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jasevr4

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Does anyone have a pic of the boot, with the floor panel opened?

What is under there? Is it just a spare wheel? I'm planning my stereo at the moment and I still don't have a Stagea. I'm looking for somewhere to put a sub, as I don't want a box in the back. I'll be chucking mountain bikes in there every weekend so it's important that I have as much room as possible back there.

So.. Does anyone feel like taking a pic for me? :)

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Stinky Rooster Grand Master

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I don't have any photo's but you may be pushing shit uphill with a thin stick my friend. The spare wheel is a space saver so the well isn't that deep, and the panels on either side just cover the top of the fuel tank (the one on the drivers side covers the access to the fuel tank cover) . The best thing I can suggest is that you try and make use of the room between the rear strut uprights and the back of the rear seat. It will be about the only way you can do it and still be able to chuck in large stuff like bikes etc. One of the many joys of sharing the skyline floor pan.

ssshonky Grand Master

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yeah.. i have been looking at this as well .. and to make a completely " stealth " install is going to be hard. Why not try and mount the amps under the front seats if possible.. then just put the speakers in the standard locations.. and just unclip the sub and take it out of the car when need be?

and yeah.. you can get those very shallow mount subs ( from pioneer if I remember correctly )

there IS one little sneaky compartment to the left hand side of the cargo area.. and if you got a really small amp you may be able to house it in there and keep everthhing out of sight

Stinky Rooster Grand Master

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Just a tip - unles you have a passionate fetish for replacing the gas struts, do NOT put anything heavier than a 6" speaker in the tailgate. The bloody tailgate weigh's enough as it is :)

And if you do put speakers in there, pleasepleasepleaseplease make sure you really solidly mount them because in the case of getting rear ended, they will turn into a rawther nasty projectile......

IMO the compartment you are talking about wouldn't be anywhere near enough air to mount anything other than a free to air sub and they suck.

rb26stagea Grand Master

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Just a tip - unles you have a passionate fetish for replacing the gas struts, do NOT put anything heavier than a 6" speaker in the tailgate. The bloody tailgate weigh's enough as it is :laugh:

And if you do put speakers in there, pleasepleasepleaseplease make sure you really solidly mount them because in the case of getting rear ended, they will turn into a rawther nasty projectile......

IMO the compartment you are talking about wouldn't be anywhere near enough air to mount anything other than a free to air sub and they suck.

Shameless plug: I actually have a dozen 6" subs available for sale... Seriously.

That aside, where there's a will..... Small subs - a pair or two, in separate sealed enclosures.... easier to fit, just a pain in the rear end to install. I have seen a wagon with a pair of 8" subs mounted at the top of each c-pillar. Remember, too, that bass is non- directional, so you can mount subs wherever they will fit, irrespective of which direction they face. Behind the dash, above the passenger footwell is a favourite of mine. It just depends on how far you want to go, and/or how much you want to compromise on practicality/room. Just my opinion is all.

Stinky Rooster Grand Master

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Low frequency sound waves are big and long so the further away from the passengers you can mount them, the more time you have for the sound wave to develop properly before it reaches you. Thats why all the high end installs have the subs as far down the back as possible. Its not a bad idea to stick little ones all over the place, but you have to remember that below 10" the smaller the diameter, the more low end accuracy you lose.

DECIM8 Grand Master

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If it anything like the r34 space saver you can make a 45-50L enclosure with it, inverted sub of course .. with the sub in you can put a medium level sub in and have a sealed enclosure .. hope that helps .. tested it myself :thumbsup:

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spare in a can

true that

i have been thinking about this sub-ject to. and i have come up with the i dear to make the entire boot a sub inclosure. (as small as possible of corse) covering the entire floor. then put perspex over the subs so you can still sit stuff on top of them. i want to be able to have the subs in and still sleep in it. due to some calculatins i think i can do it with only using 150 mm high of boot spacecover the entir lot.

mcnamg Veteran

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Inside the trim on the LHS of the boot there is a fair bit of space as the little storage pocket actually unclips from the back of the trim and there is more room either side and below it so you could probably hide an amp in there no probs you would just need to fabricate a bracket for it and if you were using fibreglass and were ok with the box coming out as far as the strut you could build a reasonable size box for a single sub as well

ssshonky Grand Master

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still makes me laugh that we are discussing stereo installs to take the least amount of room.. and we all drive these wagons with massive storage in the back haha .. but yeah I too want to keep it looking factory when our stereo install has been done

GoldZilla Grand Master

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still makes me laugh that we are discussing stereo installs to take the least amount of room.. and we all drive these wagons with massive storage in the back haha .. but yeah I too want to keep it looking factory when our stereo install has been done

I agree Dale, but then again there's no use having massive load space if it's not available to use. Two weeks after I got my car back in '05, I made two trips to the airport to pick up relo's from overseas. Even the space behind the rear strut towers gets used if you have a large enough load or lots of things to carry, so I'm only willing to give up one side of these when I eventually have a sub installed in the back.

Stealth FTW, right?!?!?!

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