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Focal, Mosconi, Illusion and Helix build

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Stick fab done and ready for filler tomorrow. BE66A755-0B16-4E1B-B3D1-9BB26F002557.jpeg
 

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Rear pods are done. I’ll get them installed tomorrow. 7D087848-3FCE-4050-A244-47CC5DEFA6B2.jpeg CB767664-BE56-438E-83F8-F4793FEE0E6A.jpeg C3FCD509-5CB5-467F-AD32-A138F06D325D.jpeg
 

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Baked with a space heater for a few hours to cure the paint and I decided to slap them in to get a look. I’ll pull them out tomorrow to run the wires and put in the rest of the screws then.
To be honest…I don’t love the shape. It’s either this or fire them down into the seat backs though….and I can’t see them from the front seat anyway so hopefully they’ll just be out of sight / out of mind. 032945DD-A655-4176-ADA7-7859F897A2B0.jpeg B3D7F331-178E-4DB2-A994-086583EDCAE1.jpeg 0DFDF9DF-5261-44C1-A880-F3C2F59E6CF3.jpeg
 

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Not bad at all, you won't be stepping on them. ;)
 

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How's that sound? I would think that would be closer to 26ms compared to most sedans running their differential rear fill in the rear doors(at 20ms). That's figuring that your rear pods are roughly 8 ft from MLP in comparison to about 2-3ft in a rear door.
 

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How's that sound? I would think that would be closer to 26ms compared to most sedans running their differential rear fill in the rear doors(at 20ms). That's figuring that your rear pods are roughly 8 ft from MLP in comparison to about 2-3ft in a rear door.
There’s a long way to go with dialing it in and I haven’t had a lot of free time to play with it. I was reading some stuff last night that showed great results down around 12-13ms so now I have even more things to consider. Honestly…I think I’m gonna run up to MTI and plug the JL Max into it and dial it in with that. It’s so much easier when you can see all that info.
 

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I noticed you didn't run a ground to the rear distribution but have a ground running through the firewall. Is that just for additional chassis grounding to match the positive lead or did you run it to the back after the fact?
 

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It runs all the way to the back.
The blocks are fed from the battery in the front and also wired for the power supply from the rear. IMG_9764.jpeg
 

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It runs all the way to the back.
The blocks are fed from the battery in the front and also wired for the power supply from the rear. View attachment 19181
Nice, I always do the same. So many people try to argue with that logic as if a modern unibody can provide the same low-impedance and current capable connection.
 

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Nice, I always do the same. So many people try to argue with that logic as if a modern unibody can provide the same low-impedance and current capable connection.
There’s more glue than welds in this car I think. I couldn’t picture a scenario where a straight body ground would suffice.
 



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