Need Help Building SUB BOX!!! THX

[JHardee 10+ year member]

Alright, hello everyone. i recently just purchased a pair of kicker s12l7 subs and i wanted to build my own ported box for them. now, i need help considering ive never built a sub box before. im not stupid tho and i know my way around a workshop so yes imma just build a ported box myself. if anyone has ever done this before or build one themselfs any help or diagrams or pics would be very helpful. thank you all very much. and just post any helpful info if ya got it. everything helps me!!!!

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[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

building the box is simple, butt joints, use wood glue (i use titebond II), clamp it up, (i clamp then shoot brads in), then seal with silicone. The design is what is difficult for beginners.

 

[JHardee 10+ year member]

alright, ill keep all that in mind when it start to seal it, i still gotta figure out how to design it, n how the heck do i tune it?? and what does that even mean? how do i know to what HZ i should tune it? im running them to a zx1500.1 btw

 

[skadude016 5,000+ posts]

shoot me a pm and i can make you a box design //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

go to kickers website and look at their reecommended enclosures is going to be the easiest to start out with

 

[bhsdriller 10+ year member]

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=137804

 

[Crzy 10+ year member]

there are many free enclosures on this website if you search around. or you can pay a member to design you a box with a cutsheet and breakdown of the dimensions so it will be easy to follow. there was also a website i remember that did this for you and gave the dimension of every peice needed to be cut, but i forget the name maybe someone else will remember it gave you a picture with different colored peices from a top veiw of the box

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

http://www.subwoofertools.com/calculator_display.ashx

 

[x2o 10+ year member]

I think a lot of people overlook the free box designs sticky in the enclosure forum. It's a great resource for a beginner who doesn't know all the specifics of designing an enclosure, or can be used as a guideline to designing one //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif.

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=137804

 

[Crzy 10+ year member]

http://www.subwoofertools.com/calculator_display.ashx

there you go just use that if you cant find a box already designed for ur application and you will be set. my first box i built was one of their designs and it worked out well for me

 

[JHardee 10+ year member]

well thank you all for the help, greatly appreciated

 

[x2o 10+ year member]

There's been a flood of new members coming outta PSL lately, haha. Next time I head up there I gotta see if I meet a couple of you guys //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif.

Best of luck with the box! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif