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Also I have been doing more reading and I guess every vehicle and install differs but I dont no what would be best sup up/port back or sub back/port back. Every set of subs I have owned have all been sub back port back so I cant say I have herd a different setup

Great sounds good.I would love to take you up on ur offer to help with a design. If the design is easy enough I might try to build it. I have a lot tools. But if I feel overwhelm I might just pay for a quality builder.

Yes and thank you so you were correct on what you assumed. I took a better measurement with hatch closed(always taught measure twice cut once), and I got a new measurement of 37" from hatch to back seat. So my measurements I would lke to use are 46W x 24H x 30D (can change if need more or less port room I guess?) 44.5W x 22.5H x 28.5D = 28,535.625/1728=16.5 cu ft.so a box built for 1 18" Icon with those Max measurements? I dont no how box designing/building goes but I'm assuming we would use less space to get something more in the lines of 7 cu ft? That's absolutely correct, only need to use about half the available space. The good part is with that much extra space the enclosure can be designed and built to be well braced and with plenty of port area. Cool this sounds great! So my mind is made up I'm going to be getting a 18" xcon hopefully by next month. How much would u charge me to design a box to take it to someone to build. I would like sub up port back cause I hear that sounds really good in a open cabin like mine

Yes and thank you so you were correct on what you assumed. I took a better measurement with hatch closed(always taught measure twice cut once), and I got a new measurement of 37" from hatch to back seat. So my measurements I would lke to use are 46W x 24H x 30D (can change if need more or less port room I guess?) 44.5W x 22.5H x 28.5D = 28,535.625/1728=16.5 cu ft.so a box built for 1 18" Icon with those Max measurements? I dont no how box designing/building goes but I'm assuming we would use less space to get something more in the lines of 7 cu ft?

So if I have about 16 cu ft of internal space to play with then in future if I wanted to I could have a new box built and put 2 18" in a 14 cu ft net box for them?(that would be nice for future knowing I could buy one more). So how do you guys recommend me go about getting a box. I dont no any box builders around. Do you guys recommend anyone on the forums? Would someone make and ship or would that be rediculous shipping? Or would I pay someone to design it then find a good box builder to make it?

Okay I took more accurment measurements and cleaned out the cargo area. I came out with 56.5 x 22 x 26 (that's with 5" from trunk hatch) So with alton deduction of 1.5 im getting 55x20.5x24.5= 27,623/1728=15.98 cu ft gross internal volume? So is that correct?

Dang! Looks like u need a a huge box for a 18" glad I'm getting this info beforehand. I just got off work so I dont feel like doing much, but later I AM A go out and take better measurments (how much room between port and hatch is ideal?). If that's all I can squeeze out would the zv3 better fit my situation? Specs on zv3 for 18" says 4 cu ft

I did it that way and I got very close to the first way I tried it that I stated above 35x24x15=12600/1728=7.29 gross cu ft So I got 7.29 cu ft, how did u calculate 5.88? Just curious to see if I did math wrong?And about saving cargo space not really a concern but I picked 15 cause I read u want space between hatch and port for breathing room. I was thinking I would want sub up port back. And you guys are being really helpful so thank you guys

How do you calculate that to cubic ft? Wouldent you turn those mesuements into feet then multiply those numbers? I thought I seen builds in trailblazers where they putting 7'^3 in them. I AM A do some more researching and measuring. This why I'm gonna pay for a quality box due to my inexperience. But if it turns out I cant fit the 18 I am going to go with whatever can fit properly. If I had to do 1 15" I might just look into 2 12". But ill find out never new how hard it is to set up a proper system. What would be guestiment measurement for a 7^3 box?

So I took a quick mesurment of cargo area I'm gonna do a better more accurate one but for now I'm working with 24"H x 35"W x 15" Dept. Will that fit a 18"?

Thank you alton I think I made up my mind to try out the xcons seems like a lot of people say the output wont dissapoint. Do you guys think that 2 15" xcons compaired to one 18" xcon would be a difference musically? I'm gonna be feeding the xcon around 2100 rms. Although I dont think I would have proper space to do 2 15" correctly.

The zcon takes more power than the xcon, subs are designed for two different applications. What are the two different application they are designed for? I'm pretty new at this but I'm trying to learn

Another quick question what's the difference between zcon and xcon? Is it just xcon can take more power? Will box size be similar?

That sounds good guys cause I was kind of leaning twards the ssa driver because of all the comments ive seen how good musically they are. Nice to hear they get loud too.

Well thank you guys I guess I cant go wrong with rather choice. As stated above what I'm looking into is a great improvement from what I have. And about the power upgrades I'm sure I would probably not need all those batteries maybe not even the h/o alternator. But these are add on items that will come. Cause I'm a strong believer in do it right and once so I figure its over kill and its room for improvement if I ever wanna up power and subs. And I want to also go 1 18" for the price different when I was pricing things out it saves a nice chunk, but also for the wow factor and being different. Fir the xcon 18" would u want like 7" cubed. Box is that net or gross. Whatever sub I choose I will pay for a correctly specd box. I'm nit going to make one for lack of experience but ill look for somone with a good Rep to build it