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Also quietness. Any V8 luxury sedan is fast enough for me and the interiors are more a question of preference. My personal experience in the base model truck department has Toyota as better than Nissan. I have much less experience in the other categories.

How about handling, fuel economy, repairs, trouble-free-ness, things like that. Is either one harder to work on ?

I feel a bit silly asking this question here on a Lexus board but was curious how the two campare as well as to others in this class. The only post I was able to find when I searched said that the Q handled like a big heavy car. Is this true for the 2000 era models or more so the early ones?

Has anyone built their own custom crossovers? I've been searching and reading, they get kinda complicated. 2nd, 3rd, 4th order designs. Wiring I don't understand. Crazy stuff.

Uh, $700 would be my total build cost for everything, deck, amp, all speakers including sub and wiring. Been there done that with the grande budget, spare no expense approach.

My next addition will be to hook-up a portable MP3 player like an iPod Nano or the like. I'll use the AUX input on my Pioneer deck. Any advice on picking an MP3 player would be appreciated. Is there anything wrong with the Nano *CLONE* I see on eBay for lots less than the real deal? A...

I recently purchased Team Benneton's used electric arc 5-axis CNC machine. We could cut up some pistons and then turn them on a lathe to get them exactly right. Ok, no I'm just kidding. To me, pistons are kinda like concrete or roofing labor. Worth the cost and impossible to duplicate for...

How many ohms are the LS door speakers? I would guess your Clarion amp is 2ohm stable so if they were not the standard 4ohm it could still handle the load. Bose likes 1ohm in cars and 8ohm for home. I just put a 3ohm resistor on each ground wire from the speaker back to the amp so I would...

Until they have logged millions of miles on the street and track all of the weaknesses will not be known. Close tolerences there where it spins, looks like a good place for carbon to build up.

What brand of stereo is in the LS over the years besides Nakamichi? Are the speakers each individually powered by their own internal amp? Bose does that alot. Have you tried powering the factory speaker with an aftermarket amp? So four 4" speakers, one in each door and a sub on the rear...

What size speakers do the 98-2000 LS400 have from the factory and where are they located? How 'bout the earlier LS400's? This will give me something to think about and plan for until I find one.

Now that I'm almost finished with the Caddy I need to get another car to ruin. I'm in the process of moving but after I do I'm gonna start looking for a '98 thru 2000 LS400. The Caddy runs good and isn't worth much so it really fits the bill at the moment. If it weren't FWD and so squareish...

My new amp is in and all sounds great. I'm waiting on some bass-blockers for the 3 1/2 in the dash, highpass filter out of the deck at 125hz helps but they really shine above 500hz so I be needin' a little more. I haven't re-connected my sub box yet. In the trunk you can't hear it cuz the...

Well my Phoenix Gold dash speakers be rockin'. Next is to replace my amp with a Pioneer unit I just got this morning. It's gonna be nice to have this all working again.

As I was perusing the various MP3 players on eBay I noticed some GPS units with an MP3 player. I assume this is for playing music but there wasn't much detail. Should I just get seperate GPS and MP3 units or is there some additional benefit by having them together. I'd like to have and use...

Anybody got a pic of the stock manifolds without the heatshield installed?

The dash speakers are surface mount, sorta. The speaker grills are mounted to the dash pad that covers the speedo and has the AC vents in it. The speakers can either mount under the grill or to the dash frame work underneath the dash pad directly underneath the grill. Either way I'm gonna...

I ordered some Phoenix Gold RSD3 3 1/2" dash speakers. These look more like the ones I found years ago but can't now. They are deep and don't have a seperate tweeter. I hope they really blast the vocals. If I need more sizzle I can always add a small tweeter, maybe an 8ohm on the same channel.

Its not just low cost I'm after, rather it seems that alot of name brand stuff is the same cheap item as the off brand name in a different color container. Not always and its hard to know whats what sometimes. I've been disappointed by some Polk 4" co-axial speakers I purchased years ago...

I just got a brand new Pioneer GM-X524 amp, 4ch x 50w, off of eBay for $83 delivered. Thats less than what I paid for the Boss it is gonna replace. Thanks for the suggestion to buy brand name stuff at a discount rather than off brand stuff for list, you're really on to something here.