extremely rough layout

 

Looks Good...

 

Work in progress... It may not be the best setup as for sound quality but it does play good & loud enough for me. All what's left to do is the carpet on the box and find a way to hide the wiring. The amp is a Cerwin Vega EXL with 2 12" DUAL subs from my old car. Still have the OEM head unit.


I built the box with the help of my dad at his place a few weeks ago. He is very good at woodcraft and was happy to help me out with this project. But he quit when I started to tap into the wiring.


This was today at work just redoing the wiring with a 4-connection plug for easy removal. Also installed handles to lift it out of the car when needed (this thing weighs a ton, 3/4" plywood)


Fits tight with the plastic shelf.

 

Looks impressive, but what kind of music do you listen to that needs so much bass? I built the proper size box for one ten inch Infinity Kappa sub with a 400 watt amp and there is enough bass to shake the mirrors and vibrate the seats. I keep the gain at zero so it is in balance with the rest of the system, although I can crank it up to 7 or 9 with no distortion (just overpowered bass).

 

I hate to ask this question but from my day all the components we used we Nakamichi (some Infinity) and Pyle. Doesn't anyone use them any more?

 

nice setup! but my question is where did you all get the cargo mat? love the mat with the HHR logo but even the chevy dealers here in Kansas don't know anything about that...personally i love the factory sound,I have the premium sound system with sub

 

Pyle is complete garbage now.

Infinity is still decent.

Nakamichi is great (not sure about speakers/subs/amps) but i had a Nakamichi head unit a few yrs ago, and i loved it. wish i would have kept it!

 

 

For everyone that puts the amp under the rear compartment, by the spare. Arent you worried about heat from the amp or amps?

 

Blacknight, a lot of the companies from back in the day (when I was building systems) have been absorbed by Harmon (who would have thought they would have come out on top - in the '70's they made inexpensive, but very well made and clean receivers). They own Infinity and JBL, for instance. The brand name Phase Linear (Bob Carver) appears to have been bought up by the Chinese (they have been buying defunct but big names for some time, and releasing poor quality equipment under those names - I'm surprised we haven't seen them build cheap cars under the Cord or Dusenberg name, LOL).