Can I use PVC for ports?

[chriswfoster]

I'm thinking about using 2.5-3 inch piping. Maybe bigger. Likely some kind of plastic PVC or something.

I'm wondering if it's going to produce a weird sound. I know that when you talk into a PVC it gives a weird echo sound or if you tap on it - you'll get a strange echo sound. Don't know how it'll produce bass.

Wondering if I'll get a nice quality from it.

This is going in a dodge cummins diesel truck or something like that. It's my neighbor's. He's got smoke stacks and was wanting to make his sub box occupying his back seat have smoke stack ports coming up - out and pointing at an angle.

Any yays/nays or advice would rock, thanks guys.

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[thehardknoxlife 10+ year member]

It will work just fine.

 

[kovemaster559 5,000+ posts]

yep it works ok. round over the pvc with a router and presto you gor earo ports

 

[chriswfoster]

Round over?

As in, roll out the edge around the lip of the PVC?

 

[andrew2944r 10+ year member]

Round over?
As in, roll out the edge around the lip of the PVC?

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[sqhertz 5,000+ posts]

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=351295&highlight=pvc

 

[chriswfoster]

Sweet thanks guys!

 

[kovemaster559 5,000+ posts]

Round over?
As in, roll out the edge around the lip of the PVC?

yep round over bit and WD40

 

[Stephen_c 10+ year member]

10 feet of 4" pvc is $8 at the local hardware store, ima have to try this out.

 

[ssackett 10+ year member]

Works fine.. But use atleast 4" PVC...

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

If you go with enough port area, even rounding over the edges becomes unnecessary. But its always a good idea.

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

some of you newbs LOL me, there was once a day a long long time ago when aeroports didnt exist

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Yeah, and I remember before we even had PVC. We used toilet paper rolls. And before that, we had to use hollowed-out logs.

Those were the days.

 

[gunz4me 10+ year member]

some of you newbs LOL me, there was once a day a long long time ago when aeroports didnt exist

Cough, cough, look at my age. PVC was all I could get back in the "good old days".

ETA: I remember when we didn't have computers, we thought cassette tapes sounded good, and being able to hear the high frequency cutoff on compact discs when compared to their vinyl counterparts on a quality home system.