Mrd6's Walled Isuzu Rodeo

dude that is awesome ! You going to put LED's to light up the amp guts at night?

Wow, thats pretty sick... Definitely need a demo of this one!!!

It still needs some work but you got it! haha

Looks great dude!

Thanks man!

dude that is awesome ! You going to put LED's to light up the amp guts at night?

Red LEDs were definitely in the original plan but its pretty far down the list of things to do...tbh I may be rebuilding by the time I would be getting to it haha

Not sure why I am up still but figured I'd put a few more pics up. Views from the outside, dirty car though lol





And the beginning of the front door panel build pics

Making a template for the door pod backing



transferring them over to some of that pink styrofoam stuff





cut out the foam and started to add pieces and shape it to get ready for glass



More foam went on after ^that picture was taken and then the foam parts were wrapped with plastic wrap so the resin and glass wouldn't stick to it. Then stretched the cloth and here is how they looked after the first resin layer. No glass yet.

yo that looks sick, more C pillar walls are popping up.
looks loud

Sweet...... Nice work .

Great work man!! I'm a fan of c-pillars and yours looks clean. Love the idea of showing the amp guts. Do you have plexi over it? Looks like you went a little forward of the c-pillar in the finish pics?
Very good looking install though, I look forward to seeing it at a show. You going to the show in Marysville on the 20th? Also, do you have access to a meter or do you want to get it metered? Looks like it's loud.

yo that looks sick, more C pillar walls are popping up.
looks loud

Thanks haha hopefully it is, still have yet to get metered though so we will see

Sweet...... Nice work .

Thanks, I appreciate it man.

Great work man!! I'm a fan of c-pillars and yours looks clean. Love the idea of showing the amp guts. Do you have plexi over it? Looks like you went a little forward of the c-pillar in the finish pics?
Very good looking install though, I look forward to seeing it at a show. You going to the show in Marysville on the 20th? Also, do you have access to a meter or do you want to get it metered? Looks like it's loud.

Yep, each of the circles has an acrylic circle flush mounted in from the back. Definitely a bit forward from the actual c-pillar so there is no real back seats but the false floor is raised enough that small people (girls lol) can sit in the back relatively comfortably. For sure planning on going to the Marysville show but would love to play with a meter a bit before hand just to get some experience with it.

I have a meter and can at least get you tested to see where you're at. I live in Puyallup and work in downtown Seattle. If you can come to me, you can get on the meter.

RRR37 wrote:I have a meter and can at least get you tested to see where you're at. I live in Puyallup and work in downtown Seattle. If you can come to me, you can get on the meter.

That would be awesome! I will have to get back to you about that soon. The subs started being a bit weird today so I need to get that figured out first but then I'll be all over it.

So I can best describe the sub stage as hiccuping? It is only at high volumes at low frequencies when it happens. Like when everything in the car is getting rattled to death, then it will cut out for a split second then back on then off kind of randomly but in quick succession. It basically seems like a loose connection that is coming undone somewhere so I need to try to track that down. I am thinking it is the RCAs coming loose, they didn't fit particularly tight when I first put them on and I seem to remember reading about someone else having a similar issue with the RCAs and a sundown amp. So hopefully thats it (fingers crossed) should be able to look at that this weekend sometime. Then once that gets squared away its video and meter time!

Almost sounds like clipping to me. I had similar problems back in the day when I was running a single 18" btl off of a hifonics 1600.

^thought it could be clipping too at first but then i played the same song today that i first noticed it on (mi casa su casa the decaf version) at the some volume, settings, gain etc and it didnt do it which makes me think it is something else? We will see. If it comes back ill take a video and then change out to different rcas and see what happens

Voltage drop?

both tests were done at idle and didnt drop below 13.3 from what i could see on my volt meter. Its definitely a weird problem, I need to make sure I get a video of it when/if it comes back

Finished Doors!!!!!

lookin good man, I like this build. Gives me ideas... You coming to the comp on the 20th?

Thanks dude, glad I can inspire ideas haha. Yep ill be there on the 20th. Depending if I can find time to meet up with RRR37 before then or not the 20th may be the first time this thing gets metered. Pretty excited and a bit nervous

Doors came out nice! Hope to get a demo of this soon!

damn i cant wait to here this ! great work !

Emery.H wrote:Doors came out nice! Hope to get a demo of this soon!

If you come to the show on the 20th you got it!

Putting the Xp3000 in for some more juice

The beginning of a little box to hold it in the back. Made from scrap wood laying around in about 30 minutes lol. Its only temporary until i take the time to build the bank in the back for two more so i dont mind it not looking that great lol



next to the battery



and after the bed liner



Looks better than i expected in the end, still need to get a shot of it actually in the truck though.

But i can go full tilt now with almost zero voltage drop!

Zero voltage drop would be awesome! Is that at idle, or revving?

I guess zero is a bit of an exaggeration, Im just excited by how much better it is now than it used to be! haha

Still havent played with it alot but revving it stays above 14 (charging at 14.4) on almost every song i have tried. At idle it will drop to the 13s on really long low notes. This is of course time limited because my alt cant keep the batteries charged endlessly but it will hold well full tilt when revving for whole songs.

First hairtrick attempt, pretty happy with the results so far and there is still work to be done on this (not completely sealed off)

nice job dude ! pretty impressive. Can't wait to hear this thing on the 20th!

Dude sweet