Got back into the game this past summer after a 20 year hiatus, altho only as a hobby now. Binged on ebay and local craigs list and bought 30 old amplifiers, mostly 80s and 90s Orions and Rockfords. In the middle of building a radical Foxbody convertible (altered wheelbase, caged, widened, road race/street build) and have decided it will not have a back seat and be stuffed full of Orion HCCA power, 15" Dr. Crankenstein subs as well as some Amega (swedish made) components. May use my mint condition, owned since new unicorn Pioneer CD1000 to split the signal from an Alpine head unit and Orion pre-amp.
Now......some practice systems from the summer:
Did my buddy's Fox vert with 6 stealth speakers, 2 amps and a powered baby sub under the retracted roof; turned out ok, he is super happy; I'm like.....meh.......not enough power and zero bass IMO. Gorgeous car and he is rockin and happy, so Led Zeppelin is cranked whenever he shows up here, lol.
Also did ex gf's Fox Mustang coupe - 4 Rockford 10's on 3/4" MDF baffle plates, aka free air, with 3 Orion amps, 6 component speakers and some passive crossovers, all stealth as well. The thing rocks, the neighbors said their dishes were rattling in the basement..........Still have to do a final tune and put the HCCA225R into a 1 ohm mono load to run the subs. Will be much better once I get another couple of hours of tweaking completed.
It's winter here (9*F today) so the cars are all put away until April.
Gotta figure out how to post pics of the installs; when Photobucket bombed out, all my build threads etc got really limited in terms of photos, I think my account is full.