03 Silverado Singlecab 4x4 First Fiberglass Enclosure

[The Performer]

Ok, so maybe I jumped the gun last night when I said there wouldn't be pics for a while. Turns out there were a few things I still needed to be doing so I got some of them out of the way.

First of all I needed to get those nasty bolts that held the jack and cover out of the way.

Figured I'd give my persuasive tool a shot.

The bolts didn't agree, so I hated to, but had no other option than to revert to this...

Pulled up the carpet to get to them. (Look at that nice clean paint)

Fuck if I would have known the carpet padding would have caught fire that easily!!! I thought that shit would have been flame retardant or something!

One of the bolts proved to get the best of me. This was the main reason I didn't want to use the grinder, fuck if I wasn't pissed at myself... It's a terrible feeling cutting into a perfectly good truck...

Eh, life goes on. JB weld FTW, I don't want the metal to rust there now. Also I put some over the sawed off bolts so they weren't all naggy like that.

Now some blue tape so the padding doesn't glue to the damn floor.

Carpet back down and better than new!

Here's the first bit of excitement for the day, Now I can test fit the box!

^Like a mufuckin glove!!!

No sooner that I pulled the box out and put the 12's back in some buddies show up to say hi.

They wanted to hear how my current setup sounded so I gave a quick demo.

Turns out one of them wants to buy them after hearing that, so we test fitted them in his truck and he loves the fit and he's gonna hook them up to his amp tomorrow and try the sound out. I know the bastard wants them even if they wont sound as loud with his amp so I'm pretty sure he's gonna buy them.

$100 bucks closer to the DC's!!!!!

Unfortunately though, that means back to the oldschool MTX terminators for me... I cant complain though, atleast I had something on hand to throw behind the seats. (Even though I'm still borrowing them... ) Gotta love brother-in laws.

After about 10 when my buddies FINALLY left... I got back to the box. I needed to see JUST how much I had to space the rings off the box to fit the DC's.

I made a ghetto version of a test fit sub.

^Don't hate, it does it's job.

Trying some spacers to get the height.

^I'd say just about perfect.

Letting the spacers glue on over night.

Well that's it for today, Gotta work in the morning and mow yards in the evening so I'm not sure if I'll get to work on anything then but sometime before the weekend I plan on bulking up my ground in preparation for an electrical upgrade. When I get the DC's and drop the amp to 1 ohm I'm gonna need to run 4 gauge. Which by the way, any of you know where to get some good RF or kicker 4 gauge power and ground for cheap? At a local shop they have the RF for $2ish a foot and the kicker for $3ish a foot. The guy kept trying to get me to buy the $80 POS kit but I guess he wouldn't take the hint that I didn't need all the flair that came with it. I already have good RCA's and remote wire.

Anyway, if anyone knows where to get some cable for a decent price I'd love to hear.

[wL<3bass]

Anyway, if anyone knows where to get some cable for a decent price I'd love to hear.

http://www.knukonceptz.com/productMaster.c...lossus%20Kable#

$1.35 per/ft

[The Performer]

http://www.knukonceptz.com/productMaster.c...lossus%20Kable#

$1.35 per/ft

Looks good! I'm not crazy about the split clear and red and such, I looked around on their site and they have a different line that is just red and black, more of what I want and not too much more.

You think ordering about 18 ft since I need some to work with between the amp and cap and just cause I'm paranoid I won't have enough. Then about 6 ft of black ground to work with and I'm going to need some 12 gauge speaker wire for inside the box as well as the outside amp connections. It would be decently cheaper to order from them instead of buying an expensive kit with rca's and remote that I would just be wasting money on? I can most likely talk to the guys at my favorite shop to sell me some 4 gauge ring terminals and such. They are really good about that up there.

Basically I don't want to spend a ton of money on wire that's going to be JUST BARELY enough and I can't do a clean install cause the wires are running straight and such. Then have rca's and crap left over. At this stage of the game I cant be wasting money.

[The Performer]

Ok so I got a few things done these last couple of days, but not as much as I would have liked, had to work most days.

