Here's my '96 at a recent stereo competition. I hit 149.1 decibels and took home two 1st place trophies. Keep in mind this video was taken from a digital camera.

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y55/MONEYMARK23/?action=view&current=DSCN0902.flv

ORIGINAL: moneymark25

Here's my '96 at a recent stereo competition. I hit 149.1 decibels and took home two 1st place trophies. Keep in mind this video was taken from a digital camera.

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y55/MONEYMARK23/?action=view&current=DSCN0902.flv


them are masive cones if ever .. very cool ....
it took the whole back seat and trunk?

You got to show this to Fox.
She may want that in her Allante.




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Actually, the wall takes up the whole back seat area. The trunk has another wall I built that houses the amps and batteries. And I still have some trunk space left. Here's a few pictures:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y55/MONEYMARK23/CADDY%20WORK%20LOG/DSCN2636.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y55/MONEYMARK23/CADDY%20WORK%20LOG/DSCN2635.jpg

Hey Mark...

Congrats - nice win, nice ride...

Where was the competition?

You got lots of room in that trunk - more....

maybe some sights to go with the sounds.

Thanks. That competition was in Baraboo, WI but there are many others across the country.There's a list on this website if anyone else is interested:

http://www.soundoff.org/cgi-bin/schedule/display.cgi?search=1&display_all=1

I work a lot with sport compacts - it is always great to see a "full-bodied" vehicle in comps...

Any other mods other than ICE?

What do you mean by ICE?

I.C.E.

In Car Electronics...

from sport compact - I spend way toooooo much time there...

That deville NEEDS to be slammed... (lowered)

Not much besides the audio upgrades. I haven't had much time to mess with it, I have two other cars that I'm also working on. I have a '98 Olds Aurora and a '79 Chevy Malibu. But the Caddy was just purchased about 2-3 months ago for $1,000. I put a 200 amp alternator in it, two runs of 1/0 gauge wire going back to the trunk, three Stinger batteries, 15% bronze metallic window tint, and a fresh tune-up. Now my next step is the rims. I'm stuck between putting some chrome 18-20" rims on it, or just getting some Vogue tires for the factory chromes. I don't have a ton of money at the moment with all these cars.

ORIGINAL: foxpaws

I.C.E.

In Car Electronics...

from sport compact - I spend way toooooo much time there...

That deville NEEDS to be slammed... (lowered)



hey Fox,

I am gone need a new course in this new car linguo .. any ideas where one can pick up a linguo aide?

ORIGINAL: moneymark25

Actually, the wall takes up the whole back seat area. The trunk has another wall I built that houses the amps and batteries. And I still have some trunk space left. Here's a few pictures:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y55/MONEYMARK23/CADDY%20WORK%20LOG/DSCN2636.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y55/MONEYMARK23/CADDY%20WORK%20LOG/DSCN2635.jpg



nice job .. in $$$'s, what are we talking about?

BTW, recommend you INSULATE the terminals in the trunk AMPs ..


http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y55/MONEYMARK23/CADDY%20WORK%20LOG/DSCN2635.jpg

Ha Ha, gotta find a kid with nothing to do to explain it all.

Which terminals are you refering to?
As far as $$$ goes, I get everything dirt cheap, usually 50% off retail price. I paid $140 for the alternator, $75 for each battery, $300 for each amp, $100 for each subwoofer, $125 for 60 feet of 1/0 gauge power/ground cable, I built the walls, and I paid about $125 for the Alpine head unit that's 60 watts x 4. The biggest thing I got raped on was the window tint, $249!! Not bad though, I go to these shows and crush these people that spent thousands of dollars on their systems. Feels good.

Well, I went with the Vogue tires. Had to keep it Cadillac. Here's a picture:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y55/MONEYMARK23/CADDY%20WORK%20LOG/CADDYWITHVOGUES.jpg

I love the old school look of the Vogues - plus it looks like you have 18s now...

Thanks. I know, the old blackwalls that were on here really made it look like less of a Caddy. Now I can ride with pride.

Nice lac and sick system! Let me ask a question, if you don't mind, how did you install your alpine HU? harnesses or hard wire?

