2001 Team DC Audio build (2025 revive)

[Thatsquishykid717]

8/14/17 about to make a trip up the mountain. Grabbed this pic before we left. The bumper sag really bothering me. Oh well it’ll get fixed eventually.

 

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11/11/17 Took a trip to hoodoo with some friends

 

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11/14/17. A buddy of mine built this enclosure for 2 18’s and never used it so I got it for a good deal. Almost used it but decided to go a different route and sold it instead.

11/18/17 after a couple months with the new wheel and tire setup. Started to remember how much fun wide mud tires are during the winter. This was just driving to a friends house that lives down a dirt/gravel road. Looks like I went through a mud hole.

11/26/17
My room mates wanted a Christmas tree so finally had an excuse to use the roof rack

12/8/17 made a run to the wrecking yard and found climate control knobs on a Escalade so swooped those up. Also threw my factory airbox back on to draw some actual colder air into the bay unlike the open cone filter before.

 

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12/15/17 another run to the wrecking yard got me a cluster out of a 01 2500 with trans temp. I was at 167k miles on mine though and the hd cluster was at 280k miles. Posted on a Tahoe page on Facebook asking who could change the mileage to match. With some dumb luck I found a guy on the east coast with this cluster reading 500 miles more than mine and the cluster I had was 1000 miles more than his actual miles. We both shipped clusters to each other and it was a win win also took some pictures out by my house around sunset.

 

[05Single]

Love the stance lol

 

[89Suburban]

Great story and pics!

 

[Thatsquishykid717]

Great story and pics!

Thank you! Still have lots to upload till it’s up to date! Should have started this years ago haha

 

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12/23/17 my coworker at the time messed around with photography and we decided to take some shots at a big local warehouse property in town.

 

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Phewww we have made it to 2018, getting closer.
1/14/18 when I originally put my focals in I ran 165as components on the front, and 6.5 lower grade coaxial focals in the rear. Well I blew through two sets of the coaxials so finally decided to not be cheap and match the rear speakers even if I never really hear them. Haha

2/7/18. Moving again here she is loaded and ready.

 

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2/19/18. Looking back I can’t believe it’s been almost 2 years since the Tahoe has been in snow. This was the last trip I took playing in the white powder.

So my next photos are dated 3/17/18. Before I post those I will explain first. The first long road trip I took the Tahoe on I found out it had the common low oil pressure and tick issue as if my pickup tube oring had ripped. Bandaided it by using Lucas oil stabilizer for 2 years. Wellllll on a Saturday night I just happened to see some buddies walking out of a restaurant. First thought? Yeah rev limiter **** the horn. After that my oil pressure drop to about 15 and stayed there
03/17/18 off comes the oil pan. To my surprise the oring is perfect. I replaced it anyways. Turns out there was a good amount of sledge caked to the bottom of the pan. Pickup tube was packed full of shit. Decided to do valve cover gaskets while I was at it because it did leak a decent amount since I got it, those were caked as well. I am religious about oil changes on this. Luckily the motor looked super clean everywhere I could see inside. My guess is previous owner ran some flushes through the motor and never got everything cleaned out correctly it just all accumulated onto the bottom of the pan and valve covers. Fixed all that, no more leaks, no more ticks, perfect oil pressure....weirrrrdd lol

FYI not everything in that drain pan was in my motor. Just the black sludge that I picked out before pressure washing everything.

 

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I have bad luck around April fools almost every year. so on that note 4/5/18 headed out to my dads shop. Remember hearing what sounded like a large rock flying off my tire into my inner rear wheel well. (Well it wasn’t a rock). Unaware something was in my tire it decided to release and as soon as I stopped at my dads shop it went flat and de beaded. Had to get a plug in it but never had a problem with said plug so oh well.

4/14/18. One of my speakers decided it wasn’t happy and separated. Good thing they were still under warranty. So got that fixed and found a black exhaust tip

 

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4/18/18. So at some point before this I sold my crossfire 15’s and my soundigital 8k. Started looking to buy a house, therefore audio was on the back burner, after a few months of ****** housing market and annoyance I gave up for now. Audio was back to being important. Got a pair of dc audio level 4 12” subs for a good price. Threw together a quick enclosure out of birch Plywood and stained it black(before I knew how to properly use wood stain I might add).

