The sides and top will be mdf, I'm not doing fiberglass for aesthetics, just to form to the vehicle tire well to use as much space as I can and to keep it in place. Top will be a flat piece of mdf just carpeted over so the space will still be usable I'm not really sure how I would implement a port into the design unless it is able to go over the sub without any negative effects like so: (excuse the periods through the 'drawing', but they are needed to keep alignment) ...front of car --->.....____________ ____________ ______________...| |.........| sub...|.... port__________| |___ .....|___|............. ___| ......|_______________| (side view) If you had some ideas for another style I'd love to see them, but I'm still interested to know how the sub will perform in a sealed enclosure built to spec or if ported is really the only way to go with these things.