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Old Dec 13, 2010
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four 15's & four alternators...
May god have mercy on your truck. haha.

your going to get horrible gas mileage with all of them alts, just fore warning. im sure you realize that.
 
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Old Dec 13, 2010
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four 15's & four alternators...
May god have mercy on your truck. haha.

your going to get horrible gas mileage with all of them alts, just fore warning. im sure you realize that.
4 alts? Where did u get that?
 
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Old Dec 18, 2010
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4 alts? Where did u get that?
here.. I wasn't paying attention. I've associated powermaster with alternators...
4 Powermaster d3100s
your system seems much more sane to me (somehow) now.
 
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Old Dec 18, 2010
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O haha. :P
 
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Old Dec 18, 2010
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Still doing work I see man...insane as always haha!
 
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Old Dec 19, 2010
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Well finally i was able to start on my build tonite. I had to rearranger my shop is why i havent started before now. So heres a few pics.

The truck in the shop
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The seats out
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The bottom of the box getting started
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Starting the strengthen the back wall so it dont flex
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Second layer of 3/4" going across the back wall. This will be what the back of the box screws to.
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Old Dec 21, 2010
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More progress. :)

The first layer on the back wall
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The second layer and top of floor
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Getting the hump in the floor cover so i can glass over it
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Old Dec 21, 2010
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Lookin good. Oh I threw up a sh!tty video of my system from today in case you wanna check it out haha
 
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Old Dec 21, 2010
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Ok cool. Ill check it out bud
 
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Old Dec 21, 2010
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forgive me if ig et too techincal, but im going to school for audio technology (speakers and junk)
but what Resistance are you running? how many watts? what kind of head unit are you using?
 
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Old Dec 21, 2010
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2 2500 watt amps at .5 ohm each. Im running the pioneer 510ub head unit.
 
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Old Dec 22, 2010
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Well i got something from fed ex today. :) :) Hmm what could it be?

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Old Dec 22, 2010
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Jizz
 
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Old Dec 25, 2010
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Well me and my dad got quite a bit progress done on my box today. :) :) Let me know what yall think. Theres still a lot of work left tho.

Test fit the first piece
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The sides and back on the box
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Test fitting the box in the truck. Looks a lot bigger in the truck then on the table. HAHA
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Old Dec 25, 2010
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this is going to be sexy
 
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Old Dec 26, 2010
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holy ****
 
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Old Dec 26, 2010
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I got some more progress done tonite after work. :)

The box standing up
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Port pieces screwed together
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Port in the box. Still got to round over the end of the port
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Subs, port, and plexi laid out on the front baffle.
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Old Dec 26, 2010
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its looking good!!!! I'm stoked to see what it looks like finished. not sure if it was in the thread more towards the beginning but how do you plan to finish it? Carpet?
 
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Old Dec 26, 2010
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i didn't see the in truck picks until now. That thing is huge!!!!! pictures on the table do it NO justice, it looks like it fits right behind the seat hidden. then its in the truck and there is no more window. haha. awsome!
 
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Old Dec 28, 2010
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More progress and more pics. :)

Port corner rounded over
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Front baffles cut out
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45 in the port
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I will start glassing the corners and drilling holes for my threaded rod tomorrow.
 
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Old Dec 28, 2010
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good lord!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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She's gettin there.
 
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Old Dec 29, 2010
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What are you using to cut the shapes out? That looks very good.
 
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Old Dec 29, 2010
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Im going to paint it gloss black with a clear coat.

For the shapes, i used a router to cut the round circles out then a jig saw to cut out the spaces bw the circles.
 
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Old Dec 29, 2010
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Cool, do you anchor the router to a center point to get the nice round circles, or just follow the line?
 
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