Did We Just Put The Best Audio System Ever In The $400 Geo Tracker?
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Could the components have been better? Sure, but I think this may be the nicest system ever installed in a Geo Tracker. We stripped the car all the way down to the interior sheet metal, removed the factory sound deadening, then installed B-Quiet Ultimate on every inch of the body we could get into. Working with Alpine's new ILX-W650 and the 4ch Power Pack amplifier that mounts to the back of it was great was well. Everything is compact and wired to the nines!
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Common Questions:
What motorcycle do I ride? A few. Ducati 1198, Honda Fury, Honda Grom, Honda Ruckus
What do I do for a living? Make RUclips videos and work in enterprise data storage.
Can you wheelie? No, I suck.
Are you fast? Sort of. I suck mostly though.
Where can I keep up with you off the bike?
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Do you go to school? College, for 2 classes.
Why do you ride so dangerously? What do mean? I was doing 25.
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Gabe is the Man... I wish I had a friend like Gabe he seems like a solid Dude!!!!
I think that every time Gabe is in a video helping out. Everyone needs a Gabe in their life.
Ouches Von Doom I do know how to pick , if I do say so myself.😂
See that Opel in the background? JR will be recruited.
I spent half the video checking out Gabe's garage setup! lol
I wish that I had a friend!
I just want them to paint it and put matching wheels on it 😩
I want them to fix the tailgate and put a spare tire on the back
Wes Glass JR must be working on lining up sponsors to pay for the rest of the build. See how bummed he was about having to order a new carpet kit? Full restorations with upgrades start to add up quick. Maybe Maaco will sponsor the paint job lol
I was thinking the same thing. Young man's syndrome..ignore the peeling paint and the shitty mismatched wheels. Put a killer sound system in it. yeah!!
I want a vendor of jack stands to sponsor him. I offered to buy him a pair!
@@drippingwax LMAO!!!! The jack stand receipt was epic!!
I remember the killer system I put in my soft topped Jeep. It was the best four days of my highschool life.
Oof
I sold it for some weed
@@snoopy5736 damn you.
Thank you gabe for serving and being a superhero on this show 💪🏾
Ahmad Zia 🍻
@@Gabe-ABNCW3 Well hot damn, look at that, he's a brother of the 325th AIR. AATW! I was 4th Bat '92-'96.
Noah DeLong: AATW! Let’s Go!!
Gabe is a Vet? thank you for your service, you both are good guys.
JR’s haircut, knife handling and familiarity wit the term hoopty suggests he is an army vet too.
COLONIALJO : Cheers 🍻.
And a jump master, from what I can tell.
Is it just me or is that $400.00 Tracker becoming a Diamond in the ruff find. Find a $400.00 cheap SUV that needed some TLC that will bring it back to showroom condition is priceless. Now all that is left is a new paint job and some killer wheels and tires!
you're not alone
It's rough not ruff. Just saying.
It needs some redone, or new sun visors.
I used ruff instead of rough because the SUV was a dog when they brought it home and now it is on its way to becoming a Pony (It's to small to be a Stallion).
I bought a new 1987 Suzuki Samurai in the summer of 1987, shortly after I graduated from high school. With a lot of hard work and saving I was able to win my class in a car stereo competition a year later. It was eventually stolen and stripped but to this day it is my favorite of cars I've owned.
In those days there wasn't much power equipment made for car stereos, beyond speaker wire, so I got 4 gauge cable and connectors for power and ground from a welding supply store. And nobody did auxiliary capacitors but a neighbor, who worked for the Mallory battery company, suggested that I try some massive "caps" that somehow made it out the back door of his workplace, which I mounted under the hood.
The components list may not be impressive by today's standards but it was all top of the 1987 line and sounded great...
- Kenwood KDC-80 pull-out CD player (the KDC-90 had an external FM receiver, which I didn't care to have)
- Kenwood (model #?) 1/4 DIN electronic crossover mounted in place of the ashtray (a perfect fit!)
