Amp Rack

AnthonyO said:

Lets see your amp racks. I need some motivation.

I have a sheet of HDPE, but its so damn hard to work with. So I am thinking of building my amp rack out of 1/4" MDF.

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Either is fine. Never have an issue using a router at slow speeds or a good hacksaw and a little sandpaper on the HDPE. IF you don't need the added strength/bend benefit of the HDPE, MDF away!

My crappy ABS plastic mount with hole drilled to attach to seat bolt under rear seat in F150 . Sorry man I’m a noob

That looks decent enough to me.

Plywood -


Painted and carpeted



Loaded



Installed

Clean!

Warden95 said:

My crappy ABS plastic mount with hole drilled to attach to seat bolt under rear seat in F150 . Sorry man I’m a noob View attachment 59266

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It works man. As long as everything it snugg

maylar said:

Plywood -
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Painted and carpeted

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Loaded

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Installed

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Very Nice!!! STEALTH!! I started to say. Plywood would be ideal for a solid amp rack. Just any type of moisture for MDF and it crumbles /becomes worthless

I used MDF. Covered it with speaker carpet and secured it to the frame. The foreground is the rear of my 2 12 inch subwoofers enclosure. The background is my rear seats.

AnthonyO said:

Lets see your amp racks. I need some motivation.

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Not to to cause jealousy, but...
2x2 MDF, 45 degree safety cutoff, 2x4 rounded corners wire access port, AND floating!

1aespinoza said:

Not to to cause jealousy, but...
2x2 MDF, 45 degree safety cutoff, 2x4 rounded corners wire access port, AND floating!
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I'm insanely jealous! Clean cuts, straight lines, tucked organized wiring, and waterproofing!

I pretty much don’t do any clean or permanent stuff, I like to play with subs, boxes, amps, so it’s hard to just install something and forget about it. You guys should have seen the mess of wiring in previous vehicles.

That said, here is my plywood board so the amps aren’t laying loose like I was guilty of doing for many years prior.

1/2" plywood, with some small 2x4’s cut to shape to mount it to the back seat area. Also gives a little room for extra wiring, the crossovers for the front door speakers are also tucked back there. The wiring is mostly accessible when I pull the rear seat out. This is in a 1995 Lincoln Town Car which has an odd shaped trunk. I wasn’t sure where I wanted to position the amps on the board, so I ran the wires over the top of it instead of drilling holes to put the wires through for a proper look, was supposed to be temporary and then remove to drill the holes, but never redid it. I also wasn't sure if I wanted to mount the crossovers there too, but just ended up not doing that. I did not have any carpet and was not about to buy any, so it got spray painted black with some left over paint.

I do need to pull this out though, the amps are getting old and the switches need cleaned, maybe some other problems as well like RCA cables, but I haven’t felt like doing it. Has needed to come out for a few years and just haven't felt like messing with any of it.

At any rate, just a quick scrap wood rack to get the amps up out of the way. I do use my trunk to move / haul stuff sometimes, so any sub or subs usually have to come out at some point, so have never went for anything permanent. While this isn't great, it at least looks somewhat okay at a quick glance, and it works for its intended purpose = amps not laying loose.

Just got mine from MTI acoustics. Trying to figure out best layout.

Warden95 said:

Just got mine from MTI acoustics. Trying to figure out best layout.

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Question. What is this thingy in the red circle?

Deiimos said:

I pretty much don’t do any clean or permanent stuff, I like to play with subs, boxes, amps, so it’s hard to just install something and forget about it. You guys should have seen the mess of wiring in previous vehicles.

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Same. Most of my old amp racks had subs in them. My current subs are plopped on top of the rear seat and held down by ratchet straps. Last week I changed out subs just to hear the performance difference. I will always swap out periodically so no permanent racks or wiring in the near future.