The radio and amps needs set up and tuned right... I know I'm hearing it thru a camera and phone speakers but it sounds as if the bass is peaking a little and possibly distorting out...
Also I completely understand just wanting to feel the bass lol I rolled around for a few years in my 95 chevy s10 extended cab and managed to wedge a massive 15 inch kicker solo baric L5 in a ported box that took up the entire back half of the cab and that thing was loud enough to nock a clock off the wall at my high-school... it's not for everyone but I love feeling like I'm at a concert with all the bass
Your EQ and crossover is probably in the config of that headunit. Since the battery died it probably lost its settings and went back to factory defaults. Love the channel guys!
I didnt think i would enjoy this as much as i did. really brought be back to the early 2000s. sure it was distasteful but it was fun! the scene here in the USA wasnt much different. 👍👍
As a fellow audio engineer and musician the discussion about the old sex-spec all-sub systems was refreshing to hear lol Not only to you lose 99% of the dynamic range but it sounds like your car is farting everytime you pull up next to someone at the lights hahaha Rolling rumble packs them ones
I loved the reminiscing of this episode, you should do some more episodes with a more docu-reminiscing type vibe. Would be cool to see you guys doing some Aussie car culture history episodes
That takes me back 1999/2000/2001 before Wife and Kids. Money to waste on all sorts of mods. Doing laps on Queen St on a Friday night, parking up along Quay St watching everyone roll by. Ah the memories 👍
The guys on musical fidelity is my exact opinion. Ive been in cars with the giant subs and stuff. Ive listened to them, I hate it. I hate the sound, I cant hear the music properly, and all I hear is a giant boom boom sound coming from the back. Ive got a full custom sound system in my car, and I went for the smallest, most discrete sub I could get, and then after I installed it I turned it DOWN. The sub to me is just a tool to enhance the low end base, while taking the load of my speakers. It sounds perfect to me and my sounds are super clear and I can hear the full range perfectly.
I was driving around my sex spec 2004 Acura TSX (a-spec body kit blue leather interior two tone exterior enormous sound system) two days ago, I didn’t have any kids in the car so I thought i would turn up the stereo. On my iPod was a large mix of music and Nellie came on “going downtown wall st. in a Range Rover” you know the one. It was making me laugh the beat was tickling me, and then I smelled smoke really really strongly electrical fire smell, 😂 Rip head unit
Hey guys I have one of those Rockford fosgate amplifier, which is king of car sound system in those times.. if it works and you decide to get rid of it in the future I would love to have it.... I have been a subscriber for the longest while and would love for you just give my home land Jamaica a shout out.
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Honestly ive seen better balance in a toyota aurs (dont knoe how to spell it) Then 500 to 2000 euro set ups The bass felt so much better just because it didn't feel like it would max out on the slightest bass hit
My takeaway from every car scene is that standing out is where you want to be. This civic got praise in the past, hate in the middle, and is in a limbo between ironic, nostalgia and hatred now - what it is not, is completely forgotten.
I was in high school in the late 90's early 2000's, and the big thing to do was to drive through the local Walmart and see how many car alarms you could set off.
hahaha, thats awesome. over here modded civics use the Mcdonalds drive through as a time attack stage. the fastest through the mcdrive gets all the street cred
Hahahaha we used to do something similar, but growing up in the rural Canadian prairies it was pickup trucks with glasspack mufflers that we would be using to set off the car alarms. There was also a right of passage in our little sleepy town where after you got your new exhaust you would have to drive down mainstreet and see if you could get the alarm to go off at the jewelry store. Apparently their front windows had glass break sensors that were either too sensitive or defective. But only the loudest most obnoxious trucks could do it.
Here in the UK we used the local town's one way system as our personal racetrack, completely ignoring the fact that the 'back straight' went straight past the local police station. We must have made their lives so easy for them driving our shitbox hatchbacks right past their front door
@@snatchmasterflex I had a 96 Ranger that I just straight up cut the exhaust off of, my greatest moment was blasting by a used car lot and setting off 3-4 alarms all at once. Lol, ah the good old days.
I still see that Miss R Integra driving round my area, and looks like someone is keeping it running forever! This bought back so many memories of Autosalon, truly great car shows here in Australia, hopefully after Covid there can be a Mighty Car Mods car show tour to help re-live some of that glory? Sydney Olympic Park is still empty guys!
This civic was originally owned by an indonesian in melbourne, the original paint was white. Believe it or not it started as a turbo'd civic and then the madness starts from there.. the original plates were "LIBAS" just so you know
Did he sell it to a cashed up licence-less young Aussie? I didn't own that car but it sat in my garage for a while before being moved on in around 2009 ish.
To paraphrase Richard Brunning's description for wiring. If it looks complicated, it's just a lot of simple things all put together. A wire just takes electricity from one end to the other, that's all it can do. Start at one end and follow it through.
I'd love to see this car restored to its former glory. However, modernise the sound system and lighting. Make it both function and cred. A modern day sex spec car.
Marty and Moog are sound guys first and car guys second, a series on a proper professional-grade sound system installation (and comparison with the butt thumper it has now) would be really cool to see. Back to DIY roots, but five levels up.
