Phoenix Gold Phorum

Okay, I've got one too. I bought those Lanzar Opti's from WashWithGasoline (thanks a lot, I already had amps, then you go put nostalgia on this board). I ditch the old stuff, buy his, coulda/shoulda stopped there. Then I get it in my head, that if 3 amps are cool an amp for each speaker is cooler.

End result? I now have 9 total amps either in my garage, on their way being delivered, or at Jim Truett's evil scientist lab getting worked on.

Since these things are in various stages of not-very-pretty-ness, I was thinking instead of a re-powdercoat, to go anodized instead. Then, one of the amps I purchased came in, and it's got nothing at all but a re-silkscreen on the bare aluminum. So, given these are originally blue, aluminum underneath, and my car is gray, what would you do with them? Even though I am going to take the best chassis and ditch the rest, I have various options.

1. Leave them a little "beat" looking for "original old school"
2. Repaint them original color
3. Re-anodize them original blue
4. Re-anodize them to match my car
5. Strip them to aluminum

Here's a pic of the bare one, next to a pristine example of the blue on a cooling fan, next to a picture of some of the "beat-down, scratched and chipped" look that all the amps have.



Here's an example of the chipped look all the amps have



Here's an overview of some of the amps in my possession

Id leave em original. But Im a purist

Anything but chrome... (but you knew that)

Chrome bleah, but the bare aluminum isn't too bad. I have definitely put the cart before the horse on this one, I can barely fit 3 of them much less 6.

kinda a purist myself as well...
If they have already been anodized, they can not get anodized again... if they have been PC'ed, they can not get anodized...
You can PC over PC, but it's not recomended...
First remove the PC and then PC is the recomended way to go about it.

At least that's what I have heard/learned in my travles of looking for solutions for my amps in the past.

hope this has been of help

I guess raw wouldnt be to bad but 99% of clearcoats yellow. Even the ones that say they wont.

I like the opti's but I can't say I could see going through that much trouble for them.

Well just got back from Jim's. Heard from some Opti fans on other forums and apparently, the "stripped" 200 isn't stripped, the first Lanzar Opti's were made that way. When Lanzar realized they couldn't get consistency in the aluminum coloring they painted them blue.

This story jibes with what Jim saw when he opened it up and compared it to another 200 I had given him. The stripped 200 has a slightly different board, earlier "revision" per some codes inside, and even a less robust power supply than the blue one. In effect, I had bought this amp to pair with another 200 and now it doesn't pair at all.

Stupid hobby. I'm thinking of giving up and finding a different line altogether. Jim suggests 6 RF Punch amps instead since they're tiny when they don't have their end caps, and therefore give me back some precious room in my laughably small "trunk".

I still think you need a Ti900.7...

I thought about it and frankly I love the look, the built-in crossovers, everything excetp that it's so new looking. I'm too old for those young whippersnapper Ti amps.

Those BBQ RF's, that's a different story. Old as the hills.

Get those NT-ense Orion Amps from ebay!

Well. I don't think anyone on here would be willing to trade me a 900.7 for a combo of these amps:

500
2 200
3 100
3 50

In various states of working and non-working.

joerg wrote:Get those NT-ense Orion Amps from ebay!

Joerg, you probably have extra 900.7's laying around. Want to trade my Focals for one!!!???