Show Cars

Harris Float Boat

Thumb of 27.jpgThe Harris Flote Boat is our newest project. It is currently being put together as a demo boat for their company. The 1st thing we did was take off the stock boring colors and update them. We used reds, black carbon fiber, and gray as our base colors for the graphics as well as for the interior. This boat has a total of 30 speakers. 26 6 ½’s, 2 tweeters, and 2 L7 10” subwoofers, all from Kicker. This boat has 3,450 total watts coming in the way of one Kicker 1500.1, and three Kicker 650.4’s. Needless to say, this boat screams! When this boat is finished it will have two motorized monitors and a motorized blender to compliment the audio system and the interior. Keep coming back to see updated and finished pictures of the boat.

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300C Pink Limo

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This vehicle came to the school as a stock white 300C limo. The owner had dreams of pink!!! We thought he had lost his mind. Then he said that he wanted pink shag carpet and we were sold. What happened next is a little hard to explain. We ordered pink vinyl and pink carpet and everyone started getting excited about this project. The students actually volunteered to stay late until this pink creation was finished. We took out the gray carpet and replaced it with 1” pink shag carpet. The seats were black and gray and no longer went well with the carpet so we took and the vinyl and replaced it with new gray and pink vinyl. Just for a little added touch we stitched diamonds onto the seats with black thread. The client came and picked up his limo, a few days later he returned and he had installed a complete vinyl wrap that displays his company logo all in PINK! Even with all of the pink this is one of the most enjoyable projects that we have ever done…..

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2007 Porche Cayman S

Thumb of Porsche_on_beach.jpgThis Artic Silver 2007 Porsche Cayman S was designed and built for the owner of Acoustic Edge as our 2007 show vehicle. As if the fact that owning a Porsche wasn’t cool enough, we took this baby apart and made it even more special. We started by ripping off that factory rubber. In their place went a pair of Asanti black and chrome rims wrapped in Pirelli rubber. The motor in this thing will sing you a wonderful song, but when you want to jam we installed a Pioneer 6 disc DVD player in the dash with a custom built and painted trim ring to finish it off. Since the motor is in the back and you have storage in the hood trunk we decided to use the entire back end for the audio system. We started with 2 JL Audio W-7 8” subs and put them into two hand made fiberglass enclosures that were painted to match the exterior. They literally fire into the back of your head! To power the subs we went with 2 JL Audio 500.1 Amplifiers and built them into the back amp rack. We also used a JL Audio 300.4 to power the JL Audio 6 ½’s in the doors and in the rear. Once we were satisfied with all of audio gear and amp racks we covered the headliner, the amp rack, the underside of the trunk, and the sub trim rings in black suede. Look for this Porsche in the Acoustic Edge booths at car shows across the nation!!!

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67 Cobra

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When designing and building this Cobra we wanted to do something that no one has ever seen before, we did just that. Building a custom interior from scratch using only the best materials and a stereo in a car that is normally left completely stock and only music produced is that of the engine just feet away from the driver and passenger.   In all reality its almost impossible to build a stereo that can over power the motors 400+ ponies with side pipes screaming only 18” from your ears and having little to no extra room for anything but the driver and passenger. Starting up front we installed Pioneer REV TSD161R 6 1/2” Coaxial Speakers down the fabricated kick panels, powering the speakers is a Memphis MC300 175x2 amplifier. These are the only set of mids/high speakers in the car since this Cobra didn’t come with backseat option so no rear fill was needed. To get a little extra thump in the car we installed two Focal 5” Mid-bass Drivers between the seats in a custom enclosure where the e-brake use to be. Powering the two drivers is a Memphis MC250D Mono block amplifier. Controlling the audio system is done by an iMobile in-Car computer, the main unit is tucked away from all elements in the trunk while the 8” touch screen monitor is mounted in the dash to run the commands. Since were using the computer as the main source we needed to add a line driver to boost the signal for the amplifiers, so a Phoenix Gold TLD22 was installed. The amplifiers, battery and computer are all tucked away in the trunk behind panels. Everything in the car was custom built, we did use the factory dash as a base but it was heavily modified to mount the touch screen and the gauges that keep an eye on the vitals of the car. There is no door handles in or outside the car, the doors are controlled off of door poppers with switches hidden under the dash to let you in and out, also hidden under the dash is switches for lights, actuator that now controls the parking brake, nitrous, and the ignition switch to start the car. We kept everything that we could out of sight to give a real clean look to the cars interior. The interior is done in Ultra suede, Ultra leather, and snake skin, yea its real snake. Everything was built using MDF, and fiberglass, then either cover in the leather, suede or painted to match the car. This car is used as a show vehicle for the Acoustic Edge Institute to show future students what you can learn and are capable of learning in the courses at the school. The interior and stereo were done here at the Acoustic Edge Institute by Instructor Kyle Hix and Director JD Hendrickson. The motor work was done by Steve at Absolute Motorsports in Edmond, OK. 

