Ashley ‘MAD BASS’ Burrell has now been supporting ManZone at North City Shopping Centre, Porirua now for six years. This year was a touch different though with ABTEC1 having its audio set-up completely changed, a set of 20″ rims added to it and also was my first year at ManZone!
Before I carry on about the weekend spent at ManZone North City I’m going to give a brief description of the changes to ABTEC1.
The first change was the wheel’s, I had briefly waved the idea of changing the wheels to Ashley about a month ago explaining how a change of wheel’s can make or break a vehicle in the looks division. The funny thing is that I only mentioned it as an idea we could do for ABTEC1 in the future not knowing that only a week later Ashley would be sourcing the biggest and widest wheel’s he could put on it legally.
The final change to ABTEC1 would be adding a few items to the car audio. So out came the tweeter’s and 4″ mids in the front doors, in went a pair of DD-VO-B1 bullet tweeters and also a pair of DD-VO-M8 mid-range speakers. Not only do they look very cool and aggressive on the front doors but also solve the problem I was having when the volume went up the bass over-powered the front speakers.
To complete the change to the audio system Ashley got another box made up for the DD-Z12 replacing the four DD-512‘s we had in the back of ABTEC1, making the back of ABTEC1 with door open look like there is some sort of Gatling-Gun in there. I must say the sound quality in ABTEC1 is just mind-blowing now, with beautiful low bass with a lot of presence to the crisp clean treble and mids and it just sounds so clean even at high volumes!
Being my first ManZone event I didn’t know what to expect and the fact I had to drive ABTEC1 through the North City Shopping Centre did make me a little excited, I kept have flashes of high speed chases through malls from movies but luckily for the pedestrians this wasn’t the case.
I must say it was a very cool weekend with a lot of nice car’s ranging from the few imports, to the large array of muscle cars that filled the second level car park. Even though the car’s in the car park were all stunning my favourite car of the weekend was parked in the mall. I know what your thinking here “here comes another ABTEC1 plug” but the truth is as much as I love driving around in a Truck full of Digital Designs Audio my favourite was still the 911 GT3 RS that I could only dream of owning!
Overall it was a very enjoyable weekend for myself and Ashley looked like he was having a ball talking peoples ears off too! I like to thank all the customers and friends for dropping by and giving there support, Hauraki Man for being a good sport and letting us take heaps of photos of him. Lauren for bringing me my other pair of shoes & coffee, Michael for taking heaps of quality photos, Johnny for turning up and giving me a good laugh, Ashley for allowing me to drive through the mall & giving me much needed breaks to get fresh air!
Most of all I’d like to thank The North City Shopping Centre & ManZone for allowing us to park ABTEC1 in the mall while playing Dubstep the whole time!
We all enjoyed the weekend no matter how tired we all were on Monday and are looking forward to next year too!
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