anyone have any good setups with a sub? right now mines in the trunk, all i have and want is a 10'' alpine type-r, i want to keep my backseats, but looking for ideas/sugestions on how/where to put it, maybe even taking out the golve box and putting it their?? or making a box to put between the seats in the rear??

 

I have a passenger side stealth box in my vert. When I had this setup in the 3.8 with the hatchback it slapped as much as you could expect from a single 10'' sub. Now that its in the vert, I honestly can't hear it sometimes. IMO there just plain isn't enough air back there to get kickass sound from a single 10'' sub. Id suggest some badass door speakers instead.

 

do a search....I remember finding a very good write up on building a SUB box for the back seat. It looked very clean......Im planning on that in the spring.

 

Check out the link in my sig. PM or email me and I can hook you up.

 

How much space would you have for an enclosure if you remove the glovebox (I am too lazy to measure mine) I know there are some really interesting small (5.25" - 8") high excursion sub drivers out there now for small boxes. Not that it will be as loud as your 10 (well it may be with the top down), but with the sub in the cabin, a 6.5" driver with 12mm Xmax and a low FS could be pretty impressive. That could be an interesting way to go.

I am working on a box which fits the pass through ledge right now, kinda similar to JohnnyBs, I should be done with it in a week or so, I will be happy to share the details if you like to build stuff yourself, That's another way to go but it won't fit a 10, actually you could make a 10 fit, if you had the right 10, maby. JohnnyB gets lots of praise for his boxes if you prefer to just buy one.

The best option if you want to use your 10 is probibly a passenger side stealth box. I don't like the idea of removing my spare personally, but they do look nice and you don't lose your cargo area.

 

Do a search for JBslim and take a look at that approach. If you don't want to spend the cash (though it is well worth it...) you can simply the concept a lot and use 8" free-air subs with a plate, using the trunk as an infinite baffle and firing the subs forward.

Imho this is the most effective (both for cost and no sacrifice to storage) way to get bass out of a convertible. With the top up it hits similar to a coupe, with the top down you of course lose alot but you still have accuracy. Come this spring I am going to tinker around with some spacers to keep the top lifted an inch or so off the shelf it rests on when dropped. If this works then the bass will be very good even with the top down.

If you are a real craftsmen, there have been some really nice concepts such as replacing one of the rear seats with a sub box. This would be the best way to get a really hard hitting low-end in a vert, but requires alot of skill and much funding.

Boxes in the trunk don't work well because the sound needs to get to you. You have to push the hell out of the subs to get any benefit. This is the battle ax approach and although it can be made to work, it isn't effecient or elegant. You spend more money on subs, power, lose space, and risk trunk rattles.

The sub box in the dash is actually pretty interesting, but I think it would be more efficient to look at a sort of transmission line enclosure in a ceneter console shell. If you can seat a very solid 6.5" or 8" driver low in the cabin, it can sound pretty good. Just find a new Mustang convertible with a mach system to see what is possible. Machs use 8"ers in the doors and though the bass is artificially boomy, it's there and sounds pretty good.

Sorry but there is no really easy solution like in a coupe. The JBslim approach seems to be the best approach. For me I had a very low tolerance for ghetto rattles and needed every bit of that little trunk, so the choice was quite simple.

 

i have a guy working on a box between the rear seats, it will prob only fit an 8 but maybe it would be able to be run isobaricly

ill let you know when i am done.

 

I have done the trunk method and built a box that goes in the well. Its true you lose a lot when the roof is down but then again, the wind and other noises make it hard, not just the fact that its in the trunk.

 

my sub only needs a 1 cubic ft. box so i guess thats good, but still trying to find a place to put it without having it look tacky seems impossible, perhaps ill make a box to fit on the floor behind my seat, no one sits their anyways, i have some time tomorrow, ill see what i can come up with...wish me luck haha

 

There are subs that hit very well and very hard even with the trunk open. Then there are subs that dont hit hard when the trunk is open. I once had some Cerwin Vega stealths and also Infinity 12's that hit hard even with the trunk open. Then I had some Orions that only sounded good with the trunk closed. What Im getting at is my goal is to find some subs that hit hard with the trunk open and have a high rms rating. Does that sound like itll work and do well in a vert?

 

Ive got dual 10" MTX subs in my trunk, it fits the system really well... let alone it hits really effin hard.