It was a bitch toget the box into the trunkand I ripped a little bit of the rubbermaterial but somehow I gotit in. Now I have no moretrunk space tho and Im not that happy. At least I have bass in my car now! I might takesome pics for you guys next week tho its nothing special. Just a box w/an amp in the back and I also have a bass control switch that I clipped in right next to the driver seat and below the stereocontrols. I like the setup alot! I dont know what todo with the tire pressure box now tho b/c I had to move it to fit the box in the trunk and right now the 600 watt amp I have is taking up the center sunken part along with the tire box. Im going to mount theamp and the box on the left&ride sides of trunk so I can still have some storage in the center part. Now people arereally starting to notice my Rx8 on the road too hahaha!!

Oh ya I wanted to say that one other problem I have w/having a systme in the Rx8 now is I cant hear the flying saucernoise anymore that I love! You guys know that high light pitchnoise the rotary engine makes all the time whenit is idle? Well Now I gotta turn my stereo off if I want to hear it! Maybe a mod will comeout to make the rotary noise extra loud.

pics please

please attach some pics... since my RX8 haven't come in yet. Would you mind if you can give me the dimension of the tire box coz I have 2 boxes that is 15Wx14Hx13D... Thanks

I will try to take pics this weekend guys hold on.

Guys I am havinglots of problems with my two 12s! I was going to take pics last weekend but Im still not happy w/my setup. For a while Idrove the car around with the subs pointing upto the ceiling of the trunk and didnt care. Then someone pointed out to me that you can barely hear it on the outside b/c the subs arent facing back against the trunk pointing at the back of the car. They said this makes less reverb and the bass pumps too fast. Well the Rx8 has tootiny of a trunk. There was noway I could get the box to face the back of the turnk without losing the trunk space I have and I still want a little trunk space. I am thinking that Imight get rid of the two 12s and just put in one 15 or two 10s since Im having so many problems with the box. The trunk is just not bigenough for two 12s I dont thinkand I still want enough space to put in 3 bags of grocreies. I also need to set something up that will hold the box steadyfor sharp turns!

Originally posted by JeRKy 8 Owner
Then someone pointed out to me that you can barely hear it on the outside b/c the subs arent facing back against the trunk pointing at the back of the car.

If I've got the wrong end of this, I apologise in advance...

If the fact that "you can barely hear it on the outside" is considered a bad thing, then I assume that your desire is to annoy the living sh!t out of people by driving about with thumping noisy crap blaring from your car.

I put the duf duf brigade right down there with the other lesser primates that wouldn't know what correct social behaviour would be if it bit them.

Mindless, selfish and stupid are words that come to mind in describing people who believe their car audio should annoy an entire residential suburb at night.

Again, if this category doesn't describe you - take this as a general comment.

I agree
why do you care about the outside
if its the rattles you dont want then just dynomat it

Originally posted by Kev


If I've got the wrong end of this, I apologise in advance...

If the fact that "you can barely hear it on the outside" is considered a bad thing, then I assume that your desire is to annoy the living sh!t out of people by driving about with thumping noisy crap blaring from your car.

I put the duf duf brigade right down there with the other lesser primates that wouldn't know what correct social behaviour would be if it bit them.

Mindless, selfish and stupid are words that come to mind in describing people who believe their car audio should annoy an entire residential suburb at night.

Again, if this category doesn't describe you - take this as a general comment.

harsh... but true

completely agree...

id get started, but...
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Totally agree!
I used to think that was pretty cool... when I was 18. I have since realized how sad having your music audible from 2 blocks away is.

In my last car, I had a full Boston Acoustics Pro Series competition/demo system powered by Orion HCCAs (the old-school unregulated ones). With the windows up, you could barely hear it outside the car, which, well.. was part of the point.

Originally posted by Redshift
Totally agree!
I used to think that was pretty cool... when I was 18. I have since realized how sad having your music audible from 2 blocks away is.

In my last car, I had a full Boston Acoustics Pro Series competition/demo system powered by Orion HCCAs (the old-school unregulated ones). With the windows up, you could barely hear it outside the car, which, well.. was part of the point.

Love the bostons - really crisp sound to them. I've got a 3 way set hanging about, along with a 10 in JL Audio dual VC ... I was thinking of attacking the RX8 with them, but I've decided to do something special with the RX8 - the plan is still evolving (it's not going to be OTT though).

keep us posted on that special set up

i my self love soundstream unbeatable imo

Do you get consistent bass volume pass volume 19 or 20 on your stock head unit?

