It is currently Thu Oct 31, 2024 5:56 pm

All times are UTC - 6 hours





Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 4 posts ] 
Author Message
 Post subject: Wetsounds sealed sub box project
PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:27 pm 
Offline
Team Axis
User avatar

Joined: Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:23 pm
Posts: 155
Location: Knoxville, TN
Alright, this took me forever working on and off. At any rate, I'm all done, it is installed, though not hooked up, yet, so I don't know how it sounds.

Basic premise is this. I wanted it in the footwell, but I wanted to keep the spot where my feet went available, and I wanted to be able to have the carpet stay. As many of you know, the steering cable is in the way as you go back. I have a spreadsheet that was used to make sure I had adequate volume for hte box (Wetsounds recommends 0.90cf). I think I inserted comments to make it somewhat usable by others, but I didn't plan on that as I went so it may take some deciphering. I have tried to attach it, but an Excel document isn't allowed. Not sure of another way to do it, I guess if someone wants it, PM me and I'll get it to you.

First thing I'm going to say is do NOT use MDF. It is junk. My box went together with glue just find. Until the screws went in. Yes, I should have drilled, but plywood doesn't push apart liek MDF.

So what I did was this. I cut the fotwell at an angle, from the bottom where the snaps for the carpet are to the top where it bolts to the fiberglass. I then put a panel in there, and built a box on the back of it, and another box on the front. Box on the back of that panel was pretty straightforward. The front was another matter. The whole thing is attached to the fiberglass via some triangular brackets. I plan to support it underneath so the stress won't crack the fiberglass. Here's a shot before the footwell is back in (on edit, it not even screwd in place, it sits higher up, I thought I had a shot of that, but I guess I don't):
Image

The front of the box I decided to make like a pyramid with teh top cut off. You can see the beginnings of that here:
Image
Image

So far, so good, right? Wrong. My stupid ass assumed I'd be okay at 12", but the flange was wider. So if you do this, BEWARE. Here's what that looked like:
Image

So to fix that, I built a "crown" around the top of it. So now the top box is getting incredibly complicated, but it is what it is. So here is what it now looked like, and the good news is that doing it this way gave me a little more volume (meaning less protrusion rearward where the steering cable is):
Image
Image

Alright, that was the hard part. Rear part was easy.

Now, heads up. If you do a pyramid, it takes some carpentry skills and know how. If you've ever put on crown molding, you know that the compund angles are all over the place. And it is pretty straigthforward for a 45 degree spring angle, but not a 60. Here is a helpful link that will help you wiht that: http://www.altereagle.com/5_How_to_insta.html

So after I built the box, I coated it with fiberglass resin, then Herculiner (a DIY bedliner you can but at any auto parts store). For the front of it, I basicallly upholstered it a bit. Layered a few layers of padding then wrapped vinyl around it. Had to sew the top part because of the shape of the pyramid. And of course, that shape was lost when I upholstered it because of the crown I added, ah, well. I did the pyramid in vinyl, laid down the vinyl on the base board, then screwed them together. I did not attach the vinyl to the base board, yet, so I could attach the rear box. I then attached the rear box, then finished upholstering that board. I should have waited to put the support brackets on until now, but I didn't, so it isn't clean in that area. Howeve,r that is not seen once installed. I should point out that the reason I upholstered it was so tha tit would form to the shape of the cuts on my footwell.

Here are a few more pictures of it:
Image
Image
Image

There are a lot more pictures in my Photobucket album if you want more detail:
http://s569.photobucket.com/albums/ss136/67King/Boat/

_________________
2011 A22 FOR SALE - http://www.axiswakeboardboats.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3023


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Wetsounds sealed sub box project
PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 7:36 am 
Offline
Team Axis

Joined: Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:16 am
Posts: 105
Turned out good. That is way more work than I would be up for however. I went the cheap route with the prefab box hanging out of the hole with a trim panel around it. Its coated mdf so we'll see how long it holds up.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Wetsounds sealed sub box project
PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 12:57 pm 
Offline
Boater
User avatar

Joined: Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:03 am
Posts: 48
I went a pre-fab/custom route that is kinda a middle ground of this. I took the foot panel piece out, put in a piece of half inch thick plexiglass and painted it black. I made a cutout on the bottom for the carpet to feed into and have a stepped out wetsounds logo with LED's. I had a 10 in there and now put a 12 in and it absolutely pounds. Very impressed with it. How did your sub end up sounding mounted like that?


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Wetsounds sealed sub box project
PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 6:09 am 
Offline
Team Axis

Joined: Tue Apr 08, 2014 8:06 am
Posts: 148
Location: Lebanon, TN
SilverMustang35 wrote:
I went a pre-fab/custom route that is kinda a middle ground of this. I took the foot panel piece out, put in a piece of half inch thick plexiglass and painted it black. I made a cutout on the bottom for the carpet to feed into and have a stepped out wetsounds logo with LED's. I had a 10 in there and now put a 12 in and it absolutely pounds. Very impressed with it. How did your sub end up sounding mounted like that?



Do you hapen to have pics of the install and finished project?


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 4 posts ] 

All times are UTC - 6 hours


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 26 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to: