Buying Fiberglass sub boxes
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Forum Name: Fiberglass, Fabrication, and Interiors
Forum Discription: Fiberglass Kick Panels, Subwoofer Enclosures, Plexiglas, Fabrics, Materials, Finishes, etc.
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Printed Date: May 03, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Topic: Buying Fiberglass sub boxes
Posted By: TheSaint421
Subject: Buying Fiberglass sub boxes
Date Posted: November 20, 2004 at 6:42 PM
Hi, does anyone know of a place to buy premade fiberglass sub boxes online? or stores that may sell them?? any shape or look will do. regards, The Saint
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Posted By: randman1
Date Posted: November 20, 2004 at 7:14 PM
Typically, mass produced prefabbed boxes are not made of fibergalss. Usually it's consturcted of MDF or plastic injection molding like MTX Thunderforms. Fiberglass is the solution we use when no one else makes what we are looking for. Did you have something specific in mind?
Posted By: TheSaint421
Date Posted: November 20, 2004 at 7:17 PM
I know that, and have built 10 or so FG boxes in the past, I only ask because I will be getting a bunch of cars that will need audio systems, and wanted a pre-fabbed FG box to compliment the system. I just don't have the time to make a box for each car, when you add that work to all the performance mods that are mainly what sold the car in the first place,,, The Saint
Posted By: randman1
Date Posted: November 20, 2004 at 7:26 PM
TheSaint421 wrote:
I know that, and have built 10 or so FG boxes in the past
I wasn't questioning your experience there, dude. All I was saying is that there are many prefabbed solutions on the market, depending on the vehicle, but you're not going to find them made of fiberglass. Hand-laid FG or even sprayed is much more labor intensive than other methods. If you owned a manufacturing business, you'd want to bang out hundreds per day rather than one every couple of days, no?
Posted By: TheSaint421
Date Posted: November 20, 2004 at 7:30 PM
I knew what you meant, I was just explaining my reasoning, and why I didn't want to do it myself... rather than not explaning it and having 100 people try to convince me that it's not that hard to do it myself... regards, The Saint
Posted By: TheSaint421
Date Posted: November 20, 2004 at 7:43 PM
I forgot to mention, that I assumed there would be at least one company doing this, as I found a link on here to a Co. selling 'custom' FG door panels. they were custom alright, but nothing too great, and at 600 USD each.... regards, The Saint
Posted By: CarAudioHelp
Date Posted: November 21, 2004 at 1:05 AM
AudioFormz
Outlaw Customs (if they're still around) -------------
Posted By: 04r1belgium
Date Posted: November 21, 2004 at 1:57 AM
Have you checked out SubTomix ? Pretty cool alternative for FG...
https://www.subtoms.com/
Posted By: boxmaker85
Date Posted: November 22, 2004 at 6:14 PM
For a decent fg box that holds two 10" or two 12" subs you'll be looking at around $400 ish for each box. Maybe less if you can get a mass discount deal. That's what I've seen so far with what I've seen.
Posted By: TheSaint421
Date Posted: November 23, 2004 at 1:59 AM
thanks guys... I appreciate it regards, The Saint
Posted By: HottAccord
Date Posted: November 23, 2004 at 6:52 PM
There's a few people sellin FG boxes on Ebay, just do a search in the consumer electronics section, but when you search, type this in the search box: fiberglass -dvd <---if you type that you will avoid the 101 friggin fiberglass DVD's on sale on Ebay..  ------------- Im a fiberglass whore!!
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