Gents, did a search on this site, ebay, www., etc. What i am wondering for our generation TL is there a premade custom sub box for a 10" like a few have had made on the 04+ in the left rear corner of the trunk? I already have a q-logic but would like to clean up the trunk a bit and like tuck the sub in a corner to better fit in, look cleaner? i know i can get one custom made, just wondering if there is one out there already.

 

not that i have heard of but im intrested

 

A few people made corner ones for our cars a few years back. I did a search but came up empty handed for pics. 1 Turned out really nice. It was fiberglass and fit really good in the D-Side corner

 

that'd be something i'd like to get, i guess if i keep this car it'll have to go custom unless someone chime's in

 

the guys who had them were all custom made. If your not afraid to get a little dirty, fiberglass isnt really that hard to do

 

hey Rick how's it goin! i don't think offhand anyone really makes a pre-fab for us, but i know a shop in connecticut off of 84 that will probably do one. they're not cheap but they are high quality.

did you ever see the alpine box i have for my 10" when we did your shocks? i can easily push it to the back of the trunk to access my spare without removing the box. and the color is almost a perfect match. although i know you're looking for something a little more form factor fitting....

Bob (SSTS)

 

well, i was just hoping there was something like a quick and easy fix, i think i just need to redo a bit the way i have it, put the amp to the side. i think i may be selling this car soon so i don't want to do too much customizing along with lots of $$

 

Well i would be willing to make them for members of the board. What kind of price would you be willing to spend? It would be an unloaded box carpeted to match...

 

heres one im working on, been taking for ever but its gonna look nice when its done.

 

^^ yea that would look clean, what the sub facing inward the trunk right?

 

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is the magnet hidding, or is the subs pounding inside the trunk..


where is the magnet

 

o its gonna be inside the enclosure so i can save some space.

 

hey guys what's up, i do a lot of customs systems. those boxes on the side built with fiberglass will nto hit hard or even sound good, there is not enough air for the woofer to move and it will bottom out. what u can do is build a type dual reflex bandpass box and port it through the middle of the back seat. i did one for a 330i and this guy can't sit in his car and play his music. the box is tuned at about 45hz

 

It all depends on what sub you choose to place in there. Yea you wont be winning any SPL contests, but you can definatly get a great deal of bass from a custom sub box in that location. There is alot of hidden depth there if you remove the carpet, and slightly angle it too. and any thing will be 10x more than oem setup

 

people on the audio board said they got great results by making a box in there.

 

well i read tonight you can bolt the amp to the sub box, i didn't think you could b/c of vibration issues, so i did that and bolted the capacitor also to the sub. opened up some room in the trunk which i was after. now i gotta figure out how to hold the sub in place and not move around.

 

lol shit i had my 2 amps, and cap on my box, powering 1200 rms power...and i max it out lol...

and to hold the subs down, long strip of velcro along the box, or L brackets...

 

if the sub is seal, its all bout wave length, if ported, it depends on size/air space...

mine was seals, closed i aimed it to the end of the car, loud and more deeper it would be, but its not like u can just cut a hole in a sealed boxed and expect higher dbs, all bout size when u port it..

 

Yeah hey if you don't want to take up space in the trunk why not infinite baffle a sub to the rear deck? Yeah I know its not as easy as that but I really want to do that in my TL.

 

its a sealed qlogic box, 10" alpine type r getting 420rms. 70X4 to the car

 

because its a very small opening, the metal deck isnt even, its weak, and the torsion bars are in the way of any sub deaper than 2.5 inches

 

I installed a aftermaket sub in the rear stock location its a 175 watt rms pioneer sub it hits hard and sounds great, unfortunatly it took lots of custom work to get it to fit. In the end i would say its much easier to just put a box in the trunk

 

How did you end up getting in there? Did you have to weld new torsion bars and weld a metal panel to the rear deck? That is what a few people at the car audio forums told me I would need to do for an IB install. Fsttyms1 you know I never measured the mounting depth with the stock torsion bar there that is not that deep your right. What about a thick MDF baffle secured to the back panel that would be able to clear the torsion bar? You think the back panel is just too weak to support the weight or would it just flex alot? I was going to deaden the crap out of the rear deck do you think that would not cut it?