Just curious how and where everyone has their amps mounted. I have mine hanging from the package tray, and I am fabbing up some plexi stand offs (to replace the real trick pipe fittings currently there)
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01-14-2008
Just curious how and where everyone has their amps mounted. I have mine hanging from the package tray, and I am fabbing up some plexi stand offs (to replace the real trick pipe fittings currently there)
01-14-2008
Mounted to a board then to the back of my box.
The below is for others reading, not you. I know you aren't doing this.
NEVER mount an amp directly to sheet metal without something isolating the case with somehting or you'll get a ground loop and hear all kinds of noise.
01-14-2008
I have yet to get a ground loop from mounting to a metal panel, when I was competing, all my amps (lanzar opti 50c's the real ones) were mounted to the tailgate. I usually do have a piece of plexi between just to get some air, but haven't always. Keep in mind the screws will be touching metal, and the amp chassis. A good amp will not be chassis grounded, a cheap one probably is
01-14-2008
this is the spacer I made quickly tonight, I will paint it to match the car I think and see how it looks
01-14-2008
I just use 1/4" thick wall small piping to raise mine up a little bit and to route wires under neath the amp to clean it up alil bit. Then make a trim panel to make it all look built in.
01-14-2008
I am going to build a nice cover, but that's after I get another amp to run subs (the hidden bazooka just isn't quite cutting it lol)
01-14-2008
(in sarcastic tone) somehow I don't believe that statement, haha.
01-14-2008
hey I'm not the installer, oh wait I kind of am. Why is it the installers car has the worst looking system (anyone ever notice that?)Originally Posted by s1795so2
01-14-2008
he whoah I was talking bout the bazooka amp dude, so don't get all offensive.
01-14-2008
lol it was free I swear
01-14-2008
I wasn't really referring to yours (mainly mine hence no pics it's too fugly) when I worked for the stereo store in MI there was only 1 installer who's car was done, and he didn't do it
01-14-2008
what was his motivation to be an installer then? I can admit that working on systems and cars all day long gets me tired and unmotivated to work on my own, but hey at least when I am happy with equipment I finish it and make it nice.
01-15-2008
he was a premadonna (and all we let him do was basic head units as anything else would come back) I have all kinds of things to do to mine, but when I open the trunk to start all the will leaves my body for some reason lol
01-15-2008
haha, because installers that have done actual work, and installed a bunch of stuff become burnt out and have to force themselves to be motivated to work on their own car. One of my friends, Dave Johnson, the guy that built all the kicker vehicles, like the bronco and the ranger. He doesn't even touch his vehicles anymore, JD, does all of his installs. Although JD works at GAS, now, so I don't know who does his installs anymore.
01-15-2008
gravity tends to hold my amp down
01-15-2008
gravity? what is that and where can I get? haha jk.
01-15-2008
Mine's screwed to the top of my box. Works well and comes in just below the underside of the package tray.
01-15-2008
I was really good friends with Tim Maynor
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and after we finished that truck he had 3 more cars to do (we worked on the rf van with the wolf on the side) not one of the guys that did them wanted to even see a radio for over a month
01-15-2008
That is awesome, that red suv in the pic, didn't it have windows that would go from clear to black at the flip of a switch.
Jd rebuilt the digital designs toyota for sema, while I was living in edmond.
here is some pics of it before it was redone. I got my hands in on it a couple of times, but I was busy building a Jl audio porsche for a local shop at the time. It had 4 8's that was so loud, I don't even know how to explain it. I will have to dig and find the pics of it at sema.
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01-15-2008
yeah the side windows were electrostaic (I think that's what it was called) so you could see the amps there, the fun part was the windshield was a piece of sheetmetal, and we drove the thing into his show room via camera
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