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bliz_kid 
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i am new and i am interested in my own sub enclosure for my 97 mitsibishi eclipse and was looking for some ideas

i have 2 10" mtx subs and an mtx amp from my cousin and was basicly just asking if any one has seen a deece settup in the back of an eclipse or has an idea to incorporate these into a fg project

bliz_kid 
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sorry forgot pics
97 eclipse rs, sub enclosure -- posted image.
Melted Fabric 
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Post pictures of the trunk / hatch area.
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1qwkfox 
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Poor car ..
But on the bright size there are a slot of curves in the back of that car to potentially make a sick fiberglass product .
coralfishg 
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here's a picture of the sub box in my 97 gst..

[IMG]https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/coralfishg/304_0415.jpg[/IMG]

austincustoms 
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I would do corner boxes, and an arched amp rack across the rear strut mounts (like a rear strut bar with amps on it)  all fiberglass of course, and painted to match the car or if you've got a theme in mind.  You could also throw a few screens in there too.
philliphamby 
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i agree with this guy. but i would also laydown a removable wood floor cap over the spare tire area top it with fiberglass and make a removable cover to come from that up and under the amp rack and meet your back seats. this way it looks like your hole rear section is done in fiberglass. and you wont loose your spair tire in the proses.

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I agree with phil, but if you are going to use this as a show car or weekend driver, you can remove the spair and have more room to expand and position items.
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anarchy customs 
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I used to own a 2g eclipse and heres what I did. Scrap that back seat. They're basically worthless anyways. They're tiny, cramped and uncomfortable.

Cut out an mdf panel roughly the same shape as the bottom of the rear seat. Carpet or in my case vinyl it. Then build yourself an enclosure that sits in the same place as the top half of the seats went.

97 eclipse rs, sub enclosure -- posted image.

97 eclipse rs, sub enclosure -- posted image.

This was one of the first enclosures I ever did. I had originally built two small boxes on either side of the trunk. If you're planning on doing that be wary of making glass molds of the sides of the trunk for the base of your boxes. Especially the passenger side. The sides of the trunk are shaped oddly and have deep pockets that make popping out the molds pretty difficult. I actually had to cut mine into 2 peices each to get them out.

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.....all sound like great ideas!  Coincidentally, Im building a foreward firing hatch enclosure for an Eclipse like yours.  Ive removed the whole hatch lid from the car.  The molded enclosure will contain three 12 inch JL's.  The three amplifier will be hanging in front of each port on the lower side.  The ports are going to serve as a cooling effect for the amps, relying on air movement  from the port directly onto the cooling fins of the amps.  Im leaving the back glass in, but I had to take the glass to a coating shop that did some kind of electro-plating, which made the back glass look as if it were chrome-like...or like the chrome window tint, its not transparent at all though.  I re-installed the glass, and left all of the factory plastic trim and panels off, they are useless.  I fiberglassed the whole section to make a skin, this took a while to get it thick enough.  Half x half inch strips of MDF were integrated into this skin after the 2nd layer of FG, then 4 more layers of FG added.  The MDF rings were fabricated, drilled, screwed to wood dowels serve as stand offs to secure them in thier odd directions to the FG/hatch.  Other MDF forms were formed such as the flute edged rectangular port holes, the amplifier hangers, and the neon crap.  Then the thin polyester fabric was layed so I could see if my guess-timation for air space was close, in which I was only 0.015 too large for each.  I used the styrofoam micro-bead process to obtain this figure per 1.6 cu.ft.  After clean-up, I glued, stapled, and then resin was added .  After curing, 3 layers in some areas, and 5 layers in some areas were layed to cure.  When cured, I took the hatch and EVERYTHING that is envolved to get weighed.  I finally grasped the reality this thing is going to be heavy.  So, I opted for heavier struts to aid in opening the hatch when finished...ends up 4 struts will be required...now back to work I go.  I drilled holes and bolted the amp hangers to the box/panel in a symmetrical mannor with the port holes.  Time for routing!  All holes were drilled for....everything from wires, brackets, to the speaker rings.  This was a good time to test fit all of the components for the last time.  Body filler was used for smoothing......now its time to sand this baby down for her pretty curves....

So, here I am.........SANDING........

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