Custom 2003 XLT Stereo Demo Vehicle build !!!!!!!

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Wow!! Very impressive build.

Is this a demo vehicle for your business or just an intense hobby? lol
 
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What!? No American Bass subs! :frown: lol! T3's are great! Deep tight bass! Very clear! Awesome choice!

Sick build!

What did you tune your box to?
 

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Any estimates on how loud this will be? And are you worried about blowing the windshield out? Awesome looking build, can't wait for more pics.
 
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Wow!! Very impressive build.

Is this a demo vehicle for your business or just an intense hobby? lol




No I dont own my own shop or anything, just a passion of mine. And when I referred to it as a "demo truck" is because i will not be competing with it because it was not built legal for competing in most classes and the classes I could compete in I would lose because it is built to still be a functional vehicle not a moving stereo that has to be trailer-ed
 
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What!? No American Bass subs! :frown: lol! T3's are great! Deep tight bass! Very clear! Awesome choice!

Sick build!

What did you tune your box to?


I could have gone all A.B stuff but I like T3's soft parts a lot better then anyone around. Ive played with a good amount of high end car audio (DC audio, A.B, RE audio, ect ect)

Since the wall is a 4th order bandpass it technically doesnt have a frequency it is tuned to but it is currently peaking around 32htz ........ moves a massive amount of air!!!!!
 
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Any estimates on how loud this will be? And are you worried about blowing the windshield out? Awesome looking build, can't wait for more pics.


It should be easily doing 150s on music..... Im hoping to get high 150s, I would be more then pleased if I can break the 160 mark. Ive had it playing already but I have not had it on the term-lab yet. I had bracing done by my windshield so Im not getting any flex there as of now. My weakest point is my doors right now, they clap real hard.... the rest is pretty solid


I will be posting more pictures after this post, stay tuned guys!!!!!
 
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Front battery connected with custom build buss bars

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Front baffle cut and installed


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Beauty panel to hide everything, wrapped in suede like my headliner



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The wall installed and playing

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I will be also making beauty panels for my battery bank also wrapped in black suede





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Since I didnt take any pics of myself in the build, heres one for the build log: Owner, Co- creator, and basshead


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This is where Im at stereo wise, I am still in the process of building my door panels and making more beauty panels..... In the mean time I bought a set of black cased halo lights to go with my blacked out theme




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I will take a few pics how they look in the daytime
 
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Well I have a few updates I can share about the truck, First off nothing too much has changed, I have still not worked on my mids and highs, nor have my high output alternator.

The last few months has been hell, I just got out of a 4 year relationship and to make matters worse guess whose name the truck was is? THE FIANCES!!!!! you guessed it. So long story short she took the truck with all my stereo equipment, took the tv/ the bed and all the run things and jumped ship and the worst part of it all her new man has been driving around in my baby beating the piss out of it.


But the truck is now back safely in my arms and is being babied once again. I will post a few stereo videos as well as some pictures of the truck..... enjoy and let me know what ya think!
 

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I also went to superbright LED . com and upgraded my dome lights/ puddle lights on my mirrors, license plate lights, glove box light, and speedo lights with 6500k leds. I dont have any pictures of them off hand but they look great! makes the truck look very clean and only has a slight blue tinge, nothing tacky.

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do you still have all the numbers you ordered...post them up and quantities if you still have that info...i need to redo mine and a lot of guys on here will want this info...we can make it a sticky
 
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I will try and get you a list of what I ordered by the end of the day, i will look through my receipts and see if i still have the invoice.

I know I did not replace my headliner center counsel lights because I did not out it back in due to the stereo, it would just knock it out all the time.
 
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