::News:: 
Custom Sound Works

::08/04/08::
Customsoundworks finally has got the dyno!!
Customsoundworks has the REAL certified horsepower chassis dyno up and running . It is a Land & Sea Dynomite Pro 700auto chassis dyno with eddycurrent. It is FWD or RWD rated up to 800 wheel hp. certified and calibrated . here is some pics from the first Friday dyno night with Dynomike check the page for chassis dyno service for more pics and pricing.

::03/12/08::
We now offer wheel and tire order.

::01/21/08::
Nissan engine swaps and turbo kits on sale !

::01/15/08::
Baby Avery Jones born in may 7th 2006, is the new edition in Mike Jones life!!!

::10/23/07::
The Custom Sound Works crew start their own Bass Beasts!

::09/27/07::
Custom Sound Works has its fall SOUND OFF!

::06/21/07::
Custom Sound works Project "260sx GTR" has the heart of  Godzilla!

::04/20/07::
Mike Jones  the “SPL Expert” goes to Australia!!!!

::02/22/06::
Custom Sound Works is planning to do Dyno tuning for import and performance cars doing power upgrades !
coming soon!

::02/21/06::
Custom Sound gets a new Web Master and a New Life!!! Web Design provided by GrafixForge.com

::01/09/06::
Project 240sx club got off the ground with a great meet of nine local 240sx's and working towards the turbo systems of many in the club.
Come on by and check what these kits can do for you.

::10/15/05::
CustomSoundWorks has broken another World Record on B&K in Extreme Class to a 178.0db!!
Click here for more!

News 3-12-08

WE NOW OFFER WHEEL AND TIRES TO ORDER !! Come by and see if we can get your ride hooked up on wheels or tires !! We are getting setup to do in future mounting balancing for the wheel packages. come by for a quote. add this pic for the news turbo kit

News 1-20-08

Nissan engine swaps and turbo kits on sale !
240sx engine swaps like RB25det , SR20det , CA18det now on sale call or email
michael@customsoundworks.com for prices and info.
The Ka24det turbo kit is now available and will be shipping. All orders must be placed 2 weeks in advance! Here is the package -base price email
1 equal length t3/t4 manifold
1 35mm wastegate with 7lb spring
1 new set of 4 precision 520cc injectors top feed and fuel rail
1 gauge kit with pod ,boost gauge, oil pressure gauge
1 garrett custom T3/to4E turbo matched for ka engine with oil lines
1 greddy type S blow off valve
1 Walbro 255 fuel pump
1 intercooler 9"x3"x24"and complete pipe,couplings and clamp set for 240sx
1 greddy emanage unit pretuned for turbo 240sx
1 custom made downpipe with two o2 bungs
Options- greddy boost controller $299.00
AEM wideband O2 sensor setup $299.00
This kit will produce 315hp and 335lbs of torque at a max of 12psi on pump gas. 290hp at9psi

 

News 1-15-08

Baby Avery Jones born in may 7th 2006 , is the new edition in Mike Jones life!!!Mike seems to have less spare time to work on his contest vehicles, but is enjoying watching his daughter grow!! Life and time seem to sure go faster with work ,research and business, but the time Avery gets is well worth it!

 

News 10-23-07

The Custom Sound Works crew start their own Bass Beasts!
Andrew Buchok and Richard Garza start getting their daily rides ready for a make over.
Andrew goes with 3 -12" in a fiberglass box and Richard decides to do a massive wall!
Come by and ask to hear their daily pounding bass monsters that sound really good as well. Using CSW gear and having Mike Jones as a leader and mentor gives these awesome installers a edge over the rest! Good sound ,affordable and LOUD!!!
Richard working late to get his wall finished and seeing how tall his empty boxes go!!

Andrew's box of his jeep finally finished with 3-Digital Designs 2500 12" subs ported It definitely will rip his roof rack apart!!! And it sounds good too!!

 

 

 

News 9-27-07

Custom Sound Works has its fall SOUND OFF!

There was a good turnout at the show sept.29th a "loud" Saturday. Door shaking bass was getting put to the test at the Usaci SPL contest. Customers got to finally see how loud they could burp there cars.

Waiting to show it up!!

Some of the guys hanging out!

