SpeakerBoy

Bolt to frame

Figured I don't understand the correlation between my shelves and my amplifiers ability to play my music. I couldn't connect that dot lol

I believe someone has posted about them before. Search it maybe? Seemed OK.

Nice!

[[suspense intensifies]]

Cut two square holes, one on each face and make two slightly larger wood plates. Mount a port in each plate of equal length, and block the opposite hole for testing. Whichever configuration you like, mount a plexi window over the other. If it's double baffled, you can do plexi, or just plug it with wood.

Facing up towards the windshield is what I think he means by on top of the dash. If the mid and tweet are facing the same direction, that's the same "axis" On axis to the listening position is a different story.

Your shop doesn't have tools?

What do you mean you can't find one, do you mean locally? Parts Express is the shittttt they have most things you could need to get started.

No..Never glassed anything myself, but I've read that here on the board a handful of times.

*drools* Nice man

http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum/topic/52114-port-flares-for-sale-8-and-10-diameter-pipe/#

I think Adrian_D makes custom port flares. All you have to do is buy one and pick up some 10" pvc

I've heard resin alone can actually weaken the wood, it's not the same as actually fiberglassing the whole interior.

You're using two different woofers in the same setup, or do you mean to say you switch them out?

Plenty of people here will say Skar has dismal customer service. Haven't heard as many bad things about the amps as the subs, but enough to steer me clear.

Will an alcohol soak work for an amp? I've dried out a handful of cellphones by soaking them in 99% isopropyl for a couple hours and letting it dry completely (takes hours to a day or two for phones, no doubt longer for an amp)

Sound deadening will bring any set to life, just look for a decent, reputable set and worry about HOW you install, not WHAT you install

I wouldn't run my doors at 1 ohm, power is not that hard to come by.

I'll keep that in mind for when I'm back

When using a PR in place of a port, you would keep the same internal box volume as the equivalent ported enclosure, correct?

I'm in Joliet til june for some court following that drunk running me off the road in January, but yes, I still live in FT Wayne. I thought about a wall, but, in addition to the change in weight distro, that's a couppppppple more cuts than a box rofl and I'm already struggling there. If you guys in my area would really be up to help, as soon as I get things settled after I'm home that'd be awesome Hell, if I could get that kind of help, I'd be somewhat willing actually save up for another three 18's for a clamshell. ESPECIALLY if I went with something more budget friendly, like Obsidian. But I guess I got some more thinking to do, before I purchase anything lol. Thanks for the quick answers

I'm perfectly okay with not using them as well, but like I said, being able to retune without making any modifications to the box itself is a big motivator, I guess the way I look at it, at the rate I'm always changing my systems and having to find new enclosures, after a few years, I'll have saved on building anyway.

It's not necessarily the cost itself that concerns me, it's just not wanting to buy something with no idea if it's what I want. I got a new job, no longer on that IN minimum wage bullshit Lithium, access to the tools to build boxes is almost nonexistent to me, I'll have to make a four hour drive tomy hometown to have these cuts made. I don't have anywhere to store tools if I bought them, my apartment is fucking tiny. Not to mention I'm not exactly confident in my woodworking skills, I've never used more than a circular saw and a jigsaw to build and it's always left something to be desired, at least aesthetically.

Thinking of trying the BTL with two VMP's to save some space in the truck. I was already running short on space with the twelves and fifteens I had, and the BTL box is the biggest yet. Trying to tune low, and keep getting gargantuan port sizes when I try to keep the area big enough to avoid noise. I don't know a ton about them, but the potential space savings and ease of retuning are extremely intriguing. I'm actually reading that page you have posted somewhere in your build log in another tab. BUT they are like 250 a piece and i'd like to know more about what i'm doing before just slapping it together.