SS Teacher

Next the box will be off to be covered in bedliner. It doesn't get too wet in the back, but I'd rather play it safe. It's down firing, I have no desire to shove a kayak paddle through the cone of a $350 sub.

Flush mounting the XCON...

It's not a pretty install, but it's safe from the elements under the seat. ZERO noise issues.

I've never run rear fill in anything before, but the Bravox 5 1/4" components add a lot with the doors off around the firepit.

JBL woofers are in the stock location which is in very thick speaker pods behind the grill.

"Toomstone" tweet location. Had to make a zillion compromises in audio by getting a Wrangler...

HU looks stock and the integration is great, wish they put more effort into the crossover points and eq.

Yellow matches the OME shocks, trying to find paint to match Chrysler's "Rock Lobster" is nearly impossible.

Double baffle

Thanks, I was actually able to figure that out! I'll be showing a lot more pics (when I'm not at work, wasting tax-payer's money).

Thanks! I hated getting rid of my Challenger (divorce sucks), but I'm really loving the Jeep life.

Measuring, measuring, cutting. Paying for the box design and getting a cut sheet and detailed plans was completely worth it. Glad to have a friend with tools and wood working skills.

Okay, so I can upload images if I email pics from my phone to my email and import them smaller... now to figure out how to rotate them. SSA XCONy goodness!!!! Dual 1 vc, I don't want to upgrade my electrical other than the Big 3 (my stock alt is 160 amps) so I'll stick to 2 ohm loads. If I'm not happy about the output from the Fosgate T500 I'll upgrade to 1200-1600 watts. Might have to go Brazilian so it fits under my seat, I do NOT want to mount an amp to a box in the rear of a Jeep.

Wow, fail already... it seems all my iPhone pics are larger than the 1.31MB allowed...

This is my first build log, please lower any expectations of competency... The system- Raxiom (rebadged Rosen unit) HU- got it because it integrate perfectly with the factory media and had NAV. Zed Audio Mikro 4 channel Rockford Fosgate T500 bd JBL Power Series 6 1/2" components in the front front (no speakers go in the doors (I take them off as often as possible)) Bravox 5 1/4" components in the sound bar (custom made mounting ring, CLD tiles to help the flimsy plastic) SSA XCON 10" in a ported box designed by the SSA store and built with the help of my buddy. It's my (and his) first speaker box built.

When I first started getting back into car audio a few years ago I learned a LOT from this site, the guys here are very knowledgeable and very helpful. In order to learn more of the basics I found www.bcae1.com Give it a shot, you can learn much.

I'm going to suggest any/all car audio work you do is NOT at your apartment complex, people will jack your shit. Find a friend with a house that lives several miles away (hopefully they have some tools) and do it at their house.

You paid them for a competent install not a half assed job. They most certainly shouldn't charge you any money at all because they never did the job right in the first place. I know you're scared, we all were at one point, but honestly, you CAN do this...

Powering a DCON with 300 watts RMS would be just fine. In fact, you wouldn't be able to hear the difference between 300 and 400 watts.

I've got a stock 160 amp alternator and just want to do the Big 3 and call it good. I'd really prefer to run my amps at 2 ohm. I'm old school, I remember the days of 4 Ohm sub loads :), this 1 ohm stuff scares me.

Just placed my order for an enclosure design (ported box) and a dual 1 ohm Xcon 10' sub-woofer, FTW!!!!

"Ported Xcon ftw." who I ask, could refute the irrefutable?

It's in the back of a Jeep Wrangler, a bandpass covered in bedliner would be virtually weatherproof. I didn't have terribly high hopes, looks like I'm going with the 12" XCON in a ported box!

Alright, I'm sold! (litteraly) I'm going with the XCON. I'll power it with the Rockford Fosgate T-500 db, if I want more volume later I can just replace that with a T-1500. I'm going to order a box design and get my buddy to help me make it out of 1" birch. We'll spend some time on BCAE1.com, they have great box building tips. Now for the question... Can SSA design a bandpass enclosure that yields a flat frequency response from about 35 to 85 HZ. I know prefab bandpass boxes are total crap, but if I can get a good response curve and output I would love to make the box and cover it in bedliner and never have to worry about it. If the XCON does not play well in a bandpass, I'll get the ported and good speaker grills.

Max dimensions I'm willing to consider is 36 deep, 20 wide, and 15 high which (according to BCAE1) gives me a hair under 5 cubic feet using .75" wood which should be plenty for a bottom firing 15". What I'm not making clear is.. Is there a way to determine which speaker is louder by using T/S parameters, most notably XMax and Sensitivity. For example, is an XCON louder than an ICON or GCON on the same 500 watts if I have the box designed, modeled, and built by a reputable shop using good software (i.e. Audiophile Engineers in Tamps).