If yes, did you tap in before or after the Bose amp?

Originally posted by Dugless
Do you get consistent bass volume pass volume 19 or 20 on your stock head unit?

If yes, did you tap in before or after the Bose amp?

...and type the answer REALLY LOUD please :D

Originally posted by Kev


Love the bostons - really crisp sound to them. I've got a 3 way set hanging about, along with a 10 in JL Audio dual VC ... I was thinking of attacking the RX8 with them, but I've decided to do something special with the RX8 - the plan is still evolving (it's not going to be OTT though).

I'd love to hear more about your plan as it develops.
I loved the install in my old car. Total stealth install. Nobody could tell there was any gear installed in the car, and there were no holes cut in the car.

I had the Boston 6.5^3 3-way set in the front doors, a pair of Boston 12.5LFs and 3 Orion HCCAs sunken under a false trunk floor. (1 225 HCCA on each door, and 1 running the pair of subs.)
I've actually got all that gear in my basement (along with some other stuff) ever since I ripped it all out of my old car when I decided to start doing Solo2s instead.

TonightI changed the box positioning andinstead of having the 2 12s pointing upwards I have them pointing forward so they are facing the front of the trunk. My bass sounds five times betterman! Before whenI had them pointing up the bass was too low and now everything in my Rx8 vibrates even my feet and the brakes! ButI had to move the box towards the front ofthe trunk to do this b/c the box is too big to make it stand up all the way in the back of the trunk. Now my amp is in the back of the trunk right behind the dipand that is where I first had the box. Also The dip in the trunk prevents my box from being able to stand up straight horizontally so I had to slant it and I have it sitting in my trunk diagonal a little. I have it in good now and sharp turns wont make it move sincethe top of it is being held by the angle I have it in. It looks kind of ghetto but it worksforme! I figured outwhat Im going to do. Im not going to get any harness oranything to hold my box after all. For the few times I need to put stuff into my trunk I am just going tomove the box back to facing the sky and send it again tothe back of the trunk and use the dip for storage and move the ampto the left compartment. Otherwise I am going to keep it how I have it now with the box right infront of the trunk on a diagonal. Youguys wouldnt believe how much better my stock system sounds after adding these two subs and changing the direction they were pointing. I dont drive around withit loud enough to annoy people outside me butnow its nice to know that I have the power to if I want to. I have taken some pics tonight and will try toget the camera developed before Monday.

Originally posted by JeRKy 8 Owner
TonightI changed the box positioning andinstead of having the 2 12s pointing upwards I have them pointing forward so they are facing the front of the trunk. My bass sounds five times betterman! Before whenI had them pointing up the bass was too low and now everything in my Rx8 vibrates even my feet and the brakes! ButI had to move the box towards the front ofthe trunk to do this b/c the box is too big to make it stand up all the way in the back of the trunk. Now my amp is in the back of the trunk right behind the dipand that is where I first had the box. Also The dip in the trunk prevents my box from being able to stand up straight horizontally so I had to slant it and I have it sitting in my trunk diagonal a little. I have it in good now and sharp turns wont make it move sincethe top of it is being held by the angle I have it in. It looks kind of ghetto but it worksforme! I figured outwhat Im going to do. Im not going to get any harness oranything to hold my box after all. For the few times I need to put stuff into my trunk I am just going tomove the box back to facing the sky and send it again tothe back of the trunk and use the dip for storage and move the ampto the left compartment. Otherwise I am going to keep it how I have it now with the box right infront of the trunk on a diagonal. Youguys wouldnt believe how much better my stock system sounds after adding these two subs and changing the direction they were pointing. I dont drive around withit loud enough to annoy people outside me butnow its nice to know that I have the power to if I want to. I have taken some pics tonight and will try toget the camera developed before Monday.

This enclosure of yours seems very cumbersome. Do you know its internal volume in litres/cubic feet - whatever? I'd also like to know how it's ported - if the subs are driven in phase, etc and at what point you've set the crossover for the subs ... if you played with the crossover point, etc.


Kev.

Kev I dont know alot about sound systems man. I paid 60dollars for a 600watt amp and my oldfriend gave me his old box of two 12s and got a sound guy to set the wholething up for me for 20 dollars. Ill try to ask him about the stuff youwant to know about b/c youare speaking another language tome. All I knowis that it is loud andI love it.

