Matt H

That yellow one is nice and very rare. I didn't even realise you sold you supra, Geo. Why did you sell? You didn't have it in single form for that long did you?

685 not enough?

How did it go, Ibrar?

Looks good

Can you not buy these directly from Toyota? It was a while ago but I bought them new from Mr T (not sure if they still do them), but were not expensive at all.

That's tame by my standard

Ah, the old attention thread! Updates required then. Me and my bird: Last Bank Hol in Wigan :S With some random naff shades (not sure how I obtained them)

Sounds good

Has anyone put them in then? Pics?

Cracking, John

Sorted. Cheers.

That's correct

Just caught up Ibrar. Loving it.

Have you seen how much the torches are going for on ebay? Saw something on the news and one women is looking at £150k!!! You need that old guys torch!!

Cheers all

Not really sure. Actual build time didn't take that long, but planning and getting materials etc was time consuming. The hardest bit was getting the shelf / boot floor right. If you had everything to hand you'd get it done in a day easy

Ah!

What for, Jazz?

SORTED - THANKS I've had a completely retarded moment and managed to damage my AEM Tru Boost gauge. I need a replacement one. I don't really want to fork out for a new one they come with the solenoid and wiring etc and I only need the gauge unit. As far as I can tell I can't buy the gauge seperately? Is anyone selling one? Or point me in the right direction. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Matt

Cheers Jamie. There was a lot of head scratching to be fair, but it all seemed to come together as I got stuck in. Half of it is having the right tools I think. Thought someone would pick up on that I've had the multi channel amp for a while (far one) powering my corner speakers and they don't make that model anymore. If it's any consolation, they're both Kenwoods!

That stock subwoofer enclosure isn't light to be fair, but it's not light no. The sub is heavy on its own, let alone the enclosure. It's a tough one about losing the spare wheel, but I'm not actually too sure how much use the space saver actually is in my case. It's questionable whether using a spacer on my car will result in the body work being dangerously close to the pavement. Thankfully I've never had a flat in the 6 years of ownership. As for a second sub. I don't think another 12" like mine would fit in. Even if it did the enclosure space would be on the small side for it. With that said, two 10" subs would probably work? Due to the obvious difficulties, I don't know the exact air volume in there, but it's approx 30 litres.

Hello All, On Saturday I finished installing my new subwoofer. Now this isn't normally a big deal, but there is little space for a sub enclosure in a supra and even less space when you have an aerotop as the roof is stored in the boot. In fact, there is no room in the boot when the roof is stored away in there. After seeing what Lee (SRD) did with the space in the spare wheel well on Jamie's car, I decided that I'd ditch the spare myself and build an enclosure in there. Before the sub, I had my rainbow speakers (FL, FR, RL and RR) running from a Kenwood Amp. I decided that I wanted to stick with Rainbow for the speakers and purchased a Rainbow 12" Hammer sub. To power the Sub, I purchased a second Kenwood Amp. In order to get the required volume in the sub enclosure, I came up with a pretty tricky solution that would provide the required air volume but also be easy to remove if necessary. The first thing to do was remove the boot trim and the stock subwoofer enclosure: I used the existing bolt holes to mount a square section of MDF. This will be where the enclosure will be fixed to for stability. As you can see from this picture, the main obstacle in building the enclosure is the hump (technical term!) for the spare wheel, which also houses the fuel pump below. The first thing I did was construct what would become the new base of my boot space. I did this using a cardboard template to ensure the fit was right before I cut the shape out of the MDF: Without much margin for error, I cut a hole for the subwoofer to sit in. This area sits above the largest space within the wheel well (bottom left as you look at it from behind the car). I did want to mount it to the top right, but there just wasn't enough room for the 12" sub. I couldn't afford to build around the hump, as the enclosure wouldn't have the required volume of air, so I decided to utilise it as a wall of the enclosure (sort of). So I measured and cut what would be the base of my sub enclosure: Which fitted as so: Utilising a sheet of 3mm thick rubber, strong adhesive, flexible silicon and 13mm staples from my nail gun, I created this seal that would sit around the hump. When the sub is dropped in to the wheel well and pushed down, the rubber forms tight seal around the hump. Sort of a like the action of putting a jonnie over the helmet The next step was to construct the rest of the enclosure. Using lengths of MDF I had cut at a local timber merchant (to ensure perfectly straight edges), I constructed the rest of the enclosure: And this is how the enclosure sat in the wheel well: I added a terminal box to the side of one of enclosure walls to ensure easy of removal when necessary: Silicon sealed from the inside: With the enclosure complete, I placed my new boot floor over the box and transposed the sub hole onto it (the enclosure is slightly larger than the boot floor as it sits underneath the plastic boot trim – again, so it can be removed easily enough when necessary). This photo shows the sub hole in the enclosure, along with the wiring and the silicon seals around the joins: And now with the boot floor on: And the final step was to mount the sub and wire everything up (this was done by my auto electrician). As my Kenwood head unit has a pre-out for each speaker, everything is controllable via the head unit. So the sub can be turned off and the levels can be altered when it’s on (I’m still trying to get around it all). I’m really pleased with how it turned out. The sub is rather powerful, so I’ve set it changed the gain to something like -7 decibels for general use, which seems to have tamed it to a level where it adds a bit of thump but not enough to p!ss the general public off.

rent a lock up?