Dash speakers

[mptoledo]

Thanks to both of you for the input. I just have them sitting there in the middle compartment on their magnets. No hard turns for now.

yeah, I probably picked the wrong size speakers for the rear. But they sound so good. I am guessing the Best buy guy hooked the amp up differently than stock. I will stop by there tomorrow and see what he says. He actually is pretty comptetent. He may have some input on housing. I played around with styrafoam, but it just didn't fit right. The front infinity covers are cool but don't fit the rears. The 4x6 didn't come with covers. I just cant mount them on a board as there is nothing to screw in unless I use an L bracket because of the "plate" design.

The problem, The plate speakers are 1" too tall for the housing. They must be set at an angle and in the middle compartment. I need to find a way to mount them to a board possibly with an L bracket or some type of housing enclosure.

If they had covers I could mount them behind the seats as there might be enough room. I love the fact they are 2 ohm and they do complement each other well, but I need the same amount of power going to both front and back so I think I need to drop the doors off the amp and add the fronts. it is pretty loud with the current amp.

this is what they look like.
http://img01.static-nextag.com/image/Infinity-Kappa-462-9CFP/1/000/006/025/389/602538907.jpg

Again Urban and Drem thanks for the input. Its not that hard and I am sure there is a solution I am not lookng at.

I need BEER It helps the thought process!!

[gstoli]

Congrats on the dash speakers. I am buying the same set as long as I find them chip from a legit seller that would make me confident that I can return them if I do not like them.

I think you would have to trim the rear compartment to fit the 4" rear speakers properly. I have measured the rear compartment again and again and only 3.5" speakers will fit.

BTW I have the OEM rear speakers (not installed... I hate the factory sound so much that I did not bother installing them) and I can see two speakers on each side. They are 3 1/4" in diameter. But why two? I guess they connect in series, but still why two?

I am thinking of buying