Big Boxes.

[iLL Ridge 10+ year member]

Just thinking about how much box volume is taken up by slot ports. I guess that's why people use aeros?

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[Magnus 10+ year member]

I heard anywhere from 1.5 - 3 cubes.

 

[iLL Ridge 10+ year member]

It's like a nother small enclosure within an enclosure really. Whats the volume displacement of say a 50in^2 slot vs a 50in^2 aero?

 

[SpeedEuphoria 10+ year member]

thing is you wouldn't need a 50^2" aero, it would be ~28^2" aero. Thats why you save so much room

 

[iLL Ridge 10+ year member]

Huh. I thought the port volume had to remain the same?

 

[SpeedEuphoria 10+ year member]

Its not port volume your describing, its port area

thats the point of aero's they are more efficient(using true areos with flared ends).

the general rules are 12-16"^2 per cube for slot port

~8"^2 per cube for aeros

so since you need less port area, then the thickness of the aero is less than 3/4"mdf, you gain usable volume

 

[1rockford1 5,000+ posts]

i like tight box's

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

A L port can take up quite a bit of the box, especially for low tuned ones. Using aeros take up less room because you don't have to have as much port area to achieve the same air flow as a L port/slot port/whatever.

 

[1rockford1 5,000+ posts]

just got done with my box. did a l port omg it went around the whole box to get me the low tunning i wanted. to much work to do that.