Category Archives: Around The Garage

favorite atv to ride

Hey guys ,I just wanted to see what your favorite avorite atv’s you have ridden were and why , i will put it into three categories , your favorite for speed , your favorite for trail and your favorite play bike.

Mine are 2004 trx450r , 2008 trx700xx , and i think a early 2000’s model kfx80 2 stroke whats your’s?

Two quads down in two days

Well just my luck I have two different quads break on me. The tie rod end broke on me when I was leaving work on my Honda. Day befor I was coming down a hill and hit a log I think that has something to do with that. So now I am rocking the 98 sportsman 500 and on my way to a BBQ the right rear u joint lets go on me about 800 yards from the house. The same u joint blew on last summer.

Two quads down in two days

Well just my luck I have two different quads break on me. The tie rod end broke on me when I was leaving work on my Honda. Day befor I was coming down a hill and hit a log I think that has something to do with that. So now I am rocking the 98 sportsman 500 and on my way to a BBQ the right rear u joint lets go on me about 800 yards from the house. The same u joint blew on last summer.

so speaking of cant leave anything alone…stereo in DD

Use our car for work commute and running kids to all their practices all week, and daughter is at the age where stereos are cool…i had that stint back in the 90s in high school, but decided since the kid would get a kick out of it, i needed a project, and Brooke will aquire this as her first car id upgrade the okay factory stereo with a budget. Nothing wrong with it…just wasnt full sounding.

Bought an audiocontrol ls7i sound processor to retain oem head unit and steering controls. Head unit has enough tone adjustiment i was fine with it, plus i wanted stealth..everything appears boring and unassuming until you want it to get louder.

Power comes from a 500×1 rockford fosgate for the 10" rockford subwoofers. Then a rockford fosgate 300×4 amp for front rear speakers. Fronts i used Alpine 6 1/2" typr.r component speakers. Rear i used Alpine 6×9 coaxis in rear deck. I jnitially mounted tweeters from front component set in sail panels on doors but it was far to bright and over powering, so modified mounting plate for the 6 1/2" woofer mounted in door to fit tweeter and fired them up…very very nice sound now…just cost me $30 for new sail panel.covers from junkyard to replace the ones i put a 2" holes in to fit tweeters initially lol.

Ran a 9 wire from head unit thru car to trunk on passenger side to give signal to sound processor and 4ga wire down driver side to power all 3 components in trunk. Then a cheat to save running more speaker wire then necessary, while wiring the 9 wire to factory deck i tied front speaker wires from doors to the rear speaker wires…so intrunk all i had to do was run new wires from rear deck speakeds to amp and then lengthen the existing rear speaker wires to hook upto amp. Used to do that yrs ago and big time saver and works great.

Amps and processor mounted to top of sub box

Anyhow, just bought a complete sub box, bad to turn it upside down and made place.to mount components, built a rear "firewall" since i wanted subs firing into cabin and that requires sealing off trunk for noise cancellation purposes. Then added some alligator pattern material to break it up some so if a person folds seats down to see the subs its a lil different than just carpet.

Then final mount in car

Then since car is daily driver, grocery getter, sporting event taxi trunk needs to remain functional, but components needed protection from day to day living..plus wanted stealth. So went to junkyard and bought floor carpet.from another chrysler 200 so itd match, made a removable false wall and boom..open trunk and nobody thinks anything of it as everything is hidden/protected:)

Sounds great, sub amp has volume control so i mounted that knob in center console ao you can adjust it per music type. The 10" subs are probably the jack of all trades for accurate sound reproduction and enough to get loud if you want them too..ive found 12s and 15s to be a little more muddy sounding and good for ghetto bass vs a cleaner sound.

Eagle feathers ??

I was just sitting here watching a couple bald eagles sitting in one of our old oak trees (it’s raining).Well I was wondering if eagles are still protected ? The reason Im asking is I find eagle feathers all the time, and your not allowed to have them.The only people that are allowed are Native Americans for ceremonies.If there are any Native Americans on this site I would be happy to collect them for you.What I think is great is, growing up here in South Jersey there were no eagles, NONE.Now where my house is I can see three nests,they are everywhere,its nothing to see four or five eagles in one of my trees,a couple overlook the river so they sit there watching for fish.
Things eagles have dropped in my yard, Fish (whole and in pieces) stripers,perch ,hard heads,catfishMuskrats (whole and in pieces).Snow Geese heads.One morning a eagle just missed my wifes car with a ten pound groundhog,my Rhodesian Ridge back had killed it the previous day.Well thats about it guys thanks for reading..

Security camera footage / photo needs enhancement. Can Anyone help.

Hello everyone,
Is there anyone good with working with photos? This came from the home security camera of a very close friend of mine. This a screen shot of the video. Can anyone enhance thus photo to get details of the photo? Or recognize year make or model of the van?

They pulled up to the driveway got out and vandalized my friends corvette. I will post picture, and try to link video.

Please any help would be a huge help. Enhanced Pictures / or if you recognize the van make please send to rpm90001@gmail.com.

Link you short camera footage. http://youtu.be/Y9Bh6Ma4gAk

Thank you,
George

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OK where’s Shadetree??

haveb’t seen him on the site in a while now,
Hope he didn’t trip over his pecker and get hurt LOL
or them kids that took them tools came back and have in as gimp some place?? HAHA!
SO< any one see or hear from Shadetree??

OK where’s Shadetree??

haveb’t seen him on the site in a while now,
Hope he didn’t trip over his pecker and get hurt LOL
or them kids that took them tools came back and have in as gimp some place?? HAHA!
SO< any one see or hear from Shadetree??