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Member ID: sntnpirate1316

Location: Sinton, TX

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1996 GMC Sierra

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  • 1/4 Mile0 sec @ -1 mph
  • 0-600sec
  • Top Speed-1mph
  • HP-1
  • Weight-1lbs

Major Upgrades

  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

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Last updated: Dec 09, 2008

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Cody’s GMC Sierra

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Here is the recent build up of my kick panels and a-pillars. I built this at the same time I was building my box. The a-pillars look decent although I wasn't really impressed with the texture of the SEM texture spray I used. Next time I'll be sanding down the entire panel and use the texture spray on the whole thing. It doesn't really resemble the stock texture at all. The paint I got from ckresto.com. Great stuff, matches perfect.
The most important thing when installing speakers is the install. But let me be the first to tell you, sound quality and a full size truck is not an easy thing to accomplish. Its very wide, lots of plastic, lots of empty space to fill. The dash is higher than in a car so its easy to get seperation of frequencies in a truck with tweeters in the a-pillars or sail panels and the midbass in the doors or kicks.
These are pictures of the 4 hours I was in my truck testing everything. All I had were music cd's to go off of. Next time I'm going to get one of the IASCA cds to get everything sounding right. But even without the proper imaging and sound stage CDs to go off of, it sounds damn good.
Passenger kicks:
lots of wires and crossovers. Iridiums come with 4 crossovers, 2 for each side, the other crossover is the diamond crossover that was still in my truck at the time from the old m6s.

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


Passenger A-pillars:
(velcro is your friend)

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


Passenger kicks and pillars:

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


Driver kicks:

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


Driver A-pillars:

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


After those 4 hours it was time to play with the angles of the tweeters which is hard to do with tweeters, not so bad with the midranges because they were on the floor and I had my ghetto rigged "angler."
I had an extra A-pillar that I was experimenting on to cut holes with. At first I used the hole saw and cut the entire circle, but after doing so I realized I could just cut out a little and it would actually help me because the tweeter would be resting on the plastic to help give it the angle I needed. That's why on some pictures you'll see my drivers side A-pillar has 2-3 holes in it and in others it only has 1.
Test A-pillar:

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


The A-pillar that was actually used

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


I used JB Weld and popsicle sticks to mount the ring for the tweeter

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


Test fit:

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


I only had one A-pillar for the passenger side, so I only had 1 try to get it right, luckily, it came out just the way I wanted.

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


After the mounting rings were placed it was time to lay down the fleece. Next time I will be using material that undershirts are made out of(regular t-shirt, not the wife beaters...). They're not as thick(which is the main reason why I want to use it) and can be easily stretched. The reason why the passenger A-pillar has more fleece is because it originally had a handle and I had to cover up the hole from where it mounted.
Anyway, here's the pics-

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


Passenger A-pillar after glassed:

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


Driver A-pillar:

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


Test fit! I actually had to cut the sides off with a hack saw and only use 2 layers to wrap around to the back. Next time I will notch out the A-pillar where I'll be wrapping the material so I won't have the same problem.

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


I don't have any pictures of them after being glassed but before being primed. I filled any pin holes with bondo and smoothed out the edges with bondo as well. Then the sanding began. Sanding is the worst part of all this...
Primed and ready for paint!

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


Finished passenger side!

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


Finished driver side!

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


Now on to the kicks. Here's where I made the hole for the speaker to fit:

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


Pop sickle sticked and JB Welded:

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


The kicks were a lot harder to lay the fleece down than the A-pillars. I had to fold it on the back on one. You can see it in the of the pictures. What I did to smooth it out was I poured straight resin into the crack and waited for it to dry. After it dried I put 8 layers of mat on top and sanded everything back down when I was done.

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


Fiberglassed:

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


Its pretty easy to tell I didn't spend as much time on the kicks as I did the A-pillars. Reason? I was running out of time and needed to get it done. Also I won't have this truck for much longer so it didn't have to be perfect. In fact, the reason I did all this work was to practice for the new truck when I get it this summer. Plus its the kicks and no one ever really pays attention. But here's the finished product:

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


Anyway, that's the build up. I must say they sound great. Some people say the sound stage is a little high but that's a problem a lot of people would like to have, so it doesn't bother me. The midbasses are mounted in the stock door locations as you can see here:

sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


sntnpirate1316's 1996 GMC Sierra


With the new truck, I might upgrade and get the 8"midbass and put that in the door. If I have enough space it'll be ported. The midrange's are already sealed so those don't really matter.

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Anahuakense  

Posted by: Anahuakense

12/10/2008 12:01PM

good job

92sierraslx  

Posted by: 92sierraslx

12/09/2008 07:38PM

looks good that truck needs to be lowered and cruised once you get a 4x4 check out my 94 somtime

loENOUGH  

Posted by: loENOUGH

06/29/2008 05:35PM

Speakers look great man! keep it up

sntnpirate1316  

Posted by: sntnpirate1316

03/25/2005 02:07PM

Thanks majestic! It means a lot to me that you're the first person notice the fiberglass work I did. Thanks for the kind words. But to clear things up, this was my first attempt at fiberglassing, so yes things aren't perfect. The reason why the fleece is different on the a-pillars is because on the passengers side there was a handle so I had to cover up the hole at the bottom. You can see the seams on the kicks? Really? Thanks for informing me because I certainly didn't see that. If you'd actually read instead of looking at the pictures (most people past the 2nd grade do this, but I don't know about Canadians) it even tells you why they don't look good! Thanks again. -Cody

majestic_  

Posted by: majestic_

03/13/2005 10:05PM

What blind man taught you how to fiberglass.... your pillar pods and kicks are hideous... when you set up your pillar pods your fleece on the driver's side and passenger's side don't even look the same. On your kicks, I can see the seams where you stretched the material and you didn't even fiberglass or bondo the shape to blend it in (it's wavy like a mofo). Everyone's an installer....

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Location: Sinton, TX