blk03MitsuES
03-08-2007, 12:15 AM
Hi ya'll, i've been lurking for a while now and recently joined. i already posted a few questions but never introduced myself. i noticed how some of you talk to each other like if you were one big geeky family. i'd like to be a part of that someday. so let me start again
my name's Sam. live in sunny SoCal. moved down here from utah a couple of years ago. yes i'm mormon, no i dont get offended by that lol. i've been around computers since high school, now now, dont think i'm that old. i'm part of 2002 class, so do the math. like i said i got started on computer cus of adobe's little unknown software called Photoshop, anybody ever herd of it?:p . before it was pencil, paper and eraser. then it turned in lcd screen, mouse and keyboard when i was introduced to it. didnt care much of how a computer worked, i just wanted to know how to use it. so time passed, and like any teen i got my car. it's an 03 mitsubishi galant and it happens to be black. blk= black 03=2003 mitsu=mitsubishi. it was brand new, straight out of the dealer and it only took me 6 months to make it look like it came out of a junkyard. first thing i did was rip out the stock sound system. then came replacing the front, sides and rear with fiberglass ones. hood was bought from a member of a car forum so it came purpleish looking. used to be CF but he had it painted to match the car. so i had a black car with white front,sides and rear and a red hood. it looked like a piece of junk. as for my defense, i was into imports before all that "fast and furious" madness came out. it's good that it has faded now. anyways, i dished out $12,000 on sound system, rims and other mods. i'm not bragging about it, i actually regret spending that much into the car.
i started regretting it when i crashed on my way to work. at that point it click. i know there are projects that you put 100% of yourself into but i was obsessed with the car. at some point i spent 12 hours a day working on it on the weekends and spending every cent i earned on it. when i crashed, i was left without something to mess around with. thats when i started to mess around with the insides of computers. i learned what a typical PC needed, like a mobo, processor, ram, hd, psu etc... and i ordered the parts from newegg. it took me a whole saturday to put it all together. everyone was waiting on me to get electrocuted or have something blown up. lol but everything worked. it worked perfectly and flawlessly for about 5 months. i dunno how good it ran after that cus there was a break in at the office and it was jacked lol. after that my gurl's pc died on her. did a little research and found out the PSU on eMachine's were frying mobo's. i found a pc at work that wasnt working and pretty much pieced a new pc out of my gurl's and work's pc. a year later still works. now i'm looking into making my 3rd project but finances hasnt been that great. got married 8 months ago and about 6 months ago we started planning our catholic wedding. yes catholic, i'm still mormon. lol the father looked at me many times during the ceremony like he wanted to kick me out cus i couldnt follow with what was going on lol. so yeah thats my interesting intro lol........i hope i didnt put anybody to sleep
for all you car audio guy's here's what my system consists of
Alpine 7" flip out touch screen. JL 6" drives in front doors, with JL 6x9s in the rear deck, powered by a JL 300/4 amp. on the trunk i got a threesome of JL 12" W7 subs, thats righ 3 W7s. each running on their own JL 500/1 amps. ported custom enclosure. it was actually made inside the trunk. it takes most of the space. there's no way of taking out the enclosure without taking it apart. 0 gauge wireing. all amp/sub/power wires are JL brand. red top battery, some caps in the trunk too. at one time i had a 2.5" screen molded into the drivers side a-pillar.
my name's Sam. live in sunny SoCal. moved down here from utah a couple of years ago. yes i'm mormon, no i dont get offended by that lol. i've been around computers since high school, now now, dont think i'm that old. i'm part of 2002 class, so do the math. like i said i got started on computer cus of adobe's little unknown software called Photoshop, anybody ever herd of it?:p . before it was pencil, paper and eraser. then it turned in lcd screen, mouse and keyboard when i was introduced to it. didnt care much of how a computer worked, i just wanted to know how to use it. so time passed, and like any teen i got my car. it's an 03 mitsubishi galant and it happens to be black. blk= black 03=2003 mitsu=mitsubishi. it was brand new, straight out of the dealer and it only took me 6 months to make it look like it came out of a junkyard. first thing i did was rip out the stock sound system. then came replacing the front, sides and rear with fiberglass ones. hood was bought from a member of a car forum so it came purpleish looking. used to be CF but he had it painted to match the car. so i had a black car with white front,sides and rear and a red hood. it looked like a piece of junk. as for my defense, i was into imports before all that "fast and furious" madness came out. it's good that it has faded now. anyways, i dished out $12,000 on sound system, rims and other mods. i'm not bragging about it, i actually regret spending that much into the car.
i started regretting it when i crashed on my way to work. at that point it click. i know there are projects that you put 100% of yourself into but i was obsessed with the car. at some point i spent 12 hours a day working on it on the weekends and spending every cent i earned on it. when i crashed, i was left without something to mess around with. thats when i started to mess around with the insides of computers. i learned what a typical PC needed, like a mobo, processor, ram, hd, psu etc... and i ordered the parts from newegg. it took me a whole saturday to put it all together. everyone was waiting on me to get electrocuted or have something blown up. lol but everything worked. it worked perfectly and flawlessly for about 5 months. i dunno how good it ran after that cus there was a break in at the office and it was jacked lol. after that my gurl's pc died on her. did a little research and found out the PSU on eMachine's were frying mobo's. i found a pc at work that wasnt working and pretty much pieced a new pc out of my gurl's and work's pc. a year later still works. now i'm looking into making my 3rd project but finances hasnt been that great. got married 8 months ago and about 6 months ago we started planning our catholic wedding. yes catholic, i'm still mormon. lol the father looked at me many times during the ceremony like he wanted to kick me out cus i couldnt follow with what was going on lol. so yeah thats my interesting intro lol........i hope i didnt put anybody to sleep
for all you car audio guy's here's what my system consists of
Alpine 7" flip out touch screen. JL 6" drives in front doors, with JL 6x9s in the rear deck, powered by a JL 300/4 amp. on the trunk i got a threesome of JL 12" W7 subs, thats righ 3 W7s. each running on their own JL 500/1 amps. ported custom enclosure. it was actually made inside the trunk. it takes most of the space. there's no way of taking out the enclosure without taking it apart. 0 gauge wireing. all amp/sub/power wires are JL brand. red top battery, some caps in the trunk too. at one time i had a 2.5" screen molded into the drivers side a-pillar.