- Rockford Fosgate PA-1 preamp
- Rockford Fosgate Punch 75 amp
- Boston Acoustics mids (the Samurai has factory front kick panel speaker mounts, and the panel is sealed, providing punchy mid-bass)
- Boston Acoustics soft dome tweeters (which came with optional wedge-shaped surface mounts for sound staging)
- Rockford Fosgate Power 300
- Rockford Fosgate Pro 15" woofers (2) (148 ounce magnets and 3 inch vented voice coils)
For the woofers I built a ported, particle-board box in such a shape as to double as a back seat (it was bolted to the body and sat two people but had no seat belts). Although the box appeared to be small I tuned it by volume & port diameter according to the chart that came with the RF woofers. The two amps were mounted to the back of the box and were accessed by opening the tailgate. I padded and carpeted the box, protected the woofers with heavy-duty grills from JBL concert speakers (so that folks could lean against them), and put a few throw pillows like a little couch. The girls loved it!
Sitting in the front seat the SPL meter recorded 134db, with the top off. Then I took it to a show. Although at 375 watts (the RF amps were under rated) I was at the low end of the 300 - 499 watt class, and had a soft top, but the sound quality and installation took the prize.
I said the car was stolen but I did have a nice Alpine alarm system, which came with a "glass breakage sensor" microphone which happened to also work for the sound of the soft top zippers. I even had an adjustable motion sensor in the center console, for when the top was off, and pressure-sensitive trigger pads in the driver's seat. But I failed to run the alarm from a separate, hidden battery. When I found the Samurai dumped on the side of a country road I found that the thieves had simply clipped the battery cable from under the engine compartment.
Greg Sweet : I wish I could have seen it!
You better keep that tracker locked in garage...softops are not known for security..
They're still more secure than our border.
@@OhPhuckYou ?
@@OhPhuckYou Sad but true!!!
I think that's the whole point of having the removable sub. The rest of the system, because it's properly installed, most thieves won't bother with because it would take too long to remove it and would vastly increase their chances of getting caught. Thieves generally will only go for stuff they can lift in seconds...
@@OhPhuckYou AYYYYYY
I legit just licensed and insured my mother old 91 tracker in Jamaica and found your channel attempting to fix.
Winston Doharty: 😉🍻
I dont know why there is something i like to see about this guy repairing a Tracker he put soo much effort into it maybe its because he do it with passion i would personally not watch a video of 30mins about a Geo Tracker but this guy make it interesting to sse
everyone loves the Geo Tracker vids
When I installed my huge system in my soft top jeep, I put a crapy head unit in the dash and hid the proper high end unit out of sight, so no one ever tried to steal it.
I got the aftermarket arm rest ( between driver and passenger ) that holds the head unit and has a lock on it. I covered the slim 12" sub with a sheet in the back and you really couldn't tell it had a system. I had a sound bar also but I riveted it in.
@Thomas Marshall Probably in the aftermarket armrest that holds the head unit, that he said he got.
Gabe is a cool personality for your channel. You should feature him more. Maybe return the favor and help him on that Opel build. Could make for some good content. Ijs tho. Keep up the great work!
If you have to much power to the radio you might want to think about upgrading the alternator. The stock one will not be able to hold the power. I have seen a lot of people having trouble when they upgrade the radio and find out the battery goes dead fast.
this is a baby amp,a cell phone uses as much power,lol
He also missed 1 vital step...He did not add any extra ground wire between battery and body. Even without replacing alternator you can upgrade the wrie between it and the battery which will help a lot.
@@eddiereichel9354 I totally missed that also. good catch.
Sometimes you seem a little rushed. Sound deadening especially in that type of vehicle will make a huge difference. Great choices with Alpine,JL and Rockford Fosgate!!
