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Message: [QUOTE="jdc753, post: 499878, member: 52"] It would be a little big for sealed, but would be about right for ported (except you would loose some volume for the porting) A subwoofer box is essentially a shock absorber for the woofer, so a small box will be a tight spring on the woofer, this will affect the sound making it a little tighter, but will hinder low end response, where a big box will be a loose spring that will allow for the subwoofer to easily play as low as it can go, but it will have relatively sloppier cone control for the higher paced fast hits or higher frequencies. I generally like to keep the boxes smaller, usually for packaging inside the vehicle, but don't usually like to clamp it down all the way to the minimum. For sealed with that sub I think I would keep it in the 1-1.5ft^3 range, that would most likely leave you some room on a side to mount your amplifier keeping it all in a nice neat package behind the seat, also you could narrow the box a little to pull the subwoofer back from the seat to allow the subwoofer to breath a little and not physically impact the back of the seat. If you were to go ported then you want the biggest box you can fit back there, so max it out to 2.3ft^3 overall, but then you will subtract a tiny amount for the subwoofer displacement, and then run a single 4" flared aero port out the side of the box. You want to keep the port on the opposite side of the subwoofer, so sub on passenger side and port on drivers, or vice versa. [ATTACH=full]98856[/ATTACH] **Disclaimer** I have never personally built a ported box, so all my knowledge just comes from gleaning from forums. If you were going to build it on your own I would recommend spending a few minutes modeling the sub and box in WinISD (free downloaded program) to see what that size box and tuning will do to the subwoofer. [/QUOTE]