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One upgrade leads to another...

I got one of these for the boot of my estate:-

http://caraudiosecurity.com/shop/product/products_id/1233.html

Except with a Pheonix Gold Amp which they don't do anymore.

Has the added advantage of using two Banana Plugs so takes seconds to remove. Should go nicely against the back seats of the 944 (I can check properly if anyone's interested). There is a 10" version as well, which of course will be a slightly smaller enclosure.

Difference is phenominal for the price, and much less headache to put in (especially with the battery in the boot!)

You ain't gonna get any meaningful bass out of anything less than an 8" speaker (and even then it would be more mid-bass, and need a good enclousre)
 
ORIGINAL: Fen

I always have my seats at maximum front height and minimum rear (to get some under thigh support from the not especially confortable to be Porsche seats). I'd have to check, but there's a sporting chance I could fit my sub under one of them.

Abandoning the whole idea though, the rear footwells have plenty of space for reasonable subs and aren't visible - assuming you don't use the back seats for kids.
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So you don't find the standard seats comfortable either? Neither do I ... although I seem to remember you are a fair bit taller than I am (5ft8) so probably suffer from a different set of gripes to me. My problem is the upright rather than the squab - it seems to offer very little support in the small of the back, to the extent that I have taken mine apart and put in a more sculpted bit of foam. It was an improvement, and now I can endure a few hours without agony, but the recaros in my old Mk2 Golf were infinitely better.

I'd be very surprised if you could get a sub under a front seat. I think I have my seats about half-way up, and there is very little space underneath them. I thought that when they were in the fully-down position they were actually touching the floor ...

No, I haven't ever allowed kids in my car (with kids come stickiness), but the condition upon which SWMBO allowed me to buy a 944 was the fact that it had 4 seats, and occasionally we put grown-ups in the back. (Had I been able to get away with a genuine 2-seater, I would probably have an MX5 or possibly an elise or maybe a caterham with a large a towel for when it rains ... ) On this basis, the rear wheel wells have to remain as, well, rear wheel wells ...

Sorry to rubbish all your good ideas. I'm not being deliberately querrulous!


Oli.
 
OK, last gambit, and this would be considerable work.

As I recall there is a reasonablle depth of foam in the middle of the rear seat. I doubt that there is enough in the base, but if you have a one-piece backrest you might be able to remove enough foam to house a sub fixed to the backrest?
 
ORIGINAL: Fen

OK, last gambit, and this would be considerable work.

As I recall there is a reasonablle depth of foam in the middle of the rear seat. I doubt that there is enough in the base, but if you have a one-piece backrest you might be able to remove enough foam to house a sub fixed to the backrest?
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A novel idea, to be sure ... would involve hacking 'round the seat tho', which I am not so keen on ....

What other options are there? There must be some! Could you fit an amp somewhere in the dashboard, perhaps? Or screw it to the wooden cover which fits over the ECU in the passenger seat footwell? Or replace the glovebox? Or put it on the side of the transmission tunnel in the rear footwell? Or somewhere under the bonnet - by the fuse box, perhaps? Or inside the rear wings, where the rear speakers usually live? (Bit difficult to adjust the amp controls that way tho'.)

Maybe I'll go and have another look at the under-the-seats option. Or decide that I can live quite happily without a sub after all.

Fen, thanks for your suggestions. Sorry to have been a wet blanket about all of them.


Oli.
 
Oli
I though the pics would help somebody out.....[:D][:D]

No i didnt remove the rear windows , I managed to get the trim out buy doing it gently bit by bit...Although i need to remove the windows anyway, ive got some new trims to fit outside...So when im ready to fit it all back together ill be poping them out....[:D][;)]
 
I suppose the only downside to fitting the 6" round speakers is that the hole pattern that forms the speaker grill in the interior panel is not shaped for the 6" round speakers. I could find a method to cut or punch more holes in the panel but I suppose it will look tatty no matter how much care I take. Ideally I would to scour the breakers for the pukka rear interior panel from a car that had the 10-speaker upgrade option. I'm sure they are pretty rare though.

A good subwoofer set-up would be to replace the folding rear seat backrest with a panel that contains two large woofers. You could trim the panel from the front so it was pretty close to the original backrest and usable for people sitting in the back of the car and build an enclosure behind the speakers to enhance their performance. The fold-down feature of the seat could be retained and you could make it to be removable for track days. Also you could hide the set-up from potential thieves by using the roller blind. I've seen similar setups in hatchback cars. I reckon you could get two mono 6" wooffers to fit in the height of the rear fold-down seat which, combined with a ported enclosure and an amplifier, would provide all the bass you would ever want in a car.
 
6" will never provide all the bass you could want, but you could get a lot more than 6" into a converted rear seat backrest so the theory is still sound.

The 10-speaker cars have what looks like an external grill in the rear panel similar to the front grill in a 4-speaker car.
 
Some useful suggestions here.. I fitted the JBL speakers in the front and agreed they are much better than originals (base isnt terrific)and as I dont fancy messing about with the rears,will look into the basebox idea.There are plenty of different sizes on ebay that Iam sure could be used in the boot area without too many problems.
 
Well..... just to update on speaker suggestions,a guy at work bought a base box in for me to try and what an improvement it was! I now have the JBL front speakers,standard rears(didnt want to mess with these) and the base box that fits nicely along the rear seat in the boot (not too big and ugly).It is covered in a grey carpet so doesnt look out of place and I can remove it within seconds due to quick release speaker clips.
AND it sounds brill[:)]
 
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