Yay for first projects and winter!

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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 16, 2024 at 10:44 PM

Topic: Yay for first projects and winter!

Posted By: deagle50ae
Subject: Yay for first projects and winter!
Date Posted: January 30, 2006 at 11:45 AM

this be my first project. i was planning on doing a subwoofer enclosure in the summer but my supplies are just glaring at me from the corner. so i fell to the need and started it up. CONSTRUCTIVE CRITISISM IS WELCOME AS THIS IS MY FIRST EVERY EXPERIENCE WITH FIBERGLASS

it's not done but below is the mold process.

the last picture is only 3 layers, i added a fourth, and a fifth to the verticle surface while it was out of the car.

comments?

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Posted By: unreality
Date Posted: January 30, 2006 at 2:29 PM

it looks great so far, looks like you did your research. My first two projects were horrid, the first one because I didn't do any research, and teh second one because I bit off more than I could chew. the third one was started today, and looking promising. Yours looks solid and well thought out. good job

Posted By: total_overkill
Date Posted: January 30, 2006 at 4:48 PM

Looks great. Keep up the good work.

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Posted By: 5150azn
Date Posted: January 30, 2006 at 7:00 PM

Looks great! Keep the pictures comming!

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Posted By: HottAccord
Date Posted: January 30, 2006 at 11:06 PM

Nice job so far, is that enclosure gonna be for just 1 sub?

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Posted By: deagle50ae
Date Posted: January 30, 2006 at 11:27 PM

yep. one sub. it'll be too small though, i'm sure of it. but it's no matter, i'll be fabricating a completely different enclosure for it this summer. i just wanted to play with fiberglass and couldnt wait.

it's for an eclipse 15"

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Posted By: jlord16
Date Posted: January 30, 2006 at 11:44 PM

It looks great, clean and sturdy. Research is crutial wen you try to undertake ur first project or a difficult one

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Posted By: M&mfabrications
Date Posted: January 31, 2006 at 12:41 PM

Looks like you are off to a good start but next time you may want to use mdf as much as you can. That way you don't have to use as many layers of fiberglass. It looks like the bottom is flat so a piece of wood would have worked in that case and you may have been able to use some on the sides depending on how the car is. None the less what you have there looks good and will work fine as long as you add some bracing to help contain that 15.

Posted By: jfunk06
Date Posted: January 31, 2006 at 3:36 PM

Yes, make sure it is VERY thick. I have a 15" Kicker Comp, and there is so much air going through there(i have it ported so its alittle worse, but you get idea.) So make sure it can handle that!

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Posted By: deagle50ae
Date Posted: February 01, 2006 at 2:52 PM

Picture update.

i drove back to my mom's house at 5am to finish this. here's the progress thus far.

im hoping to get at least 5 more layers on the baffle and reinforce the box a bit more before i get some sleep.

i picked up 2 1,500watt personal heaters from home depot for $10/ea to speed things up.

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Posted By: pmendoza408
Date Posted: February 01, 2006 at 10:04 PM

nice box

Posted By: deagle50ae
Date Posted: February 02, 2006 at 11:54 AM

I test fitted the box and found that i measured wrong... the box was hitting the rear wiper motor... but luckily the motor didnt work so I ripped it out but wanted to retain ym rear wiper and aviod having a hole in the hatch so i put together a simple bolt/washer/nut combination that took care of the issue without a problem.

here are the pix ***

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Posted By: HottAccord
Date Posted: February 02, 2006 at 7:48 PM

Nice job, looks good so far. Looks like you;re eager to get this finished, wakin up at 5 a.m.! Damn!

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Posted By: deagle50ae
Date Posted: February 03, 2006 at 3:18 PM

haha. not waking up... being awake and staying awake all night working on it... cofee is grand. it's as done as it's going to be for a while. It's cold out, I dont feel like sanding and finishing it.

it sounds pretty decent actually. the box as mentioned in previous threads is too small for the 15" at around 1cu ft after driver displacement. output is actually less then that of th two 10" boston Pro's i was running. i've come to the conclution that this is because I was running those parallel for a 1ohm load @ 1,200watts RMS. the new 15" is 4ohm and is running 450watts RMS. the good thing however is that even wiht the small enclosure size, it already fills in the lows that the boston Pro's had filtered out due to heavy bottoming out (only 8.5mm x-max as oposed to the 15" woofers 30mm xmax) it sounds very smooth. not quite a punchy as the bostons (obviously) but much faster response than I was expecting. I cna deffinitely see why Eclipse is reguarded so highly.

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it's not a finished install in that picture. it's just the last one i took.

Posted By: deagle50ae
Date Posted: February 03, 2006 at 3:26 PM

ahhhh. wtf happend to my picture. i made it SMALLER on my screen

Posted By: auex
Date Posted: February 03, 2006 at 3:34 PM

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Posted By: 5150azn
Date Posted: February 03, 2006 at 4:34 PM

Air space looks kinda small but looks cool

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Posted By: deagle50ae
Date Posted: February 03, 2006 at 11:24 PM

air space is to small. and i knew it would be when i started. this is just a first project kind of box to get familiar with fiberglass.

it actually sounds quite good though for the box size. much lower hitting than my two boston Pro 10.5lf's