Viking Audio

Discussion in 'General Car Audio Discussions' started by electrolytic, Apr 18, 2007.

  1. electrolytic

    electrolytic Full Member

    Might as well, i can't turn back now lol. I have a vision! Good thing about it is when it's done and nice, everyone wants one lol, good for business.
     
  2. cccullen

    cccullen Full Member

    Hey electro, go with the glossy black! It will look good against the red. Do what azn said, put three thin coats of black on, then you can wet sand the with 2000 grit sand paper. After you have evenly sanded the black then you can put on the top coat, again 2 to 3 coats of top coat, then sand that down with 2000 grit sand paper then buff it out. You'll get a mirror finish that way.
     
  3. electrolytic

    electrolytic Full Member

    Sweet! Thanks! By top coat you mean clear coat yes? I can't wait until it warms up again so i can get back to it. Been driving around with no boom and i need boom lol. It's snowing here now again, supposed to get like another 15cm. Oh if i get a buffing pad for my drill will that work?
     
  4. cccullen

    cccullen Full Member

    Yes, top coat - clear coat... Same difference.. lol... Yes, you can just get a wool pad (type of buffing pad) for your drill for compounding only. Then you can just hand wax it after to get that black to really pop.
     
  5. cccullen

    cccullen Full Member

    I can't to see your build finished. That's gonna look sweet!!!
     
  6. electrolytic

    electrolytic Full Member

    HAHA, Thanks I'm getting excited lol. Sorry one more thing, will these stickers be ok to put on after it's painted and wetsanded and then clear coat over top of them so they are like sealed in.
     
  7. cccullen

    cccullen Full Member

    They should be fine, but just be careful when you are wet sanding on the clear coat, you don't want to screw up the stickers.
     
  8. electrolytic

    electrolytic Full Member

    gotchya, thanks alot! I was just looking at the space behind the back seat today where it's going, it's going to look sick! lol
     
  9. electrolytic

    electrolytic Full Member

    It was a descent day out sunny anyways, around 2 degrees out lol. So i wanted to make sure my amp rack actually fit and i needed my bass back in my system so i installed my amp again. I removed the pac 200 relay and the red flea market short pieces of wire i was using.

    Beefed up the battery ground in the back to 2/0 gauge, the positive i used some of my blue 1/0 to my distro block and out from there i found some leftover pieces of bassworx 4 gauge to go to my amp, same as the battery negative to my amp. I might whittle down some 1/0 gauge in the future to go to my amp, it only accepts 4 gauge. Subwoofer box in the back seat and wow lol. Wonder if they would allow that for competitions.

    I ended up with a new problem, my distro block has a digital voltage readout and the unit turns on from the ground or positive but positive is always on so i was thinking to put a switch on the ground that goes to the readout and run the switch back up to the front. I can see this is going to be a pain. I don't want to use the relay which i took out if i don't need it. So the digital voltage readout is on now and all the time, wonder how much of a drain it is.
     

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  15. aznboi3644

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    I'd wire up the block and see if the readout shuts off after a couple minutes like most capacitors do.

    Also is that the best grounding point you can find???

    What is the voltage when you put the + probe of the meter on the power wire and put the - probe on the spot that is the ground???
     
  16. electrolytic

    electrolytic Full Member

    huh? lol is that my frigin power problem, that stupid sheet metal ground? I don't know where else to ground it, the car is all like pieces welded together.

    The distro block is wired up and has been on for like an hour now, i'll go out and see if it turned off. The meter thing, i don't know will check tommorow.
     
  17. electrolytic

    electrolytic Full Member

    I guess i gotta run a 0 gauge ground to the front battery with this car? Or maybe i can drill a hole through by the back tire to get at the actual frame of the car if there is one? lol

    I just checked the digital readout, it's still on, nice bright red numbers, it says 12.1 volts. Is there a negative relay, just a small one, can be like 5 amp, just for the distro block and readout.
     
  18. electrolytic

    electrolytic Full Member

    I think i can use something like this and then just use the negative output to go to the display? Or would it give a separate negative trigger? I'm confused lol.

    eBay Motors: 12V/12 VOLT 30/40A SPDT RELAY w/ SOCKET & WIRE HARNESS (item 320219371299 end time Feb-24-08 20:52:49 PST)

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  19. electrolytic

    electrolytic Full Member

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  20. electrolytic

    electrolytic Full Member

    oops, did i post that lol. Orion-Kicker-Solobaric-Mtx-Infinity