Kangaroux

Don't get too anal about kerfing all the insides like that. Kerf the opening and just use 45's for the rest. With all those kerfs you are giving yourself a ton of chances to fuck up. Mess up one kerf and you have to replace the entire piece.

Got me for a second, lol... On an unrelated note, if I let my foot off the gas the second I get onto my street, I can coast the whole thing and get half way up my driveway. It's the little things that make me feel like I did something productive during the day.

It could be a combination of having the SSD's wired slightly lower and having less box rise with the SSD's.

Thanks! Now the question is...do I have enough scrap wood here that I will need 1 sheet or two, lol

Lol! That works in my favor, I was only gonna use this as a midbass anyways lmao

Design take 2. Added .5" to the port width so now it's ~94 in^2. No more complaints, lol.

I know it's not hard but it'd be much easier for me to just use my circular saw. Also, I don't have any fiberglass resin or anything to put on the back of the kerf to have it harden up, so I wouldn't feel very safe having the kerf with just some glue on it lol. Wood glue works fine. I usually use resin but I have used glue without any issues. I'll think about it then. I'll prob drop a 45 right behind it to help stiffen it up. Maybe do a test kerf on a small piece of scrap just to see how it comes out. A kerf was my original plan but I figured the 45 would be a bit more idiot proof lol

I know it's not hard but it'd be much easier for me to just use my circular saw. Also, I don't have any fiberglass resin or anything to put on the back of the kerf to have it harden up, so I wouldn't feel very safe having the kerf with just some glue on it lol.

I was gonna go with 100 in^2 of port (basically making my port 1" wider) but if I go with too much port it will cut off too much of the low end below tuning. So I have 2 options: tune the box lower down to ~30hz then up the port, or keep the box tuned a little higher towards 32-33 and keep the port slightly smaller. I talked with a few design guys just to double check (RAM_Designs, Robin over at BHE, DC creations) and they all agreed going slightly smaller on the port would be my best option. I want to be able to play down to 25hz without unloading too much as well.

Good way to keep busy! I'll say, lol. I think I'm just gonna stay up until I can start seeing daylight then finally fall asleep. Set my alarm for noon so no one suspects anything..lol

Sittin here at 5 in the morning looking at build logs cause I can't fall asleep.

I think this is gonna be the final box design...about 7 cubes tuned to 32hz with 87 in^2 of port. I was going to do a kerf port but I have no place to setup my circular saw to do the kerfs, and doing kerfs with a table saw is just a pain in the ass, so I settled for just a big 45 instead. I want there to be absolutely 0 port noise and also have it be somewhat meter friendly.

I hear ya the rain kinda sucked but it was a good show and I got to meet more ppl. Yep was still a good show. Was nice to see someone new at the shows

Or....buy another and invert one That would just look kinda funny lol.

But if I invert it then you don't see the cool dustcap The only way to make this happen is if I use plexi

So that's what it's used for...

I'll stop bein a tease and just upload the rest of the pics lol.

Shoutout to Godsmack for being wicked cool about this and giving me a great deal too

Indeed, I can't wait to get this thing playing. Won't have the new box made for it until next week or so but I wanna just hear how this sounds...feels like I've been waiting forever for this haha. Shipping from california to maine FTL

Try squinting this time, lol

Cool vids I wanted to walk around more than I did but with all the rain I found myself either in my car doing demos or under the tent over by the metering lol

What do we have here?

I have a build log going on over at caraudio.com but I switch stuff around so much that I hardly ever post up anything anymore. I'll just start a fresh build log on here instead and just give you guys a rundown of what I have done so far. Vehicle: 1999 Nissan Pathfinder Subs: 18" Xcon D2 Amps: AQ2200, Concept HP65.4 Speakers: Lanzar OPTI6PM Headunit: Pioneer MVH-8200 Electrical: Batcap 2k under the hood, C&D 270FR in the back, 2/0 big 3 I need to go through my build log and pull up some pics but as for now I'll just post up pics of what I got done today... Here is the setup as it sits. I had built the frame for the false floor about a month ago but never got around to actually cutting all the wood and getting it assembled. The sub is missing because I sold my HDC3 and am currently waiting for the xcon to arrive Gutted and started laying down the first piece Made sure the support where I planned to put my battery and amp was was secured down well and also loctited in place. Since the frame wasn't built to be convenient (I blame my wheel wells) I whipped out some chalk line to lay out where I needed to secure everything Everything screwed in Level like a mofo I still need to make some trim pieces for the sides just so I can cover up some of the crap under the floor itself, plus I need to make a small battery holder for my C&D since I don't really like the idea of loosely having it under the false floor. I won't be using that same box you saw as that was made for an HDC3 so the specs are a bit off, plus it's too wide for my vehicle (and it's made out of MDF )

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That would be fine for a quick burp, but 30 seconds? You're gonna see magic smoke for sure. You can't run 3x a sub's rms and expect it to not care. You most certainly can under ideal circumstances. The question posed here is too vague though. Keywords there are "ideal circumstances". Hardly anything in car audio is ideal lol. Could he? Sure, if he was getting a crap ton of rise. But after 30 seconds of that kind of abuse that sub will surely need a recone of sorts...I know there are variables to consider but that is a huge amount of power for one sub either way.