The trunk floor in my 92 hatch is pretty week and its losing its shape because of the weight of my subwoofer. It's also making annoying noises and the fitment is bad. I was wondering if anybody has a solution for a stronger trunk floor.

And also what material is the trunk floor made of in the hatch? Mine is a hard cardboard piece. Is that what its suppose to be?


Modified by live4speed at 11:54 PM 10/13/2003

 

remove the subwoofer?

 

I knew someone would say that. It is not an option. Besides its not big or heavy at all and it complments the system nicely, its just the floor that is too weak to support the long exposure to the weight.

 

only other option you have is to put wood under it to spread the load, or weld some metal support plates in there.

 

so... get something more dense and strong, put your stock floor on top of it, make an outline, cut it, and install...

 

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Yup..plywood works great...if you're a big time junkie though..go with Carbon Fiber!

 

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bleh, i was thinking the metal bottom, not the cardboard or whatever.

 

metal? i'km sure you'd have issues with it making noises and such...rattling and what not....besides metal bends when wood bounces back into chape when you apply a load to it. if you want firm metal flooring..i's suggest that diamond shape stuff that trucks have to line the sides of their beds. that tool chest material you see on work trucks...thats some serious ****...but it's heavy and hard to work with...plywood

 

yeah like people say plywood works well, you can pull the foam mount things off the old bit of board and use it as a template and then glue the bits of foam back onto the plywood, that's what i did in my old eg and it worked quite well although it can get heavy, when i took my sub and amp out i went for a spin and it made a fair difference so I didn't bother putting it back in my new car...

 

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i have done about 3 trunks like this

works like a charm

 

How about getting another floor from a junkyard, sandwiching some strips of wood or some other material to brace it and using that spray adhesive that audio guys use for carpeting to glue everthing together? Just a thought in case you didn't want to get into cutting plywood.

 

Its not really very hard to cut plywood, most important thing is to mark the shape out really well in a thick pen and then just cut round it with a jigsaw / bandsaw if you have one.. if you ant to cut the little circel out to lift it up mark it out and then use a large drill bit to make a hole inside the circle, place the jigsaw blade throught the hole and cut the shape out, took me 15 minutes to do it but if you don't have any power tools it would take a lot longer..

 

how about reinforcing the stock "floor" piece with fiberglass...
shouldnt be that hard... just take the wood piece out, lay it upside down, mix up some fiberglass resin, and matte, lay some pieces on there.... (a couple layers should be sufficient)
the wood has a texture on the bottom that the fiberglass should have no problem sticking to.
then re-attach the foam blocks...

 

ha ha, can't see why it wouldn't work, nice idea...