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8 minutes ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

@GTSBoy very nicely done, you also have too much time LOL.

My old white R33 had Focal 165K2 and I sandwiched 2x 16mm MDF sheets together and made something similar followed by painting them both in sound deadening. Door proceeded to get 2x layers of eDead (Dynamat knock off at the time).

This car, the fronts have had the stock plastic mounts attacked with a Dremel lol. I think I might get in touch with @Fhrx (hope you're still around Marty) to do my front stage and make a nice slim enclosure for a sub in the boot that also covers up all the SSR shit and surge tank lines.

I’m also looking at installing audio in the 33, so keen to see what you come up with (as I seem to copy your stuff)…

I was looking at one of those kicker 8” tube subs and mounting it above the fuel hat or maybe an under seat sub?

42 minutes ago, R3N3 said:

maybe an under seat sub?

Since you're not running a fixed bucket seat, you could fit 2x nice under seat subs.

My friend has a pair of Alpine PWE-S8 in his SWB Pajero and they actually sound decent. Of course you don't get the nice lows of a proper driver however they are quite musical for what they are.

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Oh yeah, cleaned the rear seats with the Bissell.

27 years of Japanese, Aussie shit, piss, grim, whatever has graced the rear seat.

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Haha, that's pretty rank! We actually picked up one of those just the other day. Waiting for some warmer days now so that the seats get a chance to dry whilst still in the car.

 

Kind of related: do you have any idea what the brown stains are on the carpets in Japanese cars? I have seen it on quite a few imports. Never noticed it on other cars or maybe just didn't pay attention. But, what the hell are people doing? I was thinking maybe it's chewing tobacco or something like that. Boggles my mind.

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8 minutes ago, soviet_merlin said:

do you have any idea what the brown stains are on the carpets in Japanese cars?

I dare say it's rust water or motor oil. Imagine going to Pick & Payless and going through a wrecking yard full of Commodores and Falcons. They're filthy at best and usually have a nice set of forklift marks under the chassis lol.

Our cars are no different back in Japan.

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21 minutes ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

I dare say it's rust water or motor oil. Imagine going to Pick & Payless and going through a wrecking yard full of Commodores and Falcons. They're filthy at best and usually have a nice set of forklift marks under the chassis lol.

Our cars are no different back in Japan.

Ooo, that sounds quite reasonable actually. You may be on to something there. I think I can live with that explanation :)

1 hour ago, GTSBoy said:

Bong water.

44 minutes ago, r32-25t said:

Coffee stains 

Right, so it's the Japanese smoking coffee in their bongs. That'd do it :D

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dunno if you’ve ever been there but they are obsessed with coffee, you go to the local convenience store and there’s at least 25 different types of cold coffee in the fridge and then there’s the other options as well 

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@R3N3 I run 2x Clarion marine amps (1x 4 channel, 1x mono block for the sub) they have a super small footprint and produce enough power for my modest audio. They now have a 5 channel marine amp, which wasn't available back then when I bought these.

Headunit has been upgraded (some features went backwards such as time alignment) with a Pioneer A5450BT. Has wireless Android auto. Reverse camera, went with an Amazon special 1080P one, as the Pioneer one is a CMOS sensor and would in theory output a lower quality image.

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And update on the SSR and surge tank wiring refresh 

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24 minutes ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

@R3N3 I run 2x Clarion marine amps (1x 4 channel, 1x mono block for the sub) they have a super small footprint and produce enough power for my modest audio. They now have a 5 channel marine amp, which wasn't available back then when I bought these.

Headunit has been upgraded (some features went backwards such as time alignment) with a Pioneer A5450BT. Has wireless Android auto. Reverse camera, went with an Amazon special 1080P one, as the Pioneer one is a CMOS sensor and would in theory output a lower quality image.

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And update on the SSR and surge tank wiring refresh 

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Nice! Those amps are compact!

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24 minutes ago, Murray_Calavera said:

What does the just send it button do?

Adjustable rev limiter 😎

7000, 7500, 8000, 8600rpm

The idea was for skid pans to set a "max" wheel speed. I found in 2nd at 8000rpm+ there was too much wheel speed to hold a slide with my crappy driving LOL.

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On 07/09/2023 at 8:25 PM, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

Since you're not running a fixed bucket seat, you could fit 2x nice under seat subs.

My friend has a pair of Alpine PWE-S8 in his SWB Pajero and they actually sound decent. Of course you don't get the nice lows of a proper driver however they are quite musical for what they are.

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I have a couple of spare 12" subs and amps laying around 👀

Modernisation of Shit Box Part 839231.

Since the rear trim was pulled off to run the reverse cam, new RCAs, tidying of wires and shit, I decided to sound deaden the rear quarters.

As you know, these shit boxes have 0 sound deadening on the rear panels, not even a simple oddly shaped pad to absorb any kind of vibration!

Bought some cheap eBay crap to do both the outer and inner skins. This should greatly reduce road noise, unpleasant noises made by the car externally, etc.

Not the best job, however you can't see it and the trim will be reinstalled after re-tinting is done.

Will be removing the rubbish 2000s super dark tint that has gone purple and going for a more legal tint, also means I can see when I'm at SMSP at night lol.

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very good very nice, i had the pleasure of running into dosepipe at WTAC, what followed was a passionate make out session.

car was nice too

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I was about to be double offended you turned down my lunch date offer... 

Also what rice body kit bits can we add to the missus Tiguan to make it look less mum spec? 

I see they do a rear spoiler add on which would help. 

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1 hour ago, ActionDan said:

...Also what rice body kit bits can we add to the missus Tiguan to make it look less mum spec? 

I see they do a rear spoiler add on which would help. 

I can't see how sticking stuff onto a VAG would make it look better

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