 

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5/4/19 so I have my plan now for what I’m gonna do build wise for audio equipment. Season has pretty much started at this point and I’m late af. So I start ordering stuff. First was these ds18 hard plastic grilles for the front doors. A little more flashy than I like but it matches the green theme at least.

Also decided to redo my plate for the bass knob and voltmeter. Did it this way for a reason.

5/11/18. Four boxes came with dc audio logos wonder what they could be?!

 

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4 more level 4 12’s arrived. Plan for the build is gonna be 6 of these 12’s with my next purchase to power them.
5/15/19 sundown “clipo” version ns1 came in. 6 12’s wired at .67 ohm on a 6500 watt amp should be pretty good.

5/26/18
Got a new job(current place of work). They started me out of the office 45 min south of me. In prep for 90 mile a day drive I picked up another civic for a daily driver. Paid 1000 bucks, 150k original miles, original window sticker, and a clean title. Works for me within a week or two I had to get rid of those 13” steel wheels. Found some newer civic 15’s. Works for me.

 

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5/27/19. A couple issues happened.

sooo this was my own fault. Didn’t check my dmm when I bought these subs to realize it was broken because it was reading a ohm off. So these subs were dual 1 ohm not dual 2 ohm as I had thought. Just bought 4 more dual 2 ohm and I’m running out of time go finish this build, at least for surf city. Well dc audio is the best and got me recones very quickly and I was able to recone them. Kind of worked out nicely cause these were older models that had a different looking dust cap and surround so they now match

6/4/18 is when I took this picture I think for the fact of the scan gauge...Idk hahaha either way I got one of those off a buddy (behind turn signal arm) it works amazing plus lets me watch intake temps and actual coolant temps etc.

 

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6/13/18 after listening to my roof sounding like a tin can with bass I decided it was time for some sound deadener. Ordered a bunch of ampere audio vibraflex 160mil, too many cans of spray foam, and a bag of loctite ulimate grab glue tubes for a caulking gun. Found out my center brace in the front was separated from the roof skin. Along with the rear crossmember above the cargo area.

Used the loctite tubes for the cross braces, spray foam for all the in betweens and dead spaces and then layered the deadener starting front and working to the back. This was quite the task I will say. The vibraflex is not only thick as shit but when it’s cold it’s as still as a board. Not your standard deadener and was perfect to help stiffen our flimsy crappy thin roofskins. You get it hot enough you can shape it around anything though

 

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Man looking back on this picture I forgot how clean the garage was when i first moved in lol.

 

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6/24/18 Texas speed longtube headers and catless y pipe came in!!! I have no clue why I didn’t take pictures during this install and I’m kind of mad I didn’t. Headers went on easy. Used stage 8 locking fasteners. The y pipe was kind of a ***** and had to do some prying to get it off the front driveline. Besides that though I am a year and a half with these and no complaints. With these headers I also deleted the egr, rear o2’s, and cats of course. It’s still the same stock exhaust with a flowmaster 40. Sounds good and isnt overbearing unless you put it to the floor and even then it’s not bad. Luckily a good friend of mine specializes in tuning ls series engines with efi live. So I had him throw a custom tune on it.

6/28/19 picked up a mechman 370 elite series alt. Second one is on order at this point. Love the black powder coated case on these. Also added a fan under the seat again. The ns1 ain’t exactly small and easy to shove under the seat.

 

[05Single]

Mmmmm....mango NOS

 

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7/4/18-7/6/18 the second alt came in and not that it’s hard to throw on.......until the mounting ear splits

Since the dual alt bracket basically holds everything together it will work and has worked just basically sandwiched together. Haven’t had a problem yet and once I have to mess with the power steering pump again I will swap out that factory side bracket.

Finally got my baby back to my house and tucked in the garage safe and sound. 69 c20, was my Very first truck and will stay with me forever.