What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

To Grandmother's house we go!

http://www.otrattw.com/

 

Some idiot passed me on a gravel road doing 70 and cracked my windshield in 3 places.

 

^^^Holy crap lol

This is my setup, bumps really awesome for an 8 inch (I was surprised) and the box is vented.

 

^Im so much happier with my two 8's over my one 12. Plays everything and every type of music better!

 

rattles like a mother fucker...but I still get both back seats

 

No rattles and I get both back seats

 

Got my Pro Comp 7069s and 265/75/16 Treadwright Wardens mounted today. Not the best picture but the only one I got before it started raining, I'll get more soon..



And about 5 minutes after leaving the shop this happened



Still just a young pup!

 

Well since this thread has become a "show off your subs" thread...

My old setup:


Currently:
10" Alpine Type R powered by 1100w RMS Kicker DX series

 

pulled the shell off, gonna wash the back of the cab and the bed out tomorrow, then 'll get pics.

 

I had my old sub sitting in a top tray in my 300zx unsecured. When I fell asleep behind the wheel and hit a tree the sub flew into the windshield and landed in the passenger seat. I was lucky it didn't fuck me up hard core and all I had from it was a grazing wound on my right arm as it flew forward. There were two corner marks in the windshield from it.

Clean. I store tools in those boxes though since I lack a garage right now. You guys have such empty back seats and mine is always filled with shit.

 

Last night I took out my single 12" Alpine Type S, put it in my girlfriend's '06 4Runner, then put in the XCab box from hifisoundconnection.com with two 12" Alpine Type E's.

I used an Audio Control LCi2 line output converter (she wanted to keep her factory head unit), and ran the signal to an MTX Thunder 500.1.

Now her 4Runner hits way harder than my Taco, and I just added another twelve! Damn SUV's...

 

crazy 8's

 

How did you wire that?

 

Check out the post(s) in my build for more pictures.
http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/1st-gen-builds/282927-seattlecougs-black-beauty-build-2.html#post7288013

But I basically I wired the map light into a constant live power source (in my case the 12v chargers below my center dash). Ran it behind the glovebox, through the dash and up the passenger side windshield column and to the rearview mirror.

 

Looks like the same mirror and lights in my '98, except have have a 3rd switch to set the lights to door or not.

 

You have that on your rearview mirror?
I don't think I've seen that before... pic?

 

That is the type I put in, I want to say 99 or 00. All the power "sources" were at the dome light. Constant and switched from the doors. I just had to fish a few wires from the dome to the mirror location. I forget the details, it was 13 years ago.

 

I made my 12v plugs below the center dash a constant power source by adding this jumper wire:




It plugs into your Power Outlet portion of your fuse box. The last 2 slots. Should then enable your cigarette lighter plugs to be constantly powered...