The radio and amps needs set up and tuned right... I know I'm hearing it thru a camera and phone speakers but it sounds as if the bass is peaking a little and possibly distorting out...
Also I completely understand just wanting to feel the bass lol I rolled around for a few years in my 95 chevy s10 extended cab and managed to wedge a massive 15 inch kicker solo baric L5 in a ported box that took up the entire back half of the cab and that thing was loud enough to nock a clock off the wall at my high-school... it's not for everyone but I love feeling like I'm at a concert with all the bass
My takeaway from every car scene is that standing out is where you want to be. This civic got praise in the past, hate in the middle, and is in a limbo between ironic, nostalgia and hatred now - what it is not, is completely forgotten.
To paraphrase Richard Brunning's description for wiring. If it looks complicated, it's just a lot of simple things all put together. A wire just takes electricity from one end to the other, that's all it can do. Start at one end and follow it through.
I still see that Miss R Integra driving round my area, and looks like someone is keeping it running forever! This bought back so many memories of Autosalon, truly great car shows here in Australia, hopefully after Covid there can be a Mighty Car Mods car show tour to help re-live some of that glory? Sydney Olympic Park is still empty guys!
I was in high school in the late 90's early 2000's, and the big thing to do was to drive through the local Walmart and see how many car alarms you could set off.
hahaha, thats awesome. over here modded civics use the Mcdonalds drive through as a time attack stage. the fastest through the mcdrive gets all the street cred
Hahahaha we used to do something similar, but growing up in the rural Canadian prairies it was pickup trucks with glasspack mufflers that we would be using to set off the car alarms. There was also a right of passage in our little sleepy town where after you got your new exhaust you would have to drive down mainstreet and see if you could get the alarm to go off at the jewelry store. Apparently their front windows had glass break sensors that were either too sensitive or defective. But only the loudest most obnoxious trucks could do it.
Here in the UK we used the local town's one way system as our personal racetrack, completely ignoring the fact that the 'back straight' went straight past the local police station. We must have made their lives so easy for them driving our shitbox hatchbacks right past their front door
@@snatchmasterflex I had a 96 Ranger that I just straight up cut the exhaust off of, my greatest moment was blasting by a used car lot and setting off 3-4 alarms all at once. Lol, ah the good old days.
This civic was originally owned by an indonesian in melbourne, the original paint was white. Believe it or not it started as a turbo'd civic and then the madness starts from there.. the original plates were "LIBAS" just so you know
Did he sell it to a cashed up licence-less young Aussie? I didn't own that car but it sat in my garage for a while before being moved on in around 2009 ish.
I'd love to see this car restored to its former glory. However, modernise the sound system and lighting. Make it both function and cred. A modern day sex spec car.
Marty and Moog are sound guys first and car guys second, a series on a proper professional-grade sound system installation (and comparison with the butt thumper it has now) would be really cool to see. Back to DIY roots, but five levels up.
Epicenter is a bass enhancer to keep it simple. It is a base EQ hooked on the pre-side of an amp. or cross over. The knob is a twist to increase decrease the effect and push pull to turn it on/off. Made by Audio Control.
This makes me miss my car show days. After high school, I bought a Nissan D21 and lowered it. I swapped wheels, installed a system, and traded work for a neon kit. I joined a car club made up some classmates I knew from ROTC. We went to several events around central Florida and had a great time. 🤘
I love listening to the boys discuss music and car culture! I had twin subs in my car and I lost a number of number plates due to it shaking loose. Looking back at the boys original vids it’s so nostalgic!!!❤️❤️❤️
Those sub's were the shit back in the day, a couple of big rockford fosgates would have been worth more than they paid for the original car, and if you had matching amps and x overs you were talking big money
Yeah, somehow it was completely normal to put an entire audio company's catalog in your $5k hatchback. To listen to whatever Skitz Mix CD was out at the time and watch DVDs on all the screens. A guy at my local car audio store always had his Lancer parked out the front, same model as 2sexy. No rear seats, the entire space taken up with like a dozen subwoofers. The custom moulded fibreglass work would have cost more than the car, let alone the gear installed in it.
upgrading the stereo was the most common modification for a long time- the other day I drove to the most common car parts store in my country just to get a replacement for my door speaker- and they didn't have any... they did not have speakers anymore... they said nobody is upgrading the soundsystem anymore since the original ones are so much better and a lot of the oem head units can't be easily replaced since they are so integrated into the car
I went from SPL to SQ SPL pretty quick. I had a Pioneer DEH80-PRS three way head unit (absolutely awesome piece of gear), Rockford Power T-600, T1500.1, T6.5 components and a Sundown X12 (in a 3.5cuft 32hz box)in a Saturn. Had to run an extra alternator and an XS AGM big capacity battery. The only thing in the trunk was the battery, box and amp rack. *IT WAS WORTH IT!*
Miss my E36, set up for SQ but was also able to do some light SPL and hit 126Db with a 10in. Upfront had Morel Dotech Mkii 5 set off Alpine CDA-117e and Audison Amp
17:48 - a very rare audio sample of Moog's Natural Voice. And it sounds absolutely good. Ordinarily, it's a trainwreck of broken speech, and semi-shouted low-quality yodelling. Just let your voice come out, Moog. Don't push it until it breaks. Good man! 18:15 ... and it's gone.
