Come on be honest how many are like me.....that is a to say a practicing Procrastinator? = the avoidance of doing a task which needs to be accomplished. Here is at least one partial project I started , heck I cant even remember when but at this point regarding it needing to free up some space in the spare bedroom and my garage work bench for other things unfinished this seemed to be the first in line. Or at least I felt like working on. I test fired it on the home sound systems sub amp. Wow I wish you all could feel it. For what it is, it hits hard and quick. I set the amp crossed at 125HZ 24rate cutoff. If it does as well in the car I will be very pleased. And it fits perfect and tight in the rear compartment area . I will not need to add any securing additions. What started out as a inexpensive empty and generic bass box is now a upgraded and I think very nice intermediate level sub-box. From this start. Than re-gluing every joining panel. Adding the poly fill to trick the speaker, And this is how it will look installed and wired in the MINI.
Our 09 MINI R56 Cooper S comes with a factory dark tinted panoramic roof. There is even a front and rear Blind to reduce the suns shine power. But even after I used 2% Limo Tint over the factory dark tinted glass the sun still shine in my face or on my head in the afternoon. No one makes anything that looks like it belongs their to cover it. So I decided to make a nice easily installed and removed cover insert. I was going to go with material that matched the rest of the head liner but thought I really wanted something more "retro" look but still tasteful. So what better pattern and material then Hot Rod Diamond.
All most finished... I did have to use the powered staple gun Now some trimming and than the detailing painting of none fabrick side.
Next step is to finish the top or the side that can only be seen if the sunroof were open. Which is not the intention of the cover. I also need to come up with a tab idea to be able to easily remove and inst the cover.
Thank you for the very nice compliment! I do need to give credit to all the threads and responses on this forum for idea's and ways to do things correctly the first time. It is now my nightly bedtime reading.