Sub Wall Weight...help

[Street]

I been thinkin about building a wall for some time now but im worried about the weight of it. I have a 92 Mustang and its pretty low now, how much would a wall weigh together and how much lower do you think the rear end will be? I know alot of you guys have a wall in your car/truck did you leave the suspension stock or redo it?

Edited October 16, 2009 by Street

[Brandon15zzz]

it would probably weight about 200-300 with all the subs in and the wood or mdf

[rawlins87]

200-300 is probably on the light side.

depending on what subs you use you could have 200+ in subs

i would say on average 500+

with well built walls in suvs (big setups) around 700-800

[loganberry]

200-300 is very much on the light side, you build walls to go big, multiple subs add up, wood adds up, resin, bracing etc...id say using birch if your worried about weight...my box i have now (which is virtually a wall) weights close to 500 lbs with the subs in

[Noobtastic14]

Use Birch or Oak Ply to cut the weight down a ton

my car sagged like a motherfucker and it was all birch If your that concerned just grab stiffer springs

-Drew

[jack]

11 ply baltic birch is about 30% lighter than its mdf counterpart, cheap domestic birch veneer is lighter but i would not sacrifice the quality to save another 5%

[Gotloud555]

YOu don't have to use MDF wood because those are very heavy. The biigger the MDF the heavy it's. You can use lighter wood like BIrch. I think those are light but expensive depending on the sheet sizes..

[Cuseikan]

I used MDF ultralight in my crx. My wall turned out weighing 200pounds. That's after a gallon of resin and well over 300 1 1/4" screws. The one sheet of MDFUL weighed in at 60pounds and a sheet of home depot MDF weighed in at 90pounds.

Edit: And to answer your question about you back suspension, I kept mine stock. It dropped the car 3" after I loaded in the wall, subs, and the 110pound nsb125.

Edited October 17, 2009 by Cuseikan

[HHR Ed]

my non walled HHR has 1500lbs of stereo in it.

The box itself is 250 lbs.

I lowered the front 2" to match the dip in the back.

Most walls I build are pretty beefy and the enclosures themselves would weigh over 1000 lbs.

But thats because I go 4+ layers of 3/4" and use resin/concrete/sand.

[raytard]

i bought 6 sheets of mdf for my car, i'd guess 4.5 to 5 made it in...at 90lbs apiece thats already over 400

gallon of resin, few yards of glass, gallon of glue, some 2x4's, ...i guess call it 50lbs

3 18's...theyre what 70lbs apiece? call it 200....thats 650

but, 3 huge batts at 80+ apiece-250

4 big amps at 10lbs apice-40

so thats 940, not counting sprayfoam, wires (considerable, prob nearing 100 lbs, 100+ft of 0, dozen fuses and blocks, 60ft of 8g, 100ft of 12g, 3 sets of 20ft rca's, 3ft worth of busbars with 2 dozen 3/8in bolts)...and then theres all that dumb stuff like dynamat, pretty panels, batt/amp racks

honestly its probably over half a ton I added to my car....and its not even a full wall

the box and subs, 500-600+ is right, but keep in mind all that other shit you put in there