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Rear Quarter panel with motor assembly for rear hatch open
and close. This assembly takes up the normal space we would use
for a subwoofer. To compensate for this we built a combination
fiberglass and MDF cabinet to get the required airspace. The
jack which was mounted on the fender is relocated under the
hood.
Mounting flanges for the jack are removed and sealed over
with fiberglass. Road Kill sound damping is then applied so that
the sheet metal does not pick up any vibrations and turn them
into audible resonances inside the vehicle.
The entire surface of where the cabinet is in contact with
the car body is then covered with carpet to ensure there are no
rattles.
A Boston Pro 12” woofer is housed in the custom cabinet that
is contoured to the vehicle. The front baffle, top and end caps
are MDF. The back and curved areas around the motor assembly are
fiberglass.
Finally a custom panel is manufactured, vinyl wrapped and
dyed to mimic the factory interior.
Two Alpine amps are flushed into the cover that hides the
metal seat base under the middle row seating. A 4 -channel amp
powers 4 Boston Acoustic component speakers. The mono block amp
is connected to the 12” subwoofer.
The running boards did not have step lights so 2 blue LEDs
were added to each door and triggered off the door open circuit.
