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nah the spare tire isn't in the car. it hasn't been in the car since the first box. lol. i have road side assistance on my insurance so it's something i keep on hand incase of an emergency. the good thing is i live on an island only 4x4mi large. so where ever i am if i were to ever get a flat all i gotta go is call a friend or so and pick up my spare tire. though if i do go for long trips out of the city and up to the main land i take the spare tire and sit it behind the passenger seat.so it's nothing to really worry about for me. update in a few minutes.

anyways!(copy & pasted) obviously they are not for everyone. i like them though. blends well with the car to me. before i put the rims on i measured all around the height of the car to from where the Jacking pioints are. after i put them on there was a 3/4" lift all the way around. so it really needs a drop. i'll get coilovers eventually but not now. i can live w/o them for the time being. oh yeah and my car is dirty. needs a wash. i should really clay bar it though.

if you wall socket tat thing for a few secs. please do take vids. lol

ouch sucks to have that happen. i felt like chit when i got into an accident but mine wasn't near as bad. still a chitty feeling. it's good that you are OK out of it all. i don't want to sound like a dick or anything but honestly the way i see your box with only 2 L brackets and 2 screws holding it down to actual metal is poorly affixed to the car. next time for sure use more and in different locations/ you car isn't totalted. i've seen much worse. like people who hit telephone poles and such. tottaled would be if the car had extensive frame damage along with like a roll over. either way good luck man!.

if possible just send the photo to your email save the photo from your email to your hard drive. go here http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum/i...s&op=addnew if the link doesn't work then click on My controls on your forum page. then click on Your Albums on the left side. create a new album. upload ouc. then post the picture you have uploaded. OR after you have the picture on your hard drive. go to photobucket.com and create an account. upload image to your album. then copy the IMG Code provided under the uploaded picture. then paste the IMG Code you copied into a new post here in this thread and your done.

ya but you gotta remember no matter where you order the batteries from theres going to be a big shipping cost since they weight so much..atleast here you get a pretty nice discount from the instant rebate true, though i'd rather pay 30 bucks in gas to pick up a 2400 for 2 bills.

i saw this yesterday. only thing i dislike is shipping rips me. a battery from california to the southernmost point of florida =

woohooo! chits looki HOT right now. lol well today i got a lot done. i feel as i accomplished a lot. started the morning out with sanding what i needed to sand to get the top board to sit right. didn't take me but 15 minutes. after then i sleaned up all the dust and then resined the inside of the box. sat the car in the sun with the trunk open for a good 20 minutes then added another layer of resin. i let it sit for another 15 minutes as the resin dried up and then i began with locating qwhere i would get my L brackets in place to brace the box down. after that i layed a thick bead of glue and sit the top board on. i must say the top borad was a bitch to screw the L brackets in to. i only had access to the L brackets from the speaker mounting hole. it was quite un comfortable and i managed to get a lot of dripping glue on me. oh well. either way the board mounted great. i left it in the sun a good few house then begane to sand the outside of the box. as i sanded i layed multiple beads of glue along the inside of the box just like when i mounted all the other peices. well after a lot of wood filler and a lot of sanding i was at the point where the exterior of the box could be painted. so i busted out the garbage bags and layed them down all around the trunk area and outside of the car to reduce the risk of getting overspray on the cars paint. for the paint i used 2 cans of Flat Black rustoleum BBQ grill heat resistant paint. i used it cause it's somewhat weather resistant. plus using flat black you don't need a super perfect paint job to get it to look good. blah blah blah PICs! i think the turn out is great. the port looks a little nasty bit i'm not too worried about it. i think that area was still wet as it took ALOT of paint unlike the outside of the box. tomorrow i will rub off the spray dust that is left on there from the can. add resin the the inside roof of the box. then overlook how i will be mounting the amps to the box. on saturday i will be heading up to homestead to pick up a kinetik 2400. i will be selling the red top in the trunk. possible to me neighbor or anyone that wants it. 50 bucks. i can't fit this in my engine bay so i have no use for it. it's only a year old. lol.

it's a sad sight to see when XXX's are handicapped.

i can't really help you in your situation, also not to thread jack but i have a quick question about EA alts. i just placed an order for a 180 for my car, does anyone know the average IDLE amperage output on EA's alts? for instance the 180 that i ordered? sorry i didn't want to start a whole thread about it.

i'm sure your sub will be warrentied. it is possible that the sub took a nasty fall in shipping and created a weak point in the motor and after time and pressure it finally gave out. either that or you dropped it but i'm not pointing fingers at anyone. on a side note can we see some pics? i'm interested in how the magnet looks broken up on that motor.

