Sub box DONE!

utlonghorns416 · Apr 22, 2012

So, I tackled building a sub box this weekend. It fits like a glove ! Before I get tons of haters on the pioneer sub, this sub was in my price rang and fits the box awesome. I used in a in line convertor for the factory head unit. Im running a jl e2150 amp from my old system. Darin and I built two boxes, he is installing his tonight. I am very impressed with this little 3.5" deep sub, it hits hard and is crisp. A HUGE thanks to Nate, he tough me a lot over a few days about calculating volume and air space. I built this box to the specs of this sub. So, here is the final product.

Ad8 PRODIGY · Apr 22, 2012

Looks great man!

utlonghorns416 · Apr 22, 2012

Thanks!

4tonGT40 · Apr 22, 2012

utlonghorns416 said:
So, I tackled building a sub box this weekend. It fits like a glove ! Before I get tons of haters on the pioneer sub, this sub was in my price rang and fits the box awesome. I used in a in line convertor for the factory head unit. Im running a jl e2150 amp from my old system. Darin and I built two boxes, he is installing his tonight. I am very impressed with this little 3.5" deep sub, it hits hard and is crisp. A HUGE thanks to Nate, he tough me a lot over a few days about calculating volume and air space. I built this box to the specs of this sub. So, here is the final product.

Looks good man, your better than me cutting wood thats for sure! And there isnt anything wrong with that Pioneer sub IMO, my buddy has one of those in his car and it puts off some serious boom. Is it the really flat bottom with a HUGE magnet?

WHY NOT · Apr 22, 2012

is that a 10 or 12"? I need to do this in my truck the stock one just isn't near enough. Also where did you mount the amp and what line converter did you use?

fine69 · Apr 22, 2012

Nice Job! I've had great luck with Pioneer components over the years.

utlonghorns416 · Apr 23, 2012

4tonGT40 said:
Looks good man, your better than me cutting wood thats for sure! And there isnt anything wrong with that Pioneer sub IMO, my buddy has one of those in his car and it puts off some serious boom. Is it the really flat bottom with a HUGE magnet?

Its a ib-flat series 3 1/2" total mounting depth. It has the rebuild able components.

utlonghorns416 · Apr 23, 2012

31 YNOT said:
is that a 10 or 12"? I need to do this in my truck the stock one just isn't near enough. Also where did you mount the amp and what line converter did you use?

Its a 10" ib-flat, I used a fierce inline converter. The the in line converter is hidden behind the passenger rear panel. You have to wire after the factory stereo amp or it will not work. The wires speaker wires are under your kick panels. I used 3m and taped it to the inside of the panel. Give you self plenty of speaker wire in case you ever have to take that panel off. I am going to switch it out when I have the money to do so. I am going to build a amp wall for either the MTX or JL audio clean sweep. I have a JL e2150 two channel amp running the sub.

utlonghorns416 · Apr 23, 2012

The wires are twisted together under your kick panel on each side. The right side of the truck is BR/WH (+) BN/BU (-) and the left side is WH/GY (+) BN/YW (-). You have to lift both panels on each side of the truck to get to the wires. 25' of speaker wire should give to plenty of wire to run it to the in line converter.

4EverBoosted1 · Apr 23, 2012

do you mind explaining exactly how you wired it? so does it go, factory wiring to amp and then to sub? or can you just run the wires from the factory sub to an aftermarket amp and then into the new subs?

utlonghorns416 · Apr 24, 2012

I bought a cheap inline fierce converter from best buy, which Im going to switch out to a audiocontrol lcq1 later. You tap into the rear speakers wires on each side with the inline converter ( it has four wires). Then run RCAs to amp for the converter. I used the remote wire off the old amp wire harness. Its a pink and purple wire. Pretty simple to do .