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Picked up my Carver 4.0t this afternoon from a audio shop I take my gear to. They had a e-bay listing for this amp last week. The shop called me last week with an estimate to fix another Carver I had in the shop. They had a buy it now for $500 I asked them if they would do $400. They had to ask the boss. They called me back about five minutes later and said they could do $450... I told them I'll take it...... My next words were....take my amp off e-bay before one of those 18 watchers decides to buy it Been putting the Carver watts to a set of Chorus most of the afternoon.....One of my favorite speakers in my Wall-O-Klipsch... Really happy with it..... has great sound Makes those Chorus hit hard......you can feel em Pic's will be right up... MKP :-)

The motor in the car in my avatar was a 3.5 liter Buick aluminum V-8 out of a 63 Skylark. With a Carter AFB, Crower cam and tube headers, it put over 200 hp through a T-5 and 3.90:1 lsd rear end. At 1,800 lbs, it was very quick. After I sold it, I purchased a 97 Miata with the intention of replacing the 4 banger with another 3.5 aluminum V-8. The Miata was so damn dependable, I never had the heart to do the engine swap. The low rpm torque of the V-8 was great at stoplights. Nonetheless, were I to do another such Lotus/Caterham type car, I would do a smaller higher revving 4 cyl variant.

Great writeup Gary.

......ok, here it is.....and thank you all for your compliments, comments and good wishes Local Tribute Artists’ Las Vegas Debut Leads to Movie Fame & New World Tour Kenny LaBelle and The Diamond Collection co-star in New Musical Documentary – “Diamond Mountain” On April 21st – April 24th, the Suncoast Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada played host to a unique music event featuring twelve of the world’s favorite Neil Diamond tribute acts. The first annual DiamondFest weekend kicked off with the premiere of the highly anticipated movie “Diamond Mountain” featuring the trials and tribulations of thirteen Neil Diamond tributes artists from around the world. Director Steve Tatone began his project by filming Kenny LaBelle and The Diamond Collection in August of 2014 at The Majestic Theater in West Springfield, MA. After that filming, Mr. Tatone said The Diamond Collection “absolutely blew me and my team away with their high-energy, perfectly orchestrated and performed concert. We captured on film the magic of this amazing band led by a vocalist/guitarist Kenny LaBelle who gave his audience and our film so much more than we bargained for.”. After traveling the globe filming 12 additional Neil Diamond tribute artists, Mr. Tatone asked that The Diamond Collection be the premier band to back up the twelve cast mates for the Cast Concert. Sharing the stage with The Diamond collection were five members of Neil Diamond’s band, Tom Hensley, Ronnie Tutt, Mark LaVang, Bill Cinque and King Errisson. The Diamond Collection has been performing Neil Diamond’s music for the past sixteen years across New England to a growing legion of fans. As a result of the overwhelming audience response to the band in Las Vegas, Tatone signed Mr. LaBelle as his Musical Director and The Diamond Collection to be the core band of Tatone’s new Neil Diamond Broadway-style Musical Experience titled “Diamond Mountain Live!”. The “Diamond Mountain Live!” World Tour commences this summer and is slated for performances all across the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia over the next 18 months. When LaBelle was offered the opportunity to tour extensively outside of his western Massachusetts home base, he stated: “This is a dream come true for me and the band. We’ve worked tirelessly for years to present Neil Diamond’s hits and deep album cuts in a way that connects our audience with the soul of his music. Our show is more than a Tribute to all things ‘Neil’ – it’s a presentation of his massive canon of work with new arrangements and a passion to do the man’s words and music justice. This world tour gives us the rare opportunity to spread the music of Neil Diamond, as interpreted by The Diamond Collection, to fans in different countries and of all age groups! We’re grateful to be a part of this amazing project and humbled that Steve and Neil Diamond’s Bandmates think so highly of our musical skills. We can’t wait to get started!” Please visit The Diamond Collection website at www.diamondcollectionrocks.com for more information