NEVERMIND I JUST SAW PICS LOL

well today i got the baffle/port kerf glued in. i just removed all the L brackets and added it's last bead of wood glue so it should be good to go for resin in the morning. if you guys can notice i lett the 3rd kerfed portion of the port un curved. since it was such a short peice it is HARD and i mean HARD to bend it into shape. i suppose this won't cause much of a problem to the tuning. as long as it stays in the 33hz range i'm fine with it. the same technique used yesterday was used today to mount the baffle. after i took off all the L brackets and added the last bead i pulled out some Elmers wood filler and my sanding block with 36 grit paper on it. i then sanded all the cosmetic damage of screw holes i made while bracing the port down. i sanded all the areas up flat, then applied a generous amount with my index finger. i even added some to the end of the side port board to smooth that out for paint. so tomorrow i have a lot of sanding to do. i test fitted the top board and it teeter todders due to the small side board sitting about 1/8th higher. lol when ever i build boxes i always end up having to sand an edge of a board to get the final peice to fit right. the sanding should take long with 36grit. so i'm not worried about it.after i get the side board leveled right i'll resin it up. sit the car int he sun a bit to speed up the drying process of the resin. then lay on the top board. while the top board is on i could probrably start sanding all the wood filler patches. unless if i get tired and lazy. lol on a side note i ordered my laternator today. i changed my jmind instead of getting an iragge and went with a 180amp direct bolt on from Excessive Amperage. just too much negative information and reading how a lot of his alts are hits or misses. as long as customer service will treat me good, lets hope EA can provide what i need. question: does anyone know how long it takes to get an alternator built? lol i'm going to have weverything ready and won't be able to pound at it without my electrical in. :/

alright todays progress once again is going a little slow. i started the enclosure assembling and already got 3/5 of the parts glued together. the process! first i took a garbage bag, cut it up and taped it into the trunk. that way i would not get excess glue spilled in the trunk. now i left the carpeting and the floor board in the trunk as i want to have a somewhat decent appearance. my initial box in the trunk didn't allow me to put the floor board back into the car which made the carpet sag and looked like crap imo. so well since this enclosure is being built in the trunk I'll leave everything in. i can still gain slight access to w/e is under the floor board. i just have to position the enclosure int he center of the trunk and tilt the front, thus allowing me lift the floor board for w/e reason need be. ANYWAYS. i then took the back/side kerf and positioned it in place. i took a bunch of L brackets and mounted them in positions to add pressure of the side board to the bottom board and act as a clap. since there is little space for any clamp of length to fit in a small space i had to go with the L brackets. they worked well though. after i had the 3 boards int he postings that i wanted i unscrewed all the L brackets from the Bottom board, lifted the sides. and ran a thick bead of glue in each area. then repositioned the side boards and screwed them down in their pre-positioned areas. about 3 hours later i go back and do a little check up of how the glue is doing. so far so good. so i added a nother bead of glue. about 6-7 hours later i then removed all the L brackets. underneath them well the glue was still wet. so i removed all the brackets and ran another nice bead of glue. after all the brackets were removed none of the box walls have shifted which is a good sign. well.. i just checked it 4hrs after the last bead of glue and it is almost dry enough to add resin to but not quite. i will leave adding resin till after i mount the baffle on. which will be my goal for tomorrow. i need to pic up some body filler and flat black spray paint to paint this thing. lol, it'll be painted in the trunk so a whole lot of garbage bags will be used to protect the trunk and car. yep!

