I've been into audio for over a decade now, I've seen to everything from my fathers single blown speaker factory system to over 1kw systems. I know about building bed boxes that are connected right into the back of the cab, but I have no means to do that very well at this time. I've done some googling but not coming up with much .. Any body ever try the truck toolbox to put some subs in that if so what was the quality?
I've never done it, but imagine that sound quality would be awfull! Have you ever heard a trunk rattle from bass? I think that a toolbox would be 10 times worse. Just my .02 Trey <TX>
It will not sound good unless you vent it into the cab. They make plenty of shallow subs that will fit behind the seats now adays.. If you can fit the amps under your seats, you could literally fit 3 10s in a single cab pickup now with a fiberglass box.
at 6'4" I'm kinda "short" on space front to back... well once I get my buckets in... oh and layn I've dealt with some that seal up pretty good with rubber/foam sealing stuffs.
we sell tons of these guys at my shop. http://signature.crutchfield.com/s_575P3LS10/Rockford-Fosgate-P3L-S10.html?c=3&tp=112&avf=N 4 1/8 inch deep on top 6 1/8 bottom should fit behind any seat... $179 retail for the speaker if you are capable of building a box.
just saw a version of that today in person... and wow thats skinny... that might even fit under the seat. (possible an employee discount might get one (or two) shipped?
We've done quite a few tool box sub setups, and they pound the crap out of a standard cab,. Essentially, you just want to use the tool box for water proofing and security. You still need to build a real box inside of it and port it through into the cab. The cool thing is, you can get hatchback style bass in a standard cab truck and you don't see anything in the cab, so people don't even give it a second look. After we port them through, we put new breathable carpet on the back wall, so even when you tilt the seat forward, you can't see anything. The best part though, is no loss of leg room.
Compared to my original design of the equalateral triangle (17" every side and 35" wide 3/4" plywood and full dado joints with woodglue and screws) Nothing has ever hit that hard since. And Creepy thats exactly (minus the porting) what I was thinking. Do you mind taking a pic of one of yours?
They were all for customers trucks, (I've owned a car audio shop and fab shop for close to 25 years now.) I'll see if can dig up any old pics though. We port most of the boxes through, using 4" ABS pipe. Some people like to cut one big hole, but we prefer to cut 4 smaller holes instead. It's basically a big bandpass box when you're done.