Just a note of appreciation. You guys are terrific! I love the projects that you tackle with your channel. If I recall, I first watched one of your videos as instruction for replacing a power window unit. I found you to be quite informative in not only the "how to," but the "Why to (or "don't do")." I suppose after a couple of videos, I was hooked. You and your firends seem to all have a love for messing around with cars and it shines through in your many projects. Keep up the good work!
This has a bit of the feel of MCM and the Mira, but like 7 years ago. I am really enjoying this channel.
Ambers whip is going to be so awsome once your finished with it. Thumbs up to Gabe for being there for you and Amber.
Damon Northeast Texas :🍻
About halfway through I noticed Gabe's Beetle. Very nice. More nostalgia for this old man. My first car was a 1970 handed down to me in early 1985. I learned quite a bit about wrenching with that thing.
ScottJ175 : This is my daughter’s first car. She’s currently learning on it as she restores it.
That Tracker is so awesome now!! Gabe is cool for letting you throw boxes and plastic all over his clean garage. (Joking!!) Tell Gabe thank you for his service. And welcome home!!! Side note, for battery corrosion, cheap white vinegar is a champ! It destroys battery acid. I'm watching this on my TV, so you're a T.V. Star!!!
Joey M 🍻
@@Gabe-ABNCW3 🍺 🍺 🍺
I like how Alpine comes up with a neat "Powerpack" that snaps on the the back of the head unit but you still have a rats nest of wires between the two parts. You'd figure they would set up the amp with a pass-through for everything and an adapter that goes between them so you only have to mess with the external wiring and you'll have a little less mess in the dash.
When I bought the power pack I FULLY expected it to have a single harness with power/signal/turn on to the amp. What I got was slightly disappointing. Have to zip tie them into individual looms. 😬
Which is what you would have to do if you bought any other small Class D amp and just duct taped it to the back of the radio. Not something people would expect from a brand with a price premium like Alpine.
Those rear corner pieces, black plastic, that hold the top down, to the body.. those break easy, there is a guy in SoCal that makes them... check him out on Craigslist. He is a small time dismantler of those cars, and he has everything replacement parts.
cmscms123456 : Thank you!
The tracker has been my favorite car on the channel so far. Odd because I wouldn’t even look twice at one sitting on the street 😂
same, i subbed because of it
Same!!!!
I see em all over lol, they’re nothing special. That’s what’s hilarious about living in Calabasas ca, I see Bentley bentaygas and geo trackers on a daily basis lmao
@@805NAVE a Tracker/Sidekick will go places a Bentley Bentaygas can only dream of.
Agreed
The more important question is, when are you going to install the geo emblem on the front grille?
Gabe, thank you for your service!
Classic moment: finding the jack stands receipt. 😆
Grandma Kathy : you are most welcome.
Highest quality A/V production and show production of any of the car channels. Nice job.
I try! I wish I could’ve saved the lighting in this one 💯
Glad you decided to replace the carpet ... it was my first thought ...
my second thought is the transmission shifter and syncro's whitch could be a video of its own ... as always Great Job! ...
The real thing that viewers should get from your video's is the high level of cooperation and the true power of teamwork ...
You can really 'Create Magic' when you surround yourself with talented and like minded individuals ...
Martin Frog :🍻
yes!!! more tracker vids ❤️❤️❤️
i dunno what it is about that lil car but it is so much more fun to watch and learn about than any like, 80 000$ car. This speaks to me a lot more. Thank you jr!
its mainly because an $80,000 car is galaxies beyond your means,were this is easily attainable.
it's not even that easily attainable! I live in Canada and finding one of these is like a needle in a haystack due to almost all of them being dead from rust, or nodded to shit as a crappy off-roader.
Hooah to the 82nd shirt he’s wearing
Javari Music : AIRBORNE!
That you are still calling it teh 400$ Tracker is cracking me up. Keep up the content JR. Cant wait for more tractor and R8!! Exciting stuff all around.
