Jeep Subwoofer system

[95Honda]

I am finishing the box for the back of a buddy's CJ-7. The aluminum part I built is going to be the back seat of the Jeep. It has flip up panels that cover the battery compartment (under your butt when you are sitting), and the subwoofer compartment. The sub is a Dayton 12HO woofer in about .8ft3 sealed. Power will be a 900 watt sub amp. There will be a 250 amp alt and a pair of Optimas for juice. Jeep is pretty crazy, we dropped a full aluminum-block corvette motor and tranny in it, Atlas 2 Tran-case, 5.88 gears in Dana 60s and 40" Swampers.........

[BRONCOMARIO]

That looks sweet

[TalNLnky]

looks like thick sheet metal

[haydenlake]

I wish I could do .001 of the projects with the skill that you do.


I had a CJ-7 back in high school, man was that sweet driving in Washington with my Idaho license at 15 years old as a freshman, it was like pussy falling out a trees.

[MikeS]

Sounds like a nice jeep, shit.......

My stepbrother had a '47 or '49 Willys, a C2?. It had a 271 horse 289 snagged out of a '65 or '66 Mustang 2+2 fastback. (A collector car nowdays, but wasn't worth much in the mid-seventies.)

Full syncro 3 speed tranny, and used the stock jeep transfer case.
I can't recall if the rear end was different. It only lost one transfer case, not bad considering the abuse that rig took. He did twist a couple of the stock jeep rear drivelines, I mean literally twist.

The body was raised up a few inches, and the firewall was pulled back to fit the motor. It was just primer gray with basic 15" rims and snowtires. It had this butt-ugly sleeper look to it.
The 289 had a Edelbrock tarantula or some shit, with a Holley 650 dual feed.

Him and his ol' man built it when he was in high school, back when they used to cruise and street race Riverside street in downtown Spokane.
The Jeep was basically made to race cars from light to light, it didn't do too bad.

He could take off in first gear in 4WD low range, and shift to second and into 2WD hi range. a rather interesting thing to watch, probably a little hard on the front hubs I guess, oh well.....
It would literally hop in 4WD low range, and then all you would see is the hood when you hit second in 2WD hi range.

It would only do about 80 mph, but it got to 80 mph at an impressive rate.

He had a 8-track player with 6X9's in like 1 or 2 foot internal boxes, Pioneer brand.
I think he did move on to a Pioneer cassette deck, the Supertuner with the round face.
Not much, but in the late seventies it was still kind of a luxury to even have a aftermarket car stereo.
6X9 was king in those days, nobody had a clue about car drivers with LF response, or component car speakers in general. (Or course someone probably did......but that's a exception...)