The future of my trunk....

[Frankensuby 10+ year member]

This is the design concept I have for my trunk. I already have the box made and it had been installed in my trunk and working for roughly 6 months. I'm running a Xenon 10" dual 2 ohm into a 4 ohm load, running on a sealed volume of .65, and it seems to love it!

The top angled amp is a Phoenix Gold Xenon 200.4 (938 RMS Berthed) and is HUGE. 22 inches in length, and was really hard to even make fit beside the sub box. The amp weighs roughly 20 pounds. This will be running my current Type-R components in the front, and MMC525's in the rear. I'll be sending 100 RMS to the front, and 85 to the rear.

The amp on the bottom just will squeeze in underneath the top speaker amp. I have a Xenon 600.1 (821 RMS Berth and Bench) to push the subwoofer. My biggest fear is that my shelf for the top rack won't be strong enough and will break, falling down on the bottom amp.

The colors added to the picture represent what I'm aiming for when all is done. I'm painting everything with a dark gray that has a high contact of fine flake in it, then running some clearcoat onto it.

So, what do you guys think? Do you think the shelf might not be able to handle the weight under heavy bumploads? (I drive a Subaru, and we have fun backroads //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif ) Overall thoughts?

I will provide more pics of the trunk later, but at the moment I am at work, and they have photobucket.com blocked.

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[azbass 5,000+ posts]

um, uck

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

i like the design, i would go with 1 inch board for the 200.4, or just make another flat rack about 3 inches above the first amp (to give it room to disperse heat). but if you could get it sturdy enough to hold and not break wherever you go, i wouldnt hesitate on this design.

 

[Frankensuby 10+ year member]

um, uck

Que?5

 

[CRAZYCORNUTS18 10+ year member]

i dont like that big *** gap is it even needed?

 

[CRAZYCORNUTS18 10+ year member]

it cant got horizontl?

 

[W8 a minute 10+ year member]

um, uck

x2

 

[Frankensuby 10+ year member]

When I get home at 9:45 I'll try to remember to throw you guys some of the pictures. The problem with room is that I'm trying to fit this inbetween my rear strut towers to keep some usable trunk space up. Basically, if this works (will know by the end of the night) I will have increased my multichannel amp power by near 400% without using an extra inch of floor space. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif (A6004T Audiobahn to X200.4)

I have a false floor being siliconed into the trunk underneath the amp and sub. I already worked it so that it sits level over the bumps on the floor of the trunk.

And , I'm probably working with clearances of .25-.75 inches on the amps...Real close. I'm worried I miscalculated my cuts.

I'll try to find some pics... Once again, any reasons for the negatives; as in why...looks..? I'm not going for glam, just nice functional, compact with decent air cooling. No crazy plexiglass panes and crazy lights.

 

[THUNDERBIRD 10+ year member]

its not a bad design, but i dont think the .25-.75 inch is enough clearance for all that. you could angle the sub amp too. what i would do because your worried about strength is fiberglass that top shelf ontop of 3/4" mdf 2-3 layers will give you the strength

 

[W8 a minute 10+ year member]

. Once again, any reasons for the negatives; as in why...looks..?

Yes, looks. I can understand not wanting to lose space but there has to be a better looking way to lay that out. It's not the lack of plexi or lights but the design doesn't "flow"

Honestly, it looks like you took a corner too fast and all the crap in your trunk ended up in one huge pile.

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

How about this ~

Instead of having the one amp flat and the second amp at that odd angle above it have both of them more or less standing vertically one in front of the other? Where one amp would basically be hidden from view due to the other amp standing in front of it.

It would be problematic to access any of the settings on whichever amp that is behind the other but assuming you know how to properly set it up you won't need to continually be able to get to it anyway.

 

[Frankensuby 10+ year member]

^^^ I was actually tinkering with that idea. I really wanted to make both amps on an angled shelf towards the rear, so that you could see both amps straight on. The multichannel is just to wide to fit in between the sub box and strut towers without a diagnol. But unfortunately, my room is VERY limited, and by that, I mean I'm working with .5 inches ~ just to fit the amps inbetween. I am using some stuff called 'Lexel' that is supposed to be excellent for high strength applications that need a small amount of flex. It's thick, so it's easy to apply.

As far as the looks, very understandable. I know that it looks akward, but unfortunately I have no extra room to even have them slant towards the rear. It is very tight situation I got myself into when I fiberglassed the enclosure to fit the left corner strut tower. I can make it work, it just won't be a showmans job. I can deal with that for having clean sound and room to throw my sports equipment in //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Frankensuby 10+ year member]

Well, all did NOT go according to plan. The amp is too long to run the other one underneath and run the long one diagnol. I took pics to show you what type of spaces I'm working in.

I'm thinking of laying the Mono as shown there, but laying it so that it is at the same degree as the speaker amp above it. I'll also be adding an actual shelf for the X200.4, if I do this setup.

My only other option is to dedicate a corner for the amps. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[Frankensuby 10+ year member]

Ok, new twist... are there any things I should worry about, if my amps are mounted as such....

One upside down, one right side up, mounted to 1/2" plywood shelf.... Anything that could go wrong?

 

[dyabolical 10+ year member]

Looks like you should be looking into a false floor or something of the kind.