Sex spec cars are what got me into cars, this brings back so many memories as a kid with aspirations to build the most rice car could think of. A little bit of soul lost from the car shows these days.
@@taliesinpotter4097 Sex spec can't really come back, kids today don't have as much money, and it doesn't go nearly as far on cars. You can't get cheap used cars to modify anymore, newer generations of cars are much harder to do any serious audio modifications because they're so based around the control of the stock head unit and there's so many airbags and whatnot to deal with, police are much harsher on things like wheel clearance and ride height etc. Plus the novelty is gone, it was done 20 years ago by current kids dads, so they definitely don't think it's cool, and the cool factor of putting TV screens in a car is a joke now because most new cars today come with at least one. And everyone walks around with a far better video device in their pocket.
I know it's cliché now, but I loved this era of car modification - everyone doing things to their own taste, no two cars alike and everyone putting effort in, unlike the 'wheels and bags' crowd of today...
There was a lot of copycat over the top nonsense, but yeah, people were really expressing their style and personality with how they completely redesigned the interior to be bright red fibreglass or how they installed those seventeen subwoofers. Now people get mad if someone has the 'wrong' wheels on their car. Back then, you just went into the local tire shop and bought the biggest chromies they had in stock, no one knew or cared what an offset was or that they had a width dimension as well as diameter.
'No two cars alike' - or on this car, no 2 panels (exterior or interior) the same shade of green. In the UK this is what defined the 'max power' scene for me - piss poor execution. (I was (am) into aircooled VWs)
@@doctorsatansrobot ditto, started as a cal looker back before the first bug jam. but even then we tended to copy stuff from VW Trends. i built the first slammed cal look squareback in the UK with one piece rear glass, within 2 days i met a guy the next town over who also built the first one in the UK, only real difference was the colour. we thought we were being original, but in reality doing the same kinda things on the same kinda cars in an attempt to be first or stand out. My Rad Roadster chopped bug circa 1991 was built to get attention, so highly modified that it was almost unusable, by the time it was fully finished it was old hat and no one cared about yet another one. not far different from the Max Power or Sex Spec scene i imagine.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane boys. I miss the great old days of Broadie carpark, Surfers Esplanade & Orchid Ave hot laps on the Gold Coast 15 years ago.
@@ElwinWay Sometimes I miss my N13 Pulsar Q with its home-made 6x9 boxes, no AC and manual windows. Then I come to my senses. It was fun to drive in the hills and you could reverse parallel park it into a C6 envelope but that's about all it had going for it.
@@LongPeter I had an N14 GTI. I understand your sentiment, albeit the GTI was quite quick. I'm 6'4" tall - it was the only hatchback I could comfortably drive.
Had a iridescent green civic just like this one, full body kit, white interior, momo parts everywhere and 2 12in competition phenix gold subs that were eye bluringly loud. Best days ever. Love this channel. And then my ex rear ended someone and wrote it off.
You guys are doing what makes you happy, and having owned a Honda before, (a classic American fwd pony car) I get it. I would love to see another slow Mitsubishi on the show though, not just lancers. Ultimately it's about what you want to build though, and not everyone can handle the power of inline 3 and 4 MiVEC
I worked car audio for years selling and installing. I was into fidelity but I actually enjoy a bass heavy system. As long as the sound isn't muddy and there's crisp highs and the vocals are there I'm happy. I had 2 customers cars in the 2004 Brisbane Autosalon that I had done custom boot install in. One wasn't even wired. It was just product and the company's brand that I worked for.
Those were the days where bass was everything! You had ridiculous bass in your car, you were party central! What was your go to track for awesome bass!! Mine was Petey Pablo - Vibrate!!
My god this brings back memories! Cutting parcel shelves for 6x9s fitting 2 12inch subs in the boot and then using double sided foam everywhere to stop the car rattling itself to pieces! Love it ! 😜👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Oh man you gotta love that 2wistd tune from Moog! I don't have a mad car stereo anymore since i grew past it but at home my system packs a decent punch. That bass frequency is probably exactly where my sub is tuned, it's louder than anything i ever played through the system. Sure enough though, my neighbors hate me for it :D
I miss those days, they were the best car scene in Australia. Being a ex audio installer that was right into sound and DB comps I loved it. Plus the attention to detail on all the cars at autosalon. Hell yeah! Blast from the past.
