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Member ID: geilesAuto

Location: Orem, UT

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2002 Audi TT

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  • 1/4 Mile0 sec @ -1 mph
  • 0-600sec
  • Top Speed130mph
  • HP180
  • Weight3208lbs

Major Upgrades

  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

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Last updated: Oct 03, 2009

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I've had this car for about 8 months now and finally decided to sign up on this site. First and foremost, much thanks to my bro for all his help... when i say "I," it most likely means "we."

I created a custom sub-box for 2 10" subs to fit perfectly into the trunk of my car. I started following the steps on this guy's site (Click here to see his box) but decided to change things up as far as the outside look and finish. Here's a couple pics to show what I did:

 

geilesAuto's 2002 Audi TT


Now if you had a chance to go over to that other site that i put on the link above, I almost followed his example step for step to get up to this point. I did, however, do a few things different.

geilesAuto's 2002 Audi TT
geilesAuto's 2002 Audi TT

 

geilesAuto's 2002 Audi TT


My wood enclosure is made up of two boxes joined by a simple piece of MDF, unlike the other site. This did bring the space needed out a little bit, but allowed for my pioneer Amp that was quite large. I did use the peanuts for measuring out the space needed for each sub, and then taped out my trunk once i was ready to fiberglass into the back-end. ONE THING TO MENTION... ON THE OTHER SITE HE DIDN'T MENTION THIS, BUT IT WILL SAVE YOU A TON OF WORK... ONCE YOU HAVE THINGS TAPED OFF FOR FIBERGLASSING, PUT A LAYER OF CARWAX (I USED TURTLEWAX) ON TOP OF THE TAPE BEFORE YOU PUT THE FIBERGLASS ON. THIS WILL ALLOW YOU TO PULL OFF THE FIBERGLASS EASILY FROM THE TAPE, OTHERWISE THE FIBERGLASS WILL BOND TO THE TAPE AND IS A MESS TO REMOVE!!!

geilesAuto's 2002 Audi TT


Once this part was done, we painted the wood just to give it a nicer finish, even though it would be covered.

geilesAuto's 2002 Audi TT

 

Once I got this "underneath" part of the box finished, I created a cover made from fiberglass which I then covered with body filler and got it painted to match the silver of my car:

 

geilesAuto's 2002 Audi TT


This cover was actually a lot of work. I took my wood sub box and first put Styrofoam on it and shaved the styrofoam to give it the round shape (i was going for a jet-engine look).

geilesAuto's 2002 Audi TT


Once the styrofoam was on and shaped, i covered everything with felt to give the flow of the cover an even finish over the whole project. i didn't want to apply fiberglass to the felt, so more layers of tape were required, and then a layer of turtle wax (dont forget this step!) to make it easier to pull off of the base.

geilesAuto's 2002 Audi TT
geilesAuto's 2002 Audi TT


A lot of sanding was required and the body filler smoothed out all the rough edges to give me a product i'm very pleased with. This was definitely more work than i was expecting, but mostly because i wasn't familiar with everything. A great project and i'd do it again... let me know if you have any questions!

geilesAuto's 2002 Audi TT
geilesAuto's 2002 Audi TT


*****************UPDATE******************
Just painted my calipers, so I thought I would put some pics of it up here...

geilesAuto's 2002 Audi TT

That is the finished product... looks nice for not too much money, I believe the caliper paint was around $8 at autozone and it didn't take long to complete start to finish...

geilesAuto's 2002 Audi TT
geilesAuto's 2002 Audi TT
geilesAuto's 2002 Audi TT
I GOT THE CALIPER PAINT AT AUTOZONE!

 

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MECP2008  

Posted by: MECP2008

11/07/2009 11:46PM

Nice system, the design flows with that car

khalimadeath  

Posted by: khalimadeath

11/03/2009 10:57PM

dude that sub box is sick good idea for the shape

Babyjjjr  

Posted by: Babyjjjr

10/29/2009 07:27PM

Thats real nice....it must bam huh?

FenrirTypeII  

Posted by: FenrirTypeII

10/27/2009 12:58PM

Love your custom fiber glass subwoofers

DrRemoMD311  

Posted by: DrRemoMD311

10/06/2009 08:21AM

wow. love the rims... and the custom fiberglass box is awesome. AWESOME 5*'s for sure. looks fucking great. Check out my c5

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Location: Orem, UT