Hello and welcome to my Basspire page.
I have taken what was once a simple, everyday, nothing special Ford Aspire, and turned it into a ground rumbling, car alarm tripping, make your ears bleed bass box.

With my prior experience with car audio and expiramenting with different vehicle types, I have come to the conclusion that hatchback cars make great SPL cars.What is SPL? SPL is an acronym for Sound Pressure Level. It is how a speaker is commonly measured in performance. Hearing irritation starts at about 85-90 dB SPL and the "Threshold of Pain" is in the 140 and above region.

All of my drivers in the entire vehicle are Kicker brand speakers and woofers. I have had the best performance from Kicker, and I plan on increasing the subwoofer output by a lot with Kickers line of '06 Solo-Baric L7 series 15 inch square woofers.

Right now, you are looking at a Pioneer head unit, which I chose because Pioneer is a great brand that had 95% of all the options I needed built into the head unit itself. It comes with a high pass crossover at 50, 80, and 125 hz for the front and rear speakers. It also comes with a lowpass for the subwoofer output, variable at 50, 80, and 125 hz. Both my high and low pass crossovers are set at 125 hz. It has a 3 band EQ and adjustable gain control at multiple set frequencies. Very nice head unit. I have installed a cooling fan that lights up blue overtop the head unit to pull heat away from the heatsink, further aiding in unit cooling.Does it help out much? Yes, tremendously.

Next is the Legacy Red series amplifier. Not a high price amp but it does put out adequate power, with 1200 watts peak into 4ohms x2channels. Amp puts out 450 watts RMS per channel. I have the dual voice coil Kicker CompVR 15inch woofers wired in parallel bridge mode to the amp, and each voice coil is wired in series. This way, I was able to achieve a 4 ohm load on the amp, with 2 woofers that had 4 ohm voice coils. Some of you will know what I am talking about and some of you are probly saying "What the hell is he talking about?" right now.I mounted the bass boost controller for the amp next to my steering wheel for ready access.

You see the 5 bars on the sub boxes, 3 on the top and 2 on either side of the amp. For those of you who don't know what they are, they are neon bars that are all red, and can either be constantly on, or pulse to the bass. When they are all on at night, they make my rear window look like an oversized running light.

I had to put a tach in as well, and this Sunpro Supertach 2 was perfect.

Exhaust was free, and it helped out a lot.

Twin airhorns.....gotta get peoples attention.

The blue switch controls the blue cooling fan, and the red switch controls the top 3 neon bars.