New to car audio(not just the website)

[EM2_Rob]

Hello everyone, my name is Robert from Houston, TX. Bought my first car, a 2001 civic coupe(EM2), back when I was 19 I think. It came with two 12" subs which I was pretty happy with, they were 8 ohm wired for 4 pushing 300 watts. Recently I had a small flood in my trunk and the amp was just sitting on the floor and got ruined. My sub box also got ruined and I was tired of having this huge box in my trunk. I had to do a lot of research to step up my cars audio. Turns out when the subs where installed some steps were missed. My front engine ground was left stock, and the ground from the amp was like a 12 gauge. Upgraded those to 4 gauge from knukonceptz. Radio was also stock so no rca cables, it was tapped from the rear speakers. Also I believe my remote turn on is connected to my ignition. Upgraded my amp to a Kenwood Excelon X700-5 so I can hook my speakers up to an amp as well. Upgraded the front speakers from the paper ones to some Rockford Fosgate. Downgraded my subs to two 10" Rockford R2D2 2 Ohms with 500 watts. Next up was a box, I have no woodwork skill at all but I thought to myself how hard can this be? Bought myself some tools and wood, so far here's my results.

Needed to make a box that fit in my spare tire well. Just a little under .5 cu ft of volume so that's mainly why I went with those R2D2's.



Tried my best to have it fit exactly like the original piece of wood but it wouldn't fit in my trunk so I had to trim up the sides.



All in all I'm pretty stoked and proud of my work.

I have the carpet coming in, so hopefully sometime this week I'll have time to throw it on to make it look a little cleaner. Also I'll be cutting into the seat to hide the wires. My amp is currently on my seat with a piece of wood I'll need to carpet as well. I hope to learn a lot more about car audio from this forum, especially some fiberglass work.

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[SteveLNew]

I'm Steve... I'm from Kansas... I'm 45, and I still LOVE music.

I joined hoping to get some tips and trick to keeping up my car audio or anything else I have planned.

I'm kind of a DYI guy. I installed a car stereo in my old bathroom with some marine speakers in the ceiling. Cut out the drywall made it look nice and professional... Why? Because I wanted to see if I could do it... Why else. lol

I don't always do things the correct way, but I can usually get the job done and be happy with the results.

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

Hello everyone, my name is Robert from Houston, TX. Bought my first car, a 2001 civic coupe(EM2), back when I was 19 I think. It came with two 12" subs which I was pretty happy with, they were 8 ohm wired for 4 pushing 300 watts. Recently I had a small flood in my trunk and the amp was just sitting on the floor and got ruined. My sub box also got ruined and I was tired of having this huge box in my trunk. I had to do a lot of research to step up my cars audio. Turns out when the subs where installed some steps were missed. My front engine ground was left stock, and the ground from the amp was like a 12 gauge. Upgraded those to 4 gauge from knukonceptz. Radio was also stock so no rca cables, it was tapped from the rear speakers. Also I believe my remote turn on is connected to my ignition. Upgraded my amp to a Kenwood Excelon X700-5 so I can hook my speakers up to an amp as well. Upgraded the front speakers from the paper ones to some Rockford Fosgate. Downgraded my subs to two 10" Rockford R2D2 2 Ohms with 500 watts. Next up was a box, I have no woodwork skill at all but I thought to myself how hard can this be? Bought myself some tools and wood, so far here's my results.
Needed to make a box that fit in my spare tire well. Just a little under .5 cu ft of volume so that's mainly why I went with those R2D2's.



Tried my best to have it fit exactly like the original piece of wood but it wouldn't fit in my trunk so I had to trim up the sides.



All in all I'm pretty stoked and proud of my work.

I have the carpet coming in, so hopefully sometime this week I'll have time to throw it on to make it look a little cleaner. Also I'll be cutting into the seat to hide the wires. My amp is currently on my seat with a piece of wood I'll need to carpet as well. I hope to learn a lot more about car audio from this forum, especially some fiberglass work.

Coming along nicely ...Since your trunk is prone to leaking a fiberglass box in the spare tire area might work better ...to protect agaist damage plus it can be shaped to make use of the whole area....Try mounting the amp on the seat back area or up on some sort of amp rack...one can be made to mount under the rear deck area ...I made one that hinged down before so I could access amps or adjustments if needed ...then I carpeted the panels around it in trunk liner so it wasn't even noticed...

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

I'm Steve... I'm from Kansas... I'm 45, and I still LOVE music. I joined hoping to get some tips and trick to keeping up my car audio or anything else I have planned.

I'm kind of a DYI guy. I installed a car stereo in my old bathroom with some marine speakers in the ceiling. Cut out the drywall made it look nice and professional... Why? Because I wanted to see if I could do it... Why else. lol

I don't always do things the correct way, but I can usually get the job done and be happy with the results.

nothing wrong with that as long as its what you enjoy

 

[EM2_Rob]

Coming along nicely ...Since your trunk is prone to leaking a fiberglass box in the spare tire area might work better ...to protect agaist damage plus it can be shaped to make use of the whole area....Try mounting the amp on the seat back area or up on some sort of amp rack...one can be made to mount under the rear deck area ...I made one that hinged down before so I could access amps or adjustments if needed ...then I carpeted the panels around it in trunk liner so it wasn't even noticed...

Yeah I have the amp on the seat now. I thought I read somewhere it wasn't good for subs to share a chamber, but looking at a couple build logs on here leads me to believe otherwise. You have any knowledge on this you can explain to me.

 

[the727kid 10+ year member]

The only downside to them sharing a chamber is if one blows. Other than that it doesn't matter. Splitting chambers takes up airspace and makes your enclosure larger.

 

[EM2_Rob]

Thanks 727, finally got around to throwing the carpet on and tucked some wires.