Good afternoon my friends..........just reading through the posts about the engine swaps etc. Very good friend of mine got totally into the Grand National thing... He was very lucky at the time to find one UNaltered in anyway and after talking him into entering in one of our major car shows, took home a best of class, and right after that, best of show !!! There were many other GN's there, but they had changed out wheels, and repaint jobs etc. His needed nothing, totally orginal! After a while, he became interested in some minor hop up 'enhancements' ... He did the X-brace, front to back exhaust, 2" swaybars, larger intercooler and some electronics management stuff... Ended up at the drag track... Ran the same times as another friend's '93 Supra making 520HP at the wheels! 11.5 sec. 117mph in the quarter on VP 115 fuel... I forget what the boost was... A run down the highway with both cars proved the Supra of course had the 'longer legs', the GN became unstable over 130mph...and not safe... We also have a GN 'repair / upgrade' shops in the area for many years and still going and owned and run by another friend of the group... (Cotton's Garage). GN's 'T' types, you name it.. My good friend sold the GN in 2003 as many others in our 'breakfast club' of motorheads did eventually, and still owns his 2004 Mustang Cobra.......13k on the OD. as far as I know... Ok, that is my auto report..... Vegas writeup NEXT UP:

Gary, that is awesome. Thanks for sharing that wonderful story. Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk

That aluminum Buick V-8 motor design was purchased by Land Rover and used on their vehicles until the mid 2000's.

Trying to wake up and get going this morning. Talking about engines: Judy's 2015 Mustang EcoBoost with the 4 cylinder engine with turbo is an amazing car. 320 HP at the wheels and as fast as she wants to go. I originally had got her a 2010 370Z Nismo with rear mounted turbo. That car was set up for the track. She hated the 4 point harness and the loudness of the exhaust, but boy did that thing go and handle! It had a little over 500 hp at the wheels and was blazingly fast in the power band. Got to get ready for the big water show in Hot Springs today thru Wednesday, so not much we be posted from this old guy. I always hate to leave the kids alone (dogs), but we have a great dogsitter. They can get in lots of trouble on their own, so we always worry what things will look like when we return. The shop is coming along great. I just can't decide how to lay out the music system. Currently have Epic CF-2 out there, but thinking of hanging the big Altec 9842d on the walls. May put two systems in since I have an office and tech room in part of the building. If so, the JBL 4411 will be in the office.

Awesome.

Yea baby..... Buick 455 stage 1 motor..... 360 hp and a whopping 510ft lbs of torque at just 2800 rpm ...... Back in my 20's I had a few old Buicks. Back when I was in the Army you could find me and my buddy working at the on base auto shop. We would work there all weekend till they though us out at closing time. Man those were the days.... getting enough money together for a new cam and the case of cold beer Didn't drink coffee back then.......didn't even know what Klipsch was...... as far as a system. it was in my Buick.... Pioneer KP-500 Supertuner and Jensen Triaxial's... lol lol MKP :-)

Like the Jeffersons...............Movin on up.to the big time Good luck and have fun

Still use one of those, and they still sell them. The only difference now is they are fancier, they have pre-outs for stereo and a sub, plus inputs for i phones and usb inputs. I use one outside in the bar connected to a little Crown d75 and some Heresy's with a headphone jack input to connect any phone/laptop to play music. I had the Pioneer Supertuner TP-900 8-track in my first car, worked great but went with the car when i sold it. 75 Pontiac Catalina, miss that thing.

I have no workshop, minimal tools, looking for a job, downsizing a paid for storage unit (this means sorting through one box at a time, so i don't throw out something important). Really, not having horns to use with the current drivers was making me lazy. Now I have no excuse to not finish them.

Still use one of those, and they still sell them. The only difference now is they are fancier, they have pre-outs for stereo and a sub, plus inputs for i phones and usb inputs. I use one outside in the bar connected to a little Crown d75 and some Heresy's with a headphone jack input to connect any phone/laptop to play music.

