Got to tinker and mod a bit today.

[yooformula]

I like JJ and hope he wins again but I am a huge Jr and Tony fan! Tony will win that championship this year or next. Either way as long as Kyle ***** doesnt win, I am happy!

 

[Travieso]

thanks for the response formula, did you notice any noticeable throttle response with the CAI improve MPG, Louder ? etc..

 

[yooformula]

the cai had a nice louder throatier sound but I had the truck tuned immediately and thats when I really noticed the throttle response and sotp difference. Didnt hurt to clean the tb, the maf, swap plugs/wires and seafoam as well.

 

[DenaliAK]

xm for me. i can't stand regular radio anymore.

You can tell I live too far north when XM Radio isn't even available here because we lack the satellites.........

 

[ROBERTOcritser]

who still listens to regular radio?

haha not me... I've had my ipod hooked up to it ever since I had my deck put in which was about a week after I had my tahoe... Now that I think about it, I might just take my antennae out completely, cap the opening, and roll on since I really never listen too it.

 

[Eagle]

I like JJ and hope he wins again but I am a huge Jr and Tony fan! Tony will win that championship this year or next. Either way as long as Kyle ***** doesnt win, I am happy!

Proud to say that I don;t know who any of them are... but I am guessing they are from an american roundy round series.

I tried the antenna lay down this afternoon and lost almost all reception on a previously usable classic rock station from a town 30 something miles away.

Since it is one of 2 decent stations, I had to put it back to normal.

 

[yooformula]

I tried the antenna lay down this afternoon and lost almost all reception on a previously usable classic rock station from a town 30 something miles away.

Since it is one of 2 decent stations, I had to put it back to normal.

did you run a ground wire from the mounting base to the antenna base?

 

[Eagle]

yep...
without it there was ABSOLUTELY nada.

problems with doing this are
1: the antenna is a 1/4 wavelength antenna, and references ground plane for gain.
NOT electrical ground but a ground plane.

that means removing it from the ground plane reduces reception. Also the antenna transmitting is vertical and transmits a vertically polarized signal... so a horizontal antenna gets far poorer reception.

2: metal blocks radio transmissions.

Close hood and mostly static. As soon as i lifted the antenna back out of the fender recess, reception came back. Just an inch or two, I got reception, though much poorer than a properly installed antenna.

Again, my local station on top of the mountain in direct view from my house (5-10 miles), they were fine, but an otherwise decent station from farther away disappeared completely with this mod. Not good since sometimes in the southwest I might be 50-80 miles or more from the nearest radio station or in the shadow of a mountain in t u