chereck04's 03 Eclipse Build Log

[chereck04 10+ year member]

Welcome to my build log.. Nothing too special here, 3.65 cube box tuned to 33hz using 4” psp ports. Before I get to a pic or two here is what I’m working with:

Car: 2003 Eclipse GS (Daily Driver)

Electrical: Redtop under the hood, 2 runs of 2/0 welding cable from front to back (setup for 2nd battery, but no battery yet), Big 3 upgraded

Head Unit: Kenwood DNX-7100

Front Stage: 2 sets of 6.5” PG RSD’s – 1 in the doors, and another set mounted in homemade MDF baffles that fill the rear 6x9 speaker holes.

Front Stage Amp: old lanzar optidrive

Sub Stage Amp: Sundown 1500d

Subwoofers: Loaded 12” Fi SSD’s Dual 1 ohm (still need to order)

Sound Dampening: Doors and hatch lid are properly deadened, nothing else 

Future Plans: Get a battery for the rear, Buy a new front stage amp, Properly deaden the rest of the hatch, floor, and roof with second skin products. Some day get a bigger sub amp as well…

Here is what I got done so far:

I got the panels cut to size last week and the holes routered out today. Been taking my sweet *** time on this build haha.. I also figured out where to put the 45* angles in my ports to ensure they have enough distance between them and the inside walls. The finished box will be 15” high, 34” wide, and 19” deep, with a double baffle on top (subs up, ports back). With any luck I will clamp and glue a couple pieces together tomorrow. Thanks for looking!

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[slopecarver 10+ year member]

no comments yet, awww suppose you should post more pictures and do something unique like 480watts in a total box and amp volume of 1.5 cubes....

P.S. BUMP

 

[rumblebee2 10+ year member]

more pics. good start

 

[chereck04 10+ year member]

I can't help it I'm a lazy *** lol.. more pics tonight

 

[chereck04 10+ year member]

Moar Pix!

Sides Glued:

Top & Bracing Glued in, Mocked up vents (still need rear flare glued on in pics):

And thats how it sits as of 9pm tonight. I just ordered carpeting and 2 heavy duty binding posts from partsexpress, but I won't have time to finish it for a week or so.

I'm in no hurry though. I'm about $200 away from ordering my subs, and I start my last semester of college on Monday, so this is getting put on the back burner for a little while. Thanks for lookin'

 

[audiobahnuser18 5,000+ posts]

Nice man lookn good real nice clean cuts.

 

[hazardous0388 10+ year member]

did you take out your rear panels?

 

[chereck04 10+ year member]

did you take out your rear panels?

Yessir, as per your recommendation. It opened up a lot more space.

I also made it so the box bolts to the trunk. I don't know how much it will help/hurt, but it sure as hell won't be going anywhere. I welded some 1/2" threaded rod to the trunk floor, and designed the box so the 2 ledges on the rear of the box line up with 2 of the rods, the front will be held on with some L-brackets that are screwed to the box.

 

[chereck04 10+ year member]

Update:

Box is Carpeted! Pix coming tomorrow night because this damn computer doesn't have a memory card reader and I left my usb cable at my apartment.

Still haven't purchased subs //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif but they're not far off. Should have them ordered within the next few weeks, trying to sell my current setup to fund the new one

 

[BushJ311 5,000+ posts]

That is looking good. I go to erie ever summer many times. We might have to meet up sometime.

 

[chereck04 10+ year member]

Pics as Promised:

I still need to screw the ports to the box and glue in the port braces in those pictures, I have since done this. Seeing everything together really makes me wish I had an extra $200 to blow on subs right now hahaha oh well.. couple weeks //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[stewie 10+ year member]

did you take out your rear panels?

question why would you need to take out the back panels

i had 6 stinger 800s 2 RF 3k and 2 DD 9512s doing a 153 in usaci rules with all the panels in the car

with the back seats still in the car

 

[chereck04 10+ year member]

question why would you need to take out the back panelsi had 6 stinger 800s 2 RF 3k and 2 DD 9512s doing a 153 in usaci rules with all the panels in the car

with the back seats still in the car

damn! got any pics/vids of that setup?

I mostly took them out because they were vibrating and I didn't want to take the time to deaden them properly. I'm a lazy *** lol

EDIT = I think we're talking about 2 different things - I took out the trunk panels and the one on the hatch itself because they were rattling like a biotch. I still have my back seat because I occasionally need to put shit back there haha.

 

[hazardous0388 10+ year member]

question why would you need to take out the back panelsi had 6 stinger 800s 2 RF 3k and 2 DD 9512s doing a 153 in usaci rules with all the panels in the car

with the back seats still in the car

yes im aware you were able to fit alot back there. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/cool.gif.3bcaf8f141236c00f8044d07150e34f7.gif i actually was meaning to call you to figure out how you did that when joe gave me your number but just never got around to doing so. would you mind if i gave you a call within the next few days? If you could plz pm me with your number again.

thanks stewie

Dustin

 

[stewie 10+ year member]

heres a few pics but this is without the back seat

dont have any pics of it with the seat in