Here are my finished pictures finally
as you can see from the last two pics the pop out access panel is attached to the sub box. It holds the sub where it 's supposed to be pretty well. I'm not sure if you want to rely on this being the only thing that holds your box down if you drive like a rally racer though.
Btw it bangs! I'm pretty impressed with the sound quality. At first I was a little concerned, then I took the time to tune the AMP to the Eclipse's strengths and it's working out pretty well. Doors are being run off of the 4430's internal amp with cheap Kenwoods as upgrades to the stock speakers.
First on the progression was the Eclipse AVN 4430. This made the stock speakers sound so much better I was almost convinced I was wasting time upgrading the stockers.
Then I did just the front doors with the Kenwood's and some dynomat on the biggest metal section of the inside door frame, some dynomat in the spare tire well, and some polyfill in the tail light access area. This made me realize that the stockers were totally inadequate, sounding very boomy, while the speaker plays lower frequencies easier, it distorts them quickly and has a complete lack of high frequency ability. The Kenwood's remedied this easily, and I took some of my volume back with a little bit of sound deadening.
I finished (trying to make look pretty) the sub boxes, installed the power wiring, hooked up the capacitor, and bolted down the subs and amp, while waiting for some stuff to dry or while I was ready to try and sit for some of the installation took care of the rear doors intermittently on Sunday. I cussed, bled and got sunburnt, but damnit I was tired of working on this because this upcoming Friday I'm taking a road trip from Florida to my home state in Washington (The Evergreen state, not D.C.) I'm going to Japan for a year in a little over a month and I satisfied with works right as opposed to looks pretty. I can always go back over things with some fabric later on with very little hassle if need be.
The Subs hit hard, without trying to mess anything up and physically measuring I believe the subs excursion to be about 1 full inch, which I think is incredible for a sub with only 2 inches of rear depth.
The Eclipse has a LPF at 80 HZ, I turned it off, and am using the AMP's LPF at 100 HZ with a + 3 db peak at 45 HZ and a width of 4 HZ curve surrounding the 45 HZ peak.
The AMP's model number is MRD-M500, i picked it up new in '03 and haven't found a need for a different amp since. I think all of it's digital tuning features are excellent and would recomend it to anyone if you can find one!
So What do you think?