My new system! pics

Hey Leif, not that I've done this before , but u might want to move that polyfill just a lil. If the voice coils get warm enough after a good duration of playing and the polyfill has actually worked itself into the frame structure, you can start a fire. Just a little heads up, u can use that much poly, just try to glue it to the box and keep it away from the actual basket assembly. Look'n sharp though, did u ever fix that mirror problem?? Oh, and custom subur, did I say u could quote me? Huh? did I??? HUH!?!?!? PLAGERIZER!!!! haha j/k lol, that is one of the funnier things I've written on this forum though. "Shiny chrome when used in conjunction with bikini models is particularly effective in inducing brain deficit disorder"

02 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Monster System on its way.

hahaa. thats great kfr. two thumbs up!1990 Honda Civic HB:

Clarion DXZ545MP H.U.

2- 6.5" Power Acoustik interiors

Diamond Audio 600.1 amp

Diamond Audio 15" M6MKII

Pyramid PB881X 4 CH. Amp

XtreamCC, I believe you're absolutely right. I kinda worried about that a bit.. Also, the bass is TOO dry and dampened now. Maybe taking half of it out will be the sweet spot :). Hell yeah it needs a cleaning. :) I just carpeted the amp cover today, it turned out pretty well, I'll post the picture here tomorrow :). (Too dark for the camera to focus at the moment). Yeah the mirror problem is basically fixed, I just slapped the $20 mirror from Kragen on there - still vibrates, but doesn't move and doesn't rattle. Although, now that the amps and woofers are looking clean, the auxiliary battery isn't looking so hot - maybe I'll have to build something to cover that too. I've got a ton of spare MDF (bought way too much) so why not :). I'm gonna have to RTA the damn thing again though. I had a very slight hum problem (probably coming from the EQ which is powered off not-so-clean inverter power) so I turned the amp gains down to compensate - and since i'm running separate woofer/tweeter amps, it disrupted the balance of course. There's no such thing as "done" when it comes to car audio, I suppose... ///Leif

Just saw it! Looks GREAT! Clean install! (wish mine looked that good <grin>) The only thing I saw was the polyfill interfering with the vents... (but this has already been sorta mentioned) you shouldn't have anything within a diameter distance of the vent... (i.e. a 4" vent needs 4" of clearance) That stuff is gonna fluff all over the place! Impressive box building, tho!It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

oh, and vaccuum that thing! LOLIt all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

Try using twisted pair cable RCA's to eliminate that hum.  The cables you used are fine in the house, but they're surrounded by a sheet metal ground circuit in a car.  But you know that.  And inside that enclosure is a tough place to be for the Lightning amp.  Otherwise, besides what else has been mentioned,  it looks like a well-designed and installed system.  Oh, is there any air flow underneath the amp cover?...the pic shows openings for heat escape but doesn't show air entry areas. Build the box so that it performs well in the worst case scenario and, in return, it will reward you at all times.

dont get me started kfr! you either chicago pimp boy! GRRR! Posting up some 'facts', what the heck man, ur gona get everyone confused with these 'fact' things haha, but yeah, I know its not plagrizm unless you use it in a work of liturature without quoting when and by whom stated it, I was just giv'n suburb a hard time haha. ANYWAY, thats all I have to say bout that, "There's no such thing as "done" when it comes to car audio, I suppose..." Damn strait! Thats the most true thing I've ever heard haha."Shiny chrome when used in conjunction with bikini models is particularly effective in inducing brain deficit disorder"

02 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Monster System on its way.

The install looks really slick, but there is one thing that my experiences force me to comment on...

Leif wrote: I had a very slight hum problem (probably coming from the EQ which is powered off not-so-clean inverter power)

Altho I'm sure you were told that the MEQ-230 is a great stereo 31 band EQ, I'd run away from it. They hum and pop and sizzle and generally act like misbehaving phase shifting sound mangling machines. You're better off using a 4 band parametric to fix specific issues than to try and shape the overall sound with that graph. <soapbox> Mainly that's because graphic EQs don't behave like people think they should. If you pull down 2 adjacent faders 3dB, the resultant response won't be a 3dB dip at those two frequencies as you'd expect, it'll be an 8-12dB dip at the average of those two frequencies. It'll also severely mess up the phase in a (roughly) one octave band centered over the faders you moved. Since phase of an audio signal is another way of looking at time delay, graphic EQs really clobber the phase response of a system, which can make a rig that RTAs perfectly sound like *ss. There are a few EQs that work very wll, because they use a DSP to read the position of the faders and construct a response that looks just like the front of the EQ. Rane's DEQ-60 and -60L along with the DBX iEQ series come to mind. Old EQs from IRP (the TEQ) have a very flat phase response because of their design (Transversal EQualizer), but are scarcer than hen's teeth, and need a clean AC supply. <soapbox> FWIW, this is intended as constructive criticism. It's entirely possible that the MEQ230 is helping a little, but I think the benefits of a better EQ would be quite noticable, starting with reliability and hummmm. -daveThis is not a sig. This is a duck. Quack.