Loud & Low 8th Gen Civic - Time to say good bye to her.

[Borris The Blade]

I really like that box! I've always wanted to do a lexan back on a box. Looking good, real good.

On another note, if your wife is like mine, if you handle your biz around the house and take time for the Mrs. and the fam, time on the build should be an issue.

I get what your saying about all that, be there myself quite a few times.

[scooter99]

Thanks for the words man. I appreciate that.

Yeah she's cool, for the most part, as long as stuff gets done. And I try to make sure that happens first.

[Kyblack76]

Well done bud... well done...

[REVOofRustler]

This is looking great! Definitely some inspiration for my next build!

[Sts2013]

How thick of lexan did you use

[scooter99]

How thick of lexan did you use

It's 1/2". I'm a little concerned about the thickness but when it's "given to you", it's easy to try and see if it'll work. if not, I'll get some 3/4".

I keep going back and forth about extending the inside frame out to the edge of the port for that reason, to give it more stability, but I honestly don't want to drill anymore holes!!! So we'll see how it reacts when i get her up and playing.

Kyle, what do you think?

[Wicks]

Lookin' good!

How many drill bits did you wear out drilling all those holes?

[scooter99]

Well, funny you say that. It was definitley rough drilling all of them. If I decide to re do it, which I'm not as of now, then I'll get new bits for sure!!!

But I'm probably due for some new bits anyway. They can just be too damn expensive. I don't know. I guess I could buy one of thoese drill dr things, but is it worth it? I don't know I've never owned one. Anyone else?

Going to see if I can get home soon enough tonight to get an amp rack built. I don't think I will though. I have errands to run after work. We'll see.

[scooter99]

So OSH is my new go to place for hardware. I have found everything there that Home Depot or Lowes didn't have. Love it! So I found my long 1/4-20 screws. I bought 4" but they are too long after thinking about it. SO tomorrow after work I'll go exchange them for some 3 1/2" ones.

Getting started, here's the port exit on the top of the enclosure.

Here is the port extension. I know looking at it from here, the upper left corner doesn't seem like it's round, but that must be an illusion, or I'm blind, cause it round in person. I don't know. Anyway, this has to go on that somehow, and side brackets are just going to flat out be a pain in the ass to deal with. I may do side brackets to anchor to the rear deck, for stability, but aside of that it was not going to be fund to do them on the enclosure and screw them in.

So I got the port placed on the enclosure

And used some clamps to hold it in place.

Did some measuring where the holes would be drilled.

Using one of the counter sink bits I had, I drilled a few pilot holes. Without the counter sink part. Then stepped up with a bigger bit to get the hole size I needed.

6 screws to go in place. Still have to drill out the enclosure part though.

[scooter99]

But to finish up the top, I want the screws to be flush with the top. So I used the countersink bit to make that happen.

Next, I needed to drill the holes for the threaded inserts. Now I had to tape this up, to monitor the depth. Why? Well because the back 4 holes, are all over the port. I didn't want to drill holes into the port, and have the screws or the mounts entering that area and possibly causing noise. So the two threaded inserts I have, one from Home Depot and the other from OSH, are two different sizes. The HD ones are longer. They're 3/4" long. The ones from OSH are 1/2" So those will be used in the back 4 holes, and the others in the front two holes. The front ones will be covered on the inside, I still have a piece to put in up there.

So i got those drilled out

And put the inserts in! And feeling inside the port, it worked like a charm!

Here's the problem. As you can see, there's about a half inch sticking out there. SO these are a little long. I could cut em off, but why when I can just as easily exchange them. It's not like I'm in a hurry so, it's no big deal.

I am SO VERY HAPPY with how this is turning out!!

Little re paint job. The only thing left to put in here now, is the grill magnets. But those may not go on here anyway. may build a little side wall all the way around this, and then have the grill go on that. That was my hour for tonight.