Cars showing their stuff
showing off

One slammed loud DD avalanche
avalanche

Matt Zelinski happy after his 1st place win a loud 151db!
Matt Zelinski 1st place

Genavieve wooping up with 2 DD 10" pumping her car with offtrophy!
Genavieve

Lake chilling after his bone shattering low bass gets him some gold!
Lake after win

Andrew's triple victory made him feel happy !
Andrew triple victory

 

News 6-21-07

Custom Sound works Project "260sx GTR" has the heart of Godzilla!
CSW projects GTR

The new project car was going to be strong, good looking and comfortable. The 1990 240sx had a transplant with the heart of the Godzilla a R32 skyline GTR. This engine needing a little work to get running.

This is the RB26 engine , the baddest engine ever built in japan. Revs to 9000rpm ,inline six cylinder ,capable of a 1000hp on stock internals , what more could you ask for???

After the rb26dett engine was tweaked ,the interior was done, sound system was finished and a coat of fresh green paint was thrown on the car.this beast was driven daily to tune it to a perfect drivability. After it is finished a estimated 600hp (24lbs boost)will be on tap at the press of a button! 320hp at 9lbs of boost is fine for daily fun! Learning and tuning a hard, rare engine like this is good tuning practice . Custom Sound Works are 240sx turbo specialists and have done several ka24de-t , Sr20det , nx1600 and other Nissan vehicles. Doing work on the rb26det and power fc tuning would be a challenge. Hopefully the dyno will come soon!!!!!

Redoing paint on the 240sx GTR kept the same color, rebuilt the front bumper and made a custom hood.

After modding the opening ,intercooler gets more air ,looks good for stock bumper getting cut up! New fiberglass hood cut up also for air flow.

Door panels are getting some new mods.

260 GTR has new steering wheel and new full interior redone to match the outside paint.

Dash looks good
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Trunk gets some new tunes with a DD 10" sub and 2 amps to get power.

Fun, Fast, and good sounding was the goal !!

 

4-20-07

Mike Jones the "SPL Expert" goes to Australia!!!

Mike Jones in Australia

Michael Jones is very famous around the world for doing research and help developing Hi-end Car Audio products for many top manufacturers in the Car Audio industry. A competitor in Australia needing some aid in SPL tuning had requested some help from Crossfire. They new that to get some "real results" there is only one man that can get it done rapidly . Crossfire flew Mike Jones and his wife Laura down under to oversee the designed system mike jones had engineered thru emails. Vernon Aliberti a very nice man who had been building the new SPL van called Ice Age 2 had made a friendship with mike over months of phone calls ,emails to get the new designed box started. Mike Jones only has a week to get it finished built, final tuned and get in-phase. The goal was to break the current Australian 2007 super street record of 158db . Mike Jones designed a wall for the odd shaped Australian mazda(ford) van. Keeping the frequency aligned with speaker wall is important.






Vernon , his son Terrence, run their own electrical wiring company around Sydney,got busy building They had some help from their good friend Leon, he is famous for doing very hi-end alarm systems in skyline gtr's, silvias and other exotics in Australia. They built the box to mike jones specs closely. Mike arrived and helped finish the van up. He educated them very hard and taught the fast tricks to tune properly. This saved months and years as well as their budgets and headaches and wasted time on experimental loud speaker tuning. Experience and wisdom from breaking 37 SPL records can save a lot of frustration ! after a few tweaks here in there, the Ice Age 2 van was getting 160db legal ,pretty consistent at ¾ volume . This is real good for using 4 old beat up crossfire XT15 subs and just crossfire 1000D amps. Laura helps Mike keep the data logs as the hours of testing and calculating goes on. It got tuned and Michael and Laura got to do some site seeing in Sydney between build changes . Several top Sales reps around Australia and SPL enthusiasts flew down to Sydney to visit and learn from the SPL KING while he was in Australia. It was a like doing a SPL seminar , advancing them on building the trial and error SPL boxes and How to tune and log data properly.

Mike Jones had made many friendships and memories working with these guys. The goal was realized a month later at a show the van was able to get 161.8db with the old used subs and will get louder with some good power and bigger subs! For more on this hot aussie van check out this Australian magazine (link)magazine article

Here is the first stop once arrived in Sydney Australia, the back ground of many postcards! Michael, Laura, Vernon and Lillie.