What I did get done was the feet of my box fiberglassed out. (You guys were serious when you said fiberglassing wasn't cheap, $35 for resin, $7 for a 3x3 sheet of mat)

Anyways, gotta do what ya gotta do and get the stuff. Here's some shots of taping off the carpet in the 4x4.

Starting to get dark outside! Had to get some lights.

That's getting the shape done, after that I pulled it all out and was able to put more layers and didn't have to stink up the truck any more.

Then last night I decided to prep for upcoming electrical upgrade. The ground I had was working, but I hate the idea of a sheet metal screw being my ground.

Forgot to take a shot of what it looked like before, but I think most of you guys know what a screw holding a ring terminal to a car looks like.

Here's the screw and washer though.

Little hole was from the screw, it was too close to the seat slide and annoyed me. The big hole is for the new bolt.

Ran into a problem underneath and couldn't find where the damn hole was.

Finally figured it out, there's section where there's a brace that was where the hole was at so I had to make a hole in the brace to fit the head of the bolt through and push it up through the bottom.

Handy ass light I got from walmart. Plugs into the cigarette lighter and has 10 ft of cord that reels up into the light. (Basically what I'm saying is you guys should get one)

Extending magnet to push the bolt through the bottom.

Worked out nice, I was able to just turn the bolt from the bottom and it screwed into the hole and stayed while I came up and added the nut.

Tightened it all up and added a bit of solder to a side of the nut onto the metal. Added a bit of solder to close up the screw hole too.

^Great little $15 torch.

It's a hell of alot better now!

Thought I would ask this, any of you guys ever tin the tips of your power wires? I grew up with electronics so I've learned TONS of tricks and such over time and one thing I do whenever working with amps that you stick the end of the wire in and tighten down the screw is tinned the tips with solder.

Just thought I'd share, I never see anyone else doing this on here so I wondered if maybe you guys didn't do it. Either way I would recommend it. If you're going through the trouble of doing all your terminals, then not tinning the tips you're just killing it.

And now onto today, I got the 3rd layer of fiberglass on my box feet. It's sturdy as a MO-FO now.

Maybe tonight or tomorrow I can finally cut the feet to shape and get ready for the fleece stretch.

Anyways, that's all for now.

[ChevyBoy]

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[Brick2560]

Looking good man, that box is lookin nice, if I had a single cab thats how I'd want my box.

[The Performer]

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Nice! He's got it down! Yeah, I'd just never seen anyone do it in their builds but I guess I missed that guy's.

Thanks for the comments guys, I got a couple more new pics I'm putting up soon so stay tuned.

[The Performer]

After the feet cured up better I got back and cut them to shape finally.

Got the cuts as straight as I could, but I'm gonna have to work a bit more on them tomorrow to get it a bit more straight.

Here's a pic of what I'm going for now. I'm getting more and more excited each day.

[Dale]

this looks really good so far man...keep the pics coming

[The Performer]

Ok so I got SOME work done today, not much but some. Had a couple things go down, one disaster and a good thing or two.

The disaster was I lost a soldier in battle on my way home from work. (My right side sub fried. )

The leads here are pretty bad, the wires are burnt and it seems as if the voice coil had unwound inside and pulled the leads tight.

Cut off the dust cap and yep, fried...

It's shot to shit, you can thump the cone and hear the coil inside, it sounds like a slinky.

That just means I need to get my ass in gear and finish the box and get the DC's.

Since I got the subs out I decided to shoot for a test fit to get some more eye candy.

Came inside and aligned/glued the rings to the box finally.

It's looking sexier each time I work on it!

I stopped by the fabric store today and got some nice stuff. The lady said it was all they had that would stretch in all 4 directions. It's some kind of dance/swim wear something... Anyways, it looks like it's going to stretch GREAT. I'm just going to have to route my rings deeper a bit more tomorrow on the edges where the fiberglass will meet the mdf.

Anyways, off to bed soon, gotta paint a garage and start trim work at another house tomorrow and the rest of the week. (Gotta work hard to make the money )