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At this time, I also made a 2" spacer which extends the rear seat latch bar to space the seat away from the enclosure even a bit further. I cut some steel tubing so it slides over the existing latch bar side posts. All this came out of workshop my scrap bin and I finally had an answer to why I...

I picked up a yard of carpet from my local car audio shop that is made for speaker enclosures. The stuff works great - it hides imperfections well, glue sticks to it like mad, and it has some stretch to it so it's easy to wrap it around curves or corners. I had a few part-cans of spray adhesive...

A mock-up of the front baffle board was made from stiff cardboard. That was used along with the cardboard woofer mock-up to be certain that woofer position and the depth of the box were what they needed to be. The cardboard shape was then transferred to wood which was cut to shape. The bottom...

I've started working on the audio system a bit more lately, starting with the most involved piece first - the subwoofer enclosure. The easiest route would be to go with a one-piece amplified sub combo (see here) mounted to the rear wall, but I'm looking for more than what one of those can do...

As a part of removing that center belt, I did not remove the seat. I did that with the back just leaning forward. More recent work on the audio system did require me to remove the rear seat, but I did so in two steps. Two bolts to remove the seat back, and two nuts to remove the seat bottom...

No, I doubt anyone has. I would be incredibly surprised if a bolt will even work effectively as an antenna.

My hybrid is the first vehicle I've had which I've driven in the winter which won't let me have typical winter fun with it. Having owned a few FWD vehicles in the past, winter brings eager parking brake assisted drifting & donuts. Tested out the electronic brake on my Mav yesterday. Looks...

My snowblower drips a bit of rusty water on my finished garage floor. Simple Green takes it right off. There are a lot of flavors of it, I've used the automotive degreaser and it works well for a lot of stuff. If that doesn't do it, you could try CLR. I've used CLR with a stiff brush to get...

Why not just spray them with a gloss clear paint? There are specific spray can paints made for wheels by Rustoleum & DupliColor that are $10-$15 per can. But the best durability will probably come from a 2k clear. I've used this one from Eastwood on another vehicle's headlights after I'd...

The company that makes the kits is Smyth, and they have one for a handful of vehicles (Audi A-Series, VW Golf/Jetta/Beetle, Subaru, Jeep Cherokee, and Dodge Charger, if I recall correctly). About 6 years ago, I had a Dodge Dakota that got sucky mileage. I wanted a smaller, more efficient truck...

I love the look of a matte finish on a vehicle. This looks absolutely killer. But it damn well better, for a quarter of the price of the vehicle (a base XL, anyway). I think that's the tough part for most people to stomach because for many of us, the low price of the vehicle was/is part of its...

My grandmother would love that!

I don't know if you have to, but I did and it worked well having it out of the way. I had the connector removed for most of the panel fitting. If I recall correctly, it was easy enough to reinsert the connector behind the panel and snap it back into place while sliding the panel into place its...

A horse apiece, especially if your plan is to later add whatever you don't choose right now. The Key with its DSP & additional power will improve the detail and clarity. But a sub is going to let you hear the music that's there which the current system can't reproduce. I've faced this same...

Kit is still available.

WOW, that's brilliant.

I did a Google image search and that woofer looks like it was used in an amplified enclosure they sold with model # ALB10. I don't see any references to any other woofers that look identical. Here's a YouTube video where someone takes it apart and does some measurements, and he provides the T/S...

I expect that those woofers that you see in small enclosures are specifically designed for those small enclosures, compared to your Dual woofer which is an unknown until you get its T/S numbers. I found this calculator. Looks like the enclosure size is similar to if it were ported (so, larger...

Questions this brings up: * Ideally, you should determine the specific model of your woofer and look up the Thiele/Small parameters for it. With those, you can use any of the online enclosure calculators to compare how different enclosure sizes/designs perform with your woofer in them. * Are...

I've done an 'autopsy' (heh) on dozens of dead woofers. For those that had a vented back piece, the other end was effectively sealed, or more specifically, you couldn't pass air through it to the interior of the box or to the front/cone side of the woofer. The voicecoil is on the other end of...