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Finally starting a build log for my 05 Monte Carlo LT. A little bit about the car: I decided to go with the red/black/chrome theme, and began adding little accents soon after I got the car.
Red stripe:
Seat/steering wheel covers:
Carbon fiber Di-Noc /vent trim:
Brake calipers. While working on painting the front two calipers, I did a stupid thing and jacked up both wheels. The tire jacks caved as I was taking off one of the front wheels and the weight of the car was resting on one corner of the jacks and the tire. See here :
Yeah the imaging and low end was great. I just noticed an area of trouble but apparently I'm the only one that's mentioned them. I've been having a hard time describing to Ally exactly what it was. It's a "lemme think about this" kinda thing. I'll let her know via pm so I don't stir up any differing opinions here. I was seriously having a hard time describing it to her last night. I'm like Dr. House. Takes an unrelated observation to trigger my brain into locking down the problem at hand.
We figured it out and I agree with him. It's not so much apparent in my comp tune as it is in my daily tune, which is what I demoed.
I think I've spent a total of 5 minutes in the drivers seat since fixing the midbass lol. I don't doubt there are a couple of things that need tweaking now. Thanks for the comments guys.
One thing I will say though, which I'm sure some guys on here would be more than happy to agree with, is that my install isn't the cleanest or best looking and idgaf this time around. This car has been my "sound first, aesthetics later" getting-the-hang-of-it car and it shows. I like to call it the ten-foot car.
One thing I will say though, which I'm sure some guys on here would be more than happy to agree with, is that my install isn't the cleanest or best looking and idgaf this time around. This car has been my "sound first, aesthetics later" getting-the-hang-of-it car and it shows. I like to call it the ten-foot car.
The rolled and zipped trailer wire under my drivers seat resembles the 50 miles of speakerwire Ally had going to her subwoofer at the beginning of this thread. My attitude is as long as it's safe and hidden who cares how it looksErin gets it
Makin me feel better guys. Thanks, keep it up :thumbsup:
So upon further review - on my daily tune at least - it seems that the driver side kick still resonates a bit more than the right side. Whoops! Nobody told me at the meet... fortunately I just got a hefty shipment of deadener, so once the weather permits I'll be hacking the car apart and doing some touch ups again.
And indeed I do need to do a bit more EQ tweaking. On my daily tune I have the mids and highs a bit quieter than the midbass and sub, which is what I want (ACDC and heavier rock would be unbearable at high volume otherwise), yet I am still hearing some hotness in some lower frequency and somewhere around 1.5-2.5k is bright.
Hoping to get it dialed in a bit better before the show in Lebanon this weekend and go from there. I think it's safe to say that both my daily and comp tunes are at a good 85% of where I want them to eventually be.
I've heard a girls ears are more sensitive and pick up on odd sounds easier. I never heard the kicks resonating but my ears are also a lot more weathered than yours. I'm sure everyone else that got in your car also has some sort of hearing damage of some sorts too. They are pretty sensitive to the frequency range you say your system is hot in though and it all makes sense now. You having small hands and arms is making me jealous. I coulda used you when making a gain setting in a really tight place the other day.
in general, women's ears are more sensitive to certain frequencies. Their hearing sharpens in certain frequencies and their hair color darkens after the birth of their first child. They are also more sensitive to certain smells like char and smoke. It all has to do with raising a child in a primitive society. They are more sensitive to the sounds of childrens voices and crying, and they are more likely to be the first to smell the beginnings of a fire. Smell being a huge part of taste, it's believed this is why women like more of the near-burnt scrapings from making scrambled eggs.
I am in no way directing this to anyone, just pointing out the narrow differences about how a woman's perceptions and how her hearing may adapt after childbirth
I am in no way directing this to Erin, just pointing out the narrow differences about how a woman's perceptions and how her body may adapt after childbirth
I actually didn't mean to use Erin's name, or anyone's really, and I have always had it in my head that he is of the male gender.
It's just really hard to be good at the internet when you're bored and drunk.
