Phoenix Gold Phorum

Since I last dropped that 48"X 48" sheet of MDF on my foot, I've slowly been working on building the box. Here's the progress thus far.

This is inside the box looking from one sub hole to the other end. This is just to show that I totally sealed the box inside w/fiberglass resin.


Driver side corner.


Pass side corner.


This is the full frontal view.


There will be grilles made to cover the sub/s from the wondering feet of my children. They will fill in the counter sunk sections of the box where the sub/s will reside. When on they'll give the box a solid flat front.

I'm going to use gray color matched spray on bed liner to cover the box. I chose this due to the ruggedness of the liner to resist the kicks and such. 2, it'll help provide seal the box and 3, it'll help dampen the box.

For now I'm going to run 1 sub ported until I get the money to buy the 2nd and go sealed. I will build a baffle w/the port in it to seal off the 2nd subs hole. The port will be 4" x 5" x 15" long. The box is 2.96 cf and would be tuned to 31 Hz as recommended by TREO.

Just in case I hadn't posted the picks of my further updated amp rack. Here I made a cover to go over the odds n' ends and just to show the ZX450v2. This will later be redone out of 3/4" MDF with plexi over the amp. As of right now the back of the seat rubs the amp ever so slightly.





On other notes. A friend of mine had a poll barn built and upon showing me I saw he has a compressor big enough for the grinder I need to use. I'm going to have to cut off the addition to the original factory speaker grilles I made and then sand away all of the fiberglass I had applied over it. Then I can start anew on my custom pods for the Ti6 mids.

Excellent work!

I wish I has the skills, tools and place to do this type of work.

I like the idea of the countersunk sub mounting face + big grills idea. Stealth and protection!

I have once again started on my door pods for the Ti6 Elites.

I thought I had the factory grilles that I glassed over and was just going grind off. Well as it turns out I must of thrown them away. I had another set that was made for the RSD65c.

The cut out is a bit small compared to the Ti6's grille so I'm just going to modify them.

The issues were that when the door was shut it would rub the under side of the dash. I found out that a friend of mine had a compressor big enough for me to use my sanders on. So I spent 1 hour today grinding stuff down.

This weekend I'll be working on them so hopefully I'll have something to show for it come Monday.

I can't wait to see how that enclosure works into your install. Looks cool, I just can't visualize how/where it fits.

It was a mathmatical nightmare to build.

Well here's an update. Not done yet by any rate. Still needs the gray fleck-stone type of paint and some minor detail work.

After that I'll start work on a light up trim piece for above the amprack.

Door pods will always be worked on as I do this stuff too.

I still have the port to put in it, just ran to late.




Top view


With grilles. Pattern look familiar? Morel like??


The sub


In the truck. Picture it now Greg?


With the seat down.


That's all for now. I'm able to borrow a 2nd sub this weekend from the store that sells them. I'll take picks of them in and post them.

NICE WORK MATT!!!
One concern; the area of the grille that lets the air thru, does that equal the cone area of the sub?....
If not, you could get noise problems plus pressure build-up between the cone and grille.
Just a though. For the rest; NICE FIT beneath the seat there!

Well i'm at the store as I type posting from the store in other words. The space is to tight to get a good shot, but they're both in there.

The subs are dual 2 ohm coils wired in series/parellel for a final 2 ohm load to the amp. I thought I'd have to do the mod to the 0.5 to keep it from switchng modes, but it never did even at full tilt. The sound was way better then I thought it would be, I had a woody to say the least. It's the tightest I've heard in a very long time w/tramendous output,








It was a mess trying to get to it to put it in, but it got done. I'm very pleased w/it's sound. Now to finish it.

You need to vacuum that pig! hehe

Seriously, nice fit! I thought when you were building it that there was no way that was going under the seat. It must be for somewhere else in the truck. Low and behold ...

Now stop at the car wash!