June 8, 201411 yr Been waiting for you to post!! Lol looks good. I'm gonna be doing a setup similar with 2 12s ethos but front firing and port side.
June 8, 201411 yr What made you decide to do rear firing? Enclosure came out real nice, looking good so far.
June 8, 201411 yr Author Looks damn good. Wish I could hear it. Thanks!! Been waiting for you to post!! Lol looks good. I'm gonna be doing a setup similar with 2 12s ethos but front firing and port side. Cant wait to see your install Looks geat! Thanks!! What made you decide to do rear firing? Enclosure came out real nice, looking good so far. We went with a rear firing design for a few reasons. He does not want to have to put his rear seats down for a front firing setup.He already has his rear deck vented for a rear firing setup.With a build-it-in-the-trunk design we are not able to do any testing. This is a huge downfall. Ideally we would have built a few enclosures testing enclosure placement, subwoofer placement, and various port designs. We also would have tuned the port to fit the vehicle versus tuning on what we think will work. Actually we could have used a smaller speaker in a much smaller enclosure to fit the optimal tuning freq but I really doubt that my buddy wanted to invest that much more time in getting this install done. We drank a few beers last night during this install phase so my buddy crashed on our spare bed. We connected his subs to my test board with an amp that was 30x2 watts and another amp that was 600x1 watts. It had a decent amount of volume with only 30 watts per sub. Certainly more output than any stock subwoofer we have heard. With the 600 watt amp we were able to get windshield flex his front bumper was even rattling We are very excited to hear these on 1200 watts each Next phase is to install all three amps!!!!!!
June 8, 201411 yr Author What's the specs on the box? 3.66 cubes net, tuned to 29hz, 46.5^2 port area. Obviously the sacrifice with this design is port area but with the power he is using this will work. More power would have needed more port area. In that case the tuning would have to be higher which would also take away from the net volume. ....might be able to play around with the numbers and net volume would stay the same idk without playing with it.
June 8, 201411 yr What's the specs on the box? 3.66 cubes net, tuned to 29hz, 46.5^2 port area. Obviously the sacrifice with this design is port area but with the power he is using this will work. More power would have needed more port area. In that case the tuning would have to be higher which would also take away from the net volume. ....might be able to play around with the numbers and net volume would stay the same idk without playing with it.That's true since they're only seeing 1200rms each. Box looks perfect tho. Nice job on this. How are the amps placed? I always like to see the amp racks and installs of shit like that.
June 8, 201411 yr Author What's the specs on the box? 3.66 cubes net, tuned to 29hz, 46.5^2 port area. Obviously the sacrifice with this design is port area but with the power he is using this will work. More power would have needed more port area. In that case the tuning would have to be higher which would also take away from the net volume. ....might be able to play around with the numbers and net volume would stay the same idk without playing with it.That's true since they're only seeing 1200rms each. Box looks perfect tho. Nice job on this. How are the amps placed? I always like to see the amp racks and installs of shit like that. Thanks on the compliments on the enclosure build.Amplifier mounting will be a little bit of a challenge. I thought we would of had enough clearance between the enclosure and the trunk but we are an inch short The original plan was to use the JL Audio amp stacking kit. We could remove the plastic trim panel near the trunk latch and they would probably fit. I don't want to do that though because it wouldn't look good. Personally I would mount the amps under the front seats but he doesn't want to do that. I've done it a few times and think it is a good mounting location especially when the floor a/c vents blow over the amps. So onto plan "D"lol. I will be welding a frame to hold all three amplifiers lined up in a row near vertical in the space we originally planned to mount them. Should look dope Edited June 8, 201411 yr by edouble101
June 8, 201411 yr Does he wanna be able to see the amps and all that? I would definitely put them under the seat like you suggested but hey it's his build lolI'll be checking back to see whenever you complete the amp rack. I'm sure everything will look good
June 8, 201411 yr Author Does he wanna be able to see the amps and all that? I would definitely put them under the seat like you suggested but hey it's his build lolI'll be checking back to see whenever you complete the amp rack. I'm sure everything will look good I think he just feels that amps belong in the trunk. Gonna be a couple weeks till I start the amp rack but I'll surely post pics! (I'm a pic whore lol)
June 9, 201411 yr Does he wanna be able to see the amps and all that? I would definitely put them under the seat like you suggested but hey it's his build lolI'll be checking back to see whenever you complete the amp rack. I'm sure everything will look good I think he just feels that amps belong in the trunk. Gonna be a couple weeks till I start the amp rack but I'll surely post pics! (I'm a pic whore lol)I'll be back to check it out!
June 9, 201411 yr Feel really sorry for the trunk lid. I agree. The trunk of that car is going to take a bashing.
July 4, 201411 yr Author These JL Slash amps are huge! Cutting up metal The amp rack is height adjustable to help with installation since EVERYTHING is tight. The sub amps will be stacked. Mounted on the right side. Going to be using the Knu distribution blocks. Couple to do yet until this is done. Edited July 4, 201411 yr by edouble101
July 7, 201411 yr Author Nice workThanks man. I don't know any other way to make these fit in the trunk. I made a couple tweaks today and should be ready for paint tomorrow.
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