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International CXT

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We would like to Introduce “Juice” our new International CXT. This will be our Show vehicle for the Acoustic Edge Institute OKC this year. We don’t think you will have any problem finding us at a show this year. This truck stands 11 feet tall and weighs 1 pound lighter than trucks that require you to have your CDL to drive them. That’s right; any one with a driver’s license can drive this beast (or at least try to drive it). We have teamed up with Digital Designs this year to build a beautiful yet very angry system! This truck promises to be something you have never seen before and be EXTREMELY LOUD! We are doing one 18” DD sub woofer and powering it with a DD 6000 watt RMS amp. The Enclosure will be around 10 cubic feet ported so it will defiantly get low! We installed two 15” monitors from the huge roof as well as three amplifiers dangling under lit plexi. We promise lots of lights, lots of sound and one bad ass truck to look at!
 
Check back as we will keep posting updated pics of the install in progress. Just for your information it is the owner and instructors that all give up their personal time after hours to build these show cars = meaning we love what we do! If you can’t trust someone who is that passionate about their profession to teach you then you’re in trouble! Give us a chance to share our knowledge and passion with you!

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Purgatory

Thumb of kevins_truck_63.jpgAll you can say is WOW! There has never been one like this before and quit possibly never will be again. This truck was featured in about 10 different magazines all at once about 4 years ago, so it is very possible you have seen it before. There is a link at Edge media for this truck with more in-depth pictures and articles. We did a full Memphis Audio system on this install starting with 2-1000d’s running a LVS 15" sub. That’s a lot of power running a lot of sub in a very cool ported enclosure which produced a lot of bass. It hit 156 db while playing music, in case you don’t know that’s very impressive! We inverted the Memphis class AB amp in the center console along with a custom molded skull head to bring the outside theme into the audio install. This truck was bagged, body dropped and everything else you can imagine, check out the link to read more detailed info. Did I mention that we built this truck in only 7 days?

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KVH Denali

Thumb of DSC01957.jpgKVH is the company that makes it possible for you to get ESPN or HBO in your car. How cool is that? We built 2 of their Denalis for them to cruise around the country in and show everyone how sweet their product is. We did an all Kenwood audio system starting with 2-10"subs and we did a 600 watt sub amp and a 4 channel amp on the Kenwood separates in the doors and in the back next to the 42" plasma TV. We also installed 4 – 7" head rest monitors and a flip down screen. Did I mention the 6.5" Kenwood head unit with navigation in the dash? We also took a live satellite and removed the top and built our own top out of ½" Plexiglas so you could see how the satellite actually worked and tracked. This vehicle was built in only 5 days.

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Kicker Ranger

Thumb of Ranger.jpgThis car was not built by the Acoustic Edge but it was partially built by the CEO of the Acoustic Edge Dave (Danger Boy) Johnson while he was working as a tech for Kicker. This was a very cool vehicle which was ripped up and rebuilt twice. The first one was built for the CE show in Vegas around 1999. We put 5 of the comp 18� subs in the cab, yep I said in the cab and we put a ZR 1000 on each sub. The whole cab was fiber-glassed. The roof, floor and the enclosure were all a one piece fiberglass tubb. It sounded very good especially if you like your toons a little bass heavy. The enclosure was built to look like an aliens head, it was very cool and ahead of it’s time as far as design and technique are concerned. The second rendition was built when the new square subs were first developed; in fact the first subs in the install were proto type speakers. This install wasn’t as sexy and curvy but we built a huge very solid enclosure with 6- square 15� subs. Holy @%*# it was sooooooo loud it hurt, BAD! It still looked really cool but man it hammered. I think it hit 168db or something really loud, the cool thing is it was built for sound not spl, nice. As far as I know this truck is still rollin around up north somewhere giving people headaches?

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Kicker Mazda

Thumb of DSC01473.jpgThis car was owned by a local Oklahoma rep and we had the privilege to build this Kicker demo car.

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Kicker Cougar

Thumb of cougar-2.jpgThe first thing we have to say is The Acoustic Edge did not do this car but the CEO of Acoustic Edge Dave (Danger Boy) Johnson did help build it while enjoying his term at Kicker. This was our first demo vehicle with the all new L7 square sub. We got creative and decided the normal thing has always been to put a round sub in a square box, so we decided to put a square sub in a round box. It makes sense, so we built 2 perfectly round enclosures out of fiberglass and sunk them into two half spheres so they just floated, it was cool! The kick panels also were pretty radical and took a while to build. We took 4 days just to design them as far as setting the staging and imaging using lasers to be precise. There was a 6.5� mid bass in an a-periodic chamber and a 5� mid range in a sealed enclosure and of course a very good Kicker tweeter. This car sounded heavenly, it staged perfectly, tonally it was beautiful and it would get really loud if you wanted it to. The distribution was built in the bottom of the tub using 1� Plexiglas and 1� aluminum, definitely one of a kind!

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