alright. todays progress was a little slow again but everything is prepped and ready to go. i began with sanding down the outside port kerf to remove/reduce it's blockyness(word?). in the pictures it you can still see the lines but that is the pulling of the wood which has caused that. right now if you were to run your hand across it, it's smooth and curved like running your hand around a 4"PVC tube. i also cut out the speaker mounting hole and got the second baffle placed. the second baffle needs a little more cutting for the speaker to fit in but that will be taken care of easily with a dremel. other than that everything is sitting apart in the 5 peices it will be to assemble it. right now i'm just pondering on placement of the amps and battery before i start tomorrow. obviously there is no fancy little amp rack to be installed and the amps will most likely end up on top of the box. eh. well. here's teh pics of the day. well for tommorrow progress will be slow as fudge. why? well i need all the parts to be glues FIRM before i can slap things around. plan of attack of attack is to lay the bottom board then mount/glue the back/side kerf board and the opposite side. after the glue dries for a few hours(2-3) i will add resin to the area to help seal it up. after the resin dries, i'll add more. maybe a few layers. then sand the resin smooth in the port area. the next following day i'll get the baffle/port in. glue that up well then then resin the entire area a few times. i have a bunch of FG clotch. which i'm not a fan of. maybe 10-12 yards worth. i ran out of mat so i may or may not pick some up locally. chit's expensive as hell to buy down here. w/e i plan i might or might not add fiberglass to the remainder of the enclosure. some food for thought for me. anyways, enjoy and thank you everyone for the comments. if you have any suggestions feel free to add. on a side note i took my car to sears and got my car alignment done, along with all tires being rebalanced. and i couldn't be any happier. the car is better than before i initially bought it. at fisrst on stocks after 80mph i would have a bare vibration in my steering. it was never a problem as i'm never doing 80mph where i live and we relly don't have highways/turnpikes down here. only time i noticed was when i was up in the mainland which isn't very often. though now it feels much much better. LAWL. 20!

sounds like an easy fixt. got any pictures of the damage?

i'm used to not having any trunk space. i think i had full trunk space maybe the first 3 months that i had my car. it then turned to this. then this then this to what i'm doing now. lawl. the box in size will be similiar to the first box posted. funny though we have 325ix. it's a 91 though. lawl. no system for that cause i don't drive it.

bah. progress has been slow for the time being but it's because i've been working on the box and setting the kerfs to harden.if you guys didn't know i am currently semi assembling the enclosure outside of the car. that way i can get all my bends settled and locked. my biggest issue is if i were to build the box whole, it would not go through my trunk opening. nor through the back seat. so well for the past few days i spent all day cutting wood. then another day setting the back/side wall kerf. then today iw orked on setting the baffle/port kerf. so far everythings lined up correctly and at the moment looks promising. pics! back/side kerf un atached from the bottom board sitting in a corner. it's nice and hardened so it won't bend back out. well for the kerfing i made a nice thick filler paste of saw dust and lots of wood glue. kind of like a 50/50 mix of each in a container till it got nice and pastey and then i just spread it into the kerf notches. after the wood glue dried i applied fiberglass over the inner kerfed bends to add strenght to the cuts. that way i can reduce the risk of having the kerfs bend back out when they are waiting to be assembled in the trunk.resin was also added to the outside of the kerf bends just because. lol. tomorrow i will sand down some of the kerf bend as it's not as curved as i hoped it would be. i can feel the straight lines going down the board in the port so i'm sure with a little sanding i can have it smooth as a babies bottom.if all goes well tomorrow i could probably begin to assemble it in the trunk. woohoo!

http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum/i...showtopic=16202 my build is currently under way. i have not posted anything about the box yet but that update will come in a bit.

i'm sure you can build a box w/o it being irregular like that for your acord.

i currently have an 05 civic and and in the middle of installing a 15" btl in my trunk. i know what you mean by having a small trunk and it being difficult to get a box of that size in there. i can fit a 4.cu box into muy trunk but there was a certain height/lenght/width that the box could be for me to twist and turn it into the trunk. the box i currently am building i am assembling it outside of the car for measurements. then dissassembling it. then re-assembling/glueing it in the trunk. sounds difficult but not really. just a little time consuming.

sweet.. too bad i just bought one and already received it. either way the BTL i currently have is a beast just looking at it. i'm sure i won't be dissappointed lawl.

welcome, and learn you shall!

If I bought an D925 XS Power Battery for the trunk area, do the Big 3, would that be good enough? would be just fine.

run a big 3 and just get a stronger battery up in the engine bay. you will see some dimming but should not be so bad.