I gotta see pics of this

Igot my camera developed tonight. Im buzy and lazy sorry for taking so long. The pictures came out okay not that great I guess itscause it was a cheap crap camera. I dont have that great of a pic of the box. Im gonna get them scanned tomorrow if I get a chance butif not then the dayafter. If youguys want closer ones after I scan these Ill tryto get ahold of a digital camera so it doesnt takeso long to get the pics on here.

Watched my Marlins loselast night so I was toopissed to scan them. Here they are

What itl ooks like from the back seat

Closeup of the box

Thisis what I can useto directly lower the volume ofthe bass. Sorry thispic is pretty bad

I have a few morepics butits all realy the same stuff. I thoughtI took a good pic ofthe bass controller butit came out smudged out. When I get ahold of digitalcamera Ill take more if youguys want.

that switch for the bass is sweet

but how the hell did you get that box in the trunk and what kinds subs are those.

Square peg, round hole... You definitely are max out in terms of what you can put in the trunk. Thanks for the pictures. I think this helps me decide that I'll be putting only one 12" in my car. I gotta have some usable trunk left over.

I got 2 12's and room in my trunk
pics are under subs in my rx8 thread

dude! What happened 2 ur trunk?


nah it's looks shocken but how does it sound?
If it sounds sik it's fine with me and hey... if worse comes 2 worse and u need the boot u can just take it out right?

When someone says that a sub sounds better pointed up or down or sideways, ask them if they have the EXACT same setup in the same type of car, and then find out why they think this way. The fact is that a huge box in a small trunk is really only going to work one way really well and poorly every other way. When you had that big box pointed upwards you were firing them at the rear deck. They were probably pretty close to it which caused a lack of proper airspace in front of the subs and consequently didn't acoustically load well with the interior of the car due to too little air in front of the box. when you pointed them forward, you fired them into a larger area and they acoustically coupled better to the cabin.

Here's the problem with traditional rear firing thinking. If a box is built to fit perfectly behind the rear seat and the subs fire backward, then how is the sound getting into the passenger compartment? the lowest frequecies pass easier so they come around the box in small spaces and through the rear deck leaving the higher bass tones to be confined in the trunk. This is one reason why the bass sounds deeper when the subs fire backwards. The other reason is that you have a bass frequency wave firing at the rear of the car then bouncing off the rear and working its way to the front of the car. Low frequencies are very long. The lower the tone, the longer the wavelength. This also serves to strengthen the lowend but allowing more audible lower frequencies to make their way forward due to an effectively greater distance. The acoustic loading on the woofers due to trunk space pressure may have an adverse effect on the sound though. A box designed on a computer doesn't even take this into account unless you are using some really expensive software and test equipment such as LEAP or LMS. You may need a bigger or small box than you though due to the trunk pressure. Now if you fire the subs forward, more acoustic energy is directed forward through the rear seat. It doesn't have to work its way around the box just through the seat. The higher bass frequencies will be more audible though due to the above reasons. Overall acoustic output will probably be greater as well. Box size will remain fairly predicatable as well. There is a reason that all home stereos, and all movie theaters have all the speakers (subs included) firing into the same room that you are listening from. It all really makes sense. When you fire a sub towards the back of the car into the trunk, you may as well move your home subs into the next room over and listen from there. They are both different rooms.

The other thing I would like to get to is that box design means more than speaker choice or size! A good ported box with a 10" will outdo a good sealed box with a 12" anyday and probably be smaller doing it. A ported box is going to be larger than a sealed box but instead of using 2 speakers sealed, use 1 ported. The single speaker although ported will be in a smaller box than the 2 would and still get as loud. In many cases the single speaker in a ported box will outdo the dual sealed box. You need to see an efficiency plot vs frequency to understand why this is so. When I built a show van for Rockford Fosgate 2 years ago, I used a ported box and it is extraordinarily loud. The box was tuned to 28hz and this is just an earthquake. It has 10- Power DVC 15's in a 34 cu. ft. single chamber box. It is very simple but effective. If we left it sealed it would have taken 20+ woofers and several times the power to match the output. Build a better box!

If anyone wants me to design a ported box around their subs I need 3 things from you. I need to know the Qts, Vas, and Fs of the speaker. They come printed on a spec sheet with the subs. If you don't have these numbers then i can't do too much without some digging for info. I'll enter these numbers in the computer and design a sealed and ported box. I will tell you cubic feet and port diameter and length. I'll also send you the frequency plot to compare them so you can see why one is better than the other. Not all subx work well ported but if you have one that does then you should be doing it this way.

