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Cool project, Nick.

I changed the spark plugs in my 1994 Camry V6 this weekend. I'm pretty effing glad I only have to do that once every five years. I'll probably just pay the guy next time.

There's a reason why we mechanics have tens of thousands of dollars invested in our tools of the trade.

I am amazed at how much bass it blocked by the back seat.

Hey Nick,

Have you got the sub facing forward into the seat, or toward the back of the car?

Facing towards the seat (facing forward)... Should I point it towards that back of the car, away from the seating?

Yes, I would try turning it around. It will allow the drivers to breathe a bit, and acts just like a home sub in the corner with a "loading" effect. If you don't like the change, just spin it back around.

There are a couple of other things you may want to try that have worked for me in the past.

In the Cutlass, I removed the sound deadening material beween the seat & trunk. In the one Accord, I cut an opening in the centre of the rear deck and just put a dummy speaker grill there. In the second Accord, I did the same thing, but covered the entire rear deck with grill material. (I was geting older, and it was too nice of a car to see an actual speaker grill)

I'll try turning it around.

The back seat has a fairly rigid, hard compressed "cardboard" type material covering it on the trunk side. I won't mess with that at this point, but maybe in the future. My rear deck lid does happen to have an 8" hole in the metal that I could try removing the foam backing and maybe put a grill over it. Who knows. It isn't that it is bad, but just that it isn't as efficient as it could be.