Grandpa's Grocery Getter

I Just got my stereo Installed last Month, and Im using a 12" MTX form fitting fiberglass sub box. and have it under the rear Jump seat, leaving me 3/4's of the rear floor for usage. It also is color matched to my Leather Seats, Blends right in don't really notice it.

2012 Screw XLT-XTR Luxury Pkg



here is what I put in:
Stock deck
Stock tweeter's
Alpine 5 channel V70 amp
4- Infifnty 8602cfx 6x8"
12" MTX sub & form fitted sub box
dynamatted all 4 doors & door panels
2 Inline converters high out-put adjustable - one for sub and one for 4 speakers
RCA wires 17'ft long
wireing kit w/ 8gauge/ 16g/ 18g/
Inline fuse box....Optional..
Alpine Bass **** - to control the sub, so i don't have to go into the deck all the time to adjust it.

Mounted the Amp on the back wall behind the rear jump seat & the converters....other then the sub box which blends in to the seat, you can't tell i added to my system and it really pounds!
Everything is matched up its loud and clear all the ohms match......has clean Power and a clean sound good solid Bass and lots of high's & I kept the stock tweeter's.....

There is alot of good Threads in here how to do it, I had it installed and it took 7 hrs.....I would recomend doing the dynamat as well, helps with door Bass gives it more Bass, and and I have no rattles or squeeks 0, the doors have a nice deep thud to them now

Hope this helps

Grant

FoX2012

Yes, I found it lack in bottom end. It sounds more like a mid-woofer than sub. I am not against 8", but the sound ordnance didnt seem to fill in the bottom end. A quality 8" in a custom enclosure with a decent amp would be enough, but I had a spare 10" laying around, so I used it.

As a matter of fact, I have a great elemental design 10" available that sounds incredible and takes up very little space...the box is 14.5" long, 11.5" wide, 5" tall tapering to 3.5"

With an amp, it would be perfect for your requirements, but need an amp.

jejeosborne

Does the lc2i add anything if only adding a powered sub with speaker level inputs? I am still learning.

kballard72

the LC2i is supposed to strip the speaker signal of anything the OEM headunit is doing that protects the cheap factory speakers. As it gives a decent amount of voltage off the RCA outputs it supplies, the amp should perform more efficient.

The consensus from reading other post, as you play a factory unit louder it rolls off the bass signal so OEM speakers do not get blown. The LC2i is supposed to compensate for that.

It has two RCA pairs... one set for an amp that will drive a full signal... and one pair that drives a signal for subs. It is cleaning up both, or supposed to be.

TK5

I also added 2 Elemental Designs 10" shallow mount subwoofers. Did not sound like typical shallow subs, it was sad when they went out of business.