Mathman

Ok, I am used to building the everyday run of the mill square sealed boxes. I have a 4 door truck with the 60/40 split seat, which I will be removing the 40 section and building a box with an upward firing sub...but I am thinking of porting this one. My question is, can I run ports out of PVC that sit about 2" inside the box and run external under the other part of the seat? Trying to think of some options to possibly install a 15" BL instead of a 12. And the volume of the pvc pipe should be equivalent to the total recommended port in the BL specs correct?

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Thanks for the quick reply M5....okay then, i will probably just fill any holes then sand and paint the front of it. Probably be a lot easier and cheaper to do this anyhow.

So, I am getting ready to buy a box from a friend that is made for a 2008 F150 super crew (which is what i have)...however, the box is carpeted in a fuzzy gray carpeting and my interior is black. Is it ok to just rip the carpet off and recarpet it? Also, if I decided I didnt want to recarpet in black, is it ok to sand the parts of the box that you will see down some, apply some light layers of resin to harden it, sand it down and paint it? I have never done this, but I think it will give the nicest look. Thanks

Okay, now I have looked over some stuff I am a little interested in Passive Radiators....What would be a good PR to use with a Fi Q? Would I also need to double the cone area for PR's...ie. 2 10" PR's for 1 10" sub? I read somewhere that you would need to double it.

so, for me to use my 10" sub, I would then need 2 additional 10" PR's....is that correct? does it require any additional airspace to use PR's?

I've never done anything with passive radiators, yet alone heard pretty much anything about them. Not 100% on them, but I will look up some stuff and read up more on them.

That is exactly why I wanted to put the port outside the box, would be easier to design. Passive Radiator, ehhhh. I'm just lookin for something decently easy to build that will get very loud for Truckaudioman while he is out of commission. slowly workin on his truck....been tough, 82 hrs weeks at work.

There should be enough height. I'm pretty sure the Ram bed is a little higher than my F150, and it is 20" tall. 6 15's, what are you gonna do, a Pac Man type enclosure?

pushin 1k watts i would probably go with either the Q or BL over the SSD though.

just go to soundsolutionsaudio.com, there is a little button up to that says box tools and it will help you design it with whatever diameter port your going to use. put in what you want the tuning to be and the diameter along with the box info and sub displacement and it gives you the length it needs to be.

One more quick question....if I want my port to be external, do I have to have any part of the port inside of the box or can I literally build it directly off the box? I was hopin to build it onto the box, but if I have to put it inside the box some then so be it. Thanks

I gotta figure all that out, I am just trying to get a rough idea, I would like it tuned to about 34 Hz, and after checking out a few quick sketches I am fairly sure the port would need to be around 2"x11". i will play around on thanksgiving and get some better measurements to throw up on here, so i guess till then no worries.

so if i were going with a 2" port in height, width could be no more than 16", correct? also, i am going to have a pretty long port and the box calculator isnt letting me design a 12" wide box with 18" of port length, unless you know of another box calculator that allows the option for longer ports that go outside the box. at the moment, a rough estimate of the port would be like 2"x11" for the actual port, but the length would probably be pushing around 28".

Sooo, I am now in the process of designing my box for a single 10" sub down firing in a ported enclosure. I got the rough idea for the design from those AudioFire boxes for trucks. The sub will be down firing right behind the center console, the main box will go up to right above the rear seat from the ground, the port would then go from the box to the back of the seat and do a 90 degree and back towards the front seat. So, the port is going to be pretty much external from the main portion of the box....my question is, how do I go about figuring out the tuning frequency of this port? It is going to be a fairly thin port but pretty long and I am just not to sure. At the moment I am planning on using either a Q or BL. I have a RF1000.1 to use. Thanks for the help