Wait untill you put the midbass in the doors and fully deaden them, you'll get real upfront bass. Puts the sound stage right in your face, I love it.

 

I know, huh ! :-)

I can totally imagine that these two things are going to make a night and day improvement with the sound staging aspects...... and make the whole install look so much more proffessional.

Peace,
Fish

 

ok i just started building a custom box myself yesterday... i was planning on putting black leather all the way around it.... but i like how you covered your box and the rear of the truck all in one vinyl piece or cloth or whatever... so my question is do you know where i can get a lot of black leather and how hard was it to pretty much do your whole back seat?

 

Hey will09, what you see in my photos is black carpeting I got from Home Depot. I got enough to do my entire false rear wall, and floor + my sub box, for about $50. How hard was it to do ? Not bad at all really. {not near as much work as building my false rear wall, floor, and sub box !} I just stapled it all in place, to get it to conform to the corners, and lay flat. My idea was to go back later, after it had conformed, and glue it all in place.... but it conformed so perfectly, that after I pulled all the staples, it didn't wrinkle or bulge anywhere, at all. So, I just left it as is.

Peace,
Fish

 

Oh ok well it looks really good I'm thinking black leather would be a bit too much money then

 

so its just carpet that you covered it with? i went to home depot and thats all i could find but i want to make sure before i decide anything... would you recommend carpet or leather? and how much did you buy? like yards or whatever.

sorry about all the questions just want it to look perfect

 

Leather will take alot more work.

You have to know how to steam it to get it to conform.

 

i used carpet on my box. when i redo it this summer it'll be suede to match my headliner & other interior pieces i've done

 

bought my black carpet from home depot yesterday and spent 125 on a 12 by 8 square yard piece...

 

Hey Will09, I think you meant 8 x 12 sq foot piece :-) I think I used about 6 x 12 sq feet, for the back wall / floor, and the box. Judging by the price, your carpeting might have been the heavier / higher quality stuff...... which of course will be more durable. I just hope yours is as easy to work with (flexable) as mine was.

Post some photos when your finished.

Peace,
Fish

 

oh ok bc she said she only had two choices in black carpet.... do you remember what kind yours was? bc i wanted to recarpet the whole inside of my truck but i didnt realize it was that expensive so i didnt buy enough to do it all

 

depending on the size of the box u can buy a roll of replacement carpet @ walmart or o'reilly's for like $20

 

Thats the stuff i used on mine and it was about $15 a roll and matched really well. Def a lot cheaper than lowes/homedepot carpet.

 

Hey will09, I don't remember exactly what they called my carpet.... I just know it was normally like $5.99 per linear ft (6ft wide) and I got it on sale for $4.39 per linear foot..... so 12 feet was around $50. Seemed plenty cheap to me, after spending thousands on the rest of the stereo setup.

Fish

 

WOW! i'm impressed Chris. nice and clean, good work!