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Yes sir. I found a guy on Facebook, Jeff Priddy, that rebuilds them. So I bought an alpine 7909 and a matching alpine 3348 EQ/RTA. Im going to use that into a rockford fosgate power 1000 2t to life amp, pushing an audiofrog 3way component set in the front. Sub is still up in the air, but will live in spare tire well next to the battery in custom enclosure
 
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Yes sir. I found a guy on Facebook, Jeff Priddy, that rebuilds them. So I bought an alpine 7909 and a matching alpine 3348 EQ/RTA. Im going to use that into a rockford fosgate power 1000 2t to life amp, pushing an audiofrog 3way component set in the front. Sub is still up in the air, but will live in spare tire well next to the battery in custom enclosure
That’ll be a great sounding system, I’m currently on the hunt for an Alpine EQ myself with similar plans.

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Join the Facebook group alpine 7909 owners club and message Jeff Priddy the admin. He often has units that he will sell.
 
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I spoke to the fabricator a couple of weeks ago and it is next in his queue. I knew when I sent it to him it was going to be a good 6+months and we are right on track. I hope by January ish to have it in hand.
 
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Hey Wile.E all good on the "hijack", haha. I have a combination of different sound deadening materials gathered up over the years. I went with Noico as a base layer, as seen in the pics. My plan is to do as you did and follow that with thicker liner, I'm terribly worried about the weight as the car should have plenty of power.

I'm curious what rear camera setup did you go with? I am going to be using an old school Alpine 7909 head unit, but I am considering putting a camera in place with a backup / rear view mirror.
I will dig it up. I have so many parts for this car. I counted once and was at 122 parts all over the place. It got so bad that I had to label the boxes just to find something when wanting to locate parts to complete another portion of the car. I am sure you know all about that and finding things you forgot you had as your significant other shakes her head.

I will let you know when I get home soon and should of already been installed until dragged into work again. It was not even $30 and has so many features being clear and vibration resistant for track use or street driving. I will definitely test it out first giving you results but it did have awesome 5 star reviews.

As far as that Noico (if spelled correctly) I used that exact same stuff first as well. I used it on the whole trunk area since it is thicker having that butyl rubber stuff for absorbing noise/vibrations. I wish I put it only in trunk on flat surfaces. I put it on back seat area running down to floor and was sitting on it during hot summer finishing off other side areas blocking off holes from exterior road noise and rattling metal areas using lighter damplifier pro with less butyl.

Well long story short or shorts is I was sitting in same spot for so long while measuring/cutting/installing/rolling out material and went to get out of car to stretch and I was stuck. My weight combined with heat made the thicker butyl come out from seams sticking to my shorts. I was so stuck that I had to undo my belt and take off my shorts to get out of the car lol. Then cut away while peeling my shorts off the material all pissed off from losing some of its density.
Funny story but a lesson not to put it in any vertical angles or will melt wanting to slide down in higher temperatures. I just foil taped the pieces holding it together with new carpet on top then looked into other type of sound deadening. I am so glad I did not put that stuff on my door panels, trunk/lid or speaker deck or would of been cleaning up a mess for some time. The second skin is so easy to work with and roll but can cut you quickly. I got their "B Stock" which was pieces either thicker in some areas (never thinner) using those on like driveshaft tunnel or the sheets (foil) had minor dents or not cut straight.
Not a big deal at all and hell of a bargain for 36 square feet for like $80.
 

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So on the camera the brand is TOPTIERPRO being a CMOS camera with 3 angles and is waterproof, has night vision. My head unit is a Pioneer AVH-X5800BHS. Had it for a year and no time to listen to it yet but very good from what friends have said.

Been busy with other projects on car and new Bronco (Black Diamond) geeking out on increasing towing on 2 door combined with lightest/strongest trailers. Wild Bronco towing Wild Mustang to track events is plan.
Oh and I believe the head unit has hookups for 3 cameras (future Instagram videos) and awesome other features. I made my own custom setup in doors with tweeters/mid range while also separating highs/lows. The rears are Kicker as well and Apline Type-R 12" with 1000 rms watts all sound sealed with not too much weight really all in rear. The sub box is very nice being ported/durable and is coated in a bed liner material making it slip proof even though I have it fastened down for very hard turns. I have had all this for a couple years and have not listened to one song yet, no joke, sad but soon to come while dialing it in. Long ways from it's cassette player with Beastie Boys still in there.