I know it's cliché now, but I loved this era of car modification - everyone doing things to their own taste, no two cars alike and everyone putting effort in, unlike the 'wheels and bags' crowd of today...
There was a lot of copycat over the top nonsense, but yeah, people were really expressing their style and personality with how they completely redesigned the interior to be bright red fibreglass or how they installed those seventeen subwoofers. Now people get mad if someone has the 'wrong' wheels on their car. Back then, you just went into the local tire shop and bought the biggest chromies they had in stock, no one knew or cared what an offset was or that they had a width dimension as well as diameter.
'No two cars alike' - or on this car, no 2 panels (exterior or interior) the same shade of green. In the UK this is what defined the 'max power' scene for me - piss poor execution. (I was (am) into aircooled VWs)
@@doctorsatansrobot ditto, started as a cal looker back before the first bug jam. but even then we tended to copy stuff from VW Trends. i built the first slammed cal look squareback in the UK with one piece rear glass, within 2 days i met a guy the next town over who also built the first one in the UK, only real difference was the colour. we thought we were being original, but in reality doing the same kinda things on the same kinda cars in an attempt to be first or stand out. My Rad Roadster chopped bug circa 1991 was built to get attention, so highly modified that it was almost unusable, by the time it was fully finished it was old hat and no one cared about yet another one. not far different from the Max Power or Sex Spec scene i imagine.
I would love to see you guys buy a regular old jdm and actually make it your own version and imagination of what your sex spac car would have looked like if you had one back from the era.
Sex spec cars are what got me into cars, this brings back so many memories as a kid with aspirations to build the most rice car could think of. A little bit of soul lost from the car shows these days.
@@taliesinpotter4097 Sex spec can't really come back, kids today don't have as much money, and it doesn't go nearly as far on cars. You can't get cheap used cars to modify anymore, newer generations of cars are much harder to do any serious audio modifications because they're so based around the control of the stock head unit and there's so many airbags and whatnot to deal with, police are much harsher on things like wheel clearance and ride height etc. Plus the novelty is gone, it was done 20 years ago by current kids dads, so they definitely don't think it's cool, and the cool factor of putting TV screens in a car is a joke now because most new cars today come with at least one. And everyone walks around with a far better video device in their pocket.
@@ElwinWay Sometimes I miss my N13 Pulsar Q with its home-made 6x9 boxes, no AC and manual windows. Then I come to my senses. It was fun to drive in the hills and you could reverse parallel park it into a C6 envelope but that's about all it had going for it.
@@LongPeter I had an N14 GTI. I understand your sentiment, albeit the GTI was quite quick. I'm 6'4" tall - it was the only hatchback I could comfortably drive.
No, this is what a 19 year old with too much money and no common sense looks like. A midlife crisis is more like a sports car or a big truck lol. I am having one and trust me that is NOT what I want lmao. I would much rather have the bmw with the ls swap or the BRZ.
Those sub's were the shit back in the day, a couple of big rockford fosgates would have been worth more than they paid for the original car, and if you had matching amps and x overs you were talking big money
Yeah, somehow it was completely normal to put an entire audio company's catalog in your $5k hatchback. To listen to whatever Skitz Mix CD was out at the time and watch DVDs on all the screens. A guy at my local car audio store always had his Lancer parked out the front, same model as 2sexy. No rear seats, the entire space taken up with like a dozen subwoofers. The custom moulded fibreglass work would have cost more than the car, let alone the gear installed in it.
upgrading the stereo was the most common modification for a long time- the other day I drove to the most common car parts store in my country just to get a replacement for my door speaker- and they didn't have any... they did not have speakers anymore... they said nobody is upgrading the soundsystem anymore since the original ones are so much better and a lot of the oem head units can't be easily replaced since they are so integrated into the car
Epicenter is a bass enhancer to keep it simple. It is a base EQ hooked on the pre-side of an amp. or cross over. The knob is a twist to increase decrease the effect and push pull to turn it on/off. Made by Audio Control.
You've converted a sex spec car to a track car, you've slapped one back together just enough to get it running, for this one you should try to do it justice as a sex spec car! Redo some of the mods, make it more cohesive and tasteful. Put an actually sick stereo setup in it with proper sub enclosures, sound deadening, amps, crossovers, the works. Use your guys audio knowledge to make it sound very high quality but still rock the block. Also fix up the suspension, drivetrain, brakes/tires etc. with some decent street upgrades, nothing too expensive or fancy but reliable and nice. Make this one all functional, but still a cruiser like it's meant to be.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane boys. I miss the great old days of Broadie carpark, Surfers Esplanade & Orchid Ave hot laps on the Gold Coast 15 years ago.
what do you mean civics are worth nothing??? they hold their value better than most cars! my EG civic is worth more now than what I payed 7 years ago and I have offers to prove it
Yeah. I'm eight minutes in and there is a mentioon of an "EpiCenter" with no aknowledgement of what it is. Despite other videos showing love and knowledge of this era of modification. As a US resident, i'm wondering if Audio Control had any influence in the Australian market from the mid 90s onward. Seriously, i'd love to know as they were the audio management name I knew in this era in the US.
I was the age that could afford to just go to these events and wished I had the time, money and skill to do this to my car. But openly mocked the people who did this to their cars. Now it no longer exists and I miss it.
