Dose's Sometimes DIY and Pay Someone Home & Boat Improvement Thread

[Shoota_77]

6 hours ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

Add it to your list of things to do 😂

More than happy to explain it and take you through it, alternatively you could use a PDM and double up outputs to allow 50A loads.

I went down this route because I set it up years ago before PDMs were a common thing. 

Been meaning to tidy it up for years, and install a 2nd SSR. Found the time to do it now, since I'm not working (on paternity leave). It's amazing how motivated I am now because I'm not working my normal job. It's like my corporate job drains my soul of everything else.

Today, finished off the wiring from SSR to fuel pumps, I integrated fly back diodes into the wiring for sex appeal, instead of running them externally over the surge terminals.

It's a long list....  😅

Yeah definitely looks a lot neater than across the terminals,  good job!  You should start your own little Asian sweatshop now you're pumping out the kids and off work.  Get the kids swinging off the soldering iron bangin out custom PWM setups for Skylines! 🤣

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

29 minutes ago, Shoota_77 said:

It's a long list....  😅

Yeah definitely looks a lot neater than across the terminals,  good job!  You should start your own little Asian sweatshop now you're pumping out the kids and off work.  Get the kids swinging off the soldering iron bangin out custom PWM setups for Skylines! 🤣

LOLOLOL brah, there's no solder in that setup 🙂

Watching too many HP Academy videos and reading up on the Motorsport Wiring page on Facebook.

Would be nice if I could use the kids to build stuff I could sell, works for me 😂

[No Crust Racing]

Seems to be a real shift away from solder these days. 

[Duncan]

It is good to stay away from solder, particularly in track use, as the vibration and heat from the soldering can break adjacent wires.

You won't find any solder in a factory harness, even back to the mid 80s

[No Crust Racing]

I mean in general. 

[niZmO_Man]

On 01/09/2023 at 6:59 PM, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

and no it's not a tiny TV. That cabinet is 3m wide

sounds like you need a bigger TV

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

30 minutes ago, niZmO_Man said:

sounds like you need a bigger TV

LOL.. I do not, I wanted a smaller one and my wife said let's go a size up.

[r32-25t]

I’ve wanted a new tv for a year and she kept saying no and now it’s f**ked and I keep telling her no lol

[Duncan]

2 hours ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

LOL.. I do not, I wanted a smaller one and my wife said let's go a size up.

as the bishop said to the actress

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Today, unboxed a box of new random shit I've collected over the years.

Fitted up new window stabilisers, as the old ones (most likely from factory) have worn down to the metal and ate the tint.

This also means I'll be getting the car re-tinted. Booked in next week for tint removal and re-tint in legal ceramic tint. The current one is stupid dark and also has started to go purple.

 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Also re-fitted up infant seat mounts, this required me to attack those pretty speakers with a Dremel to allow the brackets to fit nicely against the car.

FB and wreckers wanted $50 for these brackets, I ended up buying them new for the same price from: 

https://rawsparts.com/nissan_skyline_r33/98-r33-gtr-cra-kit.html

[niZmO_Man]

ooft man, better fade to front

[admS15]

Those poor tweeters

[GTSBoy]

Bah. Who needs tweeters in the parcel shelf anyway? I don't even have full range speakers in the shelf. Just 6.5" woofers suited to infinite baffle or very large enclosure. Driven from subwoofer output, no shitty treble.

Sound stage in my car is 100% from the front. Much better imaging.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

@GTSBoy those speakers have the gain on quite low, merely there for fill and the odd time I drive around with no sub in the boot it adds a bit of bass back into the system when I turn off the high pass.

Also, if anyone has a keen eye, those are Jaycar Response Kevlar speakers from the early 2000s. 

Agreed rear speakers are useless, however I had them lying around in a box for nearly two decades so slapped them in when I removed the ghastly horrible 6x9s the previous owner put in back then.

Front stage has (also discontinued ancient stock) Jaycar Vifa 6.5" with Ribbon Tweeters, a bit harsh for my liking so (maybe or never) might replace with a pair of Morel Maximo if I feel like donating more money to the car vortex lol.

[No Crust Racing]

So when's the next Autosalon on for you guys?

Do a skid. 


 

[Duncan]

Autosalon, my favourite car event. So classy.

[34GeeTeeTee]

1 minute ago, Duncan said:

Autosalon, my favourite car event. So classy.

Could have at least polished some of the scratches out!

[GTSBoy]

 I ended up tearing up my same vintage kevlar Response drivers in the front doors, after one got wet and corroded the voice coil area. Had to make up these bad boys to replace the flimsy masonite panels that had been in there for years. Still running the Response dome tweeters and crossovers against these. Sounds great. The extra work put into the mounting baffle and sealing were worth the....very large number of hours spent getting them right. I think the baffle is 16mm thick, so it needed a lot of shaping to fit under the trims.

 

Edited September 7, 2023 by GTSBoy

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

@GTSBoy very nicely done, you also have too much time LOL.

My old white R33 had Focal 165K2 and I sandwiched 2x 16mm MDF sheets together and made something similar followed by painting them both in sound deadening. Door proceeded to get 2x layers of eDead (Dynamat knock off at the time).

This car, the fronts have had the stock plastic mounts attacked with a Dremel lol. I think I might get in touch with @Fhrx (hope you're still around Marty) to do my front stage and make a nice slim enclosure for a sub in the boot that also covers up all the SSR shit and surge tank lines.