I think, during the race, the stereo has to be turned up to max to up the difficulty level! Great retrospective on the scene back in the day. it's fun to see how a particular scene travels from country to country and how it might differ place to place.
your background in music and audio translates so well into youtube, some of the best audio quality around! the clarity and volume consistency is highly appreciated
The Nostalgia.. brings me back to my second car. A 91 CRX Si that I got for $4800 and I proceeded to put $6000 worth of Alpine/SoundStream/JL Audio equipment in custom door panels and rear sound system. It was literally like we strapped a motor and two seats into a speaker box. Made the car slower due to all the weight but so crazy loud it would rattle walls in building 4 stories above it.. ode to being young and dumb again.. haha
As much as I hated these sex spec cars at the time, when I realised half of them had stock motors, or didn't even run. And the quality of build is highlighted in what you are uncovering in these cars. I love that you guys are reliving them and somewhat completing them
It takes me back to my first spl sound days. I had similar Rockford Fosgate HE subs in the mid naughties, fitted to a 1960something Leyland Mini 1000cc, no rear seats, just pure Rockford goodness. Man that car was loud and I miss those days. I'm much older now, but still enjoy good music in cars and have a pair of Rockford Fosgate P2 8" subs in my toy, a 1999 vw golf mk3.5 cabriolet.
This is exactly like the Max Power era here in the UK back in the day. Same style of modding and simlar time, late 90s, early 2000s. There is a little bit of a revival going on now, with the hardcore fans bringing back Max Power and finding the iconic show cars and magazing cover cars from back then.
That is a bit surprising that the stereo still works. I agree with Marty though 10's were the way to go, I had a pair of 10's on the cab of my pickup and it was hands down the loudest and best sounding system I'd ever heard at that time. 12' come in at a close second just because they can get some of the lower bass notes where as the 10's are best at mids to uper level lows.
I was a teen in the 80’s . We would listen to our metal as loud as we could . Now that I’m in my 50’s I prefer listening to rock and alternative music at a more reasonable level as I my hearing is pretty much shot . Loud music makes my ears ring .
Im in my 50,s too and it was classic bike racing that did it for me. Methanol and straight pipes equals raging tinnitus! Was also working in Sydney in the early 2000,s and saw the sex spec money laundering go down live. Quite the wankfest!
I remember the magazines at the time were full of this stuff. I bought stacks of "Hot 4s". These days I don't even think jbhifi even sells much car stereo stuff. Times change fast!
The most fun 4 wheels speaker box I ever had the pleasure of working on, both mechanical and audio, was a 91 awd eagle talon dohc turbo.. it was ridiculously silly. Fun to drive in snow.
I remember going with my best friend to buy a square 18" Kicker Solar Baric. I remember laughing so hard when I saw that sub, it was insane. Hooked it up to a 1000w amp and a pair of JBL 6x9's, and went cruising. It was so loud the bass hurt your chest. We would drive down the street and people would start dancing as we drove past. Those were the days.
this brings me back to high school, when my buddy put 2 12's in the trunk of his shit $500 pontiac and we drove around with too many people in the back seat laughing our asses off as you could hear the panels rattling all over the place from the bass...good times so many fun memories
I would love to see you guys buy a regular old jdm and actually make it your own version and imagination of what your sex spac car would have looked like if you had one back from the era.
Glad my father was a car guy. During the turn of the century import scene kids in my school were wasting so much money on their "ricers," my father and I bought a Buick GN. I got to do all the mods on that car. Started as a 14.3 second bone stock car, and hit 11.82 by the time I graduated. Fun car.
crazy to think ive been subbed since jan of 2008, 2010 seems like forever ago! those old clips bring back so many laughs!! thanks for the memories boys.
The epicentre in the front should be for the subs. You want to mount as close to your source unit as possable and then run longer leads from it to the sub amps.
No, this is what a 19 year old with too much money and no common sense looks like. A midlife crisis is more like a sports car or a big truck lol. I am having one and trust me that is NOT what I want lmao. I would much rather have the bmw with the ls swap or the BRZ.
Hey guys, i m really so happy to see LIBAS still exist, esp when everything still work n runs after some fixings 😁😁🙏🙏🙏.. u guys really make my day.. although, yes, i admit there r still many incomplete set ups n settings.. this car has been gone thru alot of street races, been into police helicopter pursuits due to drag racings back in those days..raced with some random evos n wrx before as well, won most of it too boz of stupid reckless driving by daring to run on the opposite lanes of the streets after midnight hours 🤪.. cant feel any better when rival drivers rolled down their windows gave their thumbs up.. remembering that, i feel like a brainless idiot now 🤣
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Aha
The radio and amps needs set up and tuned right... I know I'm hearing it thru a camera and phone speakers but it sounds as if the bass is peaking a little and possibly distorting out...
