Phoenix Gold Phorum

I have a 1980 IH Scout that I drive daily (when it runs...long story). I put a '97 Trans Am LT1 engine in it it, with fuel injection, automatic overdrive, etc. It's great fun to drive, but the tunes were a bit lacking. I was big into car audio 10-15 years ago, still tinkering around up until 5-7 years ago, probably, and still had a bunch of stuff laying around. I dug it all out, sold off some stuff and bought new, and reused some of the old stuff as well, and came up with this:

An Alpine CDA-9886 head unit feeds into a PG EQ-215ix. The low side of the 215 runs into a JL 1000/1 amplifier driving a pair of 12W3's in separate 1.2 cubic foot sealed boxes. The high side of the 215 feeds into an Audio Control 24XS crossover, which feeds the signal into the JL 450/4 amplifier for the front stage. The 75/2 side runs a set of Veritas Audio HLCD Waveguides mounted under the dash (this amplifier's gain setting is ALL the way down, and they'll still rip your head off), and the 150/2 side runs a pair of MB Quart 8" mid-bass speakers flushed into the floorboards between your feet.












I'm still very into the installation, and it is far from finished. Right now I am still feeding the power distribution block with 4ga wire, which is way underkill, but I have a lead on some really cheap 1/0 wire pulled from a friend's car, so I'm waiting on that. I also want to replace the Audio Control crossover with a similar unit that is easier to adjust, because I hate the guesswork involved with changing the resistors in the pills. I wanna crank a knob until it sounds right and be done with it. Otherwise, the components are all staying, just getting a better installation.

I'm building the boxes for the 8's today from a 6" PVC cap and some 1/4" PVC sheet that I had. The amplifiers and subs will have a fiberglass shroud built for around them after I get everything mounted exactly where I want it as well. So pretty much everything will be hidden from view unless you look really hard, and know Scouts well.

Not much PG stuff, but some of these pieces were funded from the sale of my MS amplifiers on this board a while back...so it kinda works out. Don't ban me...I'm still sitting on a few 215's, an Outlaw, and a mile or two of wire with the PG logo on it...

Love the PVC pipe caps. I've used them before for components with great success.

Thanks for giving me that feedback! It was a brain-fart that I had, and I couldn't find anyone who had used them before to see if they worked out okay or not. I priced 6" schedule 80 ones...HOLY CRAP! Those mofos were around $75 each! I needed that extra thickness, though...but couldn't swing that price. I nearly had to cut through it to taper the hole enough to clear the speaker, but the schedule 40 caps did barely work.

Love the Scout... BADASS, not make some grills for the Waveguides and then repost some finished pics...

Can't wait

Thanks! I'm gonna run a grill across them, too. Just expanded metal and grill cloth.

way badass!!!