I need a measurement for a 24ve

[akdoc]

nickypoo,

I heard about RE on my quest to find a great performing sub without a ton of cost. I read a lot on www.caraudio.com and www.sounddomain.com. This sub is used but it only ran me $200 bucks. That is cheap for what it can do. I wanted a W7 or W6, but JL is so expensive that I had to find another option.

How did you mount your 10? I am definately going to reinforce where I mount it. It is going to be interesting. I just got it today and that thing is huge.

[NICKYPOO]

If you look in my gallery you can see where it is mounted. What I did was build the box and then mount the speaker in it. I wanted to make sure that I had a good, sealed enclosure to ensure a good sounding sub. Sound quality was the main focus with this sub and stuffing the box full of Polyfill made a big difference along with making sure that I had a good solid sealed box. After that was done, I pulled the carpet back on the bulkhead under the dash. I located where the sub was going to end up and cut the hole. This part is critical. A little tip is measure off of the walk through side, NOT the outer hull side. The walkthrough side should be reasonably square or at least square enough to get a good measurement. I cut the hole a 1/4" bigger than it needed to be in order to give it a little bit of room once the carpet was in. I cut the hole for the sub to fit through and then reapplied the carpet over the hole and everything. I then cut the carpet that was covering the hole. I made four cuts that were basically a cross and an X to give me 8 equal pie shaped pieces. I pulled those through the back side of the hole and made sure they were applied to the inside edge of the hole. I used the cut out from the hole to stuff back inside of the capeted hole in order to get some good pressure on the inside edges to make sure the carpet stayed. I let that sit for 24 hours. The next day I popped the cut out....out and trimmed the loose pieces off of the back side so that the box would sit up against the back side of the bulkhead all nice and perrty like. The sub fit right into the hole and turned out pretty damn sweet if I do say so myself. It's kind of a flush inset type of application.

CAUTION- This is a pain-in-the-*** way to do it. It's not recomended for anyone with a short temper. You will lose it. You guys with newer boats are lucky in the fact that you can access that compartment from the back of the seat in the bow. I had to do everything in that compartment through the access door in the walk through. Not fun. However, it looks pretty cool and sounds killer.

Measure THRICE, cut once.

[KTWILLIS]

FYI: I just bought a 24ve from Boats of nevada (702 564-4444 Matt). I had them install a 12 mtx 8500 series in the driver compartment. It has its own enclosure and is 1.25 cubic ft and it sounds great.

[akdoc]

KTWILLIS,

Is the sub mounted on yhe kickpael with the enclosure behind it, or is the sub mounted to a box and then just a hole cut in the kickpanel with the box mounted up flush to the hole?

[KTWILLIS]

The sub enclosure is built seperate with the face acting as a plate thats larger then the enclosure . you cut the hole the size of the enclosure and slide it in the front and it stoppes at the plate then just Bolt it up. Make sure you use tige carpet to cover it.

[akdoc]

KTWILLIS,

Thanks, I had never thought of doing that. That is a much better way than trying to build an enclosure that fit through that little opening from the bow. Take some pics of it if you can and post them, I would like to see it.

[KTWILLIS]

Here is a pict of the front. If you have design questions call matt at boats of nevada his installer is mike and he designed the enclosure.

[Ruune]

What is the SPL rating on those 12" REs?
I'm currently running a sealed bandpass box under the console. I had a custom box made and a hole cut in the vertical wall by my feet. I'm currently looking to replace those with three Audiobahn AW1200Ns (94.65db each) and 3 A2200HCTs. One sub will go on the driver's side, and the other two will go in the opposite storage compartment.

[NICKYPOO]

All the specs can be found at RE Audio . I've got the base model 10" re series and it is rated at 84.7. Not really sure about a sx 15 or any of the 12's for that matter. Probably somewhere in the high 80's to 90's. The thing is, they sound really good for what is basically an spl machine.