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hamzter 
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oh, and what are you using for the deadening material?
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Very nice. I did the same thing in my wife's Saturn SL2. Well, I used a premade box and attached it onto a similar board/door configuration.

We built it at a custom cabinet shop my friend worked at and used piano hinges. As has been previously mentioned those would probably be a nice improvement. Do you still have the carpet that you pulled out? I stapled the original carpet over the board and door. It happened to match the premade boxes carpeting.

What is that dampening material? Doesn't look like dynamat.

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The write-up on the dampening material is all in my original post. It was B-Quiet Extreme. Cheap stuff.
Yes, I still have my original side carpeting. Haven't had a chance to put it back in yet, as my car is still in the shop.
It will be similar to the carpet I bought for the box, but the box carpet is a lot thicker.
I will look into these piano hinges since everyone is so fond of them.
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hamzter wrote:
right on...
I see that you have some type of caulking going on. I that holds it together well enough.
are there enough screws? I use wood glue and air brads to build my boxes and then fiberglass the inside.
I think I used somewhere around 30 screws on the thing. And then I caulked it to seal the air in. It holds the weight of a man, so its strong. Can you define air brads for me?
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Air brads, he just talking about using like an air nail gun and the small size nails, like finishing nails, that go in them. Using an air nailer just makes putting the box together a little easier than say trying to hold two pieces of wood together with one hand and using the other to screw in a screw. I usually use the nailer to hold it together then drive in some screws. But glued properly and good joints, a person could just use the nail gun. Just different ways of doing things.
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Posted: July 04, 2007 at 7:22 PM / IP Logged  
custom diy, box, deafening, pics - Page 2 -- posted image.A small pic of a piano hinge.
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tdsteele wrote:
...But glued properly and good joints, a person could just use the nail gun. Just different ways of doing things.
and since I resin the inside and do a couple layers of fiberglass, the box is water tight and strong.
you probably can crank out a couple of boxes to my one, but my box is pretty strong too.
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Got my car back finally, but apparently there is still some more damage that needs to be fixed tomorrow.
Carpeted
Went on down to Home Depot and picked up a 6x8 roll of carpet, which is more than enough as the MDF board I bought only a 4x8 sheet. Laying it on top of the box, we cut the ends off and started gluing it down. We used "Stuck Up" for the adhesive, which worked really well.
The sides need to be fixed, but it ended up pretty good. I also need to add some carpet to the inside of my trunk as a little of the deafening still shows, which looks really tacky. In addition, I will be carpeting the underside of the box as it has been rubbing on the deafening and wearing it down. But here are the pictures of what it looks like so far.
custom diy, box, deafening, pics - Page 2 -- posted image.
custom diy, box, deafening, pics - Page 2 -- posted image.
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Nice and clean....I like it so far..
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yeah man, lookin good.
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