Maximum mounting depth of my enclosure?

[Trepkos 10+ year member]

Top depth is 5.5"

Bottom depth is 9"

Width is 55.75"

Height is 16"

2.36cu ft

Just wanting to know if Im restricted to shallow mounts.

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[SW9152 10+ year member]

try to keep a good couples inches behind the sub for cooling

 

[JT1979 10+ year member]

u will most likely have to have a shallow mount sub, or low wattage sub. Sub with around 4", maybe 4.25" and IMO that is pushing it.

 

[Trepkos 10+ year member]

Just saying because someone told me that my box was huge and that I would probably be able to fit beefier subwoofers in there.

At the moment I currently have Kicker 2-Ohm CVT shallows, and they're loud but only when you turn the bass boost up and the bass eq on the amplifier up and I was wondering what were my options.

 

[n00b 10+ year member]

ull b fine with a beefier sub... leave about .5-1" breathing room behind the sub.. is this box sealed? i assume so.. im sure it has polyfill in it too.. so the sub isnt gonna breathe neways.. so just leave a lil room behind and ur fine..

 

[Trepkos 10+ year member]

ull b fine with a beefier sub... leave about .5-1" breathing room behind the sub.. is this box sealed? i assume so.. im sure it has polyfill in it too.. so the sub isnt gonna breathe neways.. so just leave a lil room behind and ur fine..

Sealed and no polyfill...

But whats an estimate on a good mounting depth I can depend on?

 

[n00b 10+ year member]

im gonna assume 9" is the outside depth? what size wood did u use.. is this an angled truck box? what was in it 10's?

 

[Trepkos 10+ year member]

Angled truck, 5/8" mdf, 12"'s

 

[n00b 10+ year member]

then take that 9" subtract 5/8 and 5/8 and that will give u the mounting depth.. also depends on the angle of the box as to how shallow of a sub ull need to run.. whats the inside depth at the top of the 12" opening... stuff some poly in there dude //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Trepkos 10+ year member]

Like, for example, if I wanted to fit a full-size subwoofer, something that may take between 6 5/8"(CVX) or 7.7"(Alpine Type-R). Would it be possible to polyfill the box and still not having to worry about overheating issues and whatnot?

 

[AcidicDreams 10+ year member]

take a measuring tape, go to the top of the mounting hole, measure from the outer edge ot the hole back until the tape measure hits the rear of the box. Then subtract about 1.5" and you'll have a maximum depth. As for subs there are alot of choices. I believe the Type-R's will want more power than you have. The Shiva and it's clones get very loud with small amounts of power... plus they are fairly shallow.

EDIT: they don't come in 2ohm SVC so no go there....

 

[google123 10+ year member]

If those are the outside dimensions, here is rough drawing showing what you can get away with as far as mounting options. If you mount the sub closer to the bottom, then it increases the available mounting depth for the sub. you should be able to go as high as 6.5 to 7 if you mount the sub to where its almost flush with the bottom edge.





If you mount the sub lower, you can get this