Again sorry for a novel but day off for once while being excited to get involved in anything non work related, especially Mustangs. =)
 

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Never put up pictures from a phone really but trying and not sure if I did it correctly or fat fingers selected wrong pics of doors/trunk. I will see if it loads.
 

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Never put up pictures from a phone really but trying and not sure if I did it correctly or fat fingers selected wrong pics of doors/trunk. I will see if it loads.
How far back did the aftermarket steering wheel hub move the steering wheel?
 

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Awesome steering wheel and great towing rig

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Well nice build. Lots of good details. I'm also doing a build up after the car seat for a long time and of course a divorce. You are moving much faster as I've been at mine for 3 years. I think your paint is pretty close to mine. I also redid my inner fender plastic but did a final coat of rubber under coat to cover up any scratchs. Keep up the good work, I'll be following.
 

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Found a better picture of the color. What are you doing for the fuel tank as if it looks anything like mine did it's full of rust.
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Nice build man and don't sweat the time. As the title says mine has been going for over 20 years now.. I've made a fair bit of progress this year, but I'm probably still 6-12 months away from completion.
my wife and i just signed a contract to build a new house so thats now a bit of a distraction as well. The good news is the new house will have a 5 car garage,, which will be great.


What paint color are you using? Mine is mercedes benz brilliant blue metallic, it looks dark and kind of flat at night, but really pops in the sunlight.

My fuel system is a glenns performance system using a cobra tank and twin pump hat with dual 450s. It is e85 compatible and my efi system, pro-m, has an alcohol content sensor so I can switch back and forth on fuel.
 

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I'm not sure the color as I picked it out of a book. I wanted a little darker but all good I guess. Lol
Sounds like you have the fuel system well figured out. I looked at that system but is big money that I currently don't have. That should be lots of pump.
What engine are you building?
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I also have a build thread if you want to check it out.
 
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Len,
The motor is a R302 based 363" stroker (scat custom forged crank, oliver rods, diamond pistons) and a custom camshaft with a set of TEA ported TFS 225 highport heads. This is being fed by one of the early prototype Trickflow horseshoe intakes.

I originally was going to run a single turbo and had purchased a B&G single turbo kit, but now I'm strongly leaning towards ditching that and going with twins. Mostly just for the aesthetics with the intake. The drivetrain consists of a Chris Neighbors built 8.8" w/9" ends and Wilwood 4 piston brakes. Transmission is a T56 Magnum w/McLeod RXT twin disk clutch. The suspension is full Maximum Motorsports front and rear with HD torque arm. The fuel system is a Glenn's Performance E85 compatible system based on a cobra tank and twin 450 pumps. It should be a real hoot when it is all finished sometime next year.

I'll definitely checkout your build thread, I'm always interested to see what others are up to.
 

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Very nice. Should be a fun ride for sure. I did read about the heads and intake earlier I just wasn't sure what the base engine was. I may have read it an forgot, I am going old... lol. When is the lower intake going to show up? Keep us posted.
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As of a few weeks ago I was next in his project queue. So I'm hoping soon, but not sure.

If I haven't heard anything after the first of the year I'm going to check back in with him. Im not in a huge hurry right now for the intake as there is still lots of other work to be done first.

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As of a few weeks ago I was next in his project queue. So I'm hoping soon, but not sure.

If I haven't heard anything after the first of the year I'm going to check back in with him. Im not in a huge hurry right now for the intake as there is still lots of other work to be done first.

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Hi. Did you happen to see my question about the steering wheel and hub up a ways? Thanks.
 

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Hi. Did you happen to see my question about the steering wheel and hub up a ways? Thanks.
I saw your post, but that wasn't me with the steering wheel. Those pics belong to @Wile.E.GT , perhaps he can provide details.

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