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Things Covered in This Video:

1: Covering Wheel Wells with Wood
- Even though a lot of footage was lost during this step, I had to figure out how to match the angles with a 60 degree corner wegde from the front of the enclosure to the rear. This completely elimented the mismatched elements beneath the baffle, like having one wheel well stick out way further than the other. Not quite 45's, a tapered frustum (triangular pyramid) solved the problem with every hollow cavity filled with expanding foam and pl max construction adhesive.

2: Cutting Angle Iron for Baffle
- In order to mount the massive sub baffle into the box, there needed to be some sort of bracket made to suspend it from the sides. Custom making a set of metal brackets was the best way to keep internal displacements to a minimum. while still being very strong. Sparks were flying, and each piece was cut to exact size.

3: Plotting Bracket Screw Holes
- Because there are seams to watch out for behind the wooden lining and steel cage, placing a bunch of random screw holes there could result in a screw going in between materials, essentially getting NO BITE. To avoid that, each hole was carefully placed and pre-drilled with a countersink beforehand.

4: Cutting Baffle Edge to 5.5 Degrees
- To match the pitch of the speaker layout, the front and rear edges of the baffle needed to be shaved off to create the matching angle. This also made it so the port inserts clear the overall dimensions and still fit with larger and smaller interchangeable ports. Precise tuning will be crucial for dialing in the bandpass once building the design is finished.

5: Adding Recessed Lip For Front
- Since the baffle sits directly on top of the front portion of the box with reinforced panels and steel tubing underneath, the strongest and most rigid way attach the two surfaces is by welding. But how can we weld without an additional metal surface? WE CAN'T! So customizing a little recess will make the 1.5" angle iron sit nice and flush, ready to be welded stronger!

6: Tracing Overlap on Sub Holes
- Without removing a small half moon shaped segment from the baffle brackets, the baskets from the subwoofers would hit and rub causing damage. The trusty jigsaw made all the custom cuts super easy, but it was extremely important to get the correct spacing and placement in order for things to continue fitting down the road after mounting everything inside. These puppies got drilled out for #12 hardware as well.


7: Mounting Brackets in The BASS VAN!
- To ensure an ultra durable bond, more pl max was added to the backs of each metal bracket when mounted to the wall. Extra beefy screws and large self tapping torx heads made sure to keep the bites insanely tight against the shell. 55 screws per side, talk about overkill! But we all know what happens with cars start to flex like crazy... Things start breaking uncontrollably!!!

8: Lifting HEAVY BAFFLE Into Place
- In order to lift this massive baffle onto the angled platform, a series of strategic shoves and pushes was really the only way to get it done. Being just one person makes these parts a little harder, but even with the added difficulty, she went in without a hitch! Perfectly smooth sailing 😁

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