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    Speaker pods/General stereo questions

    Welllll.....good question. I guess I need to see what kind of power the head unit puts out and match it up with the speaker capacity? My thought was to wire the 3 dash and 2 rear speakers to the unit and run an amp to the sub? My home speakers are wired that way, does that hold true for a car...
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    Speaker pods/General stereo questions

    Alrighty...here is what I'm going to give it a shot with...I'm going to stick with the 4x10 size in the center and rear, put 3.5" in the dash and a custom sealed box for a shallow mount 12" sub...everything is a bit rough at the moment Pioneer the best way to go on the head unit? I was looking...
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    Headliner questions

    That's amazing how close the new material is! I think they did some unique stuff with the Blazers and Suburbans when it came to the interior trims during those years. I had an '83 Blazer and remember (I think I do anyways, it's been a while) the color scheme like you described as everything...
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    GMC Grille Resto 1981

    Totally! I learned a lot about the materials going through the process...and found out I'm still a ****** painter, haha. I tried to pour the paint in the emblem initially and let it level itself but I think the fact it came from a spray first caused some issues (bubbling)....I eventually...
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    GMC Grille Resto 1981

    Much appreciated all!
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    GMC Grille Resto 1981

    Hey all, It looked like the 1981 GMC grille is a one off for that year and I didn't have much success finding a new/repro one so I decided to clean up what I had. I had some missing fins so I laminated a few sheets of fiberglass to the correct thickness, cut/sanded them to size dimension and...
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    Headliner questions

    Appreciated, thank you!
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    Headliner questions

    Any idea how much you used? It's $12 a can at Walmart and I'm doing a Suburban
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    Headliner questions

    THANK YOU! Can't beat first hand knowledge of a factory vehicle!! Does your '81 have the "snakebite" perforated vinyl or regular pattern? I wonder if mine being a GMC has anything to do with it?
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    Headliner questions

    You sir are most likely the voice of reason! I will find something else to stick together with the 1/2 gallon of contact cement I'm sitting on, haha
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    Headliner questions

    Haha...yeah it looks like I'm doing the cheesy foam backed fabric replacement myself.. $12 a yard for 60in width at Joann fabric I can't tell what the original SHOULD be and the only thing I could find with the snakebite pattern was non foam backed which looked like it would be painful and...
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    Headliner questions

    Thanks Eric, The backer does indeed look like chipboard, I pulled it down and scrubbed it with a scotch brite pad to get the big stuff off and then sanded it down with an orbital sander and 120 grit. I will probably wipe it down with some alcohol before I hit it with the contact cement just to...
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    Headliner questions

    Hey all! I have a couple of headliner questions..so the entire headliner was sloughing off so I pulled it all down and cleaned it up. I took a sample to the fabric store to match it as best as possible, which turned out I found a pretty decent match. Now that I have taken the board down and...
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    Speaker pods/General stereo questions

    That's a pretty clean install! It looks like he laid Kilmat all over too? Although with a 1500w amp and that sub, I'm not sure you would need to overcome a whole lot of road noise, haha
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    Speaker pods/General stereo questions

    I would like to keep it as stock looking as possible just for the wow factor and I really would prefer not to start cutting on sheetmetal. I'm putting together a Suburban so space for a subwoofer won't be an issue, haha... Lemme ask you this, I know 6x9's are going to sound fuller than the...
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    Speaker pods/General stereo questions

    Here is what I have in the dash and the pad..its got a cutout for (1) 4x10, (2) 3.5 but no center speaker was installed
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    K10 softer ride

    I used a Tuff Country 2" lift with 5100 Bilstein shocks on a 1981 K1500 Suburban...night and day difference from stock but (1) the leafs were pretty flat and (2) I don't have a lot of experience so I'm not really sure what it SHOULD ride like stock... That being said I have a 2003 Suburban...
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    Speaker pods/General stereo questions

    I did see those...it's been a minute since I put together a car stereo system so I'm essentially starting as a complete noob! Back in the day a friend of mine was an electronics guru (his dad was an electronics guy in the Navy and did some high level stuff) and he helped me do a system in my...
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    Speaker pods/General stereo questions

    So here is the one I saw...as you mentioned the key would be making the mounts work and the dimensions of the protrusion for the screen..
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    Speaker pods/General stereo questions

    I needed to grab some back to school stuff from Best Buy the other day and took a look at their displays and they had a Pioneer floating screen with a single din that looked like it might fit WITHOUT cutting the stock location. The protruding mount for the floating screen is significantly...
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    Door panel resto- backyard style

    I've had good success with SEM products...it's not cheap per se but it you take your time, FOLLOW DIRECTIONS AND PREP WELL, it doesn't fade and wears for years. Flexing the Visa, too funny! And yeah if you start loading that cart up with interior pieces it'll start looking like a Mr. Olympia...
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    Speaker pods/General stereo questions

    Wow, sounds like that thing can throw some sound!?
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    Door panel resto- backyard style

    With the fabric, I carefully cut the existing from the front...pulling the stiches didn't look to hard but I was afraid the sewing machine I have would be able to put it back. I think the fact I went with black helped a little with any imperfections around the perimeter. I used the SEM Color...
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    Door panel resto- backyard style

    My original post got corrupted so I'll try to narrate the big parts... I took JB Weld and stainless steel screws to replace missing posts. I tried to recolor the carpet with Krylon Fusion but it didn't work so I replaced the carpet wit new from fabric store I used SEM medium neutral as the...
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    Door panel resto- backyard style

    SirRobyn0 inspired me to try my hand at restoring my door panels as I was stripping the interior to send it to the paint shop. As he said in his thread, are they concourse restoration- no. Do they look 1000% better than what I had-yes. I didn't pay the gouge fee for Chinese plastic parts and I...

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