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I had a great time jared. It was great seein you guys and doin' some wheelin. Also, you stole my pillow!

Go for it. Its hosted on my home DSL though so the speed may not be the best... Also there are a few pics of personal nature. Pics of our campsite and such...

There are more of yours Brian. go to http://jagologs.dyndns.org/jay/cars/evans/ to see my entire listing of photos. They're all unnamed and uncompressed, so it'll take a while to browse them.

Also, Jared... YOU NEVER GAVE ME BACK MY PILLOW! jerk

So I wanted to dump all my photos in a thread without cluttering up someone else's. Let's make this an Evans creek photo thread. Feel free to add your own pics if you'd like. Any of this pics can be had in hi-res glory upon request.

That was austin, and it was a Turbo XT he did it in. Also, I got plenty of pictures of the flipped samurai. I'll scan them tonight when I get off work :-)

Tex didn't fix his tire on the trail, he had a spare bolted to the roof rack. I feel bad for him, those tires arent cheap!

I got a TON of awesome rock-crawling pics. Unfortunately, a drunk driver took out a telephone pole near my house, so the phone line (and my internet connection) were both down last night. I'll upload them tonight after work.

I recommend no evening runs... just because I wont be arriving until about 9-10pm. It'll be hard to find your campsite if nobody is there and there are no subaru's parked there! I'll meet you guys at Tex's tomorrow morning... but I'm not leaving with you. We'll talk then.

Just a quick update before we leave... My girlfriend can't get Friday off work, so we'll be leaving after work on Friday. I'm afraid we'll arrive at night. She gets off at 5, so I expect to arrive around 9 or 10pm. I've never been there before so I hope we'll find the campsite ok :-) I'm taking Friday off work so I'll probably stop by Tex's house to see the caravan off.

Get a sheet of aluminum or something to make a cold-air divider. The intake wont be doing too much good if it's sucking up hot air from the engine bay. Get something to seperate the filter and it'll perform better!

If she is... she'd better make an account and post in this thread. Seems to be a new trend ;-)

Tex is going. I guess Jared's meeting him at his house and he is caravanning there. I MIGHT drive down with tex and jared, but only if my girlfriend gets the day off work. If not, I'll be about 3 hours behind them. Can anyone give me more detailed information on the campsite? Tex mentioned that there's no fresh water source, but are there any sort of restrooms? Any electricity nearby? My girlfriend wants to know. Anything extra anyone recommends I bring?

The fiberglass insulation sounds like a good idea, I never even considered it. I'll work on it some more tonight when I get home from work, like sealing up the sides around that wood block and stuff.

You have wonderful suggestions there. So today we modified it a bit. We were driving around, and ended up at some car stereo places. We saw some MTX 8"s that were a steal, so I got them. They sound a bit better than the other ones, so now I have MTX Thunder 4500's in there. As far as future plans, this is what I want to do. The suggestion to remove the space between the subs and gate has serious merit. I'm going to remove a couple of the bolts (whatever is safe to keep the sub from slapping the gate) and then cram some foam tape in there to seal it off (unless anyone can think of a better solution). I'm also gonna put some foam tape on top of that wooden board, and maybe below it too. Anything in an effort to seal that compartment off. You'd be surprised at how the weight of the subs seals the gate to the compartment. I think that I want to ensure this is sealed properly, so I'll put some latches on the gate. Think of the type of sliding latch you'd see on an outhouse or a bathroom stall in a restroom, I'll put on of those on each side to keep the lid sealed down. Also we're going to drill holes in the gate... Don't know how much of a difference that will make. As far as the amp goes, I have to run them in series. The speakers are 4ohm speakers, and the amp is only 4ohm stable. With them in parallel, it's a 2ohm load and the amp tends to crap out on that. This is a definate poor man's stereo, so getting a better amp is not going to happen.

As far as sound goes, I'm pretty disapointed. They sound WAY better in the box. I hope drilling some holes and tightening things down will help (I bought a latch to help tighten the tailgate). There's just not enough to fill out the bass. I also suspect one of the speakers is messed up, since there's something INSIDE the speaker rattling. We have to investigate it more, but I hope we didnt damage the speakers during the install.

So as I'm sure many of you are aware, Subarus are a bit easy to break in to. My friend Tex has had both his Subarus broken into and a LOT of moneys worth of stereo equipment stolen. The guy I bought this wagon from had his subwoofers stolen from it about a week before I bought it. I wanted to add an amp and some subs to my Subaru. Nothing too boomy, but something to round out the sound. I don't have a cargo cover, however, and I was worried about potential theft. I have to thank Austin for the idea, because he mentioned he had a pair of 8"s he would be willing to sell me. They came in boxes, but I started wondering if there was something else I could do with them. The following is the product of a few days work by Tex and myself. Basically I just cleared out the little storage area underneath the carpet. I then went to Pull A Part and grabbed a new gate from another wagon. Tex and I then drilled holes to mount the 8" subs to the bottom of the gate. We had to use a LOT of bolts to space the subs far enough from the gate so that they wouldnt slap the gate when firing, then we used some rubber washers to cut down on the uber-exessive rattle. After that, We took some foam tape (insulation tape actually) and lined the edges of the gate to cut down on the rattle. Then we cut a piece of wood down to size to seperate the chambers for the amp and the subs. After lining the sub enclosure in dynamat (which is expensive!) We were done. I plan on cutting some holes in the gate above the subs for a bit more volume. What I want to do... is drill a BUNCH of little holes, so that the top of the gate has the appearance of speaker grills, and I wouldnt have to worry about damaging the speakers when putting stuff in the car. What do you guys think? Any comments? Suggestions?

Definately sounds like the VR is toast. I'd recommend getting a new Alternator ASAP. I got one at Pull A Part for $8.50, works beautifully. On a side note, it's kind of a testament to how solid a Subaru really is. My VR went bad and I still drove it to work and home. a 50 minute commute, both ways, with the needle pegged at 18 volts. When I slapped the new alt. in, there was no lasting damage.

Are the fingers difficult to locate? I imagine there are a few people that have never been there. it might be easier if the group was in a nice easy to find campground.

Take the XT Austin. I don't think I've ever even ridden in one of those. I'll show you what I did with those speakers you sold me. Tex and I got a pretty sweet setup.

Well she's a new girlfriend. We just hooked up last weekend... and we're both busy all week. We're not exactly tied together at the hip... but I really want to spend as much time with her as I can... and let's just say the nights will be a lot more interesting if I stay here with her :-) EDIT: Ok Ok, I spoke with her about it, and she said "Well, I'll still pass if I miss class. Let's just go!" So Stefany (my girl) and I are back in! I dont think we can go offroading with you guys (there's 2 of us and my car isnt an off-roader) but we'll be camping with you guys.