Taters New Sub-enclosure

[El Jefe]

Here's a few pics of the fiberglass subwoofer I finished up a few days ago. I still need to remount the amp and hide the wires, but I think it turned out really well. Anyways, I hope everyone has a great weekend, until the next post. El Jefe

[SUPER M]

I like it where you going to mount the amp? I'm trying to figure out where to place mine....

[El Jefe]

Amp will mounted to the back of the rear seats, seemd like the best place.

[Zendrumdude]

Dude,

That is AWESOME. Would you be willing to share how you did it? Thanks man, good work!!!

Yeah, my amp is screwed to the back of the rear driver's-side seat too. Works fine.

Jer

[El Jefe]

I'll post a tutorial and how to picture thread when I start building the enclosures for my beetle in about two weeks. There’s a lot of really good video’s on how to fiberglass on youtube. Once you start making these, the sky is the limit when comes to the design of enclosure. I believe there is also a few threads on this in the forum.

[SUPER M]

I have a hand laid speaker box also.... two twelves i would like to mount my amp to the back of my rear seats but it will push my speaker box to far forward. Might have to mount it on the floor in front of the box..

[MichelleRoze]

That's pretty awesome. Does it have enough space for the sub though? I mean, I know it fits, but I mean, sound space. Sometimes too small of boxes will impact how the sub sounds. That looks like a 12 inch or so sub, though I can't be too sure from the pictures, and that seems like a very shallow box. Just curious. I think it looks GREAT though!! I am jealous because my box is nice and small but not quite that nice...

[El Jefe]

You're right the box effects the sub in many ways. I was pretty lucky with this one and got it right on the nose @ .85 sf. The 10" sub requires a sealed box between .65 and 1.25 sf. I was right at about .95 sf before I lined the inside with 4 layers of sound dampening material and a half inch of foam. First time I've used foam to line the interior of a sealed box, it's required by Pioneer for this sub. I have to say though, I love the sound of the box.
Here's a few pictures of the depth of the enclosure, I believe I went 14" out from the corner one way and 13" the other way towards the rear of the car.

[Droid]

the actual volume of the sub box is probably less than what you think it is .....most folks don't calculate that the SPEAKER will take up almost 1/2 S.f. when mounted in the box...and i know this is an old thread....i just wanted to put that info out for the net person who reads it.

[TDI_bubble]

This is one of my summer projects to get done. I would have taken the plastics off and molded it closer and tucked as far as possible, even cutting the plastics to refit perfectly around it.
Been doing carbon/glass for a while, pm me if you have any specific questions.

[El Jefe]

Droid-I don't want people to get confused and start adding internal volume for thier sub-woofer's enclosure if they don't need to. I believe most of your larger speaker companies include speaker displacement with the recommended enclosure volumes. I know Pioneer clearly states that in the owners manual.