next project well underway

[nineball]

i have a pair of 10" jl subs in the trunk in a plain old dual sealed box, but the X deserves more than that. decided to make my own fiberglass boxes for them, and a pretty slick mounting system (if i can get it to work) for the amp. have the boxes framed out, and just got the rings today (see below). going to mount them and cover it and lay down the first coat of resin tomorrow. will post more pics tomorrow.

[somekidzenvy]

nice man. Does your car have the factory premium sound? or the base. I have the base and want to eventually add an amp and a single 12". Nothing too nasty.

[nineball]

i have the middle system, which i beleive is called premium. 4 door and 2 front tweeters. plenty of mids and highs. i do not have a 'booming' system in. well i guess i do, but it is only getting about ~50rms per sub. i just put them in to deepen the bottom end, not vibrate the trunk.

[aquill1]

You'd be kind of dumb to put too much bass in these cars unless your going to do things to prevent rattling and things coming loose. What amp are you running to them? What jls you have?

[nineball]

got a good start tonight. i had the rings and the outer framework already done, so that helped a lot. here are pics:

framework (note: these pics are after the first round of sanding. i spent about another hour making all external edges really round and smooth but forgot to take pipcs of them. see the pic below with the ring mounted)







here are the rings. took a drill bit and made some holes for the dowels to sit in to make mounting easier.





a few dabs of hotglue in each hole and a thin bead around the edge and 5 mins later and the dowels were set for life



dowels were cut to length, then hot glued and brad nailed into place to support the mounting ring



rings and dowels mounted and ready to be covered



the supplies



boxes covered in polyesther and ready to be coated with resin



this is sort of how it will look once in the trunk. i have the fold down rear seat which i still want to be able to take advantage of, so each box will sit in the back corners of the trunk with the middle area open. the amp will be suspended between the 2 from the rear deck lid giving me plenty of access to slide things through if the need should ever arise.



coated with resin and drying overnight. this weekend i will lay down a few layer of fiberglass cloth to strengthen it up as well as more filler inside where the ring meets the cloth.











my original intention was to do some presanding and then take it to my body guy to have him to the bondo to a smooth finish and paint, but i think i am going to have them covered in vinyl. it will save me TONS and TONS of sanding time and still have a very nice look to it. plus, due to some of the extreme bends and curves i wanted to make i had to overlap some of the ploy cloth to get it the way i wanted. with a vinyl cover that will go un-noticed once complete.

[aquill1]

Dang nineball, looks nice! What color vinyl you using? You like the carbon-esque looking vinyl or no? What amp you running to the subs when its all said and done?

[aquill1]

Man keep thinking in my head how I've been wanting to make my own box like that as well. My problem is that with a baby and all the trunk is barely big enough! My goal (with much skepticism I'm sure) is to build a box and amp mount in the spare hole in the trunk. Nothing spectacular just something different using fiberglass. I've never done it before with fiberglass but after watching a whole lot of unique whips doesn't seem too horribly bad. Sure I could ask you for help if it was needed! I have AAA so if I did break down they are a phone call away 24 hrs a day.

[bigdreams05]

Looking really nice man, but we really want to know what amp you're going to run!

[xtyperick]

Nice looking boxes, hope you will post pix of them installed.

[somekidzenvy]

damn man, looking good!