Michael standing in front of Vernon's first van Ice age 1. This is a van built with his son.

Look at bottom of van ! it has Michael Jones' world record number of 176.4db! Inspiration for Vernon and Terence !

Michael is inside working on the new box calculating port area in speaker wall.

Michael and Laura are in front of the Sydney Opera House.

Michael in front of the podium to "BURP" the Ice Age 2 van.
Michael training and teaching the Australian Crossfire rep and amp repair tech for the van. Balancing amps on 16volts are crucial. Giving these guys the knowledge will save them a lot of type from blowing things up!
Michael and Laura in the Beautiful Blue mountains if Australia "3 Sisters"

The crew and family of van working hard that week! Laura, Leon, Lillie, Terrence, Vernon, Michael.

::The Shop::  
 ::Competition::  
 ::Trouble Arrives:: 
Lubbock car stereo. Custom Sound Works
1998 Texas Heat Wave Champions 159.7db

1998 USACi World Finals 1,001-up 3rd place 163.2db

1999 Iasca regional SPL Champions 172.5db

1999 Texas State Champion 174.0db

1999 USACi Outlaw SPL world record 1,000-5,000w 174.1db

2000 Iasca regional Champion 170.2db (first 170 in IDBL competition with 100hz filter)

2000 Texas IDBL Champions 171.3db

2000 Texas dB Drag Champions 171.5db

2000 Daytona Nationals USACi Outlaw SPL Champions 173.3db

2000 Texas State Champions USACi Outlaw SPL 175.4db

2000 dB Drag World Record 9+ 10,000w-up 171.3db

2000 USACi World finals:

  • Outlaw World Record extreme 1,000-5,000w 175.1db
  • Port wars ext. 1,000-5,000w 1st place 174.5db
  • Super dash ext. 1,000-5,000w 1st place 172.3db
  • Bass Olympics ext. 1,000-5,000w 1st place 852.3
  • 2001 Spring Break Jam:

  • USACi Outlaw SPL ext.5001-up 1st place 178.4db
  • DB Drag 9+ 10,000w-up 1st place 170.5db
  • USACi Legal World Record 168.5db

    2001 Texas Heat Wave Champions 172.5db

    2001 dB Drag World finals 173.6db

    2001 USACi World Finals:

  • Outlaw World Record ext. 5,001w-up 175.3db
  • Outlaw World Record ext1,0005,000w175.1db
  • Db5 World Record ext 5,000w-up 173.1db
  • 2001 Crossfire Dealer of the Year western region

    2002 Spring Break Jam

  • USACi Outlaw SPL ext 5,000-up 1st place 177.0db
  • USACi Legal World Record 171.8db
  • 2002 Texas Heat Wave USACi Legal World Record 172.0db

    2002 Texas Heat wave 1st place 174.1db

    2002 USACi Outlaw World Record ext 5,000w-up 176.1db

    2002 USAC World Finals 301-600w Sound Quality 2nd place- Joe Barnes

    2002 USACi Competitor of the Year

    2002 Crossfire BMF Extreme Dealer of the Year

    2003 Texas Heat Wave USACi Outlaw SPL 5,000w-up 175.4db

    2003 dB Drag World Champions 5+ subs. 173.1db

    2003 USACi Outlaw World Record 5,000w-up 178.7db

    2003 USACi Legal World Record 175.7db

    2003 TEAM GATES Peoples Choice Award "the best"

    2003 Crossfire BMF Extreme Dealer of the Year

    2004 Mardi Gras Nationals 175.8db pressure sensor

    2004 Regional Midland show 174.5db

    2004 Texas Heat Wave 172.9

    2004 dB Drag World Champions 5+subs. 173.0db

    2004 USACi Outlaw World Champions 5,000-up 173.8db

    2004 USACi Legal World Record 176.4db backed up 177db

    2004 Crossfire BMF Elite Dealer of the Year

    2005 TexasHeat Wave Champions 2 subs. 171.3db

    2005 USACi extreme Legal World Record 178.0db


    Burping the van is deafening! Even with the door open the presure is so great that it pushes the sunroof through the roof! Get Movie
    Believe it or not the van Does move! Its not too comfortable though. Get Movie

    Traffic stops as the Custom Sound Works Van pulls in to blow away the competition and set yet another World Record


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