Beginner Install question

Hey Velocity , what do you mean screw down pieces of wood ??? Don't quite get this. The bass will move to wild in the "case" and I get no punch. I can fill the whole car shaking but no beat.

When you put pieces of wood inside the enclosure you are decreasing the amount of internal airspace in the enclosure, thus changing the sound. The screws just hold those pieces securely in place. This is a trick to use to keep you from having to rebuild the entire enclosure if you built it too big. Try adjusting your gain setting as well, and check your low pass and high pass filter settings. You may be restricting the frequency of bass that your sub is receiving.Squirrel

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wvsquirrel , my woofer "case" it's build inside the place of the spare wheel so can's screw pieces of wood... any other ideea beside the tree ?? The Subwoofer freq should be 27hz as I can see on the Orion's web site. So my amp's freq it is somewhwre between 25 and 30 hz.

sounds like your problem is you have the low pass frequency set too low turn it up in between 80 and 100 and see how it sounds.

yea, you are deffinately cutting off the frequency too early. Adjust your low pass filter like bberman1 suggested. I usually run my low pass crossover around 200-225hz, but I know my subs can take it.Squirrel

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I just double checked the Orion site and can see where you got confused. The 27.23 is the "Free-Air Resonance" which I believe is the Hz of the soundwave comming from the sub (output frequency, but I could be wrong about the deffinition though!) I can say that this is not what you needed to use to set your Low Pass Filter. Your sub's "Frequency Range" (what it will accept as input) is 30Hz - 2.5kHz. It's no wonder now why your bass was unresponsive, you had the filter set below the subs operating range! Easy fix though, just adjust your Low Pass Filter like bberman1 or I mentioned and you should notice a considerable difference very quickly Squirrel

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Well , I'll try the frequency thing and see what I get. As my sub it is build in the spare wheel place I can't screw any wood to decrease the volume but I'll stuck some material in it (some that the local audio "hi-fi" store recommended) and see what are the results. After investing so much money into the whole installation I should get a damn nice sound out of it. I'll be back with news. Thank you all for now.