I know its been awhile but i'm back didn't get much further on this project. been slow moving from the get sadly so here we are mid summer i'm just finishing my orders for parts. lol

picked up my procesor. but i didn't reciever but did order the RUX unit for this piece. i also picked up a 16" sub, and dropped the 2 18 idea. still have those 18's though ...erm.








heres the sub, it's an alumapro M16 16" MASSIVE sub. and i mean massive, it's a 1200$ sub from 2001. one of the very first SQL subs ever devised since it became a "thing" its like 100 lbs even though its an aluminum cage, and cone, the center piece is also aluminum. it's just a solid piece. i picked it up on craigslist local for an unbelievable price for this kind of quality sub. the downside...it wants sealed...the downer side..it wants 3.5 TO 4 CUBIC FEET of it. which is massive...taking up allot of my trunk so i'll have to work it out and get the amps in somewhere behind this massive box..perhaps even mounted right to the box. this sub is one of a kind, ultra rare. try and find one and you won't, i know of only 7 floating around the online audio community and we're a pretty large bunch they still range from about 600 to 800$ their of the same sound as say maybe a W7, but instead of doing better ported it does better sealed. its also a power hungry *****. its 1k rms 2k peak. another reason their so rare is they want such a large box that almost all of them are used in home theater systems. and the custom home theater system building bunch is a much smaller bunch of people., it wasn't a faster mover by any means i imagine.











and it works!

i have a video of me testing it ^_^

 

alright i think ive got it all worked out on how i'm gonna install the trunk ^_^ I just built the box today, which was the most work and the first big hump in this very long build. ive now recievered my processor, i have my amps, my sub, it's box and an idea on how to mount it all. first off, the box will simply be slid in, since it is 30wx18tx15.5d, so the hard part is getting it in and out but it is just with in the perameriters. but this exact size and shape was cruicial, a oddly shaped box would of had the basic affect but woudln't have the best SQ out of this sub. with those demensions, it get's about 3.8 CF, it's about 4.01 cf gorss, but displation for the sub and the bracers in the box. i wanted to build it out of 1" MDF but they only had 3\4 and i didn't feel like driving around i had a long build ahead of me this morning lol. the 6 channel MASSIVE sub which is about 18" x10" will mount on the back of the sub box. the smaller 12"x10" minatour will be mounted in the corner with the long way up in a fiberglassed box in the corner. the computer will go in the other corner in it's own fiberglass box, i'll pad the floor of that box with something so the computer has some coution which was a huge concearn during the research of this build. i'll than put 2 bracers in front of that pocket, which will have the computer fully recessed or mostley recessed into that pocket. the only CD that ccan be played in the car has to be put in this computer in the trunk...a downside YES, but did i care? no because i have 25 THOUSAND songs, a wifi dongle with limitless internet on my phone. so i have infinite choices for music also, radio but i might not install the radio modual because i can't find up to date drivers



the table saw, and some other tools i used. i had my buddy help me cut the large board as it was pretty hard to do on my own and i'm not very good with this kind of wood work XD tehe.


the back of the sub box


the front, which btw is a 15 1\4" cutout which is becasue this isnt a 16" sub it's a 16 5\8" sub :P kind of caught me off guard but fortunatley I wllowed for this in my box size


glueing the top piece on


and with the front back and bracers in ^_^ sorry forgot to take puctures between :P

still need to cauk and seal it up a bit more I will also deaden the inside, and will be stuffing it with pollyfill.




erm....should of put wires through the screw holes before the final test fit before i finalize the box because picking a 100lb sub out of a box with the tips of your fingers aint easy :-s

 

more like silver SLAM!

 

Nice system!

 

yeah im hearing this sub is gonna POUND. and i think i'm completly under estimating it..and im gonna let my self do this because when i do turn it on..it is gonna ****ing THUMP and it is gonna be the cleanest accurate bass ever. this sub is a pure dream machine...i have hunrdeds of hardcore audio guys drooling over this setup believe me, ive had 800$ offers for this sub already :X even offered a 1200$ amp in one case :X


i like this

 

nice. just read all 9 pages. thumbs up you did alot of work.

