to use the bottom bracket of the middle seat as the mount so its getting built into this.

 

[bzbatl]

Looks like it's coming along. Where did you find all those connectors? I need some of those!

Looks like your pup was trying to help out too. Use him for a crimper?

 

[WrenchGuy]

Looks like it's coming along. Where did you find all those connectors? I need some of those!

Looks like your pup was trying to help out too. Use him for a crimper?

Harbor Freight FTW! They crimp nice too. I hinted my buddy for some and he bought me em for christmas woo!

 

[bzbatl]

No kidding. Man, I always pass by Harbor Freight knowing I should never go in - I'd leave with a hundred bux worth of el cheapo tools :lol:

Now I have a reason to go in there! Damn you!

 

[WrenchGuy]

Anyone have Dash Mat recommendations? I ordered one from stylin trucks to try one but i will take recommendations if that one isn't legit. I just need it to eat up some reflections from these A Pillars. They are crispy but I want to see if the mat makes a difference as been said. I'm gonna throw my 6.5 midbasses in the doors for now. I dont want to rush the doors they are VERY critical to my midbass. I'm gonna throw the Opti Drives in and play with em for the road.

 

[WrenchGuy]

Oh yeah put the console in powered it up no probs you gotta like when it goes like that.

 

[WrenchGuy]

Here's mock up! More tuning to do for a bit though.

These midbasses are OK and the door isn't deadened or anything it just brings out the bottom end of the riffs for now.

I think I might work on deadening next, but I also have to upgrade the battery bank ah hell there is all kinds of stuff but I can jam now while I do it.

 

[jj99yukon]

i hear ya man. lookon good. keep us posted and good luck.

 

[WrenchGuy]

Put the alt in tonight. 20 minutes. I'll take pics during the day tomorrow.

 

[WrenchGuy]

I ordered deadener! Gonna do the floor first. I already have the cargo area done from like 2 days after I bought the Tahoe...lol But yeah just a heads up.

 

[WrenchGuy]

Well in the pause during removal and getting going on deadening soon. I cut out some rings for the doors and to keep me busy and on the ball I decided to start another project with the RE 8's sittin around.

According to the math I got half a cube at 35 hz which is supposed to be Optimal for em so I'll do it that way. These tubes are easy to make and sound great too. I had made some for my Premier TSW2000SPL's and they rocked. You can see one of them in the Living room in the pics back.

2 rolls of Raamat are here though just gotta wait til I get in the garage to do em up. Starting on finishing the floor first then onto front doors.

Later Guys!

 

[WrenchGuy]

It didn't take long to get it together. I will show a finished pic after this one.

It actually surprised me the output it has...lol

And the alt pic I was supposed to show.

Just gotta throw in some batteries!

 

[FergHoe]

Is your truck a 2500? Its interesting that you have hydro boost brakes. just a little something I noticed. the install is looking good. cant wait to see everything all finished.

 

[WrenchGuy]

Well the Cyclops is here anyway. I might start a sub floor this week.

 

[Gambler]

Looking good!

 

[WrenchGuy]

Alright, I'm a driveway worker no garage so I gotta do what I can when I can. Its good to have started projects in every stage because of this. When I cant get to the woodshop or garage at my friends I do all the crap in the drive way.

The amp rack is tacked together. Just have to trim and fit. More pics to come when I can get going. Friend is going on a cruise.

What I actually did today was made some "get close patterns" for the center console. I may be doing more work to it this weekend. I figured I show how I did it to help others.

Pretty self explanatory I think. I will get going on some more though. I took the 2nd row amp rack out so I can get going on that. I had to move the crossover from the console cuz of the mounting bracket. So I'm gonna tie that in under the seat with the amps.

 

[Gambler]

If you have time, could you snap a pic of all of you under-hood electrical mods? The one above is good, but you can't quite see everything. Tx

 

[Anvilair]

Incredible!!!! Really great thread!!!! I will be keeping an eye on your progress and I can't wait to see the finished product!!!! Nice job!

 

[WrenchGuy]

If you have time, could you snap a pic of all of you under-hood electrical mods? The one above is good, but you can't quite see everything. Tx

The only thing you cant really see is my crappy battery. When I run the new Big 3 and put the Deka in. I will gladly show another pic and a detailed Big 3.

 

[WrenchGuy]

I took the rear carpet out. The V1 I tried stayed put everywhere I put it. Its not thick though but stays. I'll give it that. I also had a Dynamat Door kit laying around so I stabbed that over top of it in the floor. Its all good. I'm just using BXT everywhere else...lol

I may run down to Bay City to my uncles and put her on the lift. I wanna get under there and bolt the sub floor down. If I have to drop the fuel tank it will be a hell of a lot easier on a lift....lol

The sub floor is as big as the box will be, joy!