jack finks

I thought I should warn this forum of an incoming nuclear weapon. The mad scientist/car audio excentric known as Jfinks is about to unvail something only Dr. Frankinstein could think up. I promise you this will be nothing like anyone here has ever seen.

The Car is a'73 Karmann Ghia. This is looking through the dash. Just to the right of the steering wheel is the front tire. This is where the Dyn mid & tweets will go after I form a inner fender. The next pict I think will clearify it.

This picture move from the door to over the passenger fender. The green line on the left side running top to bottom is the base of the front windshield. The front drivers tire is center top and you can see where I have removed the current inner fender/trunk wall to create an open path. The board running across the trunk is a mock-up of a steel frame/brace that the center channel is going to be placed in. The drawn in line in the pattern for the brace. The brace needs to be open because the the right down in front of the spare tire in the nose Iam putting two 12w6's. The gas tank will be raised 3 inches along with the front beem.

This was the last concept. A Dyn dome Mid & Tweet, a 7" Mid Bass and a Dyn 10" was in the door (yes the windows did roll up and down BTW) The shinny metal is aluminum diamond plate.

Same array but now you are looking through the dash, though the trunk inner fender to the tire (yeah this one is a little out of focus). This will place my stage approxamately 12" past the front windshield. Usind a delay on the Dyn 7" mid-Bass will align them sonicly.

As I'm sure Bob will atest ,I have had more systems in the one car than any there people in a life time. I have been experimenting in this car for 27 years. I have finally decided to just go all the way and biuld in "In my minds eye" the utlimate Karmann Ghia which I am now calling "Karmann Finks".

It will be a truely street driven/daily driver. And BTW I have another 73 Ghia that all stock with the infamious Atou-Stick. And now my wife says I have to take her to breakfast so let the comments begin

I am intrigued, to be sure.  (This is dave, BTW...)

...AND you want to go 200MPH in it?  [:)]  I will certainly be interested in seeing this as it progresses.  I love the idea of the Dynes, have always loved the Dynes.  I was dubious in the beginning, but I think I am starting to take Bob for his words:  "The world is ending."  Off your rocker, man!  I love it!  Thinking outside the butt, i mean BOX.

I am wondering (as is Bob) when the guys in the white truck are showing up with the straight-"jack"et, and the butterfly net.

Well.. yes... 200MPH but I will pull the major stereo componet/wieght for the atemps. The two amp racks are/will be easily removeable...as in under 2 minutes each and the 12. which is a 100 plus pounds. I'm currently building my own molds for a carbin fiber hood and rear bonnett....OoO that off the stereo trail...

I'm on my way up there with Der Auto-Stick KG...

200mph in a Karmann Ghia?  Might as well shoot for 200db. 

Outstanding idea for a pure SQ/soundstage installation, by the way, but why didn't you go all the way and move the drivers into the boot area completely forward of the seats?  Too many "things" in the way to enable driving?

I love the smell of fiberglass in the morning...

Can someone teach the guy with the camera how to hold the camera still?

I'm feeling sick from looking at the "moving" pictures.

tcss]I wrote:

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m sitting in my shop watching Hamfist and certified IASCA judge Jack Finks judge Dave's system with the IASCA test CD. Words like "goose bumps" and"unbelievable" are being tossed around. We are thinking about a road trip to San Diego for the soundoff. Anybody wanna go?

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I am not surprised and I told Dave to get his butt into the next Soundoff ASAP after I had the pleasure of sitting in that little Honda.

In all seriousness I just stopped listening. I was jealious and wanted my car done....NOW. It was insparational and frustraiting all at the same time. I don't get to sit many cars that sound this good.

So do you guys want to see more pictures?

jfinks wrote:

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So do you guys want to see more pictures?

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DYohn] wrote:

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tcss]I wrote:

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m sitting in my shop watching Hamfist and certified IASCA judge Jack Finks judge Dave's system with the IASCA test CD. Words like "goose bumps" and"unbelievable" are being tossed around. We are thinking about a road trip to San Diego for the soundoff. Anybody wanna go?

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I am not surprised and I told Dave to get his butt into the next Soundoff ASAP after I had the pleasure of sitting in that little Honda.

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DYohn] wrote:

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love the smell of fiberglass in the morning...

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Actually there is no planned fiberglass in this dash. I have spent the last 2 years learning how to form metal. When I'm done the fenders and dash will be all formed metal. But to get there I will shape expanded foam then form a Fiberglass mold to shape the metal to. Well thats the plan anyways. Ultimately the Dash will mostly be a curved peice of perferated metal...

haemphyst wrote:

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I tried to look it up, but wasn't able to find anything... Bob? Jack? Any word on that one? 'Cause I'm still in for a road trip! Let me know what you come up with!

