I'm looking for a way to increase some bass in my car. What I had in mind is a powered subwoofer enclousure that might fit below the driver's seat. Has anyone tried installing one these in their fit yet?

 

The gas tank is under the driver's seat. If you take a look there's not much space. I've thought about bolting some shakers to the bottom of the seat though

 

I hear ya. I just got mine, and am trying to scope out a spot for a sub without using up my "trunk" space. You won't Fit anything under the driver's seat.

One idea is to put an 8" sub through the center of the back seat. (Yeah, I mean putting a large hole in your back seat, and mounting a sub there.) I did this in my Hyundai Accent. It worked awesome, however it was a sedan, not a hatchback. (A trunk is a natural enclosure for a sub.)

Let me know if you discover with anything creative.

 

I'm not exactly sure what my sub plans are but they will likely include a sub in the trunk with banana plugs, so I can just take it out whenever I need the space.

 

The gas tank is where???

 

Under the front seats to make room for tall mode.

 

I havent gotten around to installing mine yet, hopefully this weekend, but this Infinity basslink doesnt take up much space at all

 

what about a bazooka tube or something like that? its self amplified all you need is a place to put the input jacks and wire it to the battery

 

NO BAZOOKA TUBEs..

or sony xplods


yeah....no bueno!!!

 

why not? mine isnt an actual bazooka tube but the bass hits good and it only cost me 100 bucks. ive had it for a year already sounds fine to me

 

cant wait to post my box, it is overly huge.

 

yall know the little pocket on the right hand side of the hatch area? if you took out the pocket, can an 8" sub be fit into a custom enclosure in there?

 

even an 8" sub would need more space in an enclosure than that.

maybe a tangband woofer would work, but other than that not much could be fit into that space.

best bets for fitting a stereo into the fit without sacrificing cargo space =

1. mounting woofer spare tire well w/ some kind of protective shield(plexiglass or some kind of grill) on top & mounting the amp on the right side of the hatch

2. bazooka tube/infiniti basslink

3. mount the amp in the same place as #1 and just use some easy-disconnect connectors on a woofer box so you can just take it out whenever you need space.

 

has anyone tried using one those pioneer flat subwoofers?

 

I read that since the fit has so much open space those flat woofers really take a hit in both sound quality and loudness. I got the same response from a couple of my guys at the car audio stores in town.

I think they're made for trucks and other small cab type places.

 

i was wondering if i could replace the rear speakers with Tangband 6.5 subs. thoughts?

 

My Soundsplinter RLi-10" is in a box 12.25"x12.25"x12.25" external dimensions. This gives it about .6Cf3 of airspace, which is optimal for this sub in sealed box. You could go even smaller since it would work down to .3. You can go even smaller with the RLi-8'. You would be amazed at how well they sound and how much air they can move.

-Larry

 

Hey folks, this question reminded me that I never got around to posting the results of my quest down this same road. I ended up building an enclosure out of 3/4" MDF and Sonotube to fit in the back left "corner" of the cargo area. The driver is a JL 8w1v2-4ohm and the enclosure was sized to JLs recommended .375 cu. ft. I built a 2-3/4" deep box to hold the amp (JL 300/4) that sits on top of the spare tire, under the spare tire cover, and cut the cover to fit around my enclosure. The back left corner of the box fits around the base of the sub when the sub is sitting at the level of the original trunk "floor". There is bracing across the box around the amp to allow cargo to still sit on top of the pos fiberboard cover. The amp is running a pair of Focal 165 KF for the front, installed in place of the factory mids and tweeters with the rear bridged to run the sub. I installed a Rockford-Fosgate 360.1 behind the dash to convert the outputs from the factory head to line levels for the amp as well as providing eq and level control. I would be happy to post some photos if one of the moderators will enable this function for my account.

 

Sonotube inside the spare tire? with an amp that sits on the floor of the fiberboard? Hard to imagine, i'd love to see pics

 

soundsplinter makes AMAZING products. I would HIGHLY recommend an rl-i 8" for the fit. I had one of their RL-P 15" in the hatch of my eclipse and it was my favorite sub ever.

as for the tangbands, I say yes, but if you want good response you should build an MDF mount for the speakers with some good sound deadening. Pair those tangbands with some high quality front components and run them all on a 4 channel amp(or a separate mono amp) and you'll have a SWEET combo.