Also I completely understand just wanting to feel the bass lol I rolled around for a few years in my 95 chevy s10 extended cab and managed to wedge a massive 15 inch kicker solo baric L5 in a ported box that took up the entire back half of the cab and that thing was loud enough to nock a clock off the wall at my high-school... it's not for everyone but I love feeling like I'm at a concert with all the bass
please stop wasting precious time and money on these rejects
Lets see a RB30 supra please 😎😋
Fix it lol bring back the sex spec
"It's about sitting in that back seat and getting pummelled.." - Marty 2021.
Pause 🤣
Bahahahaha
"Sitting in the driver seat and still getting pummelled" - Me in 2010
The entire SexSpec scene summed up in one sentence. It's right there in the name.
Oh no 🤣
With all that bass and that much green, it's definitely SubLime...✌🏻
Nah, to be Sublime, it'd have to be a Subaru.
@@martindinner3621 Actually sublime is taken by that 20B turbo S15 4:12 which is actually a gangster car lol
My takeaway from every car scene is that standing out is where you want to be. This civic got praise in the past, hate in the middle, and is in a limbo between ironic, nostalgia and hatred now - what it is not, is completely forgotten.
@nijuo joing I am a bit ashamed to admit I did that even in 2013-14.
I can't ever get over it how Marty's so casual about that wiring... Always freaks me out!
All they used to do was audio stuff. That’s like an electrician who just dives right into a generator with high voltage
That’s a compliment, thanks mate. I feel that way looking at rotary engines
To paraphrase Richard Brunning's description for wiring. If it looks complicated, it's just a lot of simple things all put together.
A wire just takes electricity from one end to the other, that's all it can do. Start at one end and follow it through.
@@adammcallister2260 every time a rats nest of an install comes into my shop. this is what i have to remind myself.
@@mightycarmods u guys ever fix/mod an fcrx7 would be sick
I still see that Miss R Integra driving round my area, and looks like someone is keeping it running forever! This bought back so many memories of Autosalon, truly great car shows here in Australia, hopefully after Covid there can be a Mighty Car Mods car show tour to help re-live some of that glory? Sydney Olympic Park is still empty guys!
Meet up in P6 or it's not genuine.
I hope! I loved these times
Time stamp?
@@elijahpajarillo9769 3:53
@@tseesinnep3r thankss
I was in high school in the late 90's early 2000's, and the big thing to do was to drive through the local Walmart and see how many car alarms you could set off.
hahaha, thats awesome. over here modded civics use the Mcdonalds drive through as a time attack stage. the fastest through the mcdrive gets all the street cred
Hahahaha we used to do something similar, but growing up in the rural Canadian prairies it was pickup trucks with glasspack mufflers that we would be using to set off the car alarms. There was also a right of passage in our little sleepy town where after you got your new exhaust you would have to drive down mainstreet and see if you could get the alarm to go off at the jewelry store. Apparently their front windows had glass break sensors that were either too sensitive or defective. But only the loudest most obnoxious trucks could do it.
Here in the UK we used the local town's one way system as our personal racetrack, completely ignoring the fact that the 'back straight' went straight past the local police station. We must have made their lives so easy for them driving our shitbox hatchbacks right past their front door
@@snatchmasterflex I had a 96 Ranger that I just straight up cut the exhaust off of, my greatest moment was blasting by a used car lot and setting off 3-4 alarms all at once. Lol, ah the good old days.
We did that same thing at the Kmart\movie theater parking lot where I grew up 😂😂
This civic was originally owned by an indonesian in melbourne, the original paint was white. Believe it or not it started as a turbo'd civic and then the madness starts from there.. the original plates were "LIBAS" just so you know
Some history on the car. Nice.
Yo forreal?
Jirr Libas..
LIBAS = WHIP
Did he sell it to a cashed up licence-less young Aussie? I didn't own that car but it sat in my garage for a while before being moved on in around 2009 ish.
Idea for another MCM channel… “sex-spec salvation” buying and rescuing old sex-spec cars one by one 😂
Isn’t that what this channel already is
re-pimp my ride?
@@TheMcspreader Pimp My Bin
@@natsukage3960 haha love it
@Ham Yai but the same wheels, kits and suspension on every import isn't?
I worked in car audio in the late 90's to early 2000's and totally agree: 10 inch subs give so much punch and clarity. 👍
Would love to see you guys make a modern rendition of a sex spec car
Up you go.
Without it just being a joke. Do it well but modern
💯
You build one bro
Yeeeeees
Another sex spec car, you guys are going to start a resurgence at this rate 😂 - Taz.
