Home made Stealth Box *pics*

[DwR6Rider]

Check out what $9.00 and a little hard work can get you. Beats the hell out of paying $175+ for an MTX or JL stealth. I'll post some updates once I install all of my equipment (box, amp, cap)

[Freeser]

Originally posted by DwR6Rider:
Check out what $9.00 and a little hard work can get you.

$9.00 How did you build a box for $9? Is it enclosed? The pic looks nice but im just tryin to figure how you made a box with that little of cash :eek:

[ March 12, 2004, 01:03 AM: Message edited by: Freeser ]

[cam97blk]

Is it wood? how did you get all the edges and cornors so good? sander? must have takin u days

[DwR6Rider]

Ok, $9.00 sounds cheap right? The only material I bought was a 4'x8' piece of 3/4" particle board. I had some screws laying around my apt and I already had calking. I guess the catch to the $9.00 was that I already had some material. If I would have paid for everything, it probably would be more like $15-$20.

The box is enclosed and the only power tool that I used was a jigsaw.

It took me about 3 days to completely finish the box, working a couple of hours each day. This is what I did.

Day 1: I took some cardboard and made a "protype" or pattern for the real box. I basically took a hobby knife and cut each piece of the box out to fit in the rear well in the trunk. After I had all of my pieces of cardboard, I assembled the box and checked to ensure proper fit in my trunk.

Day 2: (HARDEST) I bought the wood, disassembled the cardboard box, and then traced each piece of cardboard onto the wood. Then, I took the jigsaw and cut out each piece. Then just reassembled the box with the wood instead of the particle board. This was the hard part. To get a good seal on the box I had to cut a crazy angle on almost everypiece of wood. This is very, very time consuming. I would nail two pieces together, and then check to see if it fit in the rear well of my car. Then I'd add another piece and check again, until I finally had all of the pieces together. Then I hand sanded all of the edges.

Day 3: Calked the inside and out side corners/joints of the box. Painted the box. Covered the front with a fine black material, that normally covers grills on home stereo speakers. Stapled a thick layer of cotton stuffing inside of the box to "slow down" the sound waves in the box.

[img]graemlins/rock.gif[/img] I'll add some more pics of the box later today. Oh and the Audiobahn 10" was an extra $250 ha ha.

[DwR6Rider]

The back of the box isn't as clean as the front, but back will not be seen so it doesn't matter.

[Akuma]

looks good. Let us know how it sounds when u get everything hooked up.

[kamarozrule]

does it hold a 10 or a 12... looks like a 10 but not sure.

[DwR6Rider]

Yeah it holds a 10". If I would have planned a little better I probably could have fit a 12"

[BlueFBird]

u should make them and sell them!

[DwR6Rider]

Ha ha, wanna be the first customer?

[PewterBird]

Originally posted by DwR6Rider:
Ha ha, wanna be the first customer?

You could easily sell them for 20bucks a pop.

Sorry megabass.

[pontiac nino]

Originally posted by DwR6Rider:
Ha ha, wanna be the first customer?

Dude i'll volunteer to be you're guinea pig and be the first customer. [img]graemlins/burnout.gif[/img]

[DwR6Rider]

For $20, I could only sell the cardboard pattern that I used, lol.

If you figure that it cost only $9 for material, and I worked roughly 10 hours on it over a period of 3 days......lol that's only a buck an hour. ($1.10/hr)

It's a pretty cool project if you have a little spare time, you guys should try it out. Even if your box doesn't come out just right, you'll only be out about $15 (less if you have material laying around the house).

[pontiac nino]

How bout $50? and you haul @$$ to make it lol.

[ianwells100]

cool, any chances of some lighter pics... i cant really see much there

also, was particle board a good idea, why didnt u u se 3/4" MDF? MDF is much higher quality

but, man, tell us how it sounds, i spent $140 (shipped) on mine