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Pulled this from my pickup as I am upgrading the audio system. Pretty cool old unit. From what I can tell, its a 1980-82 Elite Model 2600B. No identifying stickers. Appears to be a Japanese built radio with an italian amp. No clue what its worth, I threw it up on marketplace for 150 but I doubt it will fetch anything near that. It is in excellent working order, I adjusted the cassette belt and it plays great.

Any idea what a unit like this is worth? They seem to be very rare, of course that doesn't translate into valuable. Just curious if anybody has knowledge on this head unit or an idea of value. TIA

Hey yall, need some help here. I have a 74 F100, im swapping in a 351W and C6 soon. I want to run some long tube headers, I had a 76 302 back in the day and it sounded awesome. I want to replicate that sound, I have the pipes. But for the life of me, I can not find headers that will fit. I've heard some horror stories from guys trying to massage them between the frame rails, around the starter and transmission. I really dont want to run shorties, because the long tubes are a major part of why my 76 sounded like it did. Any help is appreciated, thank you!

Hello all. I am rather new to the audio world, and my comprehension of audio systems is basically "press the button, turn the knob, and it works". I have installed audio equipment before, no problem. But I have not actually designed an audio system. I want to get into audio more, and im having a hard time understanding terms and just general knowledge issues. I need some help and input, let me start with what I have now.

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TL;DR I have four head units at my disposal for a single-cab truck. Truck is heavily sound deadened, sealed, and has very limited space. Plan includes 6.5 speakers, tweeters, dual 10s. I am a dumbass and I need help. Thank you.

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Heres the long of it:

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First off, any helpful input is greatly appreciated. I dont know a whole lot about car audio, and im trying to learn. Also, I would like to apologize in case I used the wrong flair.

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So I have 4 decks, pictured here that im considering. I already own these decks. They are the following:

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-Pioneer DEH-1300MP

JVC KD-R740BT

-Kenwood KDC-X492

-Sony CDX-GT575UP

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I have a single cab pickup with limited air space. My goal isn't to acheive denture removal, but I do want a clean high quality system. My pickup came factory with one 5.25 inch speaker in each door, and a single 5x7 speaker mounted in the dash. Behind the seat, I have 60 inches of width, and 23 inches of height with 0 inches of depth at the top and 7.5 inches of depth at the bottom.

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The truck is fully sound-deadened and insulated with new rubber door and window seals. It’s covered in Dynamat Xtreme and Dynaliner on the floor, tunnel, firewall, rear cab wall, and about 70% of the roof, plus extra coverage around firewall openings and a high-temp exterior heat shield. It also uses a sealed dual shifter boot with added closed-cell foam around the shifter tower. This may sound extreme, but the truck is a 52 year old cab, and I have a very aggressive exhaust system.

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Now my idea is to open the door holes up to 6.5 inches, in order to use component speakers. I want to mount a tweeter at the lower corner of each a pillar, and run 2 shallow mount 10" subs in a sealed box, with a 4 channel amp + a mono sub amp. I figure to be rid of the 5x7 in the dash, instead hiding a microphone under the screw on speaker cover, for hands free calling. Almost all of my music is streamed via Bluetooth, from my cell phone. I do not have room for a double din radio, so apple car play / large screens are out of the question.

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Now where I am lost is in the everything. I do not understand these head units, or what speakers will work best with them, or pretty much anything. I do not understand speaker placement, or usable air space. I want to understand the science behind it in order to build a real high quality sound system, but again, Im a dumbass and I dont know much when it comes to audio.

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If you read all of that word soup, thank you, and have a blessed day.

Heres what I made in 139 days as a swift driver.

This is a year end statement I received from swift, january 1st to May 19th. Mostly on their eastern regional dry van account, with a few weeks on flatbed.

And to the a - hat who said most drivers make 70k in their first year? No absolutely not. This pay puts me on track for $29,435.65 per year gross. Averaging around 2500 miles per week, i stayed 3 to 4 weeks out with 3 to 6 days home at a time.

Hello all, I have a holley 4180C carb i am rebuilding. I am aware that the mixture screws are in the base plate, instead of the metering block on this carb, but om this particular model I have, it seems the mixture screws are replaced by these plugs here. Is there any screws beneath this plug, and how do I remove this plug? My solution would be to replace it with an aftermarket carb fir my particular application, but my budget constrains me to this carbuerator, so that option is out of the question. It is a Motorcraft carb, Part Number E5TE-9510-ZA and the data tag reads E5TE ZA A 5C4. Any help for how to adjust the idle mixture on this carb is appreciated. This carbuerator will be installed on a factory 1996 351W with an edlebrock RPM intake, long tube headers, and the factory cam installed with a comp cams magnum double roller set at +4 degrees. The carbuerator was free, and with my thin budget this helps me alot. I beleive it is around 575-600 cfm which seems appropriate for a 5.8L engine that will never see more than 5,000 rpm.

Hey fellow flatbed drivers. Just did ny first tarp load, how's it look? Its not flapping so I think I did okay, but I would not doubt that theres a couple things I did that could be done better.

In all, I used 18 4 inch straps, 3 2 inch straps, and 120 bungee cords. I used 2 lumber tarps, and a steel tarp for the mid section since thats the biggest tarp I had.

Man, all I gotta say is swift REALLY loves using old ass shit at all their terminals 😂 thought yall might get a kick out of this.

First I want to thank you all for the advice. Anyways, here is my first flatbed load. Thoughts? Chain is 5/16 70 grade.