Rides a soft top, installs $500 of sound deadening.....seems legit
Every little bit helps... helps stop the Alpine from breaking on the first speed bump! 😂
He’s probably planning to get a hard top at some point, it gets mighty cold in KS. This amount of effort suggests he’s not going to flip it.
Alot of it is road noise
I just saw the banner on Gabe‘s garage ceiling. Thanks Gabe for your service. The GT brings back memories from my childhood in Germany.
Cheers!
Nice! I've done a handful of audio installs a very long time ago. What's your plan for repainting the hood? It kills me to see it like that every video
I "believe" the goal is make it not stand out from the other barely running trackers or she hasn't got a new color locked down yet.
I bet those doors sound solid when you close them now with the sound deadener. Alpine was a good choice! Love that clean crisp sound with low distortion
Craig Schenk was thinking the same thing.... that tincan door closing sound is no more!
Craig Schenk : It is perfect and crisp.
Those 'box cutters' were epic!!
Gabe's knife game is strong! 🗡
my first car ever was a 1995 geo metro 4 door. seeing that gauge cluster just brought me back to 2003. thanks for keeping a GEO on the road.
Haha, now that's a knife! You guys reminded me of two brothers opening presents on Christmas morning! Crutchfield is good quality and their support and connectors make it easy. That is an amazing sound system!
Here's to hoping that at a paint shop will sponser a new pain job for the tracker.
The tracker needs a matching set of rims ...
I have a spare set if anyone is looking :)
And Gabe has an Opal GT?! Gabe! Dude! Start posting some content!
Misunderstoodboygenius : This might be in the future. Stay tuned.
Yeah Gabe, get on it. 😁 😁
@@Gabe-ABNCW3 This should be the present. Opel GT rocks!
Mikolaj Kuzniecow : 😉🍻
Thank you!!! been racking my brains wondering what it was....In thought it was a Marcos
With all the work that going into this, you have to change it over to 4wd and get a hard top. Love this build!
Some guys just throw things together so it works. I love to see others like myself actually take the extra steps to make it look good as well. Something you can be proud of and say hay you see those battery terminals yea I did that.
I kinda feel bad for the old owner, we just keep seeing all of these major fails lol
My buddy had a monster stereo with Infinity home speakers in a 71 tri-colored (mostly bondo) Nova. We all had to ride in front because he ripped out the back seat for speakers. It smoked like a tar kettle and had the worst bald tires you could imagine, but put on a little Iron Maiden, and off we would go. 🤘🤘
The Tracker videos are always so much fun. Watch out for heat buildup behind the head unit - I killed a few CD players in my old 96 because the electronics cooked. I never tried sound deadening material because so much noise came through the soft top. I hope it works well because that is a great sound setup you are putting in! Always loud with the top down!
Dude these videos are Fantastic. I always liked the Tracker since they came out. I had a Geo Storm GSI 1991 5 spd. Loved that car. I put 177k miles and still ran like new
Hits play. Two notes in. NF. #winning
Tracker is looking awesome, JR!
Christos Walden which NF song is that
@@blakehardesty all i have
I want to see more on that Opel GT in the driveway.
TGF 2005 : stay tuned- you might!😉
16:30 - I'm loving the Ben Carson sticker!
This car is screaming out for one of those cheap Maaco paint jobs!
LOVE the tracker series. please god just order the piece you need for the shifter already youre driving me insane
“We’ve no idea where that GPS goes” it’s a Geo Tracker, surely it’s for...Geo Tracking it...
...I’ll get me coat...
Ironic - I skipped over a ad for a Land Rover Evoque that they want $439/month for, so I could watch a $400 Geo Tracker get a sound system that might rival what is in the Evoque. I'm going to start saving my box tops in case Amberghini gets tired of this one :)
I remember the first video where you bought it. And today it has a motor that works.
Gabe got knives 🔪
Dale Jessop : 🤫
That awkward moment when you put more work into the Geo than the R8 lol.
