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I hit a dead porcupine while driving a gravel truck once. That sucked... nearly rolled the damn thing, but damn I squashed him good.

I'm going to have to do something. I did a 2.0 at 34 hz as recommended by RE. Thinking my port dimensions got screwed up someplace because it sounds great, but just doesn't get very loud on 1100rms. Back to the drawing board, going to use trupan or superlite mdf next time though.

I finally got myself a better sub, a RE Sx12. I have the recommended box sizes from RE, but I decided to play with WinISD a little and noticed some big disparities. RE recommends 1.5 cubes at 33hz for a compact box, but WinISD seems to want a 0.75 cube box with some crazy port lengths. Am I doing something wrong, or is WinISD just weird? I followed WinISD's instructions and the parameters it calculated seem to match up with what RE has provided. RE also suggests a 2.0 cube box at 35 hz... Can anyone point me to an info page that spells out what effect ported box sizes have on output? I'm expecting to have to build a few different boxes to get things perfect, but how better to learn right

Another larger car you may want to consider is the 2006+ Hyundai Sonata. I drove a 300 for a couple weeks and was not impressed, tried a few other dodge products cause I wanted rear wheel drive, but ended up being hugely impressed by the sonata. All this talk about IB has me wanting to try it, maybe next install... I'm sure it'll be soon the way I swap out subs.

You are picking nits now, but the info that is posted blows most other forums away for quantity. Just have to filter who knows their stuff, just like any other forum.

SQ is more fun to listen to daily, IMO. Go thank an old man for introducing you to something new Diyma forums will probably be a big help for you too, theres a TON of knowledge there.

I think that has a lot to do with the distributor Modz... some stuff went down and apparently they closed up their doors and ran, but before that I understand they were jacking prices pretty high.

When you guys say 2.8 cubes, are we talking 2.8 cubes empty, or a pound or two of polyfill, or so crammed full of polyfill that you have to stand on the sub so it doesn't pop out while screwing it in??

Patience is for old people

Bah, per capita there are more douches out east, but poor Mark is stuck in the middle so lets just harrass him to bring out the IXL-15 instead.

Alpine IVA-D310 with a PXA-H701 for crossovers/eq/time correction. Get their Blackbird2 and cradle for nav. Should be around $1500 for everything, although I don't recall if it does HD radio. It does however, do optical out to the H701.

I have a set of SPX-177A, the older ones. I am not using the tweets or passives, as a tweeter died in shipping. The mids are running active, with about 110 watts rms to each from an old A/D/S amp. High passed at 25hz and low passed at 4000hz, they have been running fine like this for 8 months, taking daily beatings while I was without a sub. I have had very good results from them, but as with anything, I am sure there are better out there.

WOW... well there goes the DIY market, lol. I assume the subs are in a similar, hugely expensive price range so I guess I'll look elsewhere.

The west side is the best side. Lookin forward to news. You've got PM mrogowski

I am curious when too. My new amp should arrive before the end of the month and I'd love to get a new sub in before winter starts, which is soon in Alberta.