Sub Box Build

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Okay, so a while back, the el-cheapo pioneer 8 inch sub and 40 watt amp were stolen out of my truck. I've decided to build the system that I always wanted in my truck. It's nothing over the top, just a single sub and two amps, one for the 4 speakers and 1 for the sub.

(My truck is actually a 1990 Silverado, but it's the same body style as the 73-87s.)

As anyone with a pickup truck knows, there isn't a whole lot of room behind the seat. With only a couple inches to play with, I was going to have to go with a shallow mount sub. (I chose a Kicker 12" CVT shallow mount.)



I ran painters tape all across the back wall and started laying fiberglass. This is messy as hell.



After getting a good few layers of a back and a floor of the speaker box, I cut out the internal walls of the speaker box and mounted the speaker ring. You can start to see how the speaker box will be split up. I'll have the subwoofer in the middle, the amps on one side and a small storage/glove box on the other to hold miscellaneous items such as jumper cables, tools, etc.



Stretching an old t-shirt over the sub ring for the first layer of resin. I did this for each of the three areas (sub, amp, and storage sides)



Here's the finished product after several layers of fiberglass and some bondo.



You can see how/where the amps will be mounted from behind in this picture.



After hours of sanding and more body filler and sanding and more body filler, and sanding some more, it was ready for paint.



Well, I decided not to paint it and drop it off at the local LineX dealer. $60 to coat the whole thing and it will be much more durable than any paint I could use. Here's the end result.



Here's what it looks like with the sub, amps, and storage door on it. This is just the test fitting. Everything needs to be wired and I need to find some hinges and a lock for the storage compartment door.





I can't wait to get it all wired up and hear it thump, but it's cold as hell outside, so I'll be holding off for a while.