Ultimate Boot Builds...incl one at £ 200 K !!!!!

These cars were at the London Hi-Fi Show for the first time.....it is usually a show for home Hi-Fi only. Some fine examples of the very best (and most expensive) boot builds in the UK!!

Look out for the Escort Cossie of PassionForder Tim Burnham........TOP bloke, nice to chat with you Tim

Cadilac Escalade, big chevy motor with supercharger......basic vehicle is £ 47 K......plus 16 K for the 26" wheels/tyres AND £ 200 K ICE install











Indoor display.......notice Tims Es Cos in the background, more peeps were looking at his car/ICE than the F 550/Porsche etc










Other cars:

 

 

Plenty of effort (read money ) gone in to some of those

 

Part of me really misses the stereo stuff.

I've still got all my Genesis amps/Sony XES series speakers sat in my room waiting for a decent car to put them in!

Nice installs there

 

That C2 is awesome, those pictures there really dont do it justice.

Wether its "your thing" or not, you cant not appreciate the time and skill thats gone into crafting it i reckon.

 

that c2 looks fucking rude

 

That C2 belongs to Phil Leach. He is the MD of SQ Plus (Manchester), had a long chat with him. He told me that the C2 took 6 solid months to complete with NO customer jobs to interupt the progress. It is a fully working/driveable car, and is road registered. The central driving position was a nightmare but worth the stress, features like a CENTRE CHANNEL loudspeaker built INTO the steering wheel .....the closer you look at this car the more detail/expence you see.....I'ts mind bogleing the work that has gone into this car.

SQ Plus also did the conversion on the big Chevy (top pics), he could not tell me the name of the customer - but said it was a well known sportsman who lives in the north............Lots of VERY expensive Dynaudio tweeters and mid/bass drivers fitted. Customer wanted the very best available - money no object

 

£200k on ice

wow though!

Was it SQ plus that had a plymouth prowler? Used to know a guy that worked for them.

 

Yes, thats the same company:

http://www.sqplus.com/

 

fookin hell i did some installs years ago and use to charge a few hundred quid,maybe its time i started doing them again

 

after spending all that money on the rest of the car some bigger discs wouldnt be out the question



true what chip says like, you cant help but appreciate the workmanship in those motors, even if youre not into that kinda thing

 

I wish I still had the time to play with car audio properly

 

Totally appreciate the work that goes into them, but NOWAY you can justify the price and overkill on those builds or any silly ICE install. Sorry, but a £500 system is more than anyone needs unless it's down to burger king in a 1.2 Corsa to make up for having a shit car

 

people call it chav, but u cant help but appreciate a GOOD SQ car system, with ur favourite tune playing with perfect amounts of bass, midrange and treble.



getting mine together at the moment for the S2, nothing special, but will sound good.

 

My mate worked on that c2 he works at SQ PLUS!

 

It's all down to what you hear I am afraid, I am sure Doug who started this post would be able to hear tiny differences between speakers that you and I would have no clue about.

However, I have sat in and listened to an SQ car install (Wentworth Car Radios BMW - there was a time when they were well known on the scene) which had 8 grand's worth of kit + approx. the same in labour, and let me tell you, the experience was out of this world (Dynaudio and soundstream).

Try and do a blind test between run of the mill speakers and quality speakers, you'll be surprised at how much better they are.
Then again, if you can't hear the difference, there's no point splashing out the extra money

It's an individual thing.