Looking at the second half of the thread now and I do have a suggestion on the e-brake. I've seen people completely remove it for asthetics and replace it with a hand actuator. That brake is there for a reason and should be engaged when parked on an incline. Afterall, there's only a little tooth keeping your car from rolling when in park! Plus I'd hate to see you get hurt (or killed) because your brakes went out and couldn't hit the e-brake. I've seen brakes go out so it can happen to anyone!!! Otherwise I really like the direction you've gone with the install. Some of us may be hard on you from time to time but only because we care for your safety and wellbeing.
Seriously! You guys keep me my day interesting lol.
So if a womans hearing is better, maybe they also speak in frequencies we are immune... I mean 'unable' to hear...?
This would explain alot for us fellas who never seem to hear what our wives/gf's are saying especially while distracted-like when we're playing sports, watching sports or in fact staring them stark in the eye.
Ally heard her kicks resonating when no one else did. She heard my door panels resonating when I couldn't. You can feel them vibrating but didn't know it was audible. In other words, Ally is a great tool for picking out subtle stuff that is there but hard to hear with ears that have been beat to ****. Oh, I'm holding back on giving her a hard time in a playful manner.
particularly on an automatic? the only time I have ever used a parking brake on an auto is when I was jacking up the front end as an extra safety for rolling back in combo with chocks. even then I tend to forget to use it.
Now, my wife's jeep which is a manual; every single time I shut it off.
Or maybe I would not be very popular because I could hear things that most 40 year olds can't anymore? And thus give a lot lower scores than expected... Could go either way I suppose. I'd also require a very different seating position than everybody else lol. I would like to judge at some point but at least not until I get a little more experience.
I'd also require a very different seating position than everybody else lol. I would like to judge at some point but at least not until I get a little more experience.
I for one would welcome a judge under 6' for a change. Every person who has judged my car is 6' or over, and while I have a tune for the taller crowd now, I have observed that the findings they make are not always the same in my seating position and tune. In a couple previous comps, I had them judge in my seating position when I did not have separate presets, but the chiropractor jokes and what not always came in . Makes me wonder if I was penalized for making them scrunch and crouch down. I also have aimed my full range drivers optimal to what I tested for my height, so would welcome your opinion if you ever make it over to the west coast since I don't get very many folks with critical ears that can comfortably sit the way I do.
The parking pawl is usually relatively heavy duty. It's just a pawl or hammer like shape that engages the outer diameter of what looks like a very dull gear. If its engaged while the car is in motion it just clicks like crazy as the "teeth" kick the hammer back. Once it's locked into a tooth it's in pretty good.
The problem comes from slippery situations. The car can be in park but if just one drive wheel loses traction the car will roll assuming it doesn't have a posi which very few FWD cars have.
I set the ebrake before letting off the main brakes when on a hill to take some of the load off the transmission. It's not necessary though. I've had to use it several times over the years to stop the car during a brake failure. I used to use it at the track to help the main brakes hold the car back when building boost at the line until it twisted the backing plate and entire brake assembly off the axle.
The parking brake should be relatively easy and cheap to relocate. You can put it on the left side of the drivers seat Porsche style. Check out the old one to get an idea of how much cable travel is required to set the brake. You can go to a junkyard and find a lever style parking brake with about the same stroke and leverage. Since the cable goes out and under the car, there's usually plenty of cable to put the lever farther back but you will have to pull it out of its current route.
The parking brake should be relatively easy and cheap to relocate. You can put it on the left side of the drivers seat Porsche style. Check out the old one to get an idea of how much cable travel is required to set the brake. You can go to a junkyard and find a lever style parking brake with about the same stroke and leverage. Since the cable goes out and under the car, there's usually plenty of cable to put the lever farther back but you will have to pull it out of its current route.
Maybe I'm not envisioning this properly, but if I put it there, how am I supposed to move the seat up/down/forward/back if it's located on the seat?
I wouldn't know which type of lever to get or how to extend it to where I need it to be etc etc. Basically I have absolutely no idea how to go about doing it.
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