Fiberglass amp rack under driver seat with built in kick plate

Wanted to do something low profile as possible. Not a whole lot of room in these vehicles. The floorboard under the drivers seat is alot more curvy than the passenger side. Didnt want to buy the overpriced metal amp rack from the unmentionable website and just decided to make my own. I glassed around the vents and didnt want to cover them. Since the driver side was so wavy in shape doing the wood trick under the carpet and drilling into it didnt seem like the best idea. Previous owner was an idiot and drilled holes into the floorboard with a previous amp. This is way cleaner and because it is contoured so well with the carpet the velcro holding down the plate works great. I built wood columns into the panel for the amp to screw to and a wood kick plate to protect it from clumsy passenger feet. You can see the image where I just glassed around the vents... 5 layers of chopped mat and I did a little smoothing on it and finished it off with texture spray and landau black sem spray paint...Thanks for looking..

 

Looks great! Although I'm not seeing how the vents are not blocked. The pic taken from the rear seat makes it look like the backside of the amp rack completely covers the vents.

 

The amp sits on columns built into the panel. If you see on the section of the passenger side that wasnt yellow from fiberglass resin I just glassed around the opening area for the vents. So all that is happening now is the air will blow underneath the gap between the plate and the amp and out around the back sides of the kick plate. There is also a gap between the back of the amp and the kick plate too...I can take some other pictures of the finished passenger side to show some better details..

 

Oh, OK, I think I see what you mean now. Hopefully that doesn't create a heat issue when you run the heat. Seems now the heat from that vent will just circulate under/around the amp (since it's blocked by the kick plate) rather than shooting out the back side and into the back seat area, away from the amp.

 

The amp has a built in fan that comes on in the event of thermal and will only be running tweeters and midranges...Should be fine..