Late start on the DD this morning. Went to get all kinds of blood tests (just routine) that were done at a local hospital really cheap. I need to know what my partying capacity is for the Hope trip! Time to kill some weeds around the homestead and dig up the lines for the pool that I'm rerouting. Back in the day I ran a lot of Buicks with the 3.8, including the grand nationals and even had a park avenue with the supercharged version. That is one fine motor with lots of potential and they could take all kinds of abuse.

Built like a brick ****house. Nice home as well. :-)

Everybody else is all looking at your car. I'm just over here checking out the trailer. I sell those. Pic from a photoshoot last night: Interestingly enough, on Monday, some asshat backed into my trailer and worked over the light and bracket pretty well and took off. At least I know that bracket had to do some serious damage to their car. I contacted Hull and asked them about fixing it. For $100, they cut off the old bracket, welded a new one on, primed, painted and put a new tail light on. You can't even tell anything happened and for that price from the guys who make the trailer, there really was not reason to try any other option. I dropped it off on Tuesday to pick it up on Friday and bring it back to load up the car for a track event. It was my first of the year and sketchy... The high was in the low 50's with no sun and I was on some seasoned Hoosier R7's. I did lots of power sliding at 70-95 mph turns staying flat in it. I'm just glad they didn't hit any further forward as they would have gotten into the wheel well. The yard is getting out of control... But I can't mow when it won't stop raining to where I sink in the ground. I was hoping to have a better feel of the brakes, but the traction just wasn't there. Normally, I have heat just pouring off the wheels and brakes (wheels too hot to touch) and the tires nice an hot, but I could barely get the tires to warm. That said, they're bedded in and turning pretty colors. And since I love talking cars... A few buddies passed through and stayed the night on their way to compete in One Lap of America that started yesterday. The white BMW won 7th overall and first in class last year. The GT-R is competing in stock class, but is currently the overall #1 lead after 2 events, but he is also a professional driver (and his girlfriend and teammate can drive too).

Soniccraft has the most extensive selection of Mills resistors. http://www.soniccraft.com/product_info.php/91-ohm-mills-mra-10-p-4590 The electrolytic is in parallel - you could have let that go. Nice job!

Cool but not designed as a jubilee replacement. It is a KPT-1802 with different baffle to house 2 15"s instead of single 18". It will replace the MWM if anything.

Your a sick sick man Those look fantastic Matt...... another two thumbs up for ya Ever think about changing your forum name........... something like........Mr. LaScala.....or Matt's LaScala rehab center......or maybe..... LaScala Matt.....lol lol.... Yea i'm just saying dumb shitt again... Ya know I did work for a guy that was named Jim LaScala and his shop's name was LaScala Motorworks.....but he didn't have any LaScala's... Again...... GREAT work my man..... MKP :-)

With the doorways on either side pretty much where the bass reflects, I am not surprised you are not getting the amount of sound on the low end that you expected. I would imagine the bass down that hallway is pretty impressive. The good news is that when you finish your basement, you will get to hear an upgrade without any costs (except for the new room itself). Great first assessment. I always like to hear about the "first impressions". What was the first song you played?

After much thought, I would really like to see these find a new home! So, here is the deal. I have $950 in these speakers. This excludes my time, labor and gasoline. About the internals of this close serial matched 1975 pair: - K33E woofers - K55V mids - K77 tweets - AA crossovers (freshly recapped) Some sexy vintage badges will be here this week. PM me if there is any interest. I will be taking some "money shot" photos next week once the badges arrive. After that, they will be listed for sale, at a steep profit. This is your chance, Forum Members. I am really not interested in making much money off these if they go to a good home, here. Matt ♪ ♫ ♪ edit: amp trades considered

Would like to do the bass porting for these.....

The bass/mid crossover point is 400Hz, and would need to be changed for the Belle, unless that's what you want. I can't remember other details at the moment. Dean picked up the parts for me at PE, the aut[formers came from Bob anthe two Litz inductors came from Solen in Canada. I didn't make them elegant, but they work great. If I were making a new set, I would see if Dean would sell me a pair of the n=w, larger autoformers he had made, and tidy up the build. I also changed a tap setting to drop the mids down about 3db. Bruce

Congrats on the new Carver addition......My God man, you have more sh*t in your room than I do! Thanks.... And there's more down the basement and more off too the side that's not in the pic.... And just think......my wife...AKA.... MKP's BOSS.... loves it all......yea man....lol lol MKP :-)

My lightweight 17 lbs battery finally died on my track car, so I bought a <5 lbs lithium battery. It cranks the starter faster than any battery I've ever used.

