Pimp's Worklog for Kenny Pollock. 10.07 Cubes @ 30 HZ (18" RE SX) **Pics*ll with Pics

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

Hey all. I know a thread about this was bposted a couple weeks ago, but I figured I'd start it over, and link all the pics here as they should be.

I'd like to start it off saying what a great dude Kenny is. He came all the way to New Port Richey from Miami, at 6ish in the AM to start on this with no sleep, and just said that he wanted it nice and loud, and big (of course). Wanted to keep the tire well at first, but there was pretty much no way to go that, so thats when we decided that it would be best to glass the tire well into the enclosure. what that means is that we made use of the tirewell which would have been useless, and obtained an adequate amount of mounting depth as the 18 inch that he choose to go with (RE SX) wouldnt have enough room behind the sub for proper ventilation.

Started the project off by taping off the entire spare tire well. spare was a full size spare on a 16 inch rim

A single layer of resin in most places, just to get a base idea on how much resin would be used

Here is the itial test fitting on the bottom piece of the box

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[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

More pics of the beginning portion in Tampa.

bottom test fit of the wood itself, just still getting an idea of how everything may work itself into place

thats a pretty big F'er right there

here is the first pic of the cutout of the trunk fitting piece (bottom)

If you notice, it looks off center, ill explain why later.

last shot of that one.

I build the botom/sides of the box, and sadly it was too tall. Not too tall to fit in the trunk, but it fit right between the two pieces that come down in the back when you close the trunk (which is why the piece looks off center, because as is the spare tire well. It itself is off center) there are 2 springs on the inside of those hinges that i didnt realise existed until we test closed the trunk, and it just did not work. they came down on the box themself, and there was no way around it, the box had to be smaller. I didnt get any pics of this, but i did come up with a remedy for it. I had to trim one inch off of the entire box, which allowed those hinges to move freely, and allowed the trunk to close.

here ti is after that cut

These are all the pics that i have in tampa, but after this i got some glass down, and 2-3 layers of mat in most places.

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

so as the story goes, it was late, and the project was about 35-40 % done. at around 1 AM or so (was working on this one for quite awhile, and making various trips to the store, and having major attention to detail) I talked with Kenny and presented a few options

him and his friend could crash at my place and shower and w/e, they could do the same in a nearby motel, or i could go out there in 2 days to finish the job (Kenny is from Miami)

Kenny decided that it was best if i went down to MIA to finish (and im not going to overlook any reason to go to beautiful MIA, even if it is for just work. I decided to take the trip down there friday night/saturday morning. I started the project on thursday, and hadn't slept 4 hours since, and I felt ok with that, and that i had a mission to accomplish, and i did so. I drove to MIA and got started finishing up bright and early saturday morning. Enough with a story and on with more pics.

!!!

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

This is after most of the glass was laid

its 7/8 layers thick in most places, but i needed to add reinforcement on the areas that the glass connected with the box, so i continued to lay more layers of mat.

yes, that is a big round piece of MDF in the bottom, to add stability, without having to glass all of that area, it was more cost and time efficent as well.

one of the corners.

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

the idea that we ended up with, was to naturally run the front (top) of the box with 2 baffles, and i had an idea about running a false face across the entire surface of the trunk.

had to run, more pics coming soon

 

[vetkilr 10+ year member]

Looks sweet.

Glassin takes soooooooooo longgggggggggggggggggggg.

 

[supraman1379 10+ year member]

Looks good. Keep the pics coming.

 

[kpozr2 10+ year member]

saaawwweeeeet!

 

[mobileaudio219 10+ year member]

Looks pretty good man, keep up the great work and post more pictures...

 

[vetkilr 10+ year member]

wait til you see what he does to me stang.

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

wait til you see what he does to me stang.

the wheels are churnin

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

I wish I had the time to do something like that...

 

[vetkilr 10+ year member]

the wheels are churnin

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[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

More pics of the current build

here is the lid on the box

here are a couple pics of the false face that was applied on the box. this was easily the most difficult part of the process.

using lots of small pieces of pressed board as a template to fit all the countours of the trunk

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

Carpeted the top of the box. just the top area because of the dual face. the reason being is that the false face does not go all the way to the back of the box, but where the carpet ends.

that was a tough spot btw