I used a wire harness. I can't quite remember which one but I picked it up at best buy. They couldn't believe which harness the car needed, I don't believe my car was in the year range for that harness but it was the one I needed. I believe it was a 32 pin single plug harness but I can't remember for sure. Once I wired it up to the harness there was no power going to the head unit so I ran new power wires, the 12v switched to the pink ignition wire under the dash, and the 12v constant to the battery. Now it works great!

that walls pretty nice. check out this..
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb283/brasco_07/labordaymyrtlebeeeotch043.jpg
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb283/brasco_07/dragginpic.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRFC5ahAh4w
been workin on it about 3 yrs.

I got 2 15" DJL and a BOSS 3500 Watt Mono amp in my other car which I'm going to put into my Eldo when it gets a little warmer. I'm gonna run 2 Gauge wire and wire them down to 1 ohm. I'm gonna keep the box sealed however because i think it sounds a lot more clean and deeper than when it is ported, although that's just my opinion. And i also want to sound proof the trunk
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&productId=100012574&categoryID=5 03272
so that when the bass hits i can hear it and not a whole bunch of rattling from every piece of metal in the car. You bought the GM 1988+ wiring harness rite ? because I need to buy one too and that's the one I'm guessing it is since the other one is for power speakers only.

ORIGINAL: stomper

ORIGINAL: moneymark25

Actually, the wall takes up the whole back seat area. The trunk has another wall I built that houses the amps and batteries. And I still have some trunk space left. Here's a few pictures:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y55/MONEYMARK23/CADDY%20WORK%20LOG/DSCN2636.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y55/MONEYMARK23/CADDY%20WORK%20LOG/DSCN2635.jpg



nice job .. in $$$'s, what are we talking about?

BTW, recommend you INSULATE the terminals in the trunk AMPs ..


http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y55/MONEYMARK23/CADDY%20WORK%20LOG/DSCN2635.jpg








I am sure your system bangs, but you really nned to heed the advice and clean up the trunk area some. It would be a shame to loose you car due to fire because exposed wires are running loose.

IMO if you don't mind 1. Battery boxessince you know how to build a decent wall. 2. Reroute the 1/0 GA. to be hidden. 3. Countershink your Fosgate T's into the wall.

Now most of this cosmetic, but I am sure it will help at shows down the road in terms of presentation. Nicely done @ 149db's

Now most of this cosmetic, but I am sure it will help at shows down the road in terms of presentation. Nicely done @ 149db's

The OP's setup is for SPL so it makes no difference how nice it looks. Most all out SPL setups are actually ugly as hell by most peoples standards and considered unbelieveable fire hazards to most ppl in the 12 volt industry. But they get loud. Case and point I went to dbdrag world finals in 2007 with my 97 explorer which was running over 20 000 watts off of two batteries with 40 runs of 1/0 and not a single fuse in the whole stereo setup.

Also to the OP, nice to see a caddy owner into the bigger stereo setups. however you should definitely re-do your enclosure for optimum results. Any well built wall should be over 155 db with the power you have and decent woofers. You essentially just have two prefabbed dual 12 boxes stack on top of each other on the rear seat located with trim pieces made to fit around them. Thats not a wall.

You should have all four woofers mounted as far to the passenger side as possible. Two vertically, two horizontally. Build your wall right up to the b pillar on both sides and as big as possible top to bottom aswell as depth wise. Brace your box to the vehicle heavily and in as many spots as possible. Id do a minimum of 2 layers of 3/4" mdf or baltic birch ply throughout the whole box and do the baffled 4-6 layers thick with the front layer counter sinking your woofers. Then have your port on the far drivers side running all the way top to bottom. Figure out this measurement and for port width id start by making it as large as possible then shrinking the port down with 2x4s to lower your tuning. Your port depth will be the depth of the baffle which is 3-4.5". Once ur happy with the tuning (preferrably testing with a termlab pressure sensor) Id finish off your enclosure by filling in all ur screw holes with bodyfiller sanding, adding a few layers of resin to the whole box in and out, sanding again, then primer and paint if you want. Also ull gain a lot by using halved pcv over the side of your baffle to round your port. And also fiberglass the side of the wall into your b pillars for a nice smooth transition.

Build the box this way and you'll be playing with the big boys.

Heres a pic of what the final result should look like.
This wall is for 6 12s and his baffle isnt as thick because he wants higher tuning and also because that baffle is solid steel with a layer of wood on the front.


http://i41.tinypic.com/9hq8ea.jpghttp://i39.tinypic.com/a0j41c.jpg

Congrats on the win