Front sub enclosure is close to being ready. It has taken a lot of work to get the body lines to match up. I still need to fill or "coat" the inside of the enclosure with some milkshake. Here's a few progress shots.
It's looking pretty good so far. Actual cost is probably around 120 dollars with all the materials. The time cost is more substantial. I have been working on this thing on and off for about 3 months totalling probably 30 hrs.
I'd really like to get back on the 15' midbass' in the back as the trim panel is not complete but the frontstage takes priority.
That being said I needed to stop lollygagging and get on the front midbass in the floor. Ill be honest. My first impulse was to cut directly into the floor and weld a pan into the floor for the speakers to sit in. Once I ran that idea around the block a couple times I needed to be a bit more realistic. So this is the first way I was going to do it.
As you can see I would have essentially "tubbed" out the floor area once I used body filler to give it some natural shape. Now, the tendency in a small car is to stretch your legs out but even taking a quick drive around the block I realized that this was not going to work.
So I spent alot of time researching and I saw a firewall install of some midbass that were inverted and it clicked. The B&C drivers have a great looking motors as you can see in this shot. So I thought. "Game on." (Perfect Wayne impression)
So onto our 3rd-ish prototype of the floor mounted midbass. I wanted to make them lower profile. Less than two inches high(baffle thickness). So the first thing I did is start to cut into the carpet and the underlayment beneath. You should be able to see the untrimmed 2lb. Mlv in the first shot. You can see in the second shot that I will need to trim the panel to accommodate the remote wire and multi-conductor cable. The material is a seven birch ply. I haven't done any shaping to it yet but I would like to put a radius on that internal opening. Ill fasten it to the floor with rivnuts once i get the final shape I want. I also need to glass it to make it water tight.
So that's where I'm at. I still need an actual baffle that will mount to this and they will need shaping. There will also The warmer it gets the more time I will have so more updates are coming.