I need a cheap hatch or SUV for a stereo hobby car

[FadedSpy 10+ year member]

Any suggestions?? Taking into consideration price of HO alternators, ease of accessibility, best sound capability. I was thinking like a jeep Cherokee or focus hatchback under 4k

What would you look for in a hobby vehicle??

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[big scott]

i love my blazer.

 

[gckless 5,000+ posts]

 

[FadedSpy 10+ year member]

Hell Yeah!

 

[Popwarhomie 5,000+ posts]

Crx.

 

[tprj82 10+ year member]

Gm. 5.3. AutoTrader.com Mobile

Something like this hearty suspension, cheap parts imho reliable

 

[Bomber Z 10+ year member]

Astro Van. Lot's of room for lots of speakers. Have 20 in mine so far and looking to add more.

 

[FadedSpy 10+ year member]

Astro Van. Lot's of room for lots of speakers. Have 20 in mine so far and looking to add more.

Holy ****, Step away from the Van =)

I like Tahoes, terrible on gas but I wont be cruising, just annoying my neighbors with it

 

[Umbra]

I've always thought an ambulance or hearse would be fun. Stick a few subs in a coffin.

 

[brian84corvette 10+ year member]

Old School SPL Competition Vehicles

so bad ***

built in 1984 with 3 mtx 24" subwoofers it must of been mind shattering insane for its time...

i bought my 1990 suburban for 2k and drove it home and have been driving it ever since. its got all the room i could ever need.

if i was to start over - i would find a 2 door hatch car and wall it right behind the front seats. no back seats - no creature comforts. purpose built to be insane at giving demos to random car show guests in random parking lot shows.

i had a 84 corvette that i stuffed a 18" sub in ported box - rear glass acted like a horn flair - for what its worth it was the most brutal viechle i have ever sat in to date - and im sad i never got to wall that car off before i punted it with an engine on its way out. - but fiberglass cars dont flex so there was no wasted energy in this build.



next time i want to do a dedicated build it will be a small car = small internal air space to get moving. my suburban is so huge inside two 18s dont hurt my chest but in a tiny little shoe box of a car the same pair of 18s would not allow you to breathe properly and cause blury vision

my local craigs list offers little guys like this for reasonable prices

2000 chevy metro

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1989 Civic Hatch Won't Last Long

or

i hate vw but this is a cool looking little guy

1997 Volkswagen Golf

 

[Bomber Z 10+ year member]

That Vette is sweet..

 

[FadedSpy 10+ year member]

That Vette is sweet..

He'll yeah it is...

I would totally pick up that Vw if I were within 500 miles of you. I need to take a vacation, find something like that and hopefully make it back to Iowa in it

 

[tprj82 10+ year member]

only problem with small cars is your limited to what you can fit, and easily max out suspension.

larger suv' you can do 4 18's in a 6th order in a c pillar build

 

[brian84corvette 10+ year member]

the single 18" in my vette was absolutely brutal to sit in. = pair of the same 18s on better power in my suburban window line box is loud but barely tickles my nose hairs. - the airspace inside the car realley needs to be acounted for when planing the system and for what you want it to do.

me i want my next system to absolutely be violent and insane to sit in. blurry vision / chest pounding bass and its going to be extremely hard to do that effect inside a viechle with a huge internal airspace - unless you are doing a b pillar wall of some sort to it and seal it off good so efectivly removing 2/3 of the viechles internal airspace that the subs will have to exite.

 

[mrbadwrench 10+ year member]

I'm about to buy a friends 99 cougar for a spl build. 2 door with a huge hatch ftw