Trunk Issues

[Jtsky 10+ year member]

I have a question for all you 4 door sedan owners. Which way do you normally point your subs in your trunk? I hear rear fireing sounds best, but then I heard something about fire through or something like that. If I understood it right it meant that you open the little port that goes from the trunk into the car, and shoot the sub through there. Is that right?

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[cappy72 10+ year member]

rear fire

 

[60ndown 10+ year member]

ive tried both, rear fire is better......in my car?

 

[Jtsky 10+ year member]

So how exactly do you set up the sub to fire through that whole? Obviously the sub wont line up perfectly with it, what do you do?

 

[flakko 5,000+ posts]

go bandpass or ported, and stick the port through that hole you were talkin bout

 

[YungGunna313 10+ year member]

ive always set up systems that rear fire, but if u just have to fire them to the front here's what u gotta do:

Build a baffle to seal the trunk completely. in the baffle you need to cut holes that the subs can fire through... after that u gotta slide the box up to the baffle and screw it in place to keep it from moving out of line.

ive never actually done that, but according to what ive been told there should be minimal cancellation in the trunk and ur trunk shouldnt rattle even if u dont have deadener

my 2 cents

 

[OKLAGMCRUISER 10+ year member]

experimenting to what sounds best to you works well, but usually rear firing sounds/feels best.

 

[albarran9 10+ year member]

I have a civic 4 door and the sound bounces off of the trunk lid and back into the car. maybe you can get some mat to reflect the sound better?

 

[Jtsky 10+ year member]

Alright thanks. I thought rear firing was always best but I heard about the fire through and was interested in learning about it.

 

[Mr. Opportunist 10+ year member]

i have fired into cabin, towards trunk, and up, best sounding was into cabin, loudest was up(had more port area then so probably why it was louder)