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awesome chunk of goodies there to work with. When I was 14, my brother was 16 and getting into car audio, so together with my dad and brother we all got into it together and started using my dad's 1992 ford ranger xlt as our test vehicle. We built and put a lot of stuff in there. Now my dad has no feeling from the waist down and finds it really hard to do any of this stuff. So I definitely realize how important it is to do these things with my kids and love seeing others (including you) putting in the effort to share the moments with their kids. keep up the progress, and pics. Glad to see you were able to get the wood cut. Hope you checked the cuts to make sure they were on, I know all my local hardware stores won't guarantee cuts except to withing 1/4" off (and are always off even with a digital panel saw....)

definitely can't wait to see this build kick it into overdrive. Sounds like you're one pretty awesome dad. At your son's age I was out in the garage doing all this stuff with my dad. Built a bunch of enclosures with my dad and loved every moment we spent together (he'd pick up sheets of mdf and we'd do all the measurements and cuts together too). Post up more pics as they come.

still needing to learn patience. As I have none. Hopefully that'll change soon.... doubtful. Anyway, at disney world till sunday, so won't be any progress here for a while.

welcome to the forum, lot's of helpful and knowledgeable people on here.

possibly the worst packaging I've seen yet. Glad to hear that they work though. Too bad skar doesn't have any respect for the equipment they are shipping, as by your install work it's obvious you take the time, and give the respect to the equipment you choose to put in your vehicle. Keep up he nice work.

Looking awesome so far. Keep up the good work. And definitely keep those pics coming.

Oh, this ought to get interesting. Going to get some popcorn.

Keep the pics coming. Love the progress.

Thanks for the compliments. Having the little helpers is fun and trying on the patience all at the same. Can't wait till they're old enough to be buying/designing/building with me. More than the little they can now.

How hot are we talking? All subs warm up, it's a byproduct produced from the electric current flowing through the coil. Damn beat me to it. Bloody slow tablet.

thanks, put it in when my wife got home from work to test fit and have a listen. wow, definitely a lot louder than the sealed box I had in there. And sounds nice too (to me that is, everyone has their preferences). Will have to take some more pics when I have the chance but about to head in to work for the night. Still need to figure out how I want to cover it... not sure whether I want to paint,carpet, vinyl? Need to figure it soon though.

looking good so far. keep it up. I can see why it's so hard to wait for the bigger amp to come in. should be crazy.

Well, keep forgetting to update this, did a few small things here and there with it over the past week, then last night and today got some work done. Here's the progress: So I just did up my wire leads that will go to the sub: didn't have any red heat shrink big enough for the positive wires, so I used blue. And on to the box:

wow, that's a lot of options going on right there. Nice to see the ability to tailor each one to a user's specific end application. Can definitely get time consuming going through all the variables and outcomes with a customer to ensure optimal design per intended application as well. Keep up the good work and progress, definitely shows why so many speak very highly of your products.

the older one is helping me build a box currently. This one wants to help, but is just a tad small yet to actually help. Give him another couple years though, and he'll be working on enclosures with his big brother and I. If I don't teach them the finer things in life who will? It's my job as a father.

just tried some beef/dairy protein again a couple months ago, hoping he'd grown out of it, but to no avail. Made for sleepless nights of pain and cramping again. The pediatric gastroenterologist(sp?) said he may eventually grow out of it, but since he had a positive reaction to cut it out again. Said in the next little bit to give soy protein a try again to see if he still reacts to them as well... On the lighter side after waking up this morning he's discovered that it hurts when he hits his big brother with the cast.... I keep hearing him say "boom" followed by an immediate "ow wyatt" from the 5 year old... and thanks to all for the well wishes, we are going to disney world next week, so it should garner him lots of attention from the princesses...

nice score. only .4 away from that 160 you want. Getting closer. Keep it up.

it's the only thing keeping him growing. Can't digest half the proteins. took forever to find something that he could digest that didn't knot up his stomach for hours at a time in cramps. He only gets it at bedtime now, not during the day at all. When he needed more bottles a day, it was costing us a small fortune, even after my benefits paid 80%... It's fun when you double families monthly food budget just for one infant's formula... Soon hopefully he won't be even getting the bottle at bedtime.

they said cast for 6-8 weeks followed up by more x-rays with a pediatric orthopedic surgeon to make sure no further correction is needed. But he's taking it like a champ. One tough little fella.

my 2 year old apparently fell off of the couch rough housing with his older brother today, and earned himself a "buckle fracture" in his left hand. Apparently it broke three of the small bones in the back of his hand. Played with it afterwards, but woud say "ouch, no touch!" everytime we tried to look at it, and the swelling wasn't going away, so my wife took him down to the hospital after supper.

That's what she said... beat me to it... Subs looking good.

two 15's for the HT is nice. Wish I had the funds for something like that as I have a room behind my TV for electronics that I could build a box into so that they were front firing into the viewing room directly below the TV. Down the road perhaps. Nothing wrong with having it up some from time to time, or when tuning for a couple minutes here or there. It's the ones that seem to do loser laps around the block at all times of day trying to look cool. I set my gains in the driveway, and have turned it up to show a neighbor who asked to hear it a couple of times, but usually it's quiet by the time I hit my neighborhood. Plenty of commercial/retail areas that I drive through on a regular basis that I can turn it up and not fear waking someone up or angering a whole residential neighborhood. anyway, sorry, didn't mean to get your build thread off topic, so back to your build and pics...

some updates from today and Thursday night. 1/4 inch round over used on inside of port walls, as well as very small 45 degree angle pieces on all interior corners (would have coved them but my only cove bit for my router is too big for what I wanted). Still have to cut the side wall for the port side, (as previously mentioned accidentally cut 1" too short in my sleepy state of haste previously) and as such need to get some more wood. Will be using the 1/4" roundover on the front edge of the port opening as well. And 2 braces that will be installed later (one front to back, one top to bottom)

my neighbors are always surprised when they see the sub box in my vehicle, as I always have it turned down before I hit my neighborhood. Not really one to disturb those I am close to. That and there was a kid at the end of my street that (has since move out of mommy and daddy's) always had his cranked all times of day and everyone hated him/his parents. Don't really feel like replacing him as the most disliked person on the block.

Love the progress so far with the box build pics, can't wait to see install pics. I'm sorta in the same boat as you at this point in deciding which way to aim sub/port. But I haven't cut my hole for my sub yet so I'm still in the do I want to go sub up port back/sub back port back, sub up port up, or any other combo... Guess I'll make up my mind when I go to cut the hole. Best of luck and keep the pics coming. Let us know which way works best.