[Neils EV6]

I just ordered a Rockville SS8P 400w 8" Slim Under-Seat Active Powered Car/Truck Subwoofer Sub. I'm planning on swapping the original speaker and it should fit in the same location. I will be using the trunk cigarette port which provides 15 Amps to power the active speaker. The port should be off when the car is off and prevent battery drain.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B079PRCP9W/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It should arrive in a week, I will keep you posted.

I'm hoping not to cut any wires in case I want to put the original speaker back. Does anyone know the connector type for the original Meridian trunk speaker? It has 4 pins.

Did you get this all hooked up and does it drain the battery? Does it work ok?

 

[Neils EV6]

I recently installed a custom 8 inch fiberglass woofer taking up the bottom area where the oem stock sub did. It is a Dayton audio HO series 8 inch woofer with a 375w rms amp (skar audio 1200 something) and makes more than enough bass. That plus some eq touchups I did on the midrange really make the sound quite good (coming from an audio systems engineer background). Anyone interested in details message me. View attachment 4727

Looks great and can you tell me how it is working so far? Draining the battery? All ok??? Thanks

 

[Neils EV6]

Do you think a 10 inch will fit if mounted on a board or something?

 

[Neils EV6]

I am sure a 10" will fit looking at the size. I think it was about finding a reliable, powered (built in amp), low profile unit that didn't cost a fortune. I guess you could look for a good unit and post the dimensions and those doing the awesome engineering could see if it would work.

I have a kenwood mono sub amp already from another car and am going to try a shallow 10 sub instead of the powered sub and hope that it works well. I will know at the end of the month BUT my meridian amp is now one of those that needs replacement and I which I could replace the meridian amp with a different one but do not think that is possible considering all the different things that it does.

 

[Neils EV6]

I recently installed a custom 8 inch fiberglass woofer taking up the bottom area where the oem stock sub did. It is a Dayton audio HO series 8 inch woofer with a 375w rms amp (skar audio 1200 something) and makes more than enough bass. That plus some eq touchups I did on the midrange really make the sound quite good (coming from an audio systems engineer background). Anyone interested in details message me. View attachment 4727

I think that is great. Could you please tell me what mounting board you used and the size please. I am disabled and cannot just go out there and measure. How thick is the mounting plate/board, or whatever you used. Thanks in advance.

 

[Neils EV6]

I recently installed a custom 8 inch fiberglass woofer taking up the bottom area where the oem stock sub did. It is a Dayton audio HO series 8 inch woofer with a 375w rms amp (skar audio 1200 something) and makes more than enough bass. That plus some eq touchups I did on the midrange really make the sound quite good (coming from an audio systems engineer background). Anyone interested in details message me. View attachment 4727

Do you have issues with the 12v battery draining?

 

[Neils EV6]

That is awesome. Do you think a shallow 10 inch sub will fit?

 

[Neils EV6]

Thanks for the post man.