Mustang work log (with pics)

[DarkFox 10+ year member]

Well, finaly getting around to putting a system back in the stang. Kinda basic but should be pretty loud.

Hifonics BXi 2006D

2X 06 Kicker L7 12"

6 Farad cap (was gonna get a Kinetics, but this was easier to install and I am lazy with my own stuff)

Box comes in right about 4.9 Cubes, port is 5.5 x 11.25 and is tuned to 35Hz.

camera was dead durring construction. She isnt pretty. but I already know I am gonna have to take out my rear seats and kick it in to place. Just hope it fits.

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[NoPh33rRaCiNg 10+ year member]

what is the height on that? the width is gonna be cutting it close, i hated the room in my old 94.

 

[2000Gator 10+ year member]

guess its a fox based on your name, what year and model 5.0? need some pics!

 

[andytb 10+ year member]

looks good enough

 

[woahturbo 10+ year member]

should get pretty loud

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

Are you forward firing or rear firing it?

 

[DarkFox 10+ year member]

crap... lost the message so here goes again...

its a 98 mustang GT with the Mach 460 (so I got that shitty amp rack in the way)

the box is 13" tall, already gonna have to kick it in prolly to get it under the amp rack / speaker pod.

As for the forward firing it.. I am concerned about the space between the woofers and rear of car not being enough. I had considered forward firing it, notching the bracket that holds the seat in, and glassing it to make a cavity between the rear seats and the box. That way whenever the kids not in the car I could fold seats down and it would look pimp, but for now I am gonna just try to rear fire them and hope I get away with it... if it sounds like poop, then my next project I post here will be with a saws-all and fiberglass.

the wife is at the barn with the camera right now, so no new pics yet, but I am laying the mat now, will post some pics when she gets back. Just hope 5 sheets of extreme is enough...

 

[Max_Power 10+ year member]

looks interesting, my brother has a 95 GT.

you'll be my guinea pig for his system if he ever pays me to do his.....

 

[UCF52 10+ year member]

crap... lost the message so here goes again...
its a 98 mustang GT with the Mach 460 (so I got that shitty amp rack in the way)

the box is 13" tall, already gonna have to kick it in prolly to get it under the amp rack / speaker pod.

As for the forward firing it.. I am concerned about the space between the woofers and rear of car not being enough. I had considered forward firing it, notching the bracket that holds the seat in, and glassing it to make a cavity between the rear seats and the box. That way whenever the kids not in the car I could fold seats down and it would look pimp, but for now I am gonna just try to rear fire them and hope I get away with it... if it sounds like poop, then my next project I post here will be with a saws-all and fiberglass.

the wife is at the barn with the camera right now, so no new pics yet, but I am laying the mat now, will post some pics when she gets back. Just hope 5 sheets of extreme is enough...

I have an '01 with the Mach 460 and the height in mine from trunk floor to amp rack/speaker pod was only 11 inches. Your best bet is to remove it anyways. I assume you have powered speakers up front to keep up with the L7's, so the rears won't be necessary. It's possible the measurements in our cars are different, so I was just throwing that out there.

 

[GMCJimmyslt2000 10+ year member]

98-01...they changed body types and pry trunks size...i worked in 01 and there was very lil room in it, a prefab could barely fit into it.

 

[UCF52 10+ year member]

98-01...they changed body types and pry trunks size...i worked in 01 and there was very lil room in it, a prefab could barely fit into it.

Yea, very little room. I hope the OP measured before hand. Also there is a little bump that's about 8-12 inches in on the trunk floor that you should account for.

 

[DarkFox 10+ year member]

I measured and was gonna go for 12.5 high (already stuffing) but the guy did my rips wrong (I don't have my own table saw :-( ) and now its 13. Plastic is soft though, and sheet metal has alot of flex too it too.. I am not too concerned about the hight, though that could come back to get me... well see

 

[DarkFox 10+ year member]

man.... it used to be when I got my new stereo stuff in, I would stay up THAT night and get it all done, usually around 3AM I am riding down someone else's block, so i don't piss off my neighbors when I drop my first few tones.... Now when I get it in, I am still happy, but it actually feels like work putting it in... oh well, price we pay right.

 

[DarkFox 10+ year member]

all out of dynamat now.... moving onto wirring. Working slow and by myself, should have some pics up tonight of finished system... unless the box doesn't fit of coarse

 

[UCF52 10+ year member]

It's usually that bump that gets people. I actually bent back some of the sheet metal that runs across the top to fit the first box I put in.