Hi all,

Made a start on my custom boot build project today. Firstly would like to say thanks to Carl (mantianak) who gave me his fibreglass sub box which he made for his car a few years back.

Today i fitted a new dark accoustic carpet to the fibreglass sub box and then dismantled my JBL sub and fitted it to the fibreglass box. Also sprayed the protective bars blue as they were in a bit of a state.

Fitted it all and tested it out, sound is spot on! Bass was a bit too boomy with the old large sub box, its now perfect :).

Got some more bits planned to do, the amp is currently temporarily screwed down on the false floor, but will be built into an enclosure with some blue leds and the boot false floor will be replaced as mines warped due to getting wet and the carpet needs replacing too.

Thanks again Carl! :)

Heres a before photo as a comparison. As you can see the box was quite large and taking up.a lot of space. It was also very heavy. Glad to have the boot space back and not carrying something heavy around any more :)

The finish on the bars are actually a nice dark blue. Theyve shown up lighter than they actually are for some reason, probably because of some setting on my phone as i took the photos late in the evening when it was already getting dark.

I hope its easy to remove to get to any blown bulbs.

But looks far better than that old box. Top job

Yeah it just comes out in order to access the light :) once ive redone the boot floor i'll be able to get to the spare wheel without having to take out the sub too :)

Hi Rick
Like the look of that.
What does it sound like in the car.Can you adjust sound so that bass comes from centre of cabin. If you know what I mean.:}

The bass is not as deep and boomy as it was when fitted to the original sub box but still sounds fantastic and i like it that its not so boomy anymore . You cant tell where the bass is coming from if that makes sense, i.e the bass isnt obvious that its coming from the boot. :)

New Boot Floor
 

Built and fitted a new boot floor today using MDF, got rid of the old flimsy one and was so badly bowed.

I've made it so now only the centre of the boot floor lifts up when accessing the spare wheel, rather than having to lift the whole carpet. That way I dont have to remove my sub everytime I want to access the spare wheel well.

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Pretty happy with the finish, nice and clean now :}

Great job, Rick.

This is how the boot floor should have been designed in the first place IMO.

I have a bag full of consumables etc attached to the side of my boot behind the rear light cluster, yet I have to take it out everytime I want to get to the spare wheel - it's a right pain.

I agree, much better design to have the centre part of floor to rise.

Rick, could you attach a hydraulic arm to that lid, similar to the Tourers.

Thanks :) bit of a poor design having to remove everything from the boot to get to the spare wheel. also made the board shorter as well as the orignal one was almost as far back as the rear seats when it didnt need to be.

I'm not sure, I wasn't even aware that the tourers have a hydraulic arm :o

Yeah, its brillaint, a snazy arm that holds up the hatch. :D

Forward to 4:30 :}

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