After building a custom 1.5" thick MDF box with over 5 cubic feet internal volume, with bracing, some polyfill on the bracing pieces, a 5.5" diameter port 8" long for my JBL 15" GTi sub, running two power lines from the battery to the trunk, mounting twin fuses as well, running speaker wire from the front doors to the trunk, running three pairs of RCA's for the Alpine CDA-7995 deck to the two amps, mounting a face plate for the Alpine with a covered EQ slot, running remote wire, sound deadening under the seats, carpets, trunk, dynamatting the front doors (all of the inner panel, and as much of the inside of the outer panel as I could physically reach), dynamatting the trunk (all the dynamatting took 5 29" x 32" sheets) (BTW, do this before you have your car rust proofed, or you'll spend hours just like I did washing with soapy water and alcohol), custom mounting (I had to glue a piece of Lucite to the inside of the stock tweeter opening so I would have a solid mounting point that wouldn't develop odd resonance charateristics) the Focal Access component tweeters for perfect imaging, iso mounting the Focal mids, all I had left to do was drop in the sub, wire up the amps, and go back to the sound shop to get an adapter piece to wire up the Alpine deck.

HOWEVER, at the end of the night, after a very productive day, as I was putting the sub into the trunk . . . I couldn't get it in. It just wouldn't fit. I then decided to remove the full size spare, install the sub, then put the spare back in. I am SO bleepin' close. The trunk lip is just too damn high for the spare to fit with the sub in, and the opening just too damn small to put the sub in with the spare in. Looks like I'll have to go with a space saver. The thing is, the sub only covers all of the inner sidewall and about a 1/2" of the rim of the spare, but that's enough to prevent the full size and the sub to fit in there. I can get the spare in there, but it'll be forced, and I'll never be able to get it out when it matters.

I'm SOOOOOOO close it hurts. I figure I'll just go try to get a space saver into the car. If it fits, I'll just remove the full size and run with a space saver.

BTW, with the pass through open, it looks *uckin' serious. My next door neighbour was like, "****! That looks MEAN!"

I can't wait to tune the system and get this system boomin'. Too frickin bad my Alpine MRV-F540 isn't available yet. I guess the temporary MRV-F340 will just have to do until the big daddy makes it to my waiting arms.

Just 'cause I'm in the market, how much does a Nissan space saver cost?

 

Hehehehe Been there , done that before. What a nightmare.

BTW just get AAA, thats what I did. I mean how silly would I look with 3 18s and one spare?? LoL I just call AAA and they tow it home for me, if they can get it on the flatbed

--Don

 

If you remove the rear seat, and the panel between the seat and trunk, is there enough room to slide the sub box into the trunk? Then, could you raise the bottom edge of the rear end of the box, like on a wedge so that the spare can slide in and out? The wedge will only have three sides. Basically a pair of triangular pieces of wood, long with narrow ends. And a flat rectangular piece to stretch across the width of the spare well.