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Mar 12, 2003 | 04:40 PM

bumpin_BII

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i know you guys will laugh me outa here for this but i have to share it. ever been down on money but needed a speaker box or a original speaker box? heres what i did for my jenson xs1010. i had an old cooler setting in my room i wasn't using. well what you do is take the collor and cut the whole in the side for the sub. then mount your sub. when you mount it you may need to use a gasket. i used rtv sealant. ok now wired it up run the wires out of the lid. use screws to hold the lid down. now hot glue all around it. thats it. i know have a igloo 1.5 cubic foot sealed box. they sound surprisingly good. that along with two 10 inch polk gnx104's rocks pretty good. price for the subs and boxxes. just over 150 bucks.

Mar 12, 2003 | 04:49 PM

smokey6309028

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funny box.

LOL, that is pretty funny. That might work "OK" for very low power, but that thing will flex with any significant power going to the subs. I always build all my own boxes and kickpanels as well. The wood, screws, and sealant are pretty cheap and make a supremely solid box (3/4" MDF).

Mar 12, 2003 | 05:16 PM

optikal illushun

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funny box.

lol, redneck engineering at its finest...almost as good as the classic bucket sub tube.

anyway, i agree with smokey, i built my ported box and it cost me around $40. that was for the sheet of material (around 15-20), dry-wall screws (3 n some change), 2 tubes of liquid nails (5 for the two), and 8' long 4" PVC pipe (10). got all but the material at Lowes. got a price quoted for the same type of box i wanted and one shop said it wasnt possible to make a ported box tuned to an exact hz...but said around $350

and a month to make with fiberglass baffles (wasnt the smartest car audio salesmen) needless to say they went outta business...other shop wanted $150-200. so i made mine for $40 and around a month in wood shop at skewl.

Mar 12, 2003 | 08:02 PM

smokey6309028

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I also recall being in a Walmart a few years back, when i passed through their "car audio" section.(LMAO) I saw a product called "sub in a box" It was like 15 bux, and it showed instructions on how to mount the sub *inside* the cardboard packaging it came in. W-O-W
Now thats ghetto!

Mar 12, 2003 | 08:18 PM

optikal illushun

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lmao, sad thing is people actually bought those...

Mar 12, 2003 | 10:40 PM

bumpin_BII

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well this is the reall thick plastic works good at at about 250 rms. sub in a box?Profanity Removed

i dont really have the money for the wood right now so this was lying around and i just wonderd what it would sound like. so i put the sub on it. sounded bad (duh just a resonator at this point) then i made a gasket to held the air in and it sounded pretty good till you turned it up. the sub would jjump in and out of it. so then i did the next part. it actually looks pretty good to and fits just perfect in the trunk of moms car so thats where it stays for awhile. i thought about the backseet but the cops would think she had a cooler of beers back there and tear it open looking for them so i decided trunk. next project will be to cut the ends off of a few of these and link them up

lol. jk that would be hard to keep together.