My audio install thread. Shaker complete overhaul.

Fixed.

Basically the middle panel will have the power and ground distribution and the wiring will ride the bar closest to the top. Probably build a panel to hide it all. I can swing the amps down to also show them during a show as well.

The rack looks amazing man. I cant wait to see the full build. I thought my stuff looked slick in the wheel well but that looks really nice. Great job so far man.

Took it all apart. Painted the amp rack and installed the ground and power distribution on the rack. I put sound deadener between the amps and the rack even though the fit really tight in there already. I want zero rattles from this.

All of the connection points between the rack and the car have plastic sleeves and rubber washers.

Awesome design and work! My son can weld... I can't. Unfortunately, I only trust myself to work on my car :(

Started in on the molds for the subs. Two Rockford Fosgate Punch shallow mount 10s. Should be plenty of base for my liking. They will have their limit of 500 watts per sub out of the 1000/1.




Also order my SMD DD-1 to set amp gain.

Awesome. Years and years ago, I made custom fiberglass enclosures and it was fun.

Are you just going to do a flat front out of some MDF, or you going to trim up the back part and stretch fabric over that and an MDF ring to form the complete enclosure?

Spart said:

Awesome. Years and years ago, I made custom fiberglass enclosures and it was fun.

Are you just going to do a flat front out of some MDF, or you going to trim up the back part and stretch fabric over that and an MDF ring to form the complete enclosure?

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Ring with fleece. It is all going to be carpeted so it blends in. I have the nice Rockford grills for the speakers to protect them as well.

Can't wait to see the final product. DD-1 is a solid tool too

z06psi said:

Ring with fleece. It is all going to be carpeted so it blends in. I have the nice Rockford grills for the speakers to protect them as well.

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Awesome. Pretty much the same kinda setup I was thinking of doing.

Fleece is okay and a lot of people use it, but I ended up switching to some thinner stretchy fabric. It takes a lot of resin to soak the fleece is all. Also easier to trim off excess material once the resin has set. Just gotta make sure whatever fabric you use stretches easily in multiple directions - most weaves only really stretch one way.

How do you get the exact airspace you need when you do a glass enclosure?

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How do you get the exact airspace you need when you do a glass enclosure?

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It's difficult, but it's not as much of a problem when the enclosure is sealed IMO.

A single shallow mount 10 only needs .5 cu ft.

The speaker displacement is only .074 cu ft.


We are not talking a lot of space needed. There are a couple of ways to check volume. You can fill the fiberglass enclosure with water to find volume and I have even seen people use the little air puffs you use for packing.

z06psi said:

A single shallow mount 10 only needs .5 cu ft.

The speaker displacement is only .074 cu ft.


We are not talking a lot of space needed. There are a couple of ways to check volume. You can fill the fiberglass enclosure with water to find volume and I have even seen people use the little air puffs you use for packing.

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I think he was asking how to plan for it vs. how to measure after the fact.

Spart said:

I think he was asking how to plan for it vs. how to measure after the fact.

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This^

It seems like voodoo to me.

Spart said:

I think he was asking how to plan for it vs. how to measure after the fact.

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UserName said:

This^

It seems like voodoo to me.

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Well part of your planning is the space you want your system to take up not the other way around. Some people do not mind losing their trunk to 2 12s and 8000 watts. Lol

I went the other direction. Least amount of room possible taken up by the system and more sound quality. I bought and built from there. I looked up a lot of specs and performance and matched where I was going in the planning stages.