Watch out. I can buy your stuff and resell in the same thread.

Picked these Forte II's up locally this morning. $300.00 (summer project). sending passives out to be redone and I will do a top to bottom restore. Going to need to find some space in the K warehouse when they are done (That's what the wife calls it anyway). G.E.M.

Another pair SAVED Matt ♪ ♫ ♪

Smart, but i wouldn't go back right after the trip. About digging in the yard, we have some rain here and will probably be sending it North East in the next few days, don't make a slophole.

Holy crap Sarge!

Keep your arms inside the ride...

Think you had a tough work day? Riding up after a hard days work, West Virginia coal mine early 1900s.

Most likely a Chevy small block crate motor. Northstar engines were very popular for a while, also. Fiero tranny. Google V-8 Archie for some details. I did a front wheel drive engine into an MGB. Pretty easy except that the water pump had to be electric and remote mounted. S-10 bell housing and clutch mated to a T-5 tranny. The standard MGB rear end was plenty strong enough, but the gearing needed to be reduced to make 1st gear usable. You can put any motor in anything if you have the time, money and patience. 3.1, 3.8, 4.3 small block will fit easily, bigger motors will fit but throw too much weight over the rear wheels. Fiero's used Chevette parts for front brakes among other things if i recall, go juice is nice but you want to be able to stop as well. Maybe better than 4 wheel drums with no power assist but not by far, don't cheap out and do it half assed because those Fiero body structures were no stronger than old beer cans.

Most likely a Chevy small block crate motor. Northstar engines were very popular for a while, also. Fiero tranny. Google V-8 Archie for some details. I did a front wheel drive engine into an MGB. Pretty easy except that the water pump had to be electric and remote mounted. S-10 bell housing and clutch mated to a T-5 tranny. The standard MGB rear end was plenty strong enough, but the gearing needed to be reduced to make 1st gear usable.

This is a pretty good explanation of the situation: once you start to do passive crossovers "well enough", they cost too much. That's the problem. Chris

New rear brakes and rotors installed for 155 out the door and I passed State Inspection---On The Road Again It's the little things in life that can make you Happy.

Looking good as always! Got a buyer for these already? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Making me blush, kind Sir I am not much for black speakers anymore but there is something about this pair? Gonna have a hard time letting them go. Almost wanting to take them back apart and doing even BETTER Your comments, much appreciated !!! Matt ♪ ♫ ♪

Thank u wvu. I sorted it out. I needed a power converter cuz the voltage here is different than the US

I am lucky to have a front seat to watch most of the transformations Matt has going on. His enthusiasm is a little annoying, but you get used to it. What amazes me is that he does these so fast and they turn out so nice. I know people who are fast and their work is sloppy and I know some that strive for perfection but take forever to get anything complete. As Mark stated, Matt takes them from "beaters to keepers" in record time. Another job well done.

Oh, for surround duty I doubt it will matter at all.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA................... .................that's all I got...

There fixed it for ya Still pisses me off

Yeah, Tarheel your CC&C group is dropping like flies. Not sure what all you guys have been doing over here, but the numbers are dwindling. I would suggest more photos of LF and attendance will be on the upswing again.

Thanks Mark.....it will be even nicer soon. Monday the garage gets painted and an epoxy floor installed.

A few pics from today.....

Second nitro ipa, not impressed. Tried two brands and niether do it for me Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk

Now it's getting serious were talking about coffee again, the best drink ever made.

Working On a coffee note, I'm loving the Bunn we just got. Even my wife (who uses flavored creamer) commented on how much less bitter coffee is now that we're using it. This is one of those "wish I had done this years ago" purchases.