jl audio FlatWedge™ Low-Profile Ported System

[KCobby]

LOVE that wood cargo lid - I say stain it nice and maybe add a little nylon pull to lift it up? Or maybe carpet it? Looks great, nice going. Let us know how you like the sound.

[sacrefrancais]

Originally Posted by don_chuwish

Really? I have one too. I haven't installed it yet because I'm still working out the other details of my upgrade. But I did put it in the cargo box above the spare tire to see how it fit. With the grill off I found that the lid will just barely clear it. But I didn't want to leave it without the grill, so I'm actually building a replacement lid. Then I'll make an 8" hole just over the speaker, cover the hole with a flush grill and cover everything with carpet. This is as far as I've gotten:







Glad to see others have it and like the sound. I'm dying to dry mine out!

- D

Love it too. Second the stain idea. Cutting a hole and adding a flush grill seems like a good idea. My only thought is that covering it with the carpet afterward might not be ideal in terms of impeding air displacement. I'm sure F8L would know better tho. Thanks for that final feedback, F8L. Will be tweaking it today.

[F8L]

You can purchase acoustically transparent carpet or grille cloth. This will allow you to carpet the wooden area with something that closely matches the car then use the acoustic carpet to cover the opening you cut for the speaker.

You can also just cut large slots into the wood (around the speaker to allow for good airflow then cover the whole thing with acoustic carpet. The only hard part will be getting carpet that matches. Call the distributors and tell them what you are doing and I bet they can fix you up.

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[don_chuwish]

The plywood I've used isn't nice enough to stain and that wouldn't be my preferred look anyway, but thanks for the props!

Oooh, thanks for the linkage F8L. Routing slots would be nice but part of cutting the full 8" hole is for clearance. That JL grill sticks up pretty far. It'll almost be flush with the top of my lid after it pokes through the hole. Already got one of these to undermount in the hole: Speaker Grilles at Crutchfield.com

Now I just can't decide if my Weathertech mat can go back in over everything when I'm done. It shouldn't be much of a barrier to a sub I don't think, I'll just try it and see.

- D