I only got to spend an hour and a half tops today including unload and clean up so i didnt get a whole lot done. Expect more finishing work tomorrow and hopefully all done with the exception of cutting the bores out for the subs by friday.
Best regards,
-Patrick

 

Latest update:

My best secret is if you take the drill attachment for screws, and use it not to drive the screw, but drill into the wood after your pilot hole to make a nice bore for the head of the screw to sit in for a flush fit without splitting the wood. And of course then drive the screw in by hand with screwdriver so you can stop imidiatley if you see the wood splitting.

 

 

Hopefully i can get the rest finished off this weekend minus the actual sub bores, and maybe even get it upolstered.
Check back as you can,
-Patrick

 

Are you building that in HS shop class?

 

yup im still good friends with my HS shop teacher. I used some of the power tools that i dont own This is one time it pays to be nice to the teachers in school. He also helped me about two years ago when i was working on my eagle project.
-Patrick

 

This is the best write up ive ever seen on fiberglass, unfortunatley most people dont have the money to put that much into a system, but you get the idea of how to do it.
It is a 61 page and growing thread on another site so 56k warning.... It has a TON of pics
http://www.icixsound.com/vb/showthread.php?t=19654

I seriously spent close to an hour reading through it all
-Patrick

 

This is where im at now. I have finished half of the bottom, even tho im worried i will have to do some kind of flush mount work on the back half that i say ive finished. I am going to try and go back and make the front half of the bottom tomorrow. I have sprayed three coats of undercoating in there before i sealed it.
And now for the pics:




-Patrick

 

And then i wanted to see how it would look wrapped with carpet in the truck, so i ductaped the carpet on to the box after cutting the carpet a little
I am soo pleased with the way this is going to come out. I just wish i had a stronger cash flow for mods...
Anyways pics:

Then inside:




Oh and i made a sig picture the otherday, tell me what ya think
-Patrick

 

I did more sealing with undercoating, finally finished off my first can the other day, time to get some more, and i will just about have used the whole tube of liquid nails.

Hopefully i can finish it all out tomorrow... I am still scared i that i will have to do a flush mount on the back one which means more fabrication.... But for now i just want it to be done so i can get some carpet on it
-Patrick

 

Looking Killer Pat! Nice job. Looking forward to more pics as you go.

 

Finished undercoating it with my second can


Attached the other bottom panel


Played with the carpet on the front end


Cont...

 

Then i was struck by a bolt of lightning, Ok not really but i did have a really damn good idea pop up in my head.
Well i was planning on puttin the amp behind the back wall where the jack is stored.. Well then it all the sudden occured to me it would be totally badass if the amp was centered left to right and was just behind the end of the box, and i either made a fiberglass wall, or just cut an opening into the back wall.

Now i still dont have any components as of right now so i dont want to make an amp rack or cut too big of a window into that back plastic wall.

But here are some pics to help those that need a visual aid.







Those are all with box, without panel, and here is one without box without panel and without the dark grey carpet insert



Well i wish there was a better way to put my thoughts into a picture but i bet yall will get the idea,
Thanks for keepin up with this thread and encouraging me
-Patrick

 

Pat,

Nice job. It's good to see that some still take the time to do it right. I admire your patience with the box, and when finished it'll look better than a store bought unit. My only question whether or not you have any plans on fabricating some sort of cupholder(s) or a recess for holding misc. stuff for the back seat passengers?

SL

 

Ive had others asked me that and i dont plan to at this point, i am kinda thinking about making a second lighterduty box that has an arm rest and cupholders, and maybe a little box to put stuff in, that would simply just sit on top for road trips, but thats not a real concern of mine at the moment b.c its just my DD so i dont normally have more then one passanger.

I just got home from a friend's house where i lowered the front end of my truck two inches, maybe it will settle closer to three inches. So until saturday ive got a huge rake on the truck.

Im crashing now,
-Patrick