Had a customer bring in his 98 Chevy S10 pickup.
Had the stock deck in there and was putting in a Jensen reciever.
Customer purchased a kit for the replacement but it was the wrong one and budget was tight, so, instead of just throwing it in there, I made him a custom ABS dash kit.
Fit like a glove and you can barely notice it's not a regular kit.
Rags brought his 21' Weldcraft with a 450 hp 8.1 liter with a Hamilton 212 pump.
This unit didn't come with a stereo of any kind....so we needed to put something in that will piss off the other fishermen out there.....as well as give him the drivin' music to be able to get up some of those gnarly rapids.
Here is what we installed:
Clarion M309 Marine CD/MP3 Player with USB/iPod inputs
Memphis Marine MR 5.750 5 Channel Amp (80x4, 350x1)
Memphis Power Reference 6.5" Coaxial Speakers up front x 4
Memphis Marine MM62 6.5" Coaxial Speakers in the rear
Digital Designs 12" 1000 series Woofer in a custom made ported enclosure
We were originally going to just put the Power Reference speakers in, but then I remember I had the Marine speakers for the golf cart project....so we used those.
So technically, power-wise, this boat is at:
50x4 up front, 80x2 in the rear and 350x1 for the subwoofer.
The fronts and rear sound perfect...and since it's an aluminum boat, projects the sound all around and does a good job of it.
The DD sub fit perfectly under the boat's front un-used cabin area, and the port loaded off the front live-well perfectly.....deep deeeeep bass inside and it carries VERY well outside...shaking things inside the garage while we were tuning it.
All in all, this boat system does exactly what Rags wanted it to do, all while only installing a very minimal footprint of electronics.
Had a customer that needed a deck installed, as well as the steering wheel controls integrated into the new unit.
Simple little install...did it on-site at the customer house.
Cheers
Phil brought his Porsche Targa back for an upgrade.
He loved the way the Memphis MClass speakers sounded (who wouldn't) but he wanted more.
Being that it's a sudo-convertible, adding an amp to boost the speakers to a higher, crisper,
un-distorted sound is the next step.
Naturally, the Porsche would only get the best....so we threw in an MClass 4 channel Amp (MC4.50) This is giving the speakers 50 watts at minimum to power through the road noise and wind.
This is exactly what the Targa needed....but I'm thinking he might be back to add a sub :) :)
While I was in there, he asked me to take a look at the 'stock-ish' alarm that was installed...giving him sporadic false alarms throughout the night. I located the 'brain' back in a cubby hole, un-zip tied and just rattling around....Phil no longer has the remotes for it, and the
company has long been out of business. So I yanked that and a bunch of other wires that were just chilling in the boot, attached to the fuse block and battery....but to nothing else.
So....moral of the story....if you want really good sound and your car needs to lose some (wire) weight.....Come to Trax Customs :)
Well, shortly after the first system went in the 'dairy truck' last year, the truck took a crap on the owner (thanks to a mouse in the fuse box). So....now we have almost the same components but a different truck.
2009 GMC Sierra
Pioneer 3200 Deck with Steering Wheel Controls
Memphis Audio 500 watt Street Reference Mono Amp
12" JL Audio Subwoofer in an old body style GM sub box
Put the amp behind the seat (back carpet was already cut for an amp.....well, chewed up)
Bass Knob was put down low
Deck pushed the stock speakers better than the stock deck could
All in all....good sounding system
Had a customer bring in a Saturn that already had a nice Alpine Headunit and some aftermarket speakers.....just needed some bump.
Digital Designs 500 package fit them perfectly for what they wanted and their budget.
Digital Designs 500 series 12" woofer placed into a perfectly matched ported enclosure that's finished off with their logo stitched in red, provides just enough bass when it's put on a CM600 amp....this little monoblock pushes plenty of power to this setup and the customer was happy. Mounted the amp on the back seat and hide the wires the best the car would allow it.
Cheers!
Had a 2003 Subaru WRX come in for an amp install.
Old school Eclipse amp to push the front speakers and rear Custom JL Sub.
Installed the amp under the seat and called it a day.
Had a client come in that was concerned about his stock sound system (amplified Focal speakers....if you call that stock)(owner didn't know that Focals were installed).
He's a true audiophile at heart....so Hybrid Audio Technologies is the first speaker that popped into my head. Wasn't sure about what model to go with, since it's a convertible; but the owner didn't want to install a subwoofer, so Clarus was the choice; they have a lower range of frequencies that they can play...so we squeezed the more amount of mid-bass out of them as we could.
Owner had pre-selected an amazing deck, the Alpine CDA-117....truely an audiophiles headunit of choice.....more audio tweaking options that most need.....just enough for this project.
The doors got a 3 layer sound deadening system (inner door skin, middle door skin, and inside door panel) to help the mid bass out as well as block some road noise.
All of this was pushed by the Arc Audio KS Mini, 2 channel amp....perfect size to fit under the seat where most other amps wouldn't dream of fitting.
So Ryan the Painter (read with the theme of Bob the Builder in your head) has been busy on his truck....and is finally ready for some Trax love (minus the headlights we did).
I've ordered a JVC Navigation DVD player that's going to have SD, iPod, and Aux inputs, Navigation, Back up Camera, HD Radio and Satellite Radio installed. Round 1.
Round 2 will consist of a rhino lined/sealed box with dual 10" Memphis subs getting a healthy 300 watts RMS each...so that should take care of the low end.
For now, he's been painting all the interior parts to match his freshly painted two-toned exterior!!
Sick truck!
It's only been 5 months...haahha....FINALLY found time to finish everything in this bad boy.
New Memphis 4 channel amp pushing the fronts and maybe some outside wake tower speakers down the road.
New Memphis Monoblock amp pushing the Memphis 10" woofer in the custom made center console.
Made a little amp rack to house everything and we're done....can't believe it took this long.....
Everything bumped pretty good, even with the woofer loading off the rear wall so close.
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