Building A Box For Solo X 18

Now thats a Large Box, can you provide us with a link to the manufacturers web site. I'd like to see their recommendations for tuning.

opps, its past my bed time

 

i have a friend that ran one,his was in a 8cuft box in the back of a f150. i also know of another person with one in his roof of his cherokee with a 10 cuft box.

i have pics...

 

it was tuned real low. did a 143@ 30hz. you never heard it, just felt it. his truck was solid too,very well deadened.

 

dude i want one of those so bad....
there just so expensive !

 

who?......

 

oh ok. i got lost for a sec.lol

 

I think your friend is in over his head. I wouldn't even think about going with a SoloX 18 if ATLEAST 3-4000 watts is available. Also to sustain an electrical system that big you need atleast a 250-300 amp alternator or two HO alternators...a couple extra batteries.

Does your friend really wanna go through with this?? I'm not dogging you or anything. A lot a people bite off a lot more than they can chew.

 

OK lets keep the box size. I like it. But lets make a minor change to the port. The height is 18.5 but I would change the width to 5.5-inches. This would make our port length around 24-inches. This will keep our tuning around 30 -32 HZ.

With your larger port (it will work) the length of the port becomes longer and it takes up more volume. I would rather have the additional volume.

How long is the port in your specs? I'm getting around 40-inches

 

Please refer to the equation in this thread
http://www.caraudiotalk.com/audio-forum/showthread.php?t=7885
post #7

The numerator portion has to do with port size, If the demoninator remains constant and the numerator (port size) increases the port length increases. The opposite is also true. If the port size decreases the length also decreases.

Your port WILL work, and the larger port might perform slighty better. (after all, at port tuning frequency the port makes almost all the sound)

My sightly more volume (7.9 cu ft compared to your 6.9 cu ft.) will allow the woofer to perform better across a wider frquency range. (only slightly wider)

Both boxes willl have similar performance characteristics. Flip a coin and build one.

 

Yes it will. But I think you'll be please with the performance of either box

So build it and let us know how it turns out.

 

just brace anything you think is flimsy enough. typically a horizontal and vertical brace. i like dowel rods for volume reasons. depending on the design you'll probably want to double baffle it as well.