I think there is a thing in Japan itself with these types of cars re-emerging again
i hope so lol
I demand more 4am rave party MCM videos 😂
MCM: have secret workshop location
Also MCM: blast own music loud enough that the whales can hear it.
2MINTY. Because it’s worth a mint. It’s perfection and it looks like a mint leaf 😂
Yep winner
M1NT3D?
I beat you. 2minted/ toominted suggested last video ;)
John Deere spec! Especially the interior!
@@stu0508 Nah I posted this last video too. #toosoonjunior
I’m waiting for xzibit to turn up laughing …
Pulling the t shirt
"You've officially been pimped!"
I'd love to see this car restored to its former glory.
However, modernise the sound system and lighting. Make it both function and cred.
A modern day sex spec car.
💯💯%
#RGB
@@Real28 Powered by Razer Chroma.
then do a modern #TRDLZR style banger
Marty and Moog are sound guys first and car guys second, a series on a proper professional-grade sound system installation (and comparison with the butt thumper it has now) would be really cool to see. Back to DIY roots, but five levels up.
At least the interior of this car doesn't smell like a frog's gooch, even if it does LOOK like one! 😆
Epicenter is a bass enhancer to keep it simple. It is a base EQ hooked on the pre-side of an amp. or cross over. The knob is a twist to increase decrease the effect and push pull to turn it on/off. Made by Audio Control.
Oh wow, so when a boot full of subs isn't enough mud, just crank the bass EQ for even more!
When's the Mighty Gemini making an appearance Marty , come on guys something for the old school boys.
Yes! Please find my stolen Gemini 🥲 (it’s Emerald Green).
COVID put it on hold, think the skid factory was due to help on this one but silly border closures have put it on hold
I'm 47 and identify with Moog, feel like we've seen some shit.
seen ww2 😂
@@ovhsl You got dem quick maffs.
and now hes making us see it again lol
Are you the guy from the early 2000’s who used to take drugs?
@@kane4013 Early 90s and still does🙋♂️
The Epicenter is for dropping the bass notes an octave lower, and the silver boxed knob is ususlly for the Epicenter adjustment.
Best audio device ever! 👍
I'm actually playing this video through an epicenter in my kitchen! 🤣
These early 00 cars remind me of when you go back and look at your teenage myspace posts 😂😂😂
It's like the cars you drew in kindergarten
Thankfully mine is dead but early FB is bad enough.
Perfect analogy lol
Don't know about you, but I can't bear to look at anything I posted in my teenage years :)
The only stuff on my MySpace is all mafia wars shit lol.
Oh man this car brings me back to the good old days when you would blow your pay check on the worst mods ever and "think" you were hot shit. :-D
Oh.... the import scene in the mid 2000s, it aged like a fine blue cheese.
This makes me miss my car show days. After high school, I bought a Nissan D21 and lowered it. I swapped wheels, installed a system, and traded work for a neon kit. I joined a car club made up some classmates I knew from ROTC. We went to several events around central Florida and had a great time. 🤘
Is the autosalon where Marty met Cheryl?
Do you want to know what's inside Cheryl's box?
lol just said the same thing before seeing your comment Ashyl 😬😆🤦♂️
I love listening to the boys discuss music and car culture! I had twin subs in my car and I lost a number of number plates due to it shaking loose. Looking back at the boys original vids it’s so nostalgic!!!❤️❤️❤️
The yellow subaru at 3:10, I saw on gumtree for 10k a few months back.
That was the one? Damn, I tried to buy that car but was too slow!
Those sub's were the shit back in the day, a couple of big rockford fosgates would have been worth more than they paid for the original car, and if you had matching amps and x overs you were talking big money
Yeah, somehow it was completely normal to put an entire audio company's catalog in your $5k hatchback. To listen to whatever Skitz Mix CD was out at the time and watch DVDs on all the screens. A guy at my local car audio store always had his Lancer parked out the front, same model as 2sexy. No rear seats, the entire space taken up with like a dozen subwoofers. The custom moulded fibreglass work would have cost more than the car, let alone the gear installed in it.
upgrading the stereo was the most common modification for a long time- the other day I drove to the most common car parts store in my country just to get a replacement for my door speaker- and they didn't have any... they did not have speakers anymore... they said nobody is upgrading the soundsystem anymore since the original ones are so much better and a lot of the oem head units can't be easily replaced since they are so integrated into the car
I went from SPL to SQ SPL pretty quick. I had a Pioneer DEH80-PRS three way head unit (absolutely awesome piece of gear), Rockford Power T-600, T1500.1, T6.5 components and a Sundown X12 (in a 3.5cuft 32hz box)in a Saturn. Had to run an extra alternator and an XS AGM big capacity battery. The only thing in the trunk was the battery, box and amp rack.
