Our screw up story(well, sort of...)

[mity2]

While car was at the bodyshop(its story on its own, and we are not going to get in to that here), I got this bright idea to replace my dual MTX Thunder 6000 10" with something more custom. So my buddy who works at local audio shop, and i dicided to make copy of JL undio and MTX Thunderform for my car, because i didn't wanted to pay whatever those thing are going for($400+ i'm assuming?)

So we got mockup off of my car(to get the shape of bottom), and took pic of JL and MTX, and started to make it out of fiberglass.

So after 3 weeks or so messing with it, making it smooth over and over, we got whats in pic. Never mind the color. I still need to finish carpetting
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Well, screw up #1 is not very easily spottable
We forgot to make it with speaker wire terminal on it
Which is i guess is no biggie. I'll drill hole somewhere so that i can put terminal onit.

Second issue is rather serious.
See the pic below
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WTF!! appearently, box that we took the measurement off of is for 94~98 WITHOUT mach 460 audio option!!!!
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Selfownage for not reading box when I took the measurement
crapola

 

[hotmustang331]

Hello lawsuit...well if you start selling them haha.

But looks great...just trim that bad boy and fix that small problem with more fiberglass. Should be pretty easy

 

[mity2]

Well, so moved amp(i wasn't using them anyway), and trip away some plastic, and Vo'ra

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Now, i just have to figure out how am i gonna make it to stay there....

Oh and buy some Sub... We designed it so that internal volume is 1 cubinc feet - Both MTX and JL is slightly less then 1 cubic feet. something like 0.98 or something like that.

What is good sub thats designed for small sealed enclosure and 2ohm DVC that can handle 600watts(using MTX Class D mono sub amp that can go down to 1ohm stable)?

 

[bluextc]

Ok, well, I have no clue on sound equipment... since the stock mach 460 works fine for my needs... but how are your other issues working out with the car??? (the insurance claim).

 

[mity2]

Ok, well, I have no clue on sound equipment... since the stock mach 460 works fine for my needs... but how are your other issues working out with the car??? (the insurance claim).

lets not talk about that....

 

[bluextc]

lets not talk about that....

oh, I'm sorry. Assume you've decided to keep the car, tho, since you are doing audio upgrades?

 

[CobraRed_96_GT]

94-98 had a 460 mach audio option?

 

[Dope 97GT]

I have them amps in my trunk as well...maybe it was just the 96-04 w/o the mach system you were looking at?

 

[stangGT97]

94-98 had a 460 mach audio option?

n00b . Yes they did, my '97 has it, but there was also a base stereo option (which was standard on the GTS models)

 

[BooWFO]

hmmm it would fit in my car with zero issues... Ok maybe one small one that's the side my nitrous bottle is on.

 

[Dope 97GT]

hmmm it would fit in my car with zero issues... Ok maybe one small one that's the side my nitrous bottle is on.

mine was on that side as well...never used it at the track though.

 

[DocG]

I'm no audio expert, but that thing looks awfully bumpy on the inside to sound good. Shouldn't the inside be smooth to prevent distortion, etc?

 

[DocG]

And is that one of those fences on your bed that prevents you from falling off in the middle of the night?

 

[mity2]

I'm no audio expert, but that thing looks awfully bumpy on the inside to sound good. Shouldn't the inside be smooth to prevent distortion, etc?

this is true if its a ported box. But since i'm doing sealed box, it really don't matter. Plus all the bumps are at least smooth.

Plus I used fiberglass to get basic shape out of it, and then i used Urethan to build it up. Its almost impossible to fix it(or sand it to shape).

i think i'm going to modifiy it bit tho. Back when I was in stereo, almost all 10" sub required 0.9~1.0 cube-feet. But these days, almost all 10" needs something like 0.6 cube-feet. So more then likely i need to build up inside so that i get 0.6 to 0.7.

And i got to find some carpetting for it too

 

[RoadconeTuning]

actually the waves are good for getting rid of standing waves inside the box and it will actually sound BETTER than it would if it was perfectly flat.

 

[urban96]

i painted mine instead of messing with carpet. i did a base coat of black then that speckle paint they sell at home depot over the black and it matches up pretty good

 

[mity2]

thats RF box right? Ya i took some measurement off of them too. Can you tell me how do they mount? I haven't figure out how to mount mine yet

 

[urban96]

yep its the RF

mine came with a long bolt and theres a threaded spot on the bottom of the box. if you look where the box sits when installed right under that threaded spot is a rubber plug. remove or cut slits in the plug and insert the long bolt up through the bottom of the car into the threaded part of the box