 

you havnt seen nothing wait till you see exaclty how much time i took building this thing and finishing it today i didnt even have enough day light to fully finish it in 2 days from noob on both days, 11 even this mroning i staerted.

finished those few things i wanted ot add today, turned out ot be allot more than a few i doubled every layer except the bottom which i deadened, i thank added 4 more braces going to the back and face of the sub box, 2x2 blocks instead of 2x4, and I rounded those up wiht a slice of deadening and a wrap with some of this black **** i had laying around lol. i also glued, caughked and sprayed the insdie edges and did a finish sand on the outside. this is a QUALITY box built to LAST, this box could take any sub! its a ****ing tank. i wanted to take a video of me knocking before and after but if orgot maybe an affer to show that its a solid piece just for ****s and giiggles but tomorrow i'm gonna finished it off with a carpet wrap with some **** i picked up awhile back.

next im gonna start the amp rack. might mount the sub, wire it and mount the 6 channel to the backof the box. and i believe i'm gonna mount the procesosr either in the computers mount or on the side of tghe box as i left a couple inches of room their. depending on if i left enough it'll depend but i think the ideal place is the computer that way i can run it direct and close and than run the same length cables to the 6 channel and the mono block.

my only quarum is with the wiring, should i wire it and say 4 ohms and use the minator to do 500 rms. or wire it to 1.3 and proobly get 1110 out of it and likley unstable OR strap a second minatour or a different amp that does 1k to 4 ohjm like a JL micro amp theirs evben one that does 1200 sub would love that amp! maybe i should run that amp instead :\

anyways on with the show.



I cut and did the sides in double 3\4" board so their 1 1\2" thick total, and this of me doing the face, i cut it and cut the cut out for the sub. (they didnt EXACTLY line up we had to finagle that






just to show the sub and how it compares to the box




quad braced 8-)


just finsiehd prepping surface of back so i can glue and screw the seocnd layer








borrom layer coudlnt get another layer because it would make it to tall. i added only a single 1\2" sheet on top fo the 3\4" base board on top instead of double 3\4" like the front sides and back. so i deadednd it real good ^_ ^


and a finsihed layer to kinda dull off the edges of things and give severything a nice smoth edges and help with any resonence, im just going completley overboard because i have this stuff and i might as well make sure its perfect if its gonna be this kind quality pieces going into it


this box has me super ****ing excited, i'm so happy with how easy everytyhing hass gone so far as compared to the other projects and parts ive done over the past lol has me grinning ear to ear

 

got a couple yards of trunk liner off parts express awhile back for GP...FINILY got to use it



cut it to length to wrap it around the short way. but it wasn't wide enough to both sides, in hind site i would of done the whole face, top bottom and sides out of one piece so i would have no seems on the face. thats just some food for thought but this was my first sub box build, so i'm happy.


got it all wraped and glued up, just doing some finishing trimming, and cuts.


added some handles...80lb box + 70lb sub = ****ing heavy

 

thanks, if only it fit XD lol nah it fit, it just wasn't the way i had planned but i figuired their was a chance i woudln't get it in the way i wanted :-s came out just a little to tall just like i feared, especily with the double layers and cloth just put over 18 3\4" tall and my max high is 17 3\4 it turns out in the low point, i thought i had 19 1\2" which is the middle, i forgot i never checked the other hights. but alas' it all worked out in the end, so here we go ^_^








so, you cna see it's TIGHT. but it works, just barley :-s

here's the amp layout, i know i had all kinds of plans to do mounts and ****. bhut when i got out their this morning i realised i had a larger gap than i expected beyhind the box, so the leviathan could fit on the back of the box and still have room for the minator on the back seat. so i layed it out like this - (this is justy all sitting their to picture what i was doing, all this gear was fresh out of the box and needed hardware and **** still)


amp's laying out for the first time they've been fully unboxed.


