Two Questions

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

Hello all I am looking for some info and some detailed help. The projects I am working on need some help. The first is I need detailed instructions on how to flush mount amps into the floor of a trunk I have already made a board out of plywood for the fiberboard or whatever came with my car. I just have never flush mounted amps into the floor so I need instructions on that. Also I am looking to upgrade the leds in my nitro amp form blue to red I know to get them at radio shack but does anyone know what ones I need I will measure the volts going to the leds tonight but other than that I am not sure which ones I need.

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[Horsemanwill 10+ year member]

flushing amps is a matter of making a riser between the amp and the amp mounted board.

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

More details please I rely wanna do this as nice as I can. My father is going to be helping he is great at making things out of wood better than I am.

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

Bump

 

[nathanh 10+ year member]

... kinda hard to answer that... i mean, you mount the amp, then make some risers that are level to each other, running wide so they support the longest way possible, you want like a plexi glass face, or like take a picture of the space and another pic of a simular one to what you want. i mean, mirrors, led's, hydrolic lifts? i mean, there are like 50 thousand ways to do this...

k so this is kinda like what you are going to want to do exept that your top peice is going to be a lot smaller, if it's the back seat of a truck.

um, just a question... but what tools do you have access to? table saw, router, jig saw, skill saw, sander, screw gun, nail gun, grinder with a sander pad, not like this is a small job, and what experiance do you have? your dad? lol i think your best bet, would be laying 3/4 on the ground, putting your amp on that. cut some blocks so the top cover wont hit your amp. then make a top peice that will fit in the hole of the floor pan. maybe run some screws strait throught the top of your cover into your support blocks so it doesn't move. box in your amp so the top supports dont buckle, or cut a few corner blocks to stablize. unless your dad is heavily into wood working, simpler is better... bare minimum is a jigsaw, drill, and yellow glue. sand the edges you cut with a block sander. everything should be semi smooth so the mdf doesn't cut your carpet. i've slit my hand open on a 45 with med dens. pre drill everything, or your just gonna blow the wood apart. the carpet will give you an 1/8th of fudge room. a custom scribe is not a one shot deal. it's gonna take probably 20 passes for you. scribe the back, based on whats strait in the front. then scribe the left side based on the back then the left side. 1/8th gap is fine. a custom design is based on what you want and your ideas. there isn't a set blue print of what it needs to look like, or any measurements that could help you beyond the height of the amp. if you want actuall construction help, supply an idea of what you are looking for.

 

[nathanh 10+ year member]

got that pic off http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.rtcustomdesigns.net/subwoofer/amp3.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.rtcustomdesigns.net/caraudio.html&usg=__P7eWf4vP-bgdAEF-z06IUBBJpos=&h=450&w=600&sz=41&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=BS6D-3QS_3IMtM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dflush%2Bmount%2Bcar%2Bamplifier%2Bin%2Bfloor%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4RNWN_enUS228US229%26sa%3DN

 

[IDSkoT 5,000+ posts]

k so this is kinda like what you are going to want to do exept that your top peice is going to be a lot smaller, if it's the back seat of a truck.

um, just a question... but what tools do you have access to? table saw, router, jig saw, skill saw, sander, screw gun, nail gun, construction adhesive, not like this is a small job, and what experiance do you have?

Holy counter-sunk holes, Batman!

Is that threaded rod for the support? I was just gunna use a wooden dowel.

 

[nathanh 10+ year member]

yeah i don't know why they used all thread. maybe cause it's a hanging amp rack. that would do it.

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

... kinda hard to answer that... i mean, you mount the amp, then make some risers that are level to each other, running wide so they support the longest way possible, you want like a plexi glass face, or like take a picture of the space and another pic of a simular one to what you want. i mean, mirrors, led's, hydrolic lifts? i mean, there are like 50 thousand ways to do this...
k so this is kinda like what you are going to want to do exept that your top peice is going to be a lot smaller, if it's the back seat of a truck.

um, just a question... but what tools do you have access to? table saw, router, jig saw, skill saw, sander, screw gun, nail gun, grinder with a sander pad, not like this is a small job, and what experiance do you have? your dad? lol i think your best bet, would be laying 3/4 on the ground, putting your amp on that. cut some blocks so the top cover wont hit your amp. then make a top peice that will fit in the hole of the floor pan. maybe run some screws strait throught the top of your cover into your support blocks so it doesn't move. box in your amp so the top supports dont buckle, or cut a few corner blocks to stablize. unless your dad is heavily into wood working, simpler is better... bare minimum is a jigsaw, drill, and yellow glue. sand the edges you cut with a block sander. everything should be semi smooth so the mdf doesn't cut your carpet. i've slit my hand open on a 45 with med dens. pre drill everything, or your just gonna blow the wood apart. the carpet will give you an 1/8th of fudge room. a custom scribe is not a one shot deal. it's gonna take probably 20 passes for you. scribe the back, based on whats strait in the front. then scribe the left side based on the back then the left side. 1/8th gap is fine. a custom design is based on what you want and your ideas. there isn't a set blue print of what it needs to look like, or any measurements that could help you beyond the height of the amp. if you want actuall construction help, supply an idea of what you are looking for.

My father and I both have all of the above tools and much much more. Thanks for your help. I am looking for just when you look into the trunk that you seen the amps into the floor but you can see the tops of it and I just want it to stay that way no hydrolics or anything like that. Also what I plan to do when I am not at a car show is take another piece of plywood and cut that to the shape of the trunk than when I am not showing them off I will put that in so I can use the trunk to its full potential.

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

Bump me and him are going to getting started on this soon. Any other suggestions would be helpful.