*IT WAS WORTH IT!*
Miss my E36, set up for SQ but was also able to do some light SPL and hit 126Db with a 10in. Upfront had Morel Dotech Mkii 5 set off Alpine CDA-117e and Audison Amp
17:48 - a very rare audio sample of Moog's Natural Voice. And it sounds absolutely good.
Ordinarily, it's a trainwreck of broken speech, and semi-shouted low-quality yodelling. Just let your voice come out, Moog. Don't push it until it breaks. Good man!
18:15 ... and it's gone.
Almost thought I was watching an episode of pimp my ride😂
Straya edition
But better!
But this is real , PMR isn't.
We look back and say what were we thinking, but we would all go back and do it again! I was in the sub brigade, feel the music!
Sex spec cars are what got me into cars, this brings back so many memories as a kid with aspirations to build the most rice car could think of. A little bit of soul lost from the car shows these days.
Sex spec is coming back bro, it's time
what car shows, they dont exist anymore.
the nanny state will never let it come back
@@taliesinpotter4097 Sex spec can't really come back, kids today don't have as much money, and it doesn't go nearly as far on cars. You can't get cheap used cars to modify anymore, newer generations of cars are much harder to do any serious audio modifications because they're so based around the control of the stock head unit and there's so many airbags and whatnot to deal with, police are much harsher on things like wheel clearance and ride height etc. Plus the novelty is gone, it was done 20 years ago by current kids dads, so they definitely don't think it's cool, and the cool factor of putting TV screens in a car is a joke now because most new cars today come with at least one. And everyone walks around with a far better video device in their pocket.
I know it's cliché now, but I loved this era of car modification - everyone doing things to their own taste, no two cars alike and everyone putting effort in, unlike the 'wheels and bags' crowd of today...
There was a lot of copycat over the top nonsense, but yeah, people were really expressing their style and personality with how they completely redesigned the interior to be bright red fibreglass or how they installed those seventeen subwoofers. Now people get mad if someone has the 'wrong' wheels on their car. Back then, you just went into the local tire shop and bought the biggest chromies they had in stock, no one knew or cared what an offset was or that they had a width dimension as well as diameter.
'No two cars alike' - or on this car, no 2 panels (exterior or interior) the same shade of green. In the UK this is what defined the 'max power' scene for me - piss poor execution. (I was (am) into aircooled VWs)
@@doctorsatansrobot ditto, started as a cal looker back before the first bug jam. but even then we tended to copy stuff from VW Trends. i built the first slammed cal look squareback in the UK with one piece rear glass, within 2 days i met a guy the next town over who also built the first one in the UK, only real difference was the colour. we thought we were being original, but in reality doing the same kinda things on the same kinda cars in an attempt to be first or stand out. My Rad Roadster chopped bug circa 1991 was built to get attention, so highly modified that it was almost unusable, by the time it was fully finished it was old hat and no one cared about yet another one. not far different from the Max Power or Sex Spec scene i imagine.
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@@masonbishop8575 I’m 🥴
Marty can't say "in the bin" anymore. He whispered it about the wiring. 🤣
Thanks for the trip down memory lane boys. I miss the great old days of Broadie carpark, Surfers Esplanade & Orchid Ave hot laps on the Gold Coast 15 years ago.
Man, the early 2000’s were a wild time in the car scene. Sometimes I miss it, other times I have no idea what we were thinking.
Thanks for having the promo girls. They made It much less awkward than usual pleasuring myself to your videos.
Come on dude, we all popped a cork to the Yaris Hilton sex tape, there is no shame here brother.
I mean, dude kissing Moog was kinda hot.
😂
Castrol Edge best lubricant in the biz.
We need to bring this culture back for a month or so
2:41 everyone in this club now has kids.
Yep I miss my pimp wagon pumping 15" subs alongside 500w of stereo. Got married, had kids, had to go practical spec lol.
everyone in this club now drives Suvs.
@@ElwinWay Sometimes I miss my N13 Pulsar Q with its home-made 6x9 boxes, no AC and manual windows. Then I come to my senses.
It was fun to drive in the hills and you could reverse parallel park it into a C6 envelope but that's about all it had going for it.
And is divorced at least once, wondering "where have all the good men gone?" Lol.
@@LongPeter I had an N14 GTI. I understand your sentiment, albeit the GTI was quite quick. I'm 6'4" tall - it was the only hatchback I could comfortably drive.
Had a iridescent green civic just like this one, full body kit, white interior, momo parts everywhere and 2 12in competition phenix gold subs that were eye bluringly loud. Best days ever. Love this channel.
And then my ex rear ended someone and wrote it off.
Y'all need to title a song "Decibel Massacre" now.
You guys are doing what makes you happy, and having owned a Honda before, (a classic American fwd pony car) I get it. I would love to see another slow Mitsubishi on the show though, not just lancers. Ultimately it's about what you want to build though, and not everyone can handle the power of inline 3 and 4 MiVEC
Buying car accessories one paycheck at a time, or, saving up for that 7" Monster tacho. Oh, the memories... 🙂
I worked car audio for years selling and installing.
