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Forum Name: Car Audio
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Topic: air space in boxes

Posted By: livinloud247
Subject: air space in boxes
Date Posted: September 07, 2009 at 5:25 PM

For the Kicker Comp 10's. They require like a minimum of 1 cu ft of air space in a sealed box, but for a truck I can only find boxes that are .75 cu ft of air space. Would poly fill make up for this? How much would I need to use?



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Posted By: KarTuneMan
Date Posted: September 08, 2009 at 10:31 AM

livinloud247 wrote:

For the Kicker Comp 10's. They require like a minimum of 1 cu ft of air space in a sealed box, but for a truck I can only find boxes that are .75 cu ft of air space. Would poly fill make up for this? How much would I need to use?

Build a box.... I put a 1 cu.ft. box in a standard cab 97 Tacoma.... there's room!





Posted By: h3_assassin
Date Posted: September 08, 2009 at 11:22 AM
livinloud247 wrote:

For the Kicker Comp 10's. They require like a minimum of 1 cu ft of air space in a sealed box, but for a truck I can only find boxes that are .75 cu ft of air space. Would poly fill make up for this? How much would I need to use?


find out what kind of area you have to work with and measure it. do the formula for volume and see where you can stick it and make the box to fit.

don't EVER BUY prefab boxes unless their from the company your woofer is by and its made SPECIFICALLY for that woofer or you'll have some pretty bad results.

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Posted By: livinloud247
Date Posted: September 08, 2009 at 1:09 PM
I'm getting two though. I'd have to use a common chamber then if I wanted over 1 cu ft of space.




Posted By: h3_assassin
Date Posted: September 09, 2009 at 12:51 PM
you certain there is no room anywhere? look into fiberglasses an enclosure or possibly twin under seat boxes?


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Posted By: ianarian
Date Posted: September 09, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Do they make enclosure's for 12's for your vehicle?   That box may have your 1ft3. Some prefab companies accept cutout requests.

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Posted By: h3_assassin
Date Posted: September 22, 2009 at 11:21 AM
livinloud247 wrote:

For the Kicker Comp 10's. They require like a minimum of 1 cu ft of air space in a sealed box, but for a truck I can only find boxes that are .75 cu ft of air space. Would poly fill make up for this? How much would I need to use?


no as the subwoofer is going to take up space by itself. Your best bet would be to make your enclosure as big as possible with staying around 1cf; 1.0xx is fine 1.xxxx is slightly to much.

Get in the sweet spot and there you go volume calculator this is what i used to calculate my box volume.

you give it width-height-depth and it gives you how much space you have.

It also takes in account for wood thickness.

That's not a spam link I don't know what happened to the other link i posted but i hope this one sticks its useful.




Posted By: the fat kid
Date Posted: September 22, 2009 at 7:23 PM
whats the vehicle?




Posted By: h3_assassin
Date Posted: September 23, 2009 at 11:17 AM
the fat kid wrote:

whats the vehicle?


for mine its an olds achieva 97





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