Using Ground Zero Audio Equipment, Ballistic Sound Deadening and Tsunami Cabling and Accessories - Watch the design and planning of a big boomer, the building of it and eventually watch me competing with it throughout 2010 in db Drag, Bassrace, Proper Droppers and Ground Pounders.
Just got back from the Petrolheadz show at the Vauxhall plant in Ellesmere Port - It was a dB Drag show which means both dB Drag and Bassrace competitions. As you may have seen from my previous post - Paul @ A1 Audio Design helped seal off the b pillars and the step under the subs I was hoping for a little gain from that.
So I rocked up and burped as soon as I arrived
a .3db Gain - was happy with that but I tried a higher freq
Getting better! at this point I really wanted to hit 157db so I went back on charge and came back with........
Woo Hoo 157db - equalling my personal best
I also did my first real bottle tricks - got a couple of videos
I just got back from picking Big Black up from Paul (A1 Audio Designs) and Phil (Bespoke Auto Interiors) were it has spent the last few days getting the seats retrimmed and the finishing touches put to the B Pillars
A while back a good friend Jon (you may remember him from the roof installation) designed a logo for Big Black. He showed it to Lou and I and we loved it and decided to get it stitched to the seats this is the logo
And this is how the final article looks - Im so f**king happy with the end product - Phil @ BAI has done a blinding job
During the door builds Paul discovered that the standard seat adjusters would foul the builds and so set about making custom panels
Before
And after Paul's modifications and retrimmed panel -
I also needed to have the B Pillars finished off and sealed up - The step that the subs sit on was open to the rear door and could have been losing me the dbzzz so Paul contoured the B Pillar panels as well as sealing the gabs below the step
The B Pillar and roof joined nice and flush
The top of the windscreen is strengthened with a slab of 18mm MDF which is strong but looks ugly - Paul managed to tidy up the roof and hide the beefy brace baton
The port side of the box presented another challenge - how to trim the side panels without obstructing the port - as always Paul was able to over come this and fixed a baton to the side wall and blended it in to the port wall giving a nice hard edge to trim up to
This join continued to the bottom of the port as well to ensure a nice smooth transition from the port floor to the trimmed step
Im so happy with the work Paul and Phil have put in - As always they where flexible and willing to work to my deadline (getting it done before PetrolHeadz) and budget - the work speaks for itself - A fantastic pair of guys that can sort pretty much all your install needs in one place. Cheers Guys
After changing my subsonic filter I guessed that it might improve my proper droppers score a little.
Proper Droppers test at 20, 25, 33 and 40hz plus a peak freq and then gives you an average score.
On Saturday I managed the following set of scores
1: Matt Sprigg (PROJECT BIG BLACK) - Mitsi Shogun - 8x 12" Ground Zero - Ported Box- 16.000wrms
Total Average ((((Propper Droppers)))) Score = 155.9dB
Peak Freeq= 157.2dB @ 22Hz
40Hz = 154.2dB
33Hz = 155.9dB
25Hz = 156.1dB
20Hz = 156.3dB
The 1st person in the UK ever to do more than 155db @ 20hz ( I was also the first person to beat 155@33hz to) and im only .2 away from beating Alex 'LoudvanMan' Mitchells record - If i can sort my 40hz score out (which i think was down as my epicenter was partially on) I think i can get there
1: Alex Mitchell (Loud Van Man) - 6x Digital Designs 3515 - Ported wall- 2x SPL Dynamics S6000D amps 12.0000wrms
Total Average ((((Propper Droppers)))) Score = 156.1dB
25-27th June was the Ignition Extreme weekender show - 3 days in theNottinghamshire countryside just messing about with Modified cars. RESULT!
Me and Lou got there early on Friday and met up with Adam 'bassbenz' Cope and set up Camp dB Drag while the wife 'supervised' i believe she called it ( I called it sunbathing whilst taking the odd picture!!!)
The genius of a couple of men at work
Both tents up without a problem ;)
We did better than Jim 'Buju Banton'Box did with his tent!
Fail!
