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91stang 06-06-2005 03:53 PM

I have a 89 Chevy S-10 and it has a small cab no back to it jus two seet and wall with window but behind the seats towards the bottom there is some what of an angled gap. basically there is enough room to mount two 15s behind the seats and i thinking of doing it but how will this sound using the cab. i am going to mount the sub with the magnet facing the seat speakers against wall.will this be ok? should i put some dampening because it is metal?

Dereck Waller 06-06-2005 06:09 PM

Let me see if I am reading this right. You are going to cut a couple holes in the back wall of the cab and have the cones playing free air to the outside, with the magnets inside? If so I would recomend a gore tex type material to keep the elements from touching the subs cones. And I would make a large MDF baffle that attaches to the sheet metal of the truck. It could be done and if done right it should sound pretty good. If you do it wrong it may still sound good, but you may end up getting laughed at all over the internet like a particular Ford Ranger.

91stang 06-07-2005 07:17 AM

Well actually not cut wholes threw the metal but as you said im gonna put a 3/4MDF peice of wood against the metal cut two whole in the wood not the metal.

91stang 06-07-2005 07:19 AM

were can i get some Gore tex type material

Shaughn Murley 06-07-2005 07:29 AM


Originally posted by 91stang:
Well actually not cut wholes threw the metal but as you said im gonna put a 3/4MDF peice of wood against the metal cut two whole in the wood not the metal.
you will have to cut holes to the exterior of the vehicle to do what you're thinking of doing, otherwise your subs will be in a .05 or so cube foot enclosure (the airspace in front of the cone)

91stang 06-07-2005 08:04 AM

Well the thing is the metall wall itself has like a two inch wide and 1 inch thick peices of metal all long the wall its hard to explain but i will have a pic soon but andyways it will kinda be like bandpass Look here is somewhat of my diagram.

http://members.fortunecity.com/mbcaraudio/untitled1.jpg

copy link and paste in internet explorer or it wont work

[ June 07, 2005, 09:10 AM: Message edited by: 91stang ]

Dereck Waller 06-07-2005 08:29 AM

That won't work. You might as well just set them on the passenger footwell.

91stang 06-07-2005 08:39 AM

Why exactly wont it work? and what passenger foot well? Can i somehow seal those gaps between the wood and metal?

Dereck Waller 06-07-2005 10:00 AM

Because the subs will not have any enclosure of any kind. They will be playing free air, which is different from Infinite Baffle, which is the setup I described. Basically there will be nothing separating the front and back wave of the subs and they will cancel each other and you will get very little output.

91stang 06-07-2005 10:09 AM

So do you suggest cutting wholes in the metal it self haveing cone exposed to outside of truck?


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