[Profile] Ikethegreat

[timot_one]

I know how that is.  I hate garages that have 2 smaller doors.  It's just one of those things that I don't want to have to navigate around.  There are a few houses in my neighborhood that have 3 car garages with one large door and one small door, but some have 3 small doors.  It just doesn't make sense to do it that way.

[gargantula99]

18'-0" wide is about as wide as you can get for a garage door and that's without going custom. You can swap out the two doors later for one door if it really bothers you. They'll just beef up the header to handle the point loads.

[timot_one]

Good thing we have an architect here that knows what he's talking about.

[gargantula99]

Meh.  Need to know more about mechanical shit. But anyways. All in all, that's awesome about the house and I wish you the best with it and the awesome paint job on the car.

[ikethegreat]

Winter mode.  Washed and waxed the car as well as the wheels. 





The garage seems so much bigger when it is empty...

[b_beau_09]

price on that house is amazing! I'm in B-more too (Mt. Washington), are you inside or outside the beltway?  We haven't been able to find anything decent in the 200-250k price range at all.

[ikethegreat]

I'm in Essex.    That was our price range as well and we had a lot of trouble finding a house too.  While the total price on this house was a bit higher than we wanted to pay, we were able to get a lot of assistance being first time home buyers that made having the house built cheaper overall than spending less on a already built house. 

[b_beau_09]

very nice.  We'll have to do some more research on the first time buyers stuff that's out there.  I'd love to get new construction if the right price point can be had.  congrats on the new house though, I'm jealous.

[ikethegreat]

As most of you already know, I redid my entire audio system over the weekend.  Here is a list of that I used, a brief review, and of course a bunch of pictures!

1.  Metra 99-7803G DD kit -  See the metra thread in the audio section for my review of this kit.

2.  Kenwood Excelon DNX6990HD -  This head unit is completely bad ass.  The sound is so crisp and clear.  It has a Garmin GPS system built into it, which I absolutely love.  The HD radio sounds 100x better than any normal radio signal I've ever heard.  The Ipod hookup and playback are nice.  It shows the album cover and name of the artist/song/etc. on the screen.  You can even use a split screen so you can control the ipod and see the navi at the same time.  I don't have a smart phone so I can't comment on the bluetooth part but it does support bluetooth.  The audio controls and EQ are nice and I can do more tinkering than I'd ever want to. 

3. Metra Axxess ASWC - After many years I can finally use my steering wheel controls again! 

4.  Monster 16 gauge speaker wire - Previously I had a static/hiss noise coming from my speakers that you could clearly hear when the music wasn't playing.  After running all new speaker wire to each speaker, the noise is completely gone.  The speakers produce a crystal clear sound now. 

5.  Replaced the crossovers for my front speakers.  When one of my old front speakers blew several months ago, I replaced both speakers but reused the old crossovers because I didn't want to rip apart the interior looking for them.  They were actually harder to find than I had thought.  The driver's side crossover was mounted behind the fuse box and the other was mounted under the carpet on the floor of the passenger seat. 

6.  Installed RAAMmat BXT II to sound dampen the front doors, the trunk lid, and the rear deck.  This stuff is awesome.  No nasty smell that you get with cheap sound dampeners that use tar, like Fatmat or Peel N Seal.  This uses a butyl tape as adhesive.  It is simple to install, but very time consuming.  It got rid of all the vibration and rattling in my doors.  From outside the car, the trunk doesn't rattle nearly as much as it did before. 

On with the pictures!

Day shot


Night shots






Display screen

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[accordguy04]

Haha too bad the first pic didn't show up at first.  So I saw the second pic first.

Very nice.

[ikethegreat]

Thanks to Audioman79 on v6p for the new trunk build!!!

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[Nit3h4wk C0uP3]

Wow! It's so clean! Looks great Ike!

[CrackerTeg]

Now THIS I like.