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If you look carefully, you can see an outline where the grill is. Todo still, make a frame-ish thing that will let me carpet the rear seat passthrough hole.
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Semi-final step. I ordered some trunk liner carpet from partsexpress that is a much closer match to the factory trunk liner color. This cover also contains a grill which covers the sub so I can actually use my trunk normally.
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So here is an action shot of the amp & crossover mounted to the bottom of the rear deck. There was a really convenient threaded bolt hole thingy towards the rear seats, so that took care of how I was going to mount the front part of the board to the underside of the deck. I had to be a little more creative in mounting the board near the trunk lid.
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Here is the board I am mounting the amplifier and crossover to. The crossover I am using at the moment is an old school Audiocontrol 2XS. The crossover that is not mounted is an Audiocontrol 4XS, which I plan to use later, when I jack around with the system some more.
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Here is the carpeted enclosure which blends into the trunk pretty well. The fabric is actually a little darker than I had planned.
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Sub is mounted. Time to hook up the amp. Note the use of old school PPI A404 series II amplifier. The sub is a MB Quart Reference series 10'' with dual 4ohm voice coils. The amp is running in bridged 2 channel mode, supplying the sub with 200 watts RMS per voice coil.
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Lots of screws with lots of silicone on the inside. Sure the screws are not pretty, but that is what carpet is for
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I was going to use some slick speaker terminals instead of the fugly speaker wire/silicone glob you see here. Problem was I didn't have a good spot to mount the terminals that wouldn't interfere one thing or another
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This is the enclosure bottom with liberal covering of accoustic noise dampening spray - undercoating spray with noise dampening - courtesy of O'reilly auto parts for $9
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Another shot of baffle board clamped to table saw top for jig saw and router clearance.
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Cut hole for speaker in MDF baffle board. Then used router to countersink the speaker. Tried to freehand some of the routing work ...
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Sunday, October 23, 2005
Added more resin and fiberglass via chop mat. Good times.
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Baffle board test fit onto mdf sides. The baffle shape is cut to conform to the trunk shape and more particularly, the cover of the spare tire well.
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Adding mdf to serve as perimeter side thingys so I can mount the baffle board to the glass portion of the box.
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trimmed off excess glass from sides. At this point, the mold is really ugly as I still have not added more glass and resin yet.
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test fit (after some serious die-grinder action to remove any air pockets) - practice tip - DO NOT wear shorts when using a die grinder on fiberglass
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Saturday, October 22, 2005
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