About to buy a sub, few remaining questions

[VTLexus 10+ year member]

Personally, I would place a cap of ~$150 on a driver. Since you have capped your amp price at the same, that leaves $200. So, $100 for a good quality box and $100 for install and cabling.
Parts Express has a couple of good sounding units that are worth looking at:

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&Partnumber=295-464

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&Partnumber=295-404

Concentrate on getting a clean sounding amp stable at 4 Ohms and you're good to go //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

thanks for the feedback...the 150 isnt a hard fixed number. since i am going to build the box myself, i can't imagine it would cost more than $50 so that does leave a little more room on the driver and amp.

 

[mrogowski 5,000+ posts]

If that's the case, I'd shift that extra $50 into a better amp then. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif