Re-purposing a car subwoofer

michaeljhsda2

This won't fit in my car...thought about selling it but any thoughts on using the dual 12 inch woofers for another project? Open baffle speakers?

motorstereo

Good luck to you and perhaps you'll have better luck than me. In my case I pulled a pair of 12'' car subs out of a dumpster a few years back and gave them a shot at home. They did not work out at all and produced one note bass just like they do in the cars with fuzzy dice, low profile tires and a rattling license plate. But they did sell on craigs for a profit when I mentioned how they "bump".

codycatalist

Dang them things are ugly lolol!

It would take some fanagling but you could repurpose them. Doubtful it would be worth it though.

michaeljhsda2

LOL. The silver plastic in front of the driver is not attached, just for looks, albeit terrible at that. Looking through the holes in the top shows that the magnets on the drivers are huge.

msg

Do those propellers spin for greater exhaust gas bass energy velocity?
I think I did something with a car audio speaker once for a home use system years and years ago, but it wasn't anything serious, and was just open air, iirc. I don't recall any meaningfully desirable result. On the other hand, maybe we connected a small box with 6x9s to a cheap home stereo receiver... can't remember. We wouldn't have known any different/better at the time.

I guess if you were serious about this, you'd want to pull the driver spec to see what it's capable of and go from there. I suspect not much in the way of refined bass performance for 2ch use, if that's the idea.

motorstereo wrote: »

They did not work out at all and produced one note bass

Good note and performance characteristic to watch for.

michaeljhsda2

Found some info on it...
Dual 4th order bandpass system designed using two 4 ohm voice coil subwoofers which are internally wired in phase and mounted in a 2-chamber arrangement. This design permits the reproduction of low frequency audio signals (bass) with a significant reduction in distortion and high bass output once placed inside the vehicle.

Switchable Red/Blue LED Illumination
Nickel Plated Push-In Terminal Block
Quad Aero Port Design for Deeper Bass
Dual 4th Order Bandpass Subwoofer System
Computer Tuned Acoustic Chambers
MDF Construction
2 Chamber Design
Low-Q Optimized Driver
No Crossover Needed for Simple Installation
Easy Add-on for Existing Systems
Speaker Diameter 12"
Impedance 8 Ohm
RMS Output Power 400 W
PMPO Output Power 1.20 kW

It has great bass output when I had it installed in a 96' Ford Taurus a few years ago.

msg

Anything on frequency range?

michaeljhsda2

Didn't find anything...still looking.