good luck with the build. looking forward to see some photos

 

Thanks I'm pretty excited. Should have everything I need shipped and here by Feb 19. Install should be done by the end of the month. Hardest part will be routing the 1/0 wire and making the kerfed box. Just gotta figure out how to measure out the kerf (where it starts on the back plate of the box) .. all in all shouldn't be too bad, considering I somehow shoehorned 3 12" kicker comp vrs, 1/0, 2 amps, and a set of components in a standard cab Dodge Ram. Each sub had 1ft^3 box each. Thing POUNDED!!!!

 

hmm if your car is anything like mine it should not be a problem. there is oem cut outs behind the pedals with plastic plug (cant remember the proper word). it is down behind the battery if its left hand drive. just remember that you might get some error displays when you disconnect the battery..

 

Sketched up the ported box. Start building this week. Car gets serviced tuesday then the ordering begins. More pics when I start tearing apart the car. box is tuned to 32hz and has nearly flat response should have excellent sq

 

IIRC, Mklett33 has a video tutorial on YouTube about figuring out kerfing....his username on YT is Car Audio Fabrication...

Here:

Kerfing 101 - How to Kerf MDF for your subwoofer enclosure - FULL Detail - YouTube

and Here:

Kerfing Part 2 - How to finish the Kerf on MDF for your subwoofer box enclosure! - YouTube

Hope that helps!

Jay

 

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Already well as are of the vids thanks though. Just waiting to get some free time to start.

 

Got all the wires in today (not installed). ALL is OFC.
26' 1/0 red power
8' 1/0 blue ground
8' 4ga red power
8' 4ga blue power
70' 10ga speaker wire (mids, and highs)
8' 8ga (yep 8ga) speaker wire (sub)
Here's pics of the speaker wire won't bore you with power wires lol

 

SUBed! i have an 08 Jetta and i want to see what you have in store!

 

Well everything is ordered. Should be in Tuesday. Start building the box this weekend. I've got all new components for all 4 doors
Jensen 760.4 for the mids and highs
Boston acoustics SPG555-2 sub
Hifonics BXI2008d for the sub
Kinetic hc1800 battery for the trunk
200 amp battery isolator
40ft^2 of nvx sound deadener
SMD-DD1 distortion detector to tune the amps
Nvx 4-channel RCA's
Kicker 2channel RCA's
All sorts of fuse holders/ fuses and terminals etc..

Can't wait to start tearing it apart.

 

Also all wire(power, ground, speaker) is from KnuKonceptz. I was a bit skeptical at first but after receiving it couldn't be happier. Its all actually habit bigger than awg but I've checked numerous different terminals and they all fit. Every bit is OFC even the speaker wire. Screw you CCA lol. They have an awesome deal on 10ga speaker wire (Kord) right now on the main page under Kloseouts (I think) . Normally $.88/ft. Now on sale for $.55/ft. I had to buy 70' lol wish I would've bought more. Really great stuff.

 

Also if you look at the 8ga speaker wire your like hey that's all PVC jacket not 8ga. No its actually 8ga ofc speaker wire twisted and then coated to form a single strand (think of higher end RCA's). Its about as thick as my 1/0

 

i have a mk3 gti and a mk6 gti. ill be watching

for now, pictures of the car. i dont like mk5 styling as much as the mk6, but if you need assistance they are very similar cars

 

Thanks for the offer. I'll take some of the car when I can. Its bone stock. Until warranty is over

 

if you are doing Big three, please show pics, that would be awesome!

 

Big three shouldn't be too bad. I'll def take pics. The battery ground to chassis, and engine ground to chassis or right near the battery very easy. Hard part will be pulling the alternator out to run the 1/0 from alternator to battery, and alternator to isolator (going to second battery).

 

Received the battery isolator today. Nvx 200 amp cont. 300 amp surge. Way overkill but heh isn't everything I do lol. You can see by the pics I'll have to get two more washers to put on the power posts in order for the 1/0 ring terminals to work. No biggie. The rest of the stuff should be in tomorrow. Box will be started next week (funeral, and birthday this coming weekend). I'll post new pics of the box. I had to redesign after finding excessive port velocity (noise) in both of my modeling software. Made it about 4 inches wider and doubled the port width.

Pics of the battery isolator:

 

subscribe looking forward to this

 

Got everything in the mail yesterday. Just gotta build the box and start installing. Trying to figure out how to remove the rear parcel shelf right now. I'm thinking about mounting an amp rack underneath to maximize space (I'll be mounting them right side up with plenty of cooling holes drilled in). Just not sure of how to get that shelf off.

 

i am not familiar with the hatchback but chad might know, also remember there is alot of wv sites around that probably have that information. or you could look at it and go; "that probably connects to that and where do i need to start pulling off panels : P

 

Its a sedan not hatchback. I haven't been able to find a solid how to. I'm pretty sure the rear seats, and rear pillars need to come out before removing the shelf. I'll figure it out as I go though definitely lol. Can't wait to build the box. First decent day here in Michigan I'm gonna start disassembly of the interior and possibly fabrication of the speaker mounts. I want to tear down the doors to see if I can fit my 6x9 components in there somehow without cutting too much out. We'll see I guess

 

10 gauge for mids and tweeters holly cow!

 

Yeah I know overkill. I'm just considering it future proof. Plan on adding higher power components eventually and didn't want to worry about wire size of having to rerun wire (who likes to do that). Plus I got a really good deal . Everything from power/ ground to speaker wire is OFC too.

 

makes me want to see how you figure out how to run them into the doors. if its like in my car you will have molex bars inside the doors

 

New box design. 3.71ft^3 gross, 2.21ft^3 net
Model shows:
22 m/s air velocity from the port at 1250 watts
20mm xmax
5.5db bump @ 43hz/ 3db @ 33hz
3db difference between 35-80hz

 

Some inventory pics of what's going in.

 

Great equipment choices! I used a similar positive side battery terminal and experienced a few issues. The voltage display requires a ground. Mine would stay "on" all of the time because there is essentially no "on/off" switch. Obviously you could add a switch if you really wanted to. Secondly, mine got wet once and never worked again. Even though they come with a plastic cover, the moisture still ruined it. Just wanted to share my experience in case you wanted to make a change and save a little time.

Good luck with the install! Looking forward to your progress.

 

Thanks for the heads up on the terminals. They'll both have covers over them (plus a battery will be in the trunk). Haven't really thought about the always on thing. May consider wiring in a relay for the ground if I can (haven't looked into it though). If not it may not draw enough to actually drain the battery too much. Guees I'll have to look into that.