I was into fidelity but I actually enjoy a bass heavy system. As long as the sound isn't muddy and there's crisp highs and the vocals are there I'm happy.
I had 2 customers cars in the 2004 Brisbane Autosalon that I had done custom boot install in. One wasn't even wired. It was just product and the company's brand that I worked for.
2:53 lmao fast and furious really kicked it into 17th gear😂
Those were the days where bass was everything! You had ridiculous bass in your car, you were party central!
What was your go to track for awesome bass!!
Mine was Petey Pablo - Vibrate!!
The hood is by far the most offensive part, hahaha. Can't wait to see if it goes or blows.
lol i seen you on tik tok the other day
I think something will blow within the first 30 seconds lmao
@@ovhsl Hahaha that's me!
@@AfferbeckBeats Whenever he puts the pedal fully down maybe.
My god this brings back memories! Cutting parcel shelves for 6x9s fitting 2 12inch subs in the boot and then using double sided foam everywhere to stop the car rattling itself to pieces! Love it ! 😜👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Man that Adelaide party... Adelaide represent!
Pingers and bangers
There must have been so much Hilltop Hoods pumping there at the time
Oh man you gotta love that 2wistd tune from Moog! I don't have a mad car stereo anymore since i grew past it but at home my system packs a decent punch. That bass frequency is probably exactly where my sub is tuned, it's louder than anything i ever played through the system. Sure enough though, my neighbors hate me for it :D
If you were around the scene back in those days. Yeah. Substances were being abused lol.
I miss those days, they were the best car scene in Australia.
Being a ex audio installer that was right into sound and DB comps I loved it.
Plus the attention to detail on all the cars at autosalon.
Hell yeah! Blast from the past.
Car archelogy at it's finest.
Carchaeology?
@@capncoolio no, please dont
The base making the roulette table rotate is a really sick touch. I know it's just from the bass vibration, but it looks very nice.
Now this is a great start to a Monday morning
I think, during the race, the stereo has to be turned up to max to up the difficulty level! Great retrospective on the scene back in the day. it's fun to see how a particular scene travels from country to country and how it might differ place to place.
Rake loved it back then
Great time back then. Loved all the carmeets, hanging out with your mates and enjoying cars.
Looks so much like a fast and furious 1 car, I can just picture it lined up in that race
Book a visit to the optometrist.
Come on, it doesn't even have nitrous lol.
@@biteme263 now here's an idea. They should hook up nitrous to it and see if they can blow it up.
your background in music and audio translates so well into youtube, some of the best audio quality around! the clarity and volume consistency is highly appreciated
0:05 that MR2 (what was "TYMSUP") is still getting around on largely the same kit that it had all those years ago.
The Nostalgia.. brings me back to my second car. A 91 CRX Si that I got for $4800 and I proceeded to put $6000 worth of Alpine/SoundStream/JL Audio equipment in custom door panels and rear sound system. It was literally like we strapped a motor and two seats into a speaker box. Made the car slower due to all the weight but so crazy loud it would rattle walls in building 4 stories above it.. ode to being young and dumb again.. haha
Can’t wait to hear how the car sounds with that screamer pipe
Awful. It will sound awful.
Baaaarrrrruuuummmm (artists impression)
@@EarrGasmm They always do.
As much as I hated these sex spec cars at the time, when I realised half of them had stock motors, or didn't even run.
And the quality of build is highlighted in what you are uncovering in these cars.
I love that you guys are reliving them and somewhat completing them
Ive got "my car goes psshhh pssshhh" on repeat aye. Pumps me up at work
6:34
Moog: What is that??
Marty: I think it's baccarat.
James Packer: What in the.......
It takes me back to my first spl sound days. I had similar Rockford Fosgate HE subs in the mid naughties, fitted to a 1960something Leyland Mini 1000cc, no rear seats, just pure Rockford goodness. Man that car was loud and I miss those days.
I'm much older now, but still enjoy good music in cars and have a pair of Rockford Fosgate P2 8" subs in my toy, a 1999 vw golf mk3.5 cabriolet.
10 years ago feels like a totally different world.
This is exactly like the Max Power era here in the UK back in the day. Same style of modding and simlar time, late 90s, early 2000s. There is a little bit of a revival going on now, with the hardcore fans bringing back Max Power and finding the iconic show cars and magazing cover cars from back then.
Moog just “borrow” Marty’s haltech like you did before, get it tuned and smoke the yellow civic. Then throw both in the bin! 😂😆
I really like hearing about you guys talk about audio stuff and types of sound systems/subwoofers!
