Pain cave remodel

OK, for some reason it rearranged all my pictures, so the new project is at the top.

Ohh, I had to take a break to do some snow clean-up as well.

Nice!

Thank you!  You have confirmed something I always believed but could find little evidence of - I am NOT the only Kestrel rider!

Edited by k9car363 2015-02-06 3:53 PM

Lisa - love the wall inspiration!

Kestrel rider checking in as well! Great cave and renovation. When I finally get mine done I would like to get a kestrel sign from the LBS to hang as well.

Love that wake, swim, bike, run, sleep, repeat wall!

Look at the size of those things! You must have won the world championships in something or another!

Nice job on the pain cave....

I believe I can make out "international freestyle breakdancing champion 1984" on one of them.

Nice work. I recently moved into a new house and was psyched to be able to set up my own pain cave. I also convinced my wife that a treadmill was needed. With the 3+ feet of snow we've had in the last ten days and 12-16" more predicted it's been a wise investment this winter!







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I love my Kestrel's. I'm actually going back to an Airfoil. I'll be selling a couple even though I'd like to keep them forever.

Anyways, you'd be correct. The trophies are from my other hobby, competing in car stereo's. I build the loudest cars in the world. I won USACi (United States Autosound Competition International Finals from 2006-2013. I couldn't go to finals last year due to a military deployment otherwise it could have been another barring some major failure in the lanes.

I also compete in another organization, MidwestSPL, where I have won a few titles as well. I think 4, I don't know it's hard to keep track anymore. Same thing, last year could have been another had I not be deployed and everything went as planned.

Now that I'm getting older I'm not as serious about it though. If I win, I win, if not, ohh well. Yeah I want to win, but at this point anything else is just gravy. I was actually pretty happy to lose at finals a few years ago, to bring me motivation for my current project.

For some reason when I talk to non audiophiles I always throw in the disclaimer that I'm not that guy driving through your neighborhood at midnight waking everyone up. In fact my daily driver just has the factory radio.

The car I build could be comparable to dragsters. It's build for one purpose, to put a big number up on the meter. Not only would it sound horrible if I played music, it would blow things up after a little bit. It's all purpose built.

I'll go ahead and put up a video of my last loss at finals 2012 in MidwestSPL. This is the Advanced No-wall class. The class you can build up to your front door opening and everything must be below the window line of the vehicle. In my truck I have approximately 33,000 watts on 3 15" woofers.

Coming into the final round I had put up multiple 162.2's including the previous elimination round but for whatever reason I could not duplicate it here and ended up coming in 2nd.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, yes the audio cost much more than the vehicles, I wear hearing protection and don't sit in the vehicle.

I'm the guy in the white shirt with the blue S-10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYTN0svNxlc


Edited by cstoulil 2015-02-07 3:42 PM