Marv88 2016 Silverado LS Regular Cab 5.3L

Marv88 · July 5, 2019

Finally got my garage/workshop situated in a way that all I have to do is move my main workbench (on wheels) behind my table saw on the other side to get the truck inside so I can work on it late at night without being interrupted or bugging the neighbors.

brawls · July 6, 2019

It's great having a garage to work in - and park in, especially during inclement weather! Your set up looks good.

qwank · July 6, 2019

On 6/30/2019 at 2:01 PM, Marv88 said:

It's not in the manual for the twk or vxi however I called JL and found you can in fact manipulate the software to perform that function like on the Mosconi dsp's. I'll post the process if you like when I get it done.

That would be awesome, thanks

Marv88 · July 9, 2019

On 7/6/2019 at 10:57 AM, brawls said:

It's great having a garage to work in - and park in, especially during inclement weather! Your set up looks good.

Thanks and I agree it's great to be able to work inside!

Marv88 · July 9, 2019

On 7/6/2019 at 3:59 PM, qwank said:

That would be awesome, thanks

Haven't had a chance to do it yet but Ill let you know as soon as I do.

Marv88 · July 15, 2019

Shined it up with the Jay Leno car care products I received for Father's Day. I've used lots of different products over the years with varying results and have to say so far I'm pretty impressed with his stuff (especially the tire and trim dressing)

Marv88 · July 18, 2019

Oops!

Edited July 18, 2019 by Marv88

Marv88 · July 21, 2019

I received a full set of floor mats for a double cab by accident from GM and they told me to keep them so I used the rear ones with zip ties to cover the "echo chamber" under the dash (this improves midrange clarity when you have kick panel or low door mounted mids).

Marv88 · September 23, 2019

Latest Audio upgrade is installing the Mercury Audio components I received from @Nasty . Most have probably not heard of this brand and neither had I until Nasty brought them to my attention. The company is out of Thailand and I was a little skeptical not having heard of them however they seem to win a lot on the Asian car audio competition circuit so I figured I'd give them a try.

This time around I used the Metra 6x9 adapters lined with Sound Skins deadener, made a recessed 13mm birch mounting plate to flush mount the mids and sealed front and back with foam weather stripping. Tweeters are installed in the stock dash location surrounded by thick foam.

Build quality as well as packaging are excellent IMO and I have about 25 hours of break in time so they are pretty well loosened up now. System is factory iob 7" headunit and JL Audio twk88 dsp running these active through a JL audio xd700/5v2 5 channel amplifier.

It was hard to find info online (the translated video I watched was difficult to follow with the thick accent of the narrator) and no manual or specs so I was basically flying by the seat of my pants. After much experimenting with crossover points along with basic phase/level adjustments and no eq'ing yet I find these to be an excellent sounding set of speakers "right out of the box". Midrange is very natural sounding as I like it, midbass is very articulate and easily keeps up with the fastest bass lines, soft dome tweeters are very detailed without any harshness even firing off the windshield and I'm sure they will be even better once I fine tune. I like them better than the highly regarded Alpine SPX PRO's I previously had installed and IMO they can compare favorably with many of the upper end speakers found on the market here as well as several "boutique" brands I have used.

Marv88 · March 30, 2020

Got bored the other night during this shelter in place and built yet another subwoofer enclosure from a combination of 13mm and 18mm Baltic Birch plywood to scale from an actual Bowtie emblem.

kevin.blackwell8 · April 2, 2020

Didn't realize I could post stuff from Instagram. Here's my remote releasing tailgate...

That's badass

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Marv88 · January 9, 2021

Haven’t done much to the truck in a while other than install reverse, cargo, license plate LED bulbs and changed a few things in the audio system.

I previously did the diode mod to have the cargo lights come on in reverse but that didn’t help much with seeing behind at night while backing up however the LED bulbs made a huge difference.

Marv88 · January 9, 2021

I previously had the JL 13tw5 installed in an enclosure that spanned the entire rear wall but that was way more bass than I needed and I wanted to add a little more storage so I went back to my very first plan which was building a platform across the rear wall.

Marv88 · January 9, 2021

I used nutserts and rubber isolators to mount it to the rear wall at the top. I made a little mounting tab to use the jack tools mounting stud at the bottom and fashioned a little bracket to use another isolator mounted to the seatbelt mechanism stud.

Edited January 9, 2021 by Marv88

Marv88 · January 9, 2021

I kept the Mercury Audio components I got from Brandon aka Nasty here (RIP my brother ) and was planning to use the Bowtie enclosure above with the ARC Audio ARC Series 8” but by going to the platform I found the passenger seat wouldn’t go back far enough and the jump seat would not open all the way so I just built a basic wedge from Baltic Birch plywood for behind the passenger seat.