'99 Civic Sedan - sound system build up

[wixxer]

A little update on my work:

Finished filling and sanding for the most of it, I reckon it's more then enough for covering it with suede or anything alike. Only if we decide to spray paint it, more sanding will be required:

After giving it a guide coat of black spray paint and sanding to find the high and low spots (still lot to do)


Finished as it is, after 3x more filling and even more sanding:





After I definitely decided to go with 4'' port instead of 3'', my son cut out a bigger port hole, to allow for the 4'' pipe.


Of course, it means that we'll have to make new port flare, so I started making a new mold for it, as the simple one I used for the 3'' pipe won't work on 4''. It's still work in process but here are some pics of what I did so far:
Cut 5 rings. Top three will help hold the pipe upright, 4th helps save some filler, and the last one will serve as a turntable. Should work, I hope.

Forming the flare mold I realized that a beer bottle diameter has the perfect shape for the flare , so it helped me to form the filler. Still need to sand it smoooof, but here it is:


Please note that flare molding is not my idea, I read about it long time ago somewhere on the net, so I tried and found the page again. It has heaps of tips and tricks and the guy is doing some amazing stuff there. If you like, check it out here:
http://www.subwoofer-builder.com/port-flares.htm
Thanks for watching, all comments appreciated! I'll try to speed up a bit, as I've got only 4 weeks 'till the boy gets his driver's license and there's heaps more to do here, so stay tuned

[UkuleleGod]

Great job!

The craftsmanship on that enclosure is excellent. Good to see you have finished with the designing parts of the enclosure. When your son gets his P plates, he is sure going to have one of the best executed sound systems of his friends (most cars on the road). You should both come along to some meets!

[wixxer]

Great job!

The craftsmanship on that enclosure is excellent. Good to see you have finished with the designing parts of the enclosure. When your son gets his P plates, he is sure going to have one of the best executed sound systems of his friends (most cars on the road). You should both come along to some meets!

Cheers for the kind words mate!
You're probably right about the "best sound systems among his friends' cars", but not because I do a great job (which I consider is only average, as it's full of "try and error" mistakes), but more because most of his friends don't even understand the importance of sound deadening in a car .
But on the other hand, most of his friends come from pretty wealthy houses, so if one of them goes for a full professional install... well, then we'll have to do more improvements to beat them, right?!!!
I really do hope that once this is finished, we'll go to some meets and see how we go among real enthusiasts and learn from them! I'm also not sure if I'm gonna be able to adjust all the settings to achieve the best possible sound, but I hope that my laptop, software "Praxis" and my brand new measuring mic will do the trick once I find out how to work it...

[dc292177917]

personally i like sleeper style or anything not outstanding
wrap the box using those boot carpet material will be the best imo : D

[wixxer]

personally i like sleeper style or anything not outstanding
wrap the box using those boot carpet material will be the best imo : D

I did a couple of carpeted ones already, that's not interesting any more, I need new challenges...
See one of the older ones:
Mitsubishi FTO

Mitsubishi Galant (my first ever try with fibreglassing)


btw, how did you go with your choice of sub/amp?

[dc292177917]

btw, how did you go with your choice of sub/amp?

LOL after reading the posts here i think i will go for a good amp first and see how it goes
i realized for a tiny cabin like mine, 4 6" coaxials shud be good enuf if the setting is right
did a mountain run ytd nite and got stone chipped on my windscreen
so now the fund goes to the windscreen first....
anyway, if i got the fund i will start asking numerous of dumb questions until u tell me off lol

[wixxer]

Update:
Finished the box, except for the fine sanding, but I have to move on, so started the work on the door pods. Some photos:

[wixxer]

Since I'm doing most of things twice, so I did the rings, maybe you can notice the outer rings missing. That's because I decided to glass most of the door pods from the inside, 3 layers will be enough. Only the section where I'll be glassing over the factory plastic will be glassed both inside and outside, with lots of holes drilled through, to "enclose" plastic with glass.
More photos:

[sxmachine]

Nice work on the door pods looks so good can't wait to see it finished should be one good sounding stereo system

[wixxer]

Did some more work yesterday:









Keep the comments comming!

[TheSaint]

again - im not into huge stereos in cars

but the amount of respect i have for the work you put in is just 100%

i just modded my EG sedan to fit some MB Quart speakers from my GenIII Liberty wagon and although it only required some mdf spacers, a bit of padding and some silicon it was pretty damn tricky

[beeza]

^^ Same same

but the effort put in is worthy of rep!

And the fact that U are sharing,more so

Great Effort!