Ok that box is way too big for that trunk...you can get away with a much smaller box than that. but I bet that shit THUMPS though man!!!!!

I told you guys thatI still have trunk spaceif I really need it. I dont have the box nailed in I have it in a diagonal angle likeyou see with the left side down in the center lower hump and the rightside up on the regular part. The top right ofmy box is touching the roof of the trunk so when I makesharp stops or speed up it doesnt even budge. And since its inthat angle I can do sharp turns too and its still stable. When I want to use trunk space I can just lift it up and push it back sothat the subs face up and I can put it deeper into the trunk and use the hump for storage. So far I havent needed to though. I like using the backseats for storage too b/c I actually get to make more use of the suicide doors. Oh for the guywho says it thumps yes it does very very loud when I have the bass booster all theway up. The rearview mirror doesnt stop shaking and my brake pedal vibrates. I dont like driving like that though and I usuallyonly put it up when I go down to South Beach.

Is it hard to connect the subs to the head unit? Is there a thread on it I have been looking for it all day?

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To answer a few questions i saw in this thread. The subs look to be KFC-w2505 (2002 or 2001 models) 12"s in 1.5 cubic foot sealed enclosure. the amp looks to be a sony.

If i were you, i would take that box out of the car (a basic square like that is very space inefficient) and mold the subs to either side of the trunk, giving them approximately 1.0 cubes per, in a fiberglass box.

I would also ditch the amp in preference to another, but that's just me. (JBL powervalve bp600.1 maybe)

And, the angle of a sub enclosure CAN affect in cabin performance, but it is almost a hit / miss thing. Pointing up may yield the best results for you and your application, but others may prefer them facing other ways.

I'm not too big into the "thump thump thump" anymore, but i do love installing and stereos in general.

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demonfire I thought fiberglass boxes werepretty pricey? I know that the angle is a very important thing but you made a mistake. I dont have the subs pointing up I have thempointing to the rear headlights. I only flip over the box and make the subs point up when I need to make space to load somethingin the trunk so I push the wholebox into the deep backportion of the trunk closer to the back seats. I foundthat w/my enclosure the subs will not thump very much unless the box is sitting right next to the trunk right at the front where I have them right now. I think since they are so close to the trunk door the bass bounces off the front of the trunk making it sound so much louder and causingeverything to vibrate in my car. You say I should mold the subs to either left or right side of the trunk but I amalmost positive the subs will not be as loud. Ive tried many angles and the way I have it now is the only way the bass can sound both really loud and crisp. The only problem is I lose all my trunk space like this but for now I dont care too much about space sinceI justput stuff in the back seats. Gives me an excuseto open up the suicide doors all the time.

Originally posted by JeRKy 8 Owner
demonfire I thought fiberglass boxes werepretty pricey? I meant that you could fiberglass them yourself, if you knew how, or wanted to try it. There are some pretty good tutorials online you could use. :)I know that the angle is a very important thing but you made a mistake. I dont have the subs pointing up I have thempointing to the rear headlights.
I was being rhetorical... ie; an example of what may be best for someone may not be best for you.

I only flip over the box and make the subs point up when I need to make space to load somethingin the trunk so I push the wholebox into the deep backportion of the trunk closer to the back seats. I foundthat w/my enclosure the subs will not thump very much unless the box is sitting right next to the trunk right at the front where I have them right now. I think since they are so close to the trunk door the bass bounces off the front of the trunk making it sound so much louder and causingeverything to vibrate in my car. You say I should mold the subs to either left or right side of the trunk but I amalmost positive the subs will not be as loud.

Yes, you may lose some volume, but you will get a better looking enclosure, with more trunk space. Also, Small sealed enclosures can play very loud, even so. The subs firing off the back of the trunk lid may sound very loud because of the "reflections." Basically in the car there are 3 enclosures... the sub box itself, the trunk, and the cabin. So while what you have may be the loudest, it may not yield the ultimate results you are looking for. IF it does, stick with it. If you fiberglassed the trunk yourself, it could cost you over $100 anyway, so maybe just read up some on it, and decide from there.
Ive tried many angles and the way I have it now is the only way the bass can sound both really loud and crisp. The only problem is I lose all my trunk space like this but for now I dont care too much about space sinceI justput stuff in the back seats. Gives me an excuseto open up the suicide doors all the time. :)
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