"He said he likes to gamble, so we put a CASINO in his trunk"
That is a bit surprising that the stereo still works. I agree with Marty though 10's were the way to go, I had a pair of 10's on the cab of my pickup and it was hands down the loudest and best sounding system I'd ever heard at that time. 12' come in at a close second just because they can get some of the lower bass notes where as the 10's are best at mids to uper level lows.
I was a teen in the 80’s . We would listen to our metal as loud as we could . Now that I’m in my 50’s I prefer listening to rock and alternative music at a more reasonable level as I my hearing is pretty much shot . Loud music makes my ears ring .
We are paying for all that acdc!
spent my teens in the 90s with Pantera farting out the 6x9s, like you I'm paying for it now as my hearing is shot to pieces.
@@misterthegeoff9767 Henh?
Im in my 50,s too and it was classic bike racing that did it for me. Methanol and straight pipes equals raging tinnitus! Was also working in Sydney in the early 2000,s and saw the sex spec money laundering go down live. Quite the wankfest!
...ahh? Sorry... ?
I remember the magazines at the time were full of this stuff. I bought stacks of "Hot 4s". These days I don't even think jbhifi even sells much car stereo stuff. Times change fast!
Imagine explaining to your kids you met their mother at Auto Salon.
1987ish, 1974 Ford short wheel base, E100 van, 6 speakers, 2 EQ's, 2 amps, 220 watts....Kenwood, JVC system....that thing rocked
Cant believe there was a time where social distancing didnt exist...
The most fun 4 wheels speaker box I ever had the pleasure of working on, both mechanical and audio, was a 91 awd eagle talon dohc turbo.. it was ridiculously silly. Fun to drive in snow.
I love this car lol keep up the good work guys hope to see y’all off road again
I just finally got my "in the bin" t-shirt and poster here in Indiana, USA. LOVE the idea of a CIVIC BATUUUULLLEE!!!!!
mann this bring my memories back about need for speed 2, really period correct.
I remember going with my best friend to buy a square 18" Kicker Solar Baric. I remember laughing so hard when I saw that sub, it was insane. Hooked it up to a 1000w amp and a pair of JBL 6x9's, and went cruising. It was so loud the bass hurt your chest. We would drive down the street and people would start dancing as we drove past. Those were the days.
Martyn goes searching for the needle in a haystack and Mog just plugs in the iPod 😂
I'm sure you could poke around in the settings and setup an EQ and crossover to make the stereo sound better.
Exactly what I was thinking.
God knows what pervious owners have done on the settings since the original guys built it and sold it on.
Put a DVD in the headunit, the screen will probably work then
this brings me back to high school, when my buddy put 2 12's in the trunk of his shit $500 pontiac and we drove around with too many people in the back seat laughing our asses off as you could hear the panels rattling all over the place from the bass...good times so many fun memories
I would love to see you guys buy a regular old jdm and actually make it your own version and imagination of what your sex spac car would have looked like if you had one back from the era.
Glad my father was a car guy. During the turn of the century import scene kids in my school were wasting so much money on their "ricers," my father and I bought a Buick GN. I got to do all the mods on that car. Started as a 14.3 second bone stock car, and hit 11.82 by the time I graduated. Fun car.
7 seconds is a new record for how quick I can get onto a new video...
Mine was 50 :(
Mine is 3 seconds on a carwow video
crazy to think ive been subbed since jan of 2008, 2010 seems like forever ago! those old clips bring back so many laughs!!
thanks for the memories boys.
I wish it had a craps table... because it’s a “crap” car.
The epicentre in the front should be for the subs. You want to mount as close to your source unit as possable and then run longer leads from it to the sub amps.
is this what midlife crisis looks like
Midlife crisis used to be buying an E Type Jag, now it's buying a broken Honda on 20" chromies with more subwoofers than horsepowers lmao
@@AfferbeckBeats not sure its a crisis if you bought an e-type when they were cheap, you'd have made a fortune
No, this is what a 19 year old with too much money and no common sense looks like. A midlife crisis is more like a sports car or a big truck lol. I am having one and trust me that is NOT what I want lmao. I would much rather have the bmw with the ls swap or the BRZ.
Hey guys, i m really so happy to see LIBAS still exist, esp when everything still work n runs after some fixings 😁😁🙏🙏🙏.. u guys really make my day.. although, yes, i admit there r still many incomplete set ups n settings.. this car has been gone thru alot of street races, been into police helicopter pursuits due to drag racings back in those days..raced with some random evos n wrx before as well, won most of it too boz of stupid reckless driving by daring to run on the opposite lanes of the streets after midnight hours 🤪.. cant feel any better when rival drivers rolled down their windows gave their thumbs up.. remembering that, i feel like a brainless idiot now 🤣
This has the Fast and furious vibe into it! After the first movie people went wild and crazy with the mods made on cars…