Jim managed to sort it out with some help from the camping experts
Later on some more guys turned up - John Daddy-O Aitkin had the Jupiler supplies - happy days
Big Black sat happily playing away all night (well until 11pm when we got told to shut it off
Saturday Morning started with Big Black playing The Top Gun Theme at full whack at 8am - theyall loved us!!!
I got a shed load of help from Alex 'Loudvanman' Mitchell And Jon 'WonkyJon' Clements tweaking the individual amps to set them up correctly - My initial setup got me in the ball park but a couple of the subs needed tweaking - you can see the problem in the top right hand sub in the video - moving alot more than all the others
We tested before the changes and I hit 156.1db - a personal best and new UK record
Big Black got a lot of attention all weekend - It was making some great noise ;)
I qualified with a perfect 149.9 in Bassrace and 156.1db @ 30hz in db drag - a good day.
Saturday night we decided to order take out and after hearing rumors of a monstor kebab that would feed a family of four - our choice for tea was easy!!
Waiting for dinner
Whilst waiting for food - Tom (lol4fun) pimped a few dubstep tunes - one of which Buju took a shine to - he promptly blew the dustcap off his dd9512 and heated it up a treat but never fear - Wonkys magic glue to the rescue! - this stuff repaired my pair of dd9918s enough that I could hammer a perfect 149.9 bassrace run not 30mins after he repaired the entire surround on both subs!
Adam 'dumdum'Daniels and Alex 'LoudvanMan' Mitchell get caught in the T4/Bandpass portaloo discussing box designs!
Darren 'Loudboy' Millard with our massive food order
Adam 'bassbenz' cope and me with 'The Twins' - Giant Mega Mixed Kebabs
That is A - LOT of Meat - Lamb Donner, Chicken and Beef Shish, Chicken Tikka Pieces plus a Tandoori Chicken Leg in a Naan Bread I could have used as a blanket!
A very happy fat man!
camp db Drag was quite for a short while as everyone tucked in
My camp seat got a little to small so Adam and me moved to the flattest table we could find which happened to be Big Blacks Bonnet
The rest of Saturday night was spend groaning with full stomachs but at 11pm we did manage to celebrate armed forces day with a Big Black style rendition of The Last Post
Sunday morning started with Insomnia by Faithless - at full whack ;) they didnt get no sleep that morning I tell you!
Sunday was another blinding hot day so some shade was arranged for the Wags
as we where joined by Darren 'dbdaz' Hircock and his wife Helen, Chris 'Chris@Four' Woods ins the Hertz SPL Show Panda, Dave 'VD' Wilkins with his SPL Marbella and DC Sounds powered Mondeo estate and Ed 'edhick'hickling in the Jacked DC Sounds Chevy Blazer
ed and I ended up head to head again inthe bassrace semis - always very nerve racking pulling up next to ed!
Makes Big Black look not so big!
Unfortunately ed bust out and I managed another perfect 149.9 putting me up against adam cope in the finals
I ended up winning both the Extreme os 3+ category and 149.9 bassrace class - a great weekend - thanks to everyone who made it such a nice chilled out friendly show!
Hey guys. well it seems that everyone and their dog has a youtube channel now so what with me being such a media whore (thanks to VD for that description) i figured I had better get one as well.
Content is a little low on the ground but that will change as try and make sure every competition run I do from now on gets recorded
Last weekend was spent in the sun at the Ignition Extreme weekend show at the MFN Showground just outside Nottingham. It was a 3x dB Drag event (meaning any points earned in competition are tripled - allowing a nice boost up the dB Drag Rankings and step closer to World Finals
Before the show I decided to give Big Black a once over - I have been running it for a month now so just wanted to check that all the connections are still solid and that cables running under the the car are safe still
Using my ghetto car jack so I can get under and check
I also had to take the amp covers off so I could replace subsonic filter in my epicenter. I already had a custom made 24hz filter but with me burping at 30hz I figured I should get a lower one - so thanks to dirtydubber i now have an 18hz filter fitted
This should help boost my db drag and proper droppers scores!
