As I promised, I am uploading pic's of my sub-woofer project. On my home made box, I was only going to put a 8" sub in it. A 10" sub wouldn't fit in the box I made for it.


My motivation for this was the price of per-fabricated sub boxes and the pre-fabs were all 10". The price for them are $150 to $400 and this box cost me $30 to make ($10 for a half sheet of 1/2 press-board, $14 for the truck carpeting at Best Buy, $6 for a can the glue).



First thing I did was to make a template of the facial. This I did with craft paper so I could easily cut and fold the paper to conform to the cubby hole on the driver side in the back.



Once that was done, I made a cardboard template of the facial of the box. After doing a test fit, I found the where the cut outs needed to be and added them to my template. Make sure you get the cut outs in the right spots.


I cut the facial to the cardboard template and build a 6 1/2" deep X 9" X 9" box for it. Make sure the side of the box that is going to be touching the facial is as flush as possible. I found the location to attach the box to the facial by doing a test fit and marking the fit in pencil. Remember to seal the box with caulk to make it air tight. This will improve your sound.



Then I put the trunk carpeting on the box. There are many YouTube videos on how to do this so I'm going to skip the how to detail on this. I will add though that I had to put 1/4" staples on the back because the carpeting was coming up. I'm also going to skip the how to add the amp and sub. To be honest, I had a friend do that work.

On this facial, I put the speaker connectors on the facial. My friend and I decided that it would look a lot better if the connectors was on the box, rather than the facial. I'm going to make a new facial and move the connectors to the box this coming weekend. It will look a lot cleaner.



The only thing I want to add is to do test fits throughout the process and to make sure your cuts a square to factory edges. I hope this helps someone who what's to do this upgrade to their car and thank all the people who gave me advice.

 

Very nice.

 

Turned out very nice, but just a few pointers for your next build. Use at least 3/4 inch MDF instead of 1/2 inch particle board. Particle board will tend to fall apart as it's usually not pressed together as hard as MDF and has air pockets that will over time help the board to come apart. I wouldn't expect this to be a problem with yours because it's only an 8". Use all weather caulk/silicone, there are others that are just for bathrooms or insde jobs that will fall apart over time on speaker boxes.

And just out of curiosity, how much volume does you speaker require? Sealed or ported? I know you have the box sealed, but some speakers are made for ported boxes.

 

This is what they call stealth box :-D

 

Attachment 6576I don't know but version 1 came out good. I know version 2 is going to be better.



Here is Ver. 2.0