The things that we do for our women. :)
Cool, Amber is in this one...gonna be a good vid
"Do you have a knife" bit was corny, but I enjoyed it.
The Movie Dealers : it’s just that scissors are so boring...
The Movie Dealers “That’s not a knife. This is a knife.” 😆
Acetone is used to strip paint. Don't wipe down paint with acetone. Otherwise though that seems like a good job. You've done a lot of good work on this car! I appreciate the cleanliness of this install.
AgentOrange96 : I agree that the prolonged exposure of this old paint would definitely strip it, however, a light rubdown after washing it is nothing to worry about it.
Thank you for your encouragement!👍🏼🍻
Lets all appreciate WatchJRGO now while he works on Geo Trackers and Grand Prixs before he blows up on RUclips and starts doing Lamborghinis. :’(
Brandon Martin I really don’t think it’s gonna happen. He doesn’t have that certain something that makes him super interesting. I like his stuff but find myself fast forwarding through a lot of the video and I usually never watch more than one or two. He needs to liven it up somehow if he wants to blow up but if he doesn’t and stays the same I’ll watch him still.
The old school Infinity Kappa are really good. I used to run them back in the day.
This tracker is a beast! Totally love the build!
He's going to pimp this ride out better than any of that other junk they were test driving.
Is that a Opel GT behind you in the start of the video
Kent Sandhus : Excellent eye, Sir!
Thanks we still have a couple driving around here in Denmark 😃😃
You've put a fair amount of money into this Tracker, I'm wondering if you're considering a repaint.
It will get paint 💯
@@WatchJRGo hallelujah!
Did it get paint?
I've never been jealous of a geo tracker until now.
Your goal should be to make this into a $40,000 Tracker.
Due to this series I want to daily a Tracker now
They get closer to $40,000 with every video!
Great work thanks to Gabe and his assorted Cutlery. Amber will be deaf in 6 months...lol
MrJoebiz24 : LOL.
I use to be massively into car audio in the day (I was MECP Certified). This system won't be very loud at all.
Chris Doyle : Thank you for your comment!
The goal of this installation is not to be loud, but to provide a crisp and clean sound free of distortion.
Our initial results have been quite successful and we will post an update soon that will include a summary of them. I think you might be impressed.
Cheers 🍻
*No. I do because I have a Kove speaker velcroed to my dashboard.* 😎
Kove Speaker for the win 🍻
I love that sweet deal. Been wanting a new Bluetooth speaker for a while and your huge discount with love audio was amazing!
Very nice. Ambz is going to have a ton of fun.
I love Gabe’s one liners from off camera.
No joke, those battery terminal connectors made out of felt will stop 100% of the acid coming up around the posts of the battery and corroding on the terminal cables. They're like 3 bucks, I put them on all my vehicles and have never had to deal with it again. If you're super paranoid they have one with a read oil like spray you can spray on the terminals before putting on the connector, that'll prevent any acid from wicking up between the terminal connector and post if it sneaks past the felt ring (which like I said is all I ever use, never had it be a problem).
Love the 80's movie montage music. 👍👍
this is super cool, I think I'm gonna do the same thing when I get my new Honda crv. These videos of tearing down all these broken cars, especially this series, is really inspiring. You make doing huge mods to your car look not as impossible as it seemed.
Alex Blackburn: Glad you are enjoying them, Alex!
We wish you the best with your CRV!!!
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man im sure guys on the tracker forums are jelly of the interior luv this geo is getting! i say leave the "patina" on the outside so its a "sleeper" tracker
Wow is that an Opel GT on the rotisserie ?
I saw that too! There's a guy down the road from me selling three non running Opel GTs for 3500$ for the lot.
Elliott Grossman and where would that be, they are so hard to find
@@simplebirdy over in a place called Los Banos california, theres actually a fair amount of non running opels over in California for sale if you look on FB marketplace and Craiglist
What's the sign on Gabes garage ceiling ?
