Phoenix Gold Phorum

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:48 am**

This is a little Install for my brothers 97 maxima. consists of a kenwood x590 (same deck i use, 24 bit DAC's yo) rsd 6.5's in the factory door locations, rsd 6" coaxs in the rear deck, and a SVC ti 12 (thanks AZscooby)

amps are a XS2500 (thanks Cecil, i took your suggestion and put the nicer guts in the nicer case) for the TI, and a XS2300 for the fronts.

sounds really really nice. im actually a little jealous. the ti is a great sub. snappier then the rsd's, although the extreme lows don't crush you the same.

the XS's have factory rnets which i haven't swapped out which are set to 85hz, but i don't know if i need to since the kenwoods crossovers 18db work great.

the 6.5's are crossed over at 40hz through the deck, and the sub is crossed over at 60 from the deck, and then again at 85 on the amp.

most of the pictures didn't come out because it was 11pm last night when we finally got it to a drivable stage. so all you get today is pics of the sub box and build. but much more to come.

the box is a tank. i had to make a recess in the back so the box would clear the steel rods that hold the trunk open, which added to the box's strength

one last thanks to AVICJR for the .25" t-nuts he sent me. they are the tornado style ones from partsexpress and too big for most subs (any subs i have used at least) but work amazing for bolting the baffle board to the frame of the car, and then bolting the sub box to that! there are 4 bolts holding the baffle board to the car, and 6 keeping the box to that. the box doesn't actually touch the floor of the trunk at all. (which i will show once we get pics in decent light)

PICS!

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:51 am**

MOAR PICS! forgot to mention the neons. they sit just inside the lip of the skipass cut out out of view. just the right amount of glow at night with the arm rest down. when the sub is really pounding you can see the light reflecting off it and it is saWeet.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:12 am**

looks good kemosabe

lets see sum more

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:40 am**

Bfowler wrote: the box is a tank.

No fucking shit !

Wanna build me a house one day?

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:07 am**

If there was a contest for box strength, you would win hands down my friend....

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:46 pm**

nice job, thats how im gonna do my lex with the elite 12d

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:42 pm**

Good hell, there must be 15 lbs of screws in there alone!! Well done!!

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:34 pm**

oh LOL @ barcode on the back. Mine had those lol

Posted: **Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:10 am**

Thanks for the kind words on the box. that ti really gives it a beatting hooked up the the 2500.

here are a couple more. these were from my brothers camera phone.

we had a little hickup where i killed the 2300, so its on its way to see cecial. more pics with a decent camera soon to come

Posted: **Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:17 am**

Holy crap, that's one hell of an amp rack. You are mounting everything to rails??? Awesome!

Posted: **Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:22 am**

Don't put the tweets too far from the mids....

Nice work, dude.

Posted: **Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:29 am**

lol, thanks ryan.
thats where the factory tweeter hole in the door panel happens to be.

one tweet is wired out of phase, so it images surprisingly well. the whole thing actually blends together amazing.

tom...that will look even more impressive when the links are mounted on it. (they bolt up where those gold screws are pointing in

Posted: **Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:03 am**

awsome BRIAN...

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:21 am**

Got a chance to work on the trunk more this weekend (now that i finally got the xs2500 back and working)

some close ups of the wire distribution also

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:27 am**

more:

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:01 am**

Clean up those wires dude

Man I love those "single amp look" setups. The old Rockford and Kicker grille amps that mounted into a single unit are what got me really excited in Car Audio in the first place.

Is it just the flash or is the coloring a bit off on those XSlinks?

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:25 am**

nice job brian...keep it up!

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:04 pm**

the color looks more similar in even light, the flash didn't help. but they are a little off. The Links are all brand new, where as the 2300 has been in cars since 98, and i don't even know how long on the 2500.

also, i cleaned up the wires after i attached them to the amps! (i couldn't take a picture with the amps already bolted on.)

thanks for the kind words. my brother is way excited about this system. he drives everywhere he goes with the armrest down

Posted: **Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:13 pm**

Wakeup wrote:nice job brian...keep it up!

WURD!! That looks like a nice start to a damn clean install!

Posted: **Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:22 pm**

Are those actual sections of heatsink or did you fab them up? They look real good.

Posted: **Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:28 am**

GlasSman wrote:Are those actual sections of heatsink or did you fab them up? They look real good.

They are link sections sold seperatley from the amps. I had a link with my pair of XS2500's. Look great as one huge amp. XS amps are quite the bargain these days, seems nobody wants them.

Posted: **Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:47 am**

Yep^ Except me apperently! i'm cool with $30-40 xs2300s....

Posted: **Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:27 am**

Did his car have the Blose stereo or the other crappy stereo? Do you have any pics off the deck?

Posted: **Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:42 am**

it had the bose, and i will get some pics of the deck for you.

Posted: **Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:29 am**

Nice Box!

I like the Tiff dist blk. An other line I still have piecey parts from.

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