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Postby NeMo » Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:44 am

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: keep up the good work man..looking good
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Postby mikeb » Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:10 pm

The 6.5" midbass in their enclosures
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Installed back into their location under the front seats
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Door cards - mounting bracket for the 4" mid
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Used rubber tape to seal the mounting plate on to the door card
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Postby maxxis2112 » Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:16 pm

I love that rubber weather seal stuff :D
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Postby vauxhall » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:08 pm

rubber weather sealer stuff.. lol aka weather strip
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Postby maxxis2112 » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:18 pm

no no no.

Its called rubber weather sealer stuffs :lol:
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Postby vauxhall » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:19 pm

freak
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Postby maxxis2112 » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:24 pm

yeeaaaasss maaaaster

Sorry for the derailment Mike :D
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Postby MazdaFan » Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:28 am

What happenned to keeping it simple ? :lol:

Looking good Mike, can't wait to hear it.

I love those Polyglass 3 ways, and the Hertz sub.
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Postby mikeb » Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:11 am

LOL, it is simple.

Dude the splits are awesome - just the tweeter is hectic harsh at high volumes. I'm trying to think of ways to tone it down. It's already set to -6db on the x-over.

When I sit in the car when the engine is off anf the volume at a nice listening level it sounds so sweet, but when I'm driving and turn the volume up, the tweet dominates.
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Postby maxxis2112 » Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:14 am

Give the tweaters enough time to play in. They will mellow out a little.
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Postby mikeb » Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:34 am

I hear you there maxxis - thing is they need to mellow out a lot!
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Postby maxxis2112 » Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:47 am

PS if you still want the cable I took it out last night.

I have 2 lengths of +- 3M each

The other 2 lengths are about 5M each but Im keeping them to run the splits in the Civic.
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Postby mikeb » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:28 am

Hey thanks man - I actually got what I needed last week. I went to Communica down the road from my office and got some decent cable.

The sound is on hold for now. My wife and I are having our second child on Friday and my car needs to go to the dealer for a steering column malfunction. I cr@pped myself when the error message came up because I thought it was something I had done. Luckily a mate from school days is a BMW auto electrician down in Durbs. He said there is a technical bullitin out on the problem, it's common on E90's and got nothing to do with the sound install. He also reconned that the m/plan should be ok with my install if I haven't cut any wires. I'm still going to take the amp and sub out before it goes to the dealer next week - just to be on the safe side :wink: I wouldn't want to be coughing up for the repair to the steering column!!
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Postby maxxis2112 » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:46 am

Cool.

Good luck with the steering column thing :D

Don't let BMW see your thread here :lol:
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Postby MazdaFan » Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:16 pm

good luck for Friday Mike. Hope everything goes smoothly.
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