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And last but least, this weekend I got started on the amp rack. I shaped the front of the rack to match the width of the center console for the front seats to help it look a little more like it belongs there. I placed the Harmony DSP at the front to take the signals in from the HU and distribute them accordingly. I am putting the subwoofer amp in the middle simply to keep the ground and power runs to it as absolutely short as possible. The battery is located behind the passenger seat and under the floor so it's not far away at all to start with but I want the ground as short as possible so that's where it will be at. Finally the four channel amp will be behind the sub amp. Gotta love flush trim bits! And here's the basic layout. That's everything up to now.

After over a dozen layers of fiberglass the enclosures were finally ready. I dropped the woofers in and tested the strength of the enclosures every so often. With 14 layers of glass on them the fiberglass didn't move at any frequency I played with over 100 watts of power driving them. Between pressure from the wife and being COMPLETELY burned out doing the work on the fiberglass I deemed that test good enough and began to work on getting the enclosures and the speakers put into the truck. I applied the CCF foam that I had put behind the door card on the driver's door to the back of the enclosures (so as not to go to waste) to help prevent any possibility of rattles between the wood of the enclosure and the door panel and did so on both enclosures. Here's how the enclosures turned out looking after the fiberglass was done. As you can see they're still a good fit in the door card. I also took this opportunity to get the wires ran to all the appropriate locations. Finally, onto mounting everything to the doors. I couldn't figure out a good way to temporarily attach the enclosure to the door card and I couldn't figure out a better way to make a better way to shape the door for the finishing fiberglass work than expanding foam. Then it kinda hit me, it seemed like the best answer for both. The foam can glue the enclosures into place inside the door card and give me the foundation I need to put finishing layers of fiberglass down to smooth everything out and (hopefully) make it look like the doors could have been made from the factory like this. I put plastic behind the door cards when I put them back on the doors to keep the foam from attaching to the door itself. Then I got to filling all the voids with foam. After the foam had finished setting up I took a knife and some sandpaper and began to work on removing the excess foam and rough shaping it. Finally here it is with the Bravox CS603CF 3 way component set installed. It still boggles my mind how large these enclosures ended up, how little space there is between everything, and nothing rubs anywhere. I got so lucky on this that it still makes my mind spin when I look back at how much work has gone into this and how much of that work was simply all I could figure out to do with it given the circumstances I was dealing with. The speakers sound amazing. I mean absolutely amazing. The bass response is so phenomenal I have to remind myself that the subs aren't installed yet and they're still only on HU power. They do so at every volume level from barely audible to right at the limit of the internal amp in the HU they come across smooth, detailed and balanced. All the work to make this a custom installation seems to have been worth all the time, effort and money to make it happen. I can't wait to get the last of the fiberglass work done (when the insane heat and humidity finally breaks) and hopefully get this thing showed off to some of you at the big shows.

Everything all good now? Looks like they are still some nice storms up there by the lakes..Guessing thats what come through his area idk..I love being and whatching strong and severe storms as long as nobody gets hurt they are pretty cool..I have always been a bit of a dork when it comes to the weather I used to stay up all night when I was growing up and watch the weather channel all night..lolPart of why I love living by the Gulf. J May think I am crazy but I have always wanted to ride it out through a nice catagory hurricane I have. It's either no big deal or your totally screwed.

If you reread his last post he stated what he means. By fourth he means 4th order bandpass. Op just a heads up a ported box is a 4th order vented enclosure and a bandpass box is a 4th order bandpass enxlosure. So just saying 4th order doesn't specify the exact enclosure you want, hope that helps.