i don't like the mounting of this gear, but it's solid. its all the kind of bracketing that'd be perfect for a nice finish install with out seeing holes in the hardware for mounting, but since i didn't build anything..you see the feet. oh well.


got the RUX unit yesterday. unboxed it today and was quite disapointed lol nothing flashy, but it's a much nicer unit then the 701 remote, much smaller too. and far easier to read and work with. from what i understand it's all very intuative


wired up the h800


it's alive! tehe, scared me for a second because the center light on the h800 isn't very bright in the day light i couldn't even notice it turning on :\ but it turned on after 3 seconds and a sigh of relief, now idk if the channels are good, their were defective units out their..now mine? i would like to assume i'm safe but you never truly know.






this is the first time i've booted these amps since i got them..but i was pretty confident they're working as he does hand build and test every unit him self beforee shipping and i boughht durring the off season so mine was one of the few units he was working on.


did a little cleaning up with the old wiring, i made sure i pulled al the speaker wires to the sides since they used to run UNDER power wires and that's a no no!!! cleared that up, and labled things and pulled em to each side, not sure how ima rout them or if i'ma use some blocks and than wire off blocks to make it easier to remove, we'll see. i didn't do any of this wiring today, i figuired i'd do the RCA's, and speaker wires the same day. i like to do things in small doses otherwise i cut corners


wiring and installing sub into box.




and to finish my day, i mounted the leviathan to the box. but i didn't wire that one at all, it was hot and i was tired XD


i also spent about an hour and a half living in my trunk deadening the bottom of the deck, i deadedn'd the top of it under the cloth finish last fall before winter came in, but i never got around to the bottom. didn't take to much more to get things solid just a few strips, i didn't bother taking a picture becausee i coudln't get a good angle.

was hoping to have the whole back end done before friday and work on pods this weekend but i got called back into work so i probobly won't work on it again till saturday. i don't usialy work after i work.

I know i know, i had all kind's of plans and promises to do crazy stuff, but in all honesty i'm just a practical man. i believe in solid simple work. good old fashon KISS. and that's the concept ive tried to use in every problem but this system is just so hard to pull off in a sedan, so much for so little room. but i'm squeezing it in their tehe. the computer is yet to be seen. you'llbe seeing it very soon, don't worry it's ready to be installed i've just been lazy.

 

hmm i thought this build would be getting more attention, it is kind of an old thread i guess lol but the build is new :P

ugh, computer problems. i have tested evertything and was under the assumption that everything worked but when i went to test it all with the screen installed and just ran a power cbale for the comkputer to the front seat and ran the computer their while i had it still out of the dash but no matter what i did i coudln't get a signal, than i coudln't even get the computer to boot.. the computer was booting and ive tested it over 50 boots in the past (by my estimate) and this is the first time it's not worked, but might of been the power cable might not of liked 14gauge. it got to way to ****ing hot i had to wrap it up and a thuner storm rolled in out of nowhere, sweat to god it was 80 degrees and beutifful and than BOOM THUNDER. haha

anyways, heres the screen install pictures, i did a little deadening in the dash mainly for wires bumping but i also put some patches on the larger flat areas to avoid any ressonence in the piece. wraped all the cables as well, and yes i used crimped no solder. solder is just to much of a pain. I hard wired the screen to always be on, i was gonna wire a relay but the screen has built in solid state turn off sleep mode so technicly it's doing the same thing internaly :P so i jsut hard wired it to be on and let it sleep. i know the screen works, ive tested everything except this 16' cable, i tested it with the 3' stock cable (didn't have the 16' cable) so i ASSUME the cables fine or at least hope because my dash sucks to take apart

PICTURES









covered up the back of the board..i really didn't like having it exposed. i lightly pressed it and firmly pressed the edges but it does come off, i tested XD idk about in a few years when i go to remove it who knows :-s or..next year? i hope not >_<




It's alive!