Just bought this car about 2 weeks ago and I'm selling my truck. I'm going light on this setup, for now, and we all know how that can change but for now I'm sticking with 1 1508 and my Orion XTR 1000. I might be purchasing MisterGibbs' HX2 8's on CACO and try those out on this amp, I had some HE2's back in the day and was honestly always impressed by them no matter how much more higher end stuff I've had, so I'm curious what those little things can do and I'm sure some members on here wouldn't be disappointed to see that little test . I'll get pics of the car some time this week and I'll be building the box next weekend and installing all the wiring I think, might take me a little bit to find what I need/want.

 

nice post ***** us plenty of install pics

 

yes post pics!

I almost pulled the trigger on the 1508's but decided on 8w7's.. But I've heard nothing but good things about them..

8's FTW

 

Alright, it may be a little bit on the current build but I'll post some of my previous one in my truck. And the 1508's are redonkulous

 

 

 

Will do too . I loved mine and they got low and clean but I'll bet those 8W7's sound clean as hell.

 

holy magnet! lol

 

These things are just funny to look at in person too, it's funny to see that big of a magnet on such small frame, insert female reference here

 

GD154, whats going on brotha? Welcome to the forum definitely in to see this.

 

Not much man, thank you. I'm looking forward to doing this

 

great sub selection it will be sooo loud!! DigitalDesigns is superb

 

Hopefully it'll get loud. I've been working with DD's for a while, I'm not completely biased towards it but I like running them for ceratin applications. my problem is that my amp only puts out 250 at 4 ohms and my sub is a single 4. There is someone selling a dual 4 on the forums that I might look at since I'll be able to run a 2 ohm load. I just really don't want to sell my Orion .

 

Pics of the car:





Pics of the uncle's car for fun :

 

very clean car man, everybody loves big magnets

 

Thanks man. For sure. I just ordered the wiring and will be assembling the box this weekend. Also got my Cd player from DJfrestyle and the false floor he sells, should be a fun little project filled weekend.

 

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btw I've NEVER seen those wheels before. I'm really curious what car they came off of.

 

Actually I got them from a junkyard for $180 mounted and balanced, they're in pretty good shape, I'm assuming you meant my car? Lol

 

Box for now is gonna be downfiring with 2 ports on each side facing back and a false wall to make it look flush, did a similar box in my cousins lexus and it sounded amazing I thought for one 8 and 200 watts, can't wait to see what mine sounds like.

 

Got my wiring in, gonna go put my box together in a bit.

 

Puttin' her together.

 

Got some stuff too






A little comparison with an E8:

 

Wiring

 

Toward the end and test fitting, fits like a glove, will be perfect when it's carpeted.

 

Gonna put a false wall up, not sure how I'm gonna design and carpet that just yet. I still want to out this one in and then put in a downfiring one and see what it sounds like.

 

nice setup dude... what kinda internal vol. ya got?

 

Thanks man! I believe after displacements it came out to .95 or somewhere around there, which should sound nice, I'm more using this for a tester box to see how I like the sound and if I do I'll keep it but I may build a couple others just to see how I like them too.

 

those 1508's are no joke. i heard 4 of them in a f250...man they were pounding the hell out of my ears

looks good so far!

 

Thanks man, Yah I just had 4 of them in my frontier actually and only had 250 to each one and they got pretty damn loud for people, can't even imagine if I had gave them 3500-4000 . This one I'm gonna just try and get loud with one and see what I can do, probly throw 1k to it, still trying to find the right amp.

 

oh i see split mdf...remember to predrill to lower the chance of that happening.

 

Man you're the 4th person to tell me that , I pre-drilled them, that one piece of wood was an older piece I had laying around and I did it too close to the edge.

 

remember to secure the box down before you begin the false wall. I always used cardboard with scissors and small screws to make a template of my false wall builds.. They come out looking great

good work so far

 

Thanks man, this build is nothing special, wish you guys could've seen my old one, running the wires is nothing I like taking my time with how it looks around the battery compartment and back at the amps and subs, that's where I like to take my time . I'll definitely secure the box down, the way it sits in there it falls forward because the front part dips down a good 3 inches, so I have to build a little support underneath it and secure that down as well. Appreciate the tip on how to get the false wall I thought about doing it that way and it seems to be a common way, thanks again!

 

Couldn't find my uni-bits, couldn't get the hole any wider for now:


Running the wiring

 

And the cleanup:

 

those subs really need alot of power to shine.

 

Yah tell me about it, having for of them on 250 watts each was starving them to death, Trying to acquire a nice amp that does 800ish at 4 ohms.

 

800 @ 4 will be a bit hard to find! but good luck none-the-less.

 

yeah about the split wood mine did that in a spot or two but the 3/4mdf holds up well. Did u use a construction adhesive? I glued the crap outta mine lol, and used corner braces as well. I bet that sub will sound really good, keep the pics comin

 

There's actually more than you would think surprisingly, I just haven't found the right one in my price range yet.