My 2dr Blazer Build.... the saga continues...

Built 2 ports to start with, one is tuned 44-45 hz and the other 52-53 hz. 200 sqin of port area on each...

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Rounded over most of the edges and Kreg screw holes will be filled and sanded, then the whole port will be painted..

It wont slide into the Blazer, so I will begin building it inside the truck tomorrow.... More pics to follow!

Got a late start today, so not alot got done....

But did get the shell in the truck!

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Got some prep and finish work done on the ports too, but didnt snap any pics of those...

More to come!

Looks real good man. Can't wait to see the final product. Keep up the good work //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

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Not alot of time to work on it tonight but got the front loading wall on!

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Working hard last and today....

Painted the port in white for now, just to seal the wood. Plan to paint the inside of the box white with LED's in the future, but wanted to get it playing for a show/comp tomorrow..

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Little test fit before I went all in..

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Wired up, ready for subs...

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Subs in, ready to close it up...

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All closed up, port in, ready to go!

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And as of 9pm tonight, its alive! Tuned by ear, very conservatively, it sounds great.

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Best joint strength. What's the woofers and amps?

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Subs are custom, Adire Brahma motors with Sundown frames and PSi soft parts.

Amps for now will be my SS Rubicons with a PPI DSP-88R. I have two 4 channels that are paint matched to the 2500. Gonna build a little amp rack in the back. Right now I have a PPI 5 channel in, that I was using as a small temp amp.

Hope to get it trimmed out in the next few weeks and get the SS 4ch's and DSP installed so I can tune it and see what it can really do.

Put some time into the truck this weekend...

Little snakeskin vinyl for the front, to match my headliner (I redid it from the blue skulls to a black snakeskin when I started doing copper color in the truck instead of blue lol) and made some side filler/braces to seal up the wall.

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Painted the inside of the box white and added some leds inside (will post pics once they are powered up). Painted the sides of the box and braces black so you cant see them through the windows..

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Made my front trim panels, still need to make the lower one to go around the 8's, but that one is going to be a pain in the @ss...

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Trim panels carpeted up and installed, port painted a copper/orange color...

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And started on an amp rack idea... not sure if I like it or not yet, will see...

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Thanks for looking!

Registered here just to ask you a few questions..
Im currently walling my 95 2 door blazer, same type deal, a slide in 4th order with a trim panel.

Trying to use 2 evil 18's... Max size I can squeeze is 37.25" width, 29" height, and 39" deep, that leaves me something like 20 cubes before displacement, 5, 13 and change ported with 252sq in port (half of cone area)

What are your demensions of this box before the trim panel?

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Sounds about right...

Mine is 38" wide, 30.5" high and 29" deep external dimensions... It was supposed to be 32" high, but I couldn't fit it at 29" deep and have the front be where I wanted it. Im 6ft, and like to drive relaxed, so I set the wall back further to allow my seat where I want it since this is my daily driver. Mine wont slide in/out because of the height, built it in the truck.

It's doubled walled all around and double baffled, so internal after displacements leaves me right at 4 cu sealed and 11.5 cu ported. Easily could have gotten more airspace by building out over the wheel wells, or moving the front forward for more depth, just didn't really need it for my 2 15's. If you are going single walls with just bracing, should be able to get 5 sealed/13ish ported, I started with a bit over 20 cuft as well.

I will tell you I wish I had given these 15's a little more on the sealed side. Having no TSPs for them, except what I could pull from them with my DATS, I went a bit conservative. I think I would have gotten more lows with a little larger sealed section, FS I pulled from the subs are around 32hz, but I also am not planning to run a ton of power to them. If you are going to be giving the Evils rated or higher power, better to keep the sealed side smaller for control.

I built my ports at 200 sqin (20x10), tuned to 46-47 on the daily, and 53-54 for SPL. I haven't really played around with it yet, but I figured that would be my maximum port area and I could shrink it down if need. Metered the daily port, it was peaking at 36hz, did a 144.7 with a very conservative "by ear tune". Will have it back together tomorrow, and get it tuned with my o-scope. Hopefully, play around with it Saturday and see where my peaks are for both ports and get a meter on it at full power....

Looks dope dude.
Might be on the hunt for a Rubicon 4.600 amp. If you know of one f/s lmk...

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I'll sell you this 4.600.... but it comes with the 4.500 and 2500, lol. I had them up for sale as a package at one point, Im going to need more than 2500 for these 15s, and I like all my equipment to match (i.e. why I painted all these) so they would have to go all together.