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okay. would it make much a difference if i took the back seats out? im not wanting to tear the truck apart for these subs, cause they arnt comp speakers. im only running maybe 500 rms.

so the subs should face the front seats and point the port to the ceiling. how does it load offf of anything? or is it the ports that load and not the subs?

yeah box on the seats. and i cant downfire cause the subs are too tall.. they wont fit underneath lol. seems like the trucks working against me.

alright. thanks. is there anything else id have to do ? cause im not taking the back seats out so there isnt really anything to load off of. youll have to humor me if i sound retarded with some of the questions i ask. cause i think enclosures are the more complicated section of soundsystems..

ive got a 2000 ford f150 xlt. i need to make a new box to fit my cabin because the old box i had in my car was in the trunk. its a 4cube with two kenwood w3011's (12's) nothin special. but the box is way too big for my truck. so it sounds like my subs arnt even hitting. i have a sheet of plywood under the subs to give them something to load off of. but does anyone have any ideas on a good enclosure size that will make the subs sound comparable to what they used to be. if any questions you need to help me figure this out. lemme know. im not particularly familiar with enclosures. so any advice would be appreciated. i looked at the specs for the sub itself and it says a 2 cube ported box is best. and when i made the old one for my car it sounded great. its aggrivating hearing it now compared to the way it used to be. lol im sure yall would feel the same way if you had to change everything. thanks guys

yeah man well good luck. personally ive never built any bandpass system. but from what ive seen the two subs are facing each other not litterally on top of one another but facing at angles. ^ <<kind like that<<< lol its hard to explain,the ports were on the back ends facing (in reference to that arrow up there) they would be down. sorry if thats difficult to understand lol i kinda had to improvise. if i had a pic id put that on there. but i dont. still good luck

hit up the12volt.com that may help you out. but yeah fourth order bandpass systems are fairly nice if built well. i suggest reading up. making normal boxes sucks ass. but a bandpass will make you not even want subs if you dont know how to do them.

brewer. it turned out much better. still its not as good as it used to be. do you think making the box a cube or so smaller would help more?

haha im glad were on the same page

yeah 2x4's were my first idea lol. what cant you do with a 2x4 lol. thanks alot brewer ill get back to you on how it goes.

dang... that sucks. maybe if i fold the seats up i could do it. do the ports and subs fire down? i really dont feel like making a new box lol. and any ideas how i would elevate it? i cant drill any holes in the truck. so mounting is gonna be difficult. i swear my step dad makes this thing almost impossible

haha nice setup.

yeah but i cant take the seats out... so how would i down fire? put the sub facing the back seat and the port down? or what..

i had totaled my car in april and had been givin my grandfathers truck ext. cab, as a replacement until i could buy another car. btw i had two kenwood w3011, nothing special, in a 4 cube ported box. originally it loaded off the trunk on my other car. i was probly hitting low 43 db, rough guess. my stepdad says that im not allowed to remove the back seats so its almost impossible to load off of anything in the truck. a buddy of mine said a sixth order bandpass system may do the trick to giving it something to load off of with the port facing the window. Is this a difficult system to tune? ive heard that if this system isnt tuned correctly it can screw up the speakers pretty bad. also if any other boxes or setups may help bring the subs back to their old potential let me know, its frustrating hearing them now in comparison to how they used to sound. thanks alot

haha yeah so true. we should just all build one and try to sell it to somebody lol. patents pending.

http://cgi.ebay.com/KINETIK-HC1800-CAP-CAR...id=p3286.c0.m14 **credit to brewer for the website

yeah and about batts ebay is having some sort of sale on kinetic hc1800. big batt but i think they are goin for about 200. it ends sometime today though. goodluck if i find that web url for those batts ill put it on here for ya

http://www.dcpowerinc.com/

yeah if you score well on the asvab try and get a job that they need more people in. im going into the marines next summer as an EOD. i have asthma but it never bothers me, but if you have it after your 13th bday or something they consider you an asthmatic for the rest of your life. but marines are in desperate need of eod's so the only ruling factor is if i make it through boot camp.. which is most likely since i run xc and weightlift all the time. hopefully my asthma wont make a freak appearance while im there.

yeah i know. that was one of the reasons why im uneasy about buying them. 73lbs. freaking monsters. septembers a while away so ive got some time to decide what i wanna do.

why would you buy a car like that??? i mean i dont even understand how dealers sucker people into buying hybrids and all that garbage. lets save the environment. but i wonder if the dealer tells the customer that when the batts for hybrids go bad that they cant be recycled and are just even more pollutant than gas. lol and that you have to own a hybrid for more than ten years to actaully make a profit. lol dang people are dumb. and i wonder what the cost of labor is for a solar panel roof on a car if it gets messed up. btw if anyone is wondering why i posted this its cus i saw an add for a solar panel prius. lol

haha nice. go with team skunk for performance. they are top of the line when it comes to performance for integras. me and a buddy dumped 5k in new cams crankshaft pistons, manifold, suspension, etc. we were pushin about 400bhp with out a turbo. haha next on the list is a 33mm stage 3 greddy. lol prolly 18lbs of boost. we dont know if the block can take much more than that. alright i might go with the lvl 5's prolly start the build late september. ill def put up pics for everyone.

yyeah i didnt know if 13 or 14k would be too much for level 4 xls

army guy. i see you have a gsr. i found an integra over here in sc right side drive direct from tokyo. honda integra type r. i was literally about to go buy the thing and i had talked to the dealer and he said he'd hold it for me while i went to the bank to get money and the jack ass sold the thing while i was gone. like 5 hrs went by and he sold it on me. i bitched the guy out for hours. lol just figured id say that. idk if your an integra lover or not. i prefer an rsx type r, but when i saw that integra i almost shit my pants haha

yyeah i agree with smokeum. those type r's are beast though. what kind of car are you putting them into?