Small sealed

[jdc753]

I know the mag already works well in a pretty small enclosure 0.8-1ft^3 however what if I were to drop it down to about 0.5ft^3 and be fairly liberal on the polyfill stuffing? I know I may be asking for too much but I would like to know how small I can go within means before I start to make a terrible home for my new subs.

I am planning on putting 2 new mags in between my front seats and I believe I have enough room to go up to maybe 3 cubes if I go from the back of the seats all the way up to the dash, however I would like to avoid going all the way up to the dash so I can slide across from drivers to passenger and vice versa. I would like to keep the box as small as I can for a pair and not drop to a single sub but I guess I could always do that too if necessary.

[hobie1dog]

That should work fine if the woofer will still fit in the box

[Electrodynamic]

0.5 is a bit small for the Mag v4. It will work, but you're going to sacrifice the low-end quite a bit. If you can go 0.8 ft^3 per driver and stuff it will 0.8 lbs per woofer, that will perform much better.

[fredridge]

why not just go with one, for more air space, you would probably get better low end and definitely much more efficient so you wouldn't need as much power

[Tirefryr]

He's going to NEED two with the diesel hammering away.

[jdc753]

Originally Posted by Tirefryr

He's going to NEED two with the diesel hammering away.

maybe I will just play a sound bite of a diesel engine running in loop with the new mags. Wonder how well they will reproduce the engine sound, hope my tweeters can reproduce a good turbo whistle

I will push for at least 1.6ft^3, guess it all depends on how big the box will be overall. Last thing I want to do is compromise the sounds of the mags though. I'm thinking 2 cubes won't be that hard to get though, all depends on how much height I can get.

[Impact9]

JDC I was looking at the boxes on supercrewsound.com and they have a model that fits behind the rear seat and can hold 3 12's shallow mounts. .45-.55 cf per sub.

SuperCrewSound - F-250 / F-350 Crew Cab 99-08 BTS Triple Subwoofer box

Just throwing this out there just in case you haven't looked to mount back there. I'm sure you can build a custom and get more just going dual BM12's

[jdc753]

hmm that looks pretty good, thanks for the tip. I'm sure I could build something pretty similarly. I had looked into doing something behind the seat and there didn't seem to be many options, short of the new BM's or a few select 10's and such. I ended up deciding I can loose the middle jump seat to open up my selection of subs and such.

Here is what I got going behind the seat at the moment.


I kinda just enjoy building things lol, when the new BM's come out I may see what I could do about squeezing 4 of them behind the seat with a bit of fiberglass work and moving the amps to below the seat.

[Impact9]

hmm your truck is a 4 door supercrew right? I bought an LMI seat lift which raised the rear seat 3". Then I installed my BM12's under the seat. They have around 1.5 f^3 each.

Here's a photo of my box out of the truck before sealing:


installed:


I think if you did something like I did along with your amp rack and a pair of mags you'd really be thumping!

[fredridge]

this guy does good work and has great prices...... he will also customize anything you want...the ridgline pics and boxes were from my old truck
vehicle specific sub enclosures

Marv also does some awesome work at good prices
Marvs Place