Day: 15
Now that the paint has dried, I glued and screwed the plexiglass to the top of the box.

While that was drying I laid out the top console pieces and packed them with non hardening modeling clay to help reduce felt vibrations in the console. I used only about 10 lbs in the console, I will probably add more at a later date. I found that instead of working the modeling clay until it got soft that if you soak it in HOT tap water for about 30 min it will become a lot more workable and is a lot easier on the hands. I then packed the clay around the mounting base for the DIYMA to make a good seal, and help dampen the box from further vibrations.







Packing clay around the console:

 

Once the glue was dry I started to assemble everything for the final time. I bolted it all back together added one more bracket to the rear of the box so I could bolt it down to the floor.









I dropped the DIYMA into its final resting place and tightened down the screws. I moved it out to the truck put it into place, soldered the connections together, and finally powered up the system………..

 

And all I can say is this sub is by far the most translucent sub in existence! I am simply amazed at how well this thing blends and how accurate this sub is. It simply does not get better for a sq sub. (If you are local and want to hear it just let me know I will be more then happy to meet up with you)

And since I was bored and decided my D3 would need a good wallpaper to match up with the system I made it a new background:



Well that is all I have hopefully it inspired some of you to do something that may be outside your comfort level. I learned a lot through out the build of this and now am surrounded by complete musical bliss when I drive.

Final build specs are:

JL 500/1 v1 pushing a single DIYMA R12 in
a custom console enclosure with .5 ft^3

JL 300/4 v1 bridged pushing Diamond Audio Hex 6.0 speakers
Using the 5.0 crossovers with the silk tweets

KnuKoncpetz install accessories

Tech Flexed all wires

Pioneer Avic D3 dvd/navi hu

The big 4 re wire

Raamatt sound dampener.

 

looks good! How much clearance do you have between the magnet and the pexi?

 

It approx 1" it looks really close though.

 

Looks AWESOME

 

WOW!!! What a great build! Thank you for taking the time to take pictures and post them on here!

 

Looks good! I'll bet it sounds even better.

 

No prob and thank you


Thanks, and yes it does sound a lot better then the build looks.

 

Nice work! I was having a hard time picturing how it was all going to go together. Looks nice and out of the way. Glad it sounds great...

 

Very nice work. Maybe you should go work for JL and get them back in the business of making center console boxes

 

That would be sweet but I don't think that I have the required skill set to pull that off :o Plus it was a huge under taking to figure this one out, but I think to do it again it would go a million times faster now that I know what little snags I will run in to.

I do thank you and everyone else for the compliments, I am just glad it sounds good. I was so worried that I was going to do all that work and it was not going to sound good

 

Friggin awesome

 

Thank you I am very happy with it

 

Very cool, 05sprcrw, can't wait to see it!!
That required much more time and patience than I could afford, so awesome job in doing it all yourself.