Merry Christmas Everyone! Say hello to my little, yet VERY time consuming, 2024 holiday project... (and see photo notes)

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Merry Christmas Everyone! Say hello to my little, yet VERY time consuming, 2024 holiday project... (and see photo notes)
Merry Christmas Everyone! Say hello to my little, yet VERY time consuming, 2024 holiday project... (and see photo notes)

Trusting everyone has been having a good holiday season, and a Merry Christmas! So yeah, it's been quite a while since i've posted anything on flickr, with the last subject being the supposedly big, storewide remodel at Southaven Superlo. Turns out that remodel has been been happening in very slow motion, with the corner I'd posted a few photos of (many moons ago!) now the new home of Superlo's fried chicken counter/prep area. If I don't get a photo or two of that posted before year's end, hopefully that will happen at some point reasonably soon...

Anyway, on to the subject at hand: In early November this past year I took possession of a *mostly* gently pre-owned 2023 Tacoma double cab (Barcelona red, with TSS "blackout style" trim package). Although the truck sits up just *about* as high as the more prevalent (and more expensive!) TRD 4 x 4 Tacoma models, it's not quite as fancy, and definitely lacking when it comes to what I desire demand when it comes to sound quality.

So fast forward about a month and a half later, and Christmas day found me working on the bottom and back part of what will (fingers crossed) become a box to house my JL Audio 10" subwoofer (from previous truck). The strange looking (and itchy :P) dark gray thing seen in the upper part of the photo is an insulation/sound deadening skirt. that I may double-fold up on top of the box. Nice that a lot of the Barcelona red color is showing here, but it'll all be hidden behind the rear seats anyway.

Despite my less than stellar woodworking skills (way less than stellar :P), I'm planning to get real ambitious with this and not only make a box, but I'll attempt to make this a ported box - which JL Audio says will give me a pretty nice little boost near the lowest frequencies. For that to happen though, I need the entire width back behind the seats in order to have enough internal box (and port) volume. And if the ported deal doesn't work out, I may in the future add a second sub - who knows. I've already done a tweeter upgrade and planned on posting a few photos of that not too long ago, but (as usual), life got in the way.

So here I am just getting two sides of the box done, and hoping it goes quicker going forward - though I still have work to do on those two sides, mainly completing the notch over that seat bracket (for reference: tinyurl.com/2awwk4rn, if the link works - but yikes, I don't plan on making my bracket cover nearly that big)!

Anyway, we'll see how it goes...and hopefully, despite this project sucking up massive amounts of my holiday week off time, I'll find time to post some photos of my work in progress, and even post a few of those tweeter install project photos (where I had to get ***way*** too cozy with the side impact air bags)!

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Taken on: December 25, 2024
Sets appears in:   • 2023 Double cab Tacoma audio upgrade   
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