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Now for something completely different... I wired up the enclosure, and mounted it to the upper crossbar of the trunk. Don't freak out, those are c-clamps. I chickened out when mounting the box and didn't want to drill a bunch of holes in my car. I devised a clever way to mount the box using 1/8" steel plates both inside and outside the crossbar, and 1" c-clamps. With everything insulated with Dynamat, the c-clamps are used to sandwich the mounting brackets that are fastened to the top of the enclosure. This provided an extremely solid mount, without drilling any holes. Yes, the clamps are orange, the only store I found with enough clamps in stock only had orange ones. The important thing is that the enclosure isn't going anywhere. |
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Here's an inside view of the finished product. This whole thing was a tight squeeze, but everything had the clearance expected. I use three different "configurations" for listening. One is with the seat backs down as in this picture, which provides an amazing high-impact clear sounding bass experience. I have since built a grille of sorts covered with acoustically transparent black carpet that fits right in here to hide the speakers. The second is with both seats up, but not latched, leaning on the latches. There is a loss of clarity but a deep distant bass sound. The third, my favorite, is one seat up, one down for a combination of effects. |
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Here's how it looks looking down into the trunk, notice there's plenty of room for stuff, and no obstructions preventing complete access to the spare tire. This was one of the major requirements I had when this project started. |
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Stick a fork in it, this project is done. Time to pack up the tools in the plentiful trunk space and go home. |
| FOLLOW UP #1: (picture pending) After a couple weeks of listening I determined that the 12db/octave crossover built into the 6001bd amplifier is simply not good enough to filter out some of the upper bass frequencies. Having a Kicker KX2 on hand with 18db/octave crossover, I decided to try it out. The difference in sound quality was significant so I have added this component to the installation. In addition to the steeper crossover slope, this component also doubles the input voltage to the amplifier (the LOCB.2 has a 2.5v output, the KX2 is 5v). |
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