How many of you audiophiles have attempted the "false floor" thing in your car?
I did it earlier this week. I'm only running 1 10" in there but it really hammers, and sounds good!!
It's surprising how much room there is down under there if you remove your spare tire and all the mounting brackets. I think there would be enough room for a pair of 12's!!
Anyone else done this, and what are you running??

1995 Talon ESi
Lots of mods, still not enough.
It will never end...

I want to but i really don't wanna give up my spare..oh well thats what AAA is for!

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I bought my Talon with 32k on it. I pulled the spare tire rack out at 32,500 and I'm currently at 145K.

I think spare tires are overrated, but I may eat my words some day!

Have fun and rip it out. You can do a much better install in the spare tire well, especially if you are good with fiberglass!

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Actually, the false floor thing is really easy to do.
I have the pattern for it if anyone wants one. I can send it off to ya.

1995 Talon ESi
Lots of mods, still not enough.
It will never end...

hey could you send the pattern to me at kjhennessy@hotmail.com i'm thinking about doing and need ideas and such.
(EDIT) crap lol nevermind..

yeah hook me up w/the plans too man, skatetrash666@aol.com

Hey PemDsm. This>>> is going in my avata .

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can u send the plans to URGEnSTL4@sbcglobal.net
thanks

yeah same here...
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about that spare tire thing?

4 flats so far. in the first year i owned the car. one was a trailer hitch 300 miles from home...NOT FUN.

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can you send the plans to me to hehehehe. bedlam32570@yahoo.com

i can help out too if anyone else has a ? or wants pics of mine

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"We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war; our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very , very pissed off"

Here is a pic of mine when it was about 60% complete. I fiberglassed the wheel well and then used MDF on the top... it was really easy.




also feel free to look at some of my other pics....

http://www.cobblestonelodge.com/BlitzedEclipse95/

It's simple to do the false floor thing. Actually, for a pattern, all you really need to use is your stock trunk liner. All I did was trace it out on a big piece of cardboard, and keep trimming until I got a good fit. I think the hardest part was removing the brackets and stuff for the spare tire.

1995 Talon ESi
Lots of mods, still not enough.
It will never end...

do you just lay the MDF on top of the fiberglass or do u attach the MDF to the fiberglass floor?
i have always wondered about that.
later
"Z"

What I did was all around the opening of the spare tire well, when I fiberglassed it,I left a kind of "hump" about 1" wide, and 1 " high for the floor to sit on. I sanded the top to a smooth flat surface, so the floor would sit flat on top of it. Kind of like a "fiberglass gasket". Once the floor was all set to go in, and before I mounted the speakers in it, all round the outside of the "fiberglass gasket" on the floor part of the trunk, I sprayed a layer of expanda foam. Then I laid the floor down, and bolted it in place before the foam expanded. Then when the foam expanded, it filled in any gaps, and sealded the enclosure thoroughly.
A friend of mine just bought a Talon. It's going into the shop for paint anb body work, but when it's out, he wants me to do the false floor in his car with four tens.
I'm going to take pictures, and maybe do a writeup then. I should have done it when I did mine, but no digi cam. He has one I can use, so I'll be all set.

1995 Talon ESi
Lots of mods, still not enough.
It will never end...

can i get the plans too southerncomphort@aol.com:+

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I have pics of the steps required to remove the spare tire brackets up here:

http://stereoinstall.importvenom.com

Would four 10's really have enough space in the spare tire well?

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Hey man can you hook me up with the plans for it too?? mikestud999@hotmail.com

The way I'm installing the four tens, there will be enough room. I'm going to raise the false floor by eight inches. It will still look pretty much the same, just a little higher.
The hard part will be fixing all the buzzes and rattles after it's been playing for a week or so.
I hate when you hear a car with a great stereo go by, and then once its passed, all you hear is buzz, buzz, rattle, rattle.

1995 Talon ESi
Lots of mods, still not enough.
It will never end...

i did mine w/ 4 tens


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