Sub box Port

Here is the progress I made on my sub box. I haven't made much progress, but my wife bought me a new toy for my birthday that I am excited to use. I might do a flush mount now that I have it. I had an hour so I made my port. I'm really excited for this box because it will be tuned to 34 hz. It should slam. I made it so it is almost a perfectly flat response but with a tiny peak at 34 hz for those really deep lows.

Kick Panel Progress 2/16/2010

Here is the progress I made over the weekend on my kick panels. It doesn't look like much, but I reinforced the kicks, removed the fleece wrap from the back and began shaping them.  I did a test fit to make sure they would fit in there, and they fit very well. They look ugly as death but that is because they still need sanding, body filler, more sanding, and then painted or wrapped or whatever. Either way they fit good and you can finally see where I'm going with this.

Here is what the stock kick panels look like and so you can see how the two compare.

Time to start glassing the wrapped kicks

Thanks to my wife, I wouldn't have been able to work on them at all if it weren't for her who gave me some time to start fiberglassing last night. I got 45 minutes to get going and I got about half of each one glassed. I'll finish glassing them soon, and then the part that everyone hates. Sanding. Sorry the pics suck. It was dark and I took the pics with my Iphone. I'll post beter pics when it's all glassed and ready for sanding.

Kick Panel Speaker Ring Mounting

After I made the mold and cleaned up the edges, I decided it was time to mount the speaker rings and wrap them. Here's the pics of the work I did. It only took about 45 minutes to mount the rings and wrap both of them and put resin all over them. I will start glassing them up soon.

Kick Panel Fiberlgassing and Mold worked 2/3/2010

The kick panel molds came out perfect. They were pretty easy to pop off and the nice part is I didn't have to modify the stock kick panels which means when i sell the car, the custom kicks are coming out and the stock ones are going back in. I will be able to mount a speaker in that and re-glass it, body filler and paint!

Kick Panel Fiberlgassing and Mold 2/2/2010

Here are a couple pics of what I have been working on over the weekend. I don't want to do any cutting up of my car or permanent altering of the interior so instead of fiberglassing a speaker ring or cutting a hole in the kick panels, I decided to make my own. I put tape and releasing agent over the stock kick panels and began glassing. I hope it works. I've never done something like this before.

Subwoofer Enclosure Build 2/1/2010

Here are a couple pics of the box I'm starting. It is for the two 10" pioneer premier tsw-2500 subs. The optimal enclosure size is .9 cubes per sub. This box has an internal volume of 2 cubes for both subs excluding port volume. The first box I built was the same volume, but it had two 3" ports and it was tuned to 45 hz. It had severe port noise and was tuned higher than I wanted, so I'm building a new box. It is a slot port with a port area of 47"s and has a tuning frequency of 35 hz. It should be loud and have great sound quality compared to the last box. Here are the pics of the beginning stages. Sorry there are only two because measuring and cutting is kind of boring. I used a jig saw to cut the holes so they aren't perfect like they would be with a router. I don't have a router so I'm working with what I have. I flared the ports a little to reduce port noise as much as possible.