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About me:
Hi!
My name is Robert Carter. I was born on 9/15/80 and love cars, trains, and all things audio. I have one younger brother named Ben, and a dog named Elbee. I currently attend the University of Miami in Coral Gables FL, and am majoring in Electrical Engineering. My Father has owned and opperated and automotive repair shop for 30 years, so I have been around cars all my life. I work on my own cars, and enjoy doing automotive performance work. I love driving a manual transmission, so both my cars are manuals (I wouldn't have it any other way!)

About My Cars:
My daily driver is a navy blue 1988 Saab 900S 3-door hatchback. I bought this wonderful car in febuary,2000 from a customer of my dad's shop. The odometer read 102,000 miles, which may seem like a lot, but this is a saab:) When well maintained, a classic saab will reach 300K easily! This one was in exellent shape, inside and out(my dad maintained it after all) and was the right price. It now has 137,000 on the odometer and has been super good to me. I have not had to do any major repairs to the car yet! It consistantly gets 30+mpg highway, and 25 mpg city.
I have made a few choice modifications to the car:
I replaced the stock airbox with a K&N cone filter. Performance in cold weather was noticeably improved!
I replaced the stock headlight bulbs with PIAA superwhites, these are great bulbs!
I installed a stock 900 turbo muffler and tailpipe. This was a great (and cheap) upgrade. My stock muffler went bad, and the turbo exhaust was cheaper than the non-turbo exhaust because the turbo has only one muffler VS the non-turbo's two mufflers. The sound is fabulous, and the turbo exhaust is lighter(only one muffler) and flows better(2.25" piping VS 1.75" plus only one muffler)
For those worried about loosing torque with this mod, I can tell you the loss is minimal, and the top end is improved.

My stereo:
My stereo is in my daily driver, and is geared for a high level of sound quality. I have done all the work on it myself.
Amps:
1998 Precision Power PC2100: 2x100wrms to tweets and mids
1998 Precision Power PC2100: 2x100wrms to yet to be installed Midbasses
1998 Precision Power PC2350: 1x1400wrms to Subs

Subs: two 15" Image Dynamics IDW15's SVC8ohms wired in parallel

Sub Enclosure: 3.125 Ft^3 per sub, ported @ 27 Hz
1 1/8" MDF top plate and center divider, 3/4" MDF elsewhere. Carpeted to match interior of car. Subs fire straight up against the hatch, giving me that wonderful 3db hatch gain effect:)

Front stage:
Tweets- MB Quart 1" titaniums
Mids- DEI HF series 4"
Midbasses- Image Dynamics IDQ8's, too be installed
Crossovers- MB Quart Musicomp 2-ways for mids and tweets, onboard amp x-over for midbasses & subs
Mids and tweets are in the stock dash locations, the classic saabs actually image best from the dash. My system has no rear fill, and doesn't need it:)

Electrical:
950 CCA comercial truck battery
0/3 gauge industrial 19 strand power wire to trunk
0/3 gauge ground wire
2 farad capacitor
2 gauge from distro blocks to sub amp
6 gauge from distro blocks to front amps

Amp rack:
My amp rack is the back of my sub box. The completed sub box with the subs, amps, capacitor, and wiring on it weighes in at a feathery 200lb!


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