@@TABrown-xh7xc welcome home Gabe sign. Looks like he was in the military, 82nd Airborne as far as I can tell.
the knives just kept coming getting bigger and more bizarre ...lol
I remember swapping out the factory speakers in my 92 Geo Metro when I bought it! This brings me back. Good luck, you are getting close!
You should make a how to to wire a sound system properly (b/c that og wiring horrific)
it would be a video about common sense and it would be exceptionally long.
Planning on the braket to allow for any GM alternator? The stock alts don't put out much juice. Nice work on the interior gut and re-do!!!
Dude an opel gt!!!! 😍
Golden Eagle 🍻
Awesome job on the installation. Please tell Gabe thank you for his service!
Travis Warehime :🍻
You have a knife, produces a broadsword! Must be a tough box!
Jean-Marc Feldman : never can be too careful...
I have to ask. Is the alternator and battery enough to run that system?
Michael Titchenal : Yes. New amps are incredible.
Next matching wheels
We have the stock wheels! it's on the to-do list 💯
"Dave, have you got a knife?" Loved it. You guys are great.
When you said "be quiet" I was thinking it was made by the computer case company "Be Quiet!". I had to check the description to see it was b-quiet.
thought the same thing especially since they use sound deadening in their cases.
I thought he was telling Gabe to be quiet
I love when you say "no wondersz" reminds me of letter Kenny
Hey JR! This was a great upload. It is fun watching you and Gabe working together. When I was your age a buddy and I got along like that. We are still friends but we don’t tackle projects like that anymore. Maybe I should think one up and see if it is still fun. I really want another 67-72 C10 ore Sierra Grande. Hmmmmmm. Da**it now you are costing me money!!,!! Hahaha. I think it is great how Amber steps right in and helps right along with you two! That is a great couple of friends! Well and one is of course a girlfriend to!! Haha
Have you ever tried to source a removable hardtop for the Tracker? Most have roof rails on them and look really quite decent. I think 90% of them are white as well. Just a thought.
Keep em coming, please. I am loving the variety of the current content and I think that Grom you had a friend ride the other day was far from original! Gotta see what you did in the past!! Stay safe, all of you. The grumpy old Canadian, Eh!
What the? What the??: This is indeed what makes life worth living. 😉
Gabe - you are a really skilled individual! Good on ya. That Opel had been a dream car of mine for 40 years! Hahaha. I live on miles of gravel roads so it is not a “practical” dream, mind you. It’s fun to watch all of you working together.
Thanks for the response! Stay safe.
What the? What the?? 😉🍻
Thank you for your service Gabe!
Cheers.
You can usually just use a relay for the parking brake bypass. Just get one from O'Really's and use some heat shrink and a soldering iron to make your own. That's what I did on my Jeep and it works fine.
I don't know jack shit about cars or mechanic but I love watching his videos or maybe because I have a 1997 Geo Metro and always wanted the Tracker
Stay hydrated kids: take a drink of water every time JohnRoss makes a Crocodile Dundee reference!
More amber, she is pretty and love her voice lol.... is there a part 2 to this with sub and carpet installed?
kevin auman : stay tuned😉👍🏼
The new stereo will hide the rod knock you have on startup.
Uncle Joe :😂👍🏼🍻
Great job now get a nice paint job on the tracker to really spruce it up. Amber is lucky to have that good of a tracker
Nice Opel GT body in the back
Pedro Ortiz : Thank you!
I see that $50 battery! haha. Love those things. I've had great luck.
Gabe looks like he's done parts layouts and inventories. Unload the connex, reload the connex.
Maybe once or twice! Ha!!
Dirty needles in the carpet?!?!? :O
I was an adjuster in the 80s-90s-00s. Those trackers and the little Suzuki's with the soft top were the most broken into vehicles. The sad thing is that the people probably knew whoever it was that ripped them off.