floating amp rack?

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Topic: floating amp rack?

Posted By: Stlb5
Subject: floating amp rack?
Date Posted: December 15, 2004 at 4:29 PM

I'm going to mount a couple amps on top of a box and would like to try the floating amp look. The plan is to mount them to either wood or plexi/lexan. Let me know if this sounds right:

1 - the piece that the amp mounts to should be the exact size of the foot print of the amp.
2 - to get the floating effect, I should just use some dowel rods and pitch the amp in a way that you can't see the rods.

Now, if all that is right, how do I hide the wiring? If anyone has any pictures of some nice amp racks like this, I'd really appreciate it.

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Posted By: darthness
Date Posted: December 15, 2004 at 5:45 PM

if you could use some sort of hollow tube instead of the rods, you could run the wires through them.

Posted By: auex
Date Posted: December 16, 2004 at 7:36 PM

I usually would use some black pvc tubing. Basicaly mount the amp's baffle to the tubing and mount the amp to the baffle with 1/2-3/4 spacers and run the wires from the tubing, under the amp to the terminals (well not neccesarliy in that order). The tubing is hard to see if done right

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Posted By: ~AFAccord~
Date Posted: December 24, 2004 at 12:27 AM

I've heard of this before, but I'm really anxious to see this done! Good Luck! posted_image

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Posted By: BoominRolla
Date Posted: December 26, 2004 at 9:23 AM

I had a guy do this for 2 amps I had installed once... He used pvc and MDF, and since I "DROVE" my car the mdf ended up ripping out of the screws from the pvc... So i'd reccommend using metal tubing and welding it up and then making a false floor out of wood and bolting the amp "holders" down... But you can do what you want... Its just if you take a few corners at any rate of speed and you have a big ol amp on there the weight might make it break. But if you're using a 100 watt amp then i'd probably say go with the pvc...

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