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Sorry but I got my wires crossed on the SD show. It was the finals next month. But in January the new season begins....

dpaton wrote:

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Where's the hell yes button?

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This week end I'll post the current amp rack and battery area and the plans on where that is going.

OoO my Porsche front hubs just arived today...one more step closer to getting the front end moched up...

OK here are some more pictures. The battery tray is one of the reasons I stopped working on this car. I made all the brakets for the lifts and the amp rack out of steel and aluminum and decided I could learn more. The covers and trim panels would be a lot better if they were made out of metal. They would be stronger and lighter. But I still make moch up out of would then build finish pieces out of metal.

These next pictures are about the amp rack and lift. The '73 and '74 ghias did not come with a back seat. VW decided it was not worth it to engineer approved seatbelts for a back seat that was raerly used.  What I did was raise the hieght of the cover for inches to the same hieght as the luggage area that was behind the "seat". This allowed me to place two batteries and the amp rack in the space. I keep a very stock looking area. I also cleaned up the luggauge area with the panels other wise you see the inner fender of the back wheels.

This showes the difference in the original deck hieght and the new deck hieght

The space is now occupied by these blocks that hold the lifts and seat belt. Notice that where the seat beat passes through it is solid.

Here are the lifts in place

Here is the Amp Rack brackets I made to suspend the Amp Racl when the cover is closed. I did this when the cover is up it will present the amps. I use simple door latches that I can slide in and out to service both side of the rack. Pull four pins and the whole rack comes out once you disconnect the wiring. My first attempt at the pins is rather unsaticfactory because there is a LOT of slop in them! I am going to replace the door pins with hood pins from Hot Rods. I will bore out an aluminum block and they will hold positively with the little beeds they have embedded in the ends. The stand off will also be re-worked a little to make them look nicer.

The amps will be mounted on 1/2 inch plexy. This is the moch up plate the amps are currently on.

Yes that is my Hobbit foot. Here is the Rack in the up position...

This is when the top pins are pulled to service the back Amps.

Because of the plexy you will see the inner workings of the two amps on the underside. Maybe a little chessy but it should present well. So any comments? Am I going in a good direction or bad? Any suggestions? Faults? Now is the time to speak up as once I get back into this area there is no going back. Currenty where the old peocessor is in the very back of the luggauge area will either be replaced by the PDX 1.1000 and PDX 4.150 or the last T757. Sorry I like those old Alpine amps! The back area is most likely going to go through some changes in the luggauge area as I'm pretty confident that I'm going to have to build new wheel wells...

Side note I just found an English wheel/Power hammer I can afford to buy to build the dash...Hehehe

More comments from me. I'm a nut about being able to access my equipment quickly and easily. That is one of the reason it is made this way. I can- by myself- have this amp rack out in about 3 minutes and on the bench. I can pull the batteries in 2 minutes each without disturbing the amps. I fix a lot of cars and it is a pet peave when things are un-nessisarily difficult to get to....

Oh and yes my spelling is just horrible. I re-read the last post and just shook my head....

I love this thread.

haemphyst wrote:

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enh... I've seen it all before. [:P] When Jack enters the world of "Isobarik loaded, Suffed transmission line" esoterica, THEN I'll believe it!

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So am I anywhere near this?

27 years...and your point is?

tcss]S wrote:

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evdart, the really scarey thing about this thread is he can actually, maybe, possibly, really pull this off!

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Bwahahaha

jfinks wrote:

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haemphyst wrote:

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enh... I've seen it all before. [:P] When Jack enters the world of "Isobarik loaded, Suffed transmission line" esoterica, THEN I'll believe it!

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So am I anywhere near this?

27 years...and your point is?

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haemphyst wrote:

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Dave eats his words... Yeah, you're right up there in the "He's lost his mind..." crowd. Thin air up here, huh, Jack?

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Thats what the oxygen is for...I do fear when I'm locked away in the lab that I might go too far...so I'm showing this to see if I haven't talked myself into bad ideas...but I have to admit I like pushing the envolope...

haemphyst wrote:

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running the white cone 12 inch woofers from some OLD Pioneer 12's 

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Now thats old school...Bob didn't I have those too at some point?

Heres the lastest pictures though not directly related to the stereo. The entire front half of the car is based around the front beam. So here are pictures of the VW drop spindles that I had modifies to accept Porsche bearings and hubs so I can fit 993 Big Red brakes on. The Ferrarie (sp) in the bay of TCSS has these very same brakes from Bremo.

Here are the Porsche Bearing on it

With the hubs mounted

And an Idea whats to come. I'll order the rotors this week and moch up the caliper brakets next week end

Fun fun fun