well i got this for an early graduation but i pretty much already knew i was getting it. i've already moved almost everything from my old mercedes so just thought i'd put some pics of all i've done so far.
my friend james has a tahoe all decked out so he came over and helped speed the process up a bit. but all these were not taken the same day.
clean hoe
projector foglights =)
underglows+headlights+fogs
only underglows 4" eclipse. ended up just screwing em into the metal of the car lol.
another.
another.
hidden
sound system in progress
james workin on the head unit
can't do any work without some good ol hambergers
couple wires..
suede amp rack 0_0
night picture of finished work
eventually i'll drill holes to hide the wires.. but i donno how that'll work with the tight wrapped suede.
head unit: alpine 9856
kicker 1000.1
and again
eclipse xa4000
close up
again
the 15" L5 =)
amp rack during daytime
and again.
further away lol
kicker
other side.
re wiring speaker. james hooked it up to my damn window module haha. guess he didn't know what he was doing after all.
bass knob + ipod cord
hidden cb radio
the mic comes out the side now
all hidden. cept the neon switch til i make the tape deck into a switch panel
I don't think I have ever heard a square sub before, how do they sound? Everything looks CLEEEEAN!! Hope everything else turns out as well as the rest.
well i got it for my 17th birthday and have been beating the hell out of it for almost a year and a half. i got a guy around my town who builds some insane box's to build mine to specs to fit in my old mercedes and it hits harder than you would think. i always wanted to get it metered but never really had a chance not that it would get anything amazing haha but just for my curiosity oh how bad i've been damaging my hearing.
So I am wondering, what do you have in mind to do next to it? Interior neons are pretty sweet. Dunno if you want to but I just got done painting my door panels and the duplicolor vinyl paint works pretty well.
yeah i'm not sure what i'm gonna do with the door panels. it depends on what i end up doing with the custom kick panels and all. so far i'm sticking with the tan interior since it goes well with the gray exterior. i have a pair of eclipse 6x9's i really wanna get fiberglassed into the rear door panels but considering my 0 experience with glassing thats looking unlikely.
but as for whats going in next its a looong list. but hopefully this summer i'll get most of the list done.
i'll sort it from top to what i will mostly likely add next to as many as i feel like listing lol.
-tint (5% all around cept 20% driver, passenger, rear hatch all on top of factory tint. 35% front windshield) -red top up front -fix the damn starting problem. starts 2nd time every time after 45min-2hr cold. either injectors or fuel pump. -exhaust -cold air intake (AEM Bruteforce) -white led all interior lighting -blue led gauges and all buttons that light up with some intense soldering lol -hids (thinkin 5500-7k. somewhere around there) -alpine flip out screen -yellow top in back -300A alternator -another yellow top -2 15" RD's Alpha v.2s -2 1750.1 rd -black suede headliner -7" cognito or 6" fabtech or might do 3" body get some running boards and do 33" grapplers -35" mud grapplers on 20" black rockstars -paint front chrome grill and bumper same color as truck. -black emblem -black angel eyes -black billit grill -pre runner bar with 3 8" hids -n-fab rear bumper bar?
its a long list and its gonna take a LONG time hahaha but its been about 3 weeks and i've gotten this far =)
lifted tahoes are what I live for. Unfortunately the one I was given is 2wd. Which makes me more inclined to just do a body lift on 33's and put some rear lockers on it which will get me through a decent amount of mud.
I've had 5% on my Benz for over 2 years and never had any cop say anything about it plus I drive with my windows down and ac off 99%of the time to save gas
hmm never thought of it that way. still seems like i use more gas when i use ac. plus the whole car rattles insane when all the windows are up.
oh also my eclipse 4 channel is f-ed. the 1st channel is like way louder than the 2nd and 3rd and the 4th channel doesn't even work which i've known about. i have no idea how the first channel is louder than the other 2??. the fader and balance on the head unit are at zero. i guess i'm gonna have to get a new speaker amp..
Yeehaw! You have one hell of a way to go. Might I suggest putting the pictures on cardomain.com, I am sure everyone would give you pretty good ratings.
About the drag thing, it's not true always! My civic only loses 3% efficiency with all 4 of the windows down and I think the air is like 6% loss. All depends on aerodynamics really.
yeah i have it on cardomain but i think its still on hidden or something? i'll go fix that.
but yeah well with the tahoe i actually alternate between ac windows up and no ac windows down. i always had the windows down in teh mercedes mainly because it didn't really have ac. haha oh well
