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I just put a sub in the trunk area, and while it sounds great, I'm not totally happy with the room it takes up, and more importantly, due to its shape, the room it wastes.The angle between the rear seat and the floor makes for an interesting wedge design if someone were to build something custom to house a sub and make the best use of the space.Has anyone done this? If so, can you share your measurements? I have a 10" woofer that I would take out of the current bulky enclosure and put into a new one. How are ideal dimensions/volume calculated for a specific woofer?

I did built my own molded fiberglass enclosure for a 10" subwoofer.Too bad shipping is so expensive, since I do not have my Vibe anymore, this box is sitting in my closet, doing nothing but taking place. for nothing.

like this?http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=38024

How much does it weigh? might be interested in purchasing this from you

Quote, originally posted by Waxler6942 »How much does it weigh? might be interested in purchasing this from youLook at where he lives brotha, international shipping... Building the wedge shaped box mentioned wouldn't be that difficult..

something like this, except much smaller in width to where it would fit exactly behind the drive side rear seat (the 40 in the 60/40 split). also where the angle of the wedge would be for a perfect fit behind that seat and floor without leaving wasted space.

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I got around the wasted space issue by stuffing a shallow mount Fosgate in the spare tire tub. Since you already have a sub though I don't know if this would work for your speaker as it's right at the minimum for what a box for that sub can be. I've never built a box with the angle to match the seat back, but It is fairly simple to build an angled one. all you need are the proper measurements to get the angle right.

very cool. the angle on the wedge is 77 degrees. has anyone measures the angle between the rear seat and hatch floor?

Do you have more pics of your sub install? Does it have to be a shallow mount sub or could I take the 10" sub out of the enclosure it's in now?

http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=38669 That thread has all my pics of the installed sub as well as more detailed information. I didn't think to take pictures while I was building it. I should get more pictures up, and some pics of what I did inside the tub with the long posts with nuts on either end to tighten the top face down into position. I'll see about getting them up this week sometime. But pretty much, yes, it does have to be a shallow sub, and specifically a Rockford Fosgate P3SD410. The reason is that it is the only subwoofer I could find that works well with .4 cubic feet of air inside the enclosure (there may be more but I never found any). It is the absolute minimum that RF recommends for the sub, and you have to cut the bulge out of the bottom of the tub, seal the hole, modify the screw that holds the spare tire down, and then you can get to ALMOST .4 cubic feet inside the tub, so putting polyfil in the tub is a must do.It would be possible to physically install a standard depth subwoofer, depending on how deep it was, but they require much more air inside the enclosure to work properly and I can't imagine they would produce very good sound with the small volume of the tub.Just know this will not give you the same oomph as a "proper" box will, although the shallow Fosgates are much better than I thought they would be. It actually surprised me how well it worked in that small of a package.