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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kinville" data-source="post: 4740646" data-attributes="member: 592283">I am currently on a little vacation, visiting my folks and checking up on my brother and sisters and yet car audio still beckons... I got in late monday night and my dad had some new music he had been listening to that he wanted me to hear so we jump in his car to go get a listen. This would be the SVT Focus (pics further down) for reference, and he opted for the "Audiophile" option when buying it a couple years ago. This includes an 8" sub with a small amp pushing it in a plastic enclosure in the hatch. Back to the story... we're driving around and while the front stage still sounded really nice, however the sub sounded horrible... just muddy and completely innaccurate. I have him stop and open the hatch, and then turn up the volume while I listen to the sub... and its just completely bottoming out... I'm newer to this and my ears may not be as tuned as some yet, but this was unmistakable lol...So of course I took it upon myself to work on this problem haha... I took out the stock enclosure which has the small amp mounted to the top of it... the enclosure is made of ABS plastic... it is quite thick but I would still feel alot better about a MDF box, but he wants to keep the stock stealth look... a couple things about it astound me tho in the stupidity of its design... first is that the wiring for the sub goes UNDER where the sub is mounted... like a small indent to let the wires through... and secondly besides being mounted to the enclosure the traditional way, on the back side of the enclosure there is a hex bolt going through the enclosure and into the motor of the sub! Craziness... Anyhow we picked up a RF Punch S1 8 today as he didn't want to wait for something to be shipped up here, however it was a little too deep for the enclosure. The only info we could find on the enclosure said we would have about 4 1/4" of depth and the specs on the RF site said the sub had a depth of 4 1/8". Even with the boot for the motor off it still is about 1/4" too deep... so tomorrow I'll buy or make a mounting ring for it...And for the hole left buy the hex bolt on the back, I going to get a carriage bolt and have the head on the inside of the enclosure and then get some sort of gasket material and but it around the thread against the back of the enclosure on the outside of it, a washer, and then a nut... and then silicone just to be sure. Oh and silicone where the wires come through also... maybe not the best solution, but better than how it was before. Now for the photographic evidence //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif Oh and any advice or suggestions are certainly welcome!<img src="http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p425/zkinville/Dads%20Sub/DSC00022.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p425/zkinville/Dads%20Sub/DSC00023.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p425/zkinville/Dads%20Sub/DSC00024.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p425/zkinville/Dads%20Sub/DSC00027.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p425/zkinville/Dads%20Sub/DSC00028.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p425/zkinville/Dads%20Sub/DSC00038.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p425/zkinville/Dads%20Sub/DSC00039.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p425/zkinville/Dads%20Sub/DSC00040.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p425/zkinville/Dads%20Sub/DSC00041.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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