rstark

This was suggested to me. What if you removed the bottom piece of carpet/lining of the trunk exposing the metal floor, took a piece of 5/8" MDF and made a false floor cut into three pieces. The center piece would be siliconed and screwed down to create a box out of the trunk well, and you put your subs in there cutting out two holes in the MDF. The other two pieces would make up the sides of the floor, then just lay new carpet over it. The subs would be mounted on the underside of the MDF and a metal grill would lay over the top of the hole. Would this work as a sub enclosure for two 10" subs? Would you have to line the well with dynomat or something? Would the carpet block the movement of air (assuming it's thin carpet used to cover sub enclosures)? More importantly, would this work well?

rstark

Anyone???

jzr

I'll take a stab here Rick, since most of the people who surf this section are at their little east coast get-together...

IMHO the trunk well is not stiff enough by itself to be the structure of a sub enclosure, even with lots of dynamat, even if you could get it airtight.

The 3-board concept isn't bad though, and has been used by at least a couple people (check out this thread for one) - but I'm pretty sure they all used fiberglass molded to the shape of the trunk well as the structure, not the well itself.

Carpet will restrict airflow somewhat; if you must cover the speaker, a better choice is grille cloth, which is supposed to be "acoustically transparent". But it's in the trunk so unless you're going for mega-stealth, a regular metal grille should do just fine. The more porous the better.

My recommendation is to get a JL stealthbox or have a custom trunk well fiberglass/MDF box made - that way it's easily removable and you don't sacrifice any trunk depth on the sides.

Hope this helps a little!

Jason