rory
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Hi,
Firstly I was just wondering if anyone else has done this and has any hints or tricks?
The idea has already been set into motion by me and hopefully isn't too far from being complete...
The plan is to remove the plastic compartment from below the rear seat (drivers side due to jack being on passenger side) and place the sub under here.
What it looked like before I started
(note, the shaded areas show where the seat rests on the box so support is NEEDED here or else the seat will fall through your box and into your sub)
When I first had the compartment out I also realized that this left a hole in the floor which I will need to patch or run some dynamat over (or both):
Next I made a mold of the plastic to the front of the box with fiberglass like so:
I then decided that the box wouldn't be big enough so I decided (stupidly) to add some volume where the carpet used to sit and build it up with clay (could also use playdough) this made the carpet sit not quite as well as I would have hoped for but that's OK, you will hardly see it with the seat down but if I was to do this again I would not do it this way.
I also molded the top plastic that runs down the side of the box at this time.
Once I had this mold completed I added some MDF for the outside edge which didn't end up being tall enough but i will build it up soon and also added enough fiberglass to make the box a little stronger.
I have also recently found that this spare tyre winder holder may foul the sub during movement so it may have to go in the future (dremel off and patch with fiberglass resin and paint black) (or lower the mounting depth of the sub)
The plan is to have most of the sides and rear made of MDF and patched together with F-glass.
I hope to run a Rockford P3SD4 shallow mount (400rms) or a Alpine Type-R SWR-T12 shallow mount (600rms) from my PDX-V9 with 559rms.
Any ideas, questions or feedback would be appreciated.
Rory
Firstly I was just wondering if anyone else has done this and has any hints or tricks?
The idea has already been set into motion by me and hopefully isn't too far from being complete...
The plan is to remove the plastic compartment from below the rear seat (drivers side due to jack being on passenger side) and place the sub under here.
What it looked like before I started
(note, the shaded areas show where the seat rests on the box so support is NEEDED here or else the seat will fall through your box and into your sub)
When I first had the compartment out I also realized that this left a hole in the floor which I will need to patch or run some dynamat over (or both):
Next I made a mold of the plastic to the front of the box with fiberglass like so:
I then decided that the box wouldn't be big enough so I decided (stupidly) to add some volume where the carpet used to sit and build it up with clay (could also use playdough) this made the carpet sit not quite as well as I would have hoped for but that's OK, you will hardly see it with the seat down but if I was to do this again I would not do it this way.
I also molded the top plastic that runs down the side of the box at this time.
Once I had this mold completed I added some MDF for the outside edge which didn't end up being tall enough but i will build it up soon and also added enough fiberglass to make the box a little stronger.
I have also recently found that this spare tyre winder holder may foul the sub during movement so it may have to go in the future (dremel off and patch with fiberglass resin and paint black) (or lower the mounting depth of the sub)
The plan is to have most of the sides and rear made of MDF and patched together with F-glass.
I hope to run a Rockford P3SD4 shallow mount (400rms) or a Alpine Type-R SWR-T12 shallow mount (600rms) from my PDX-V9 with 559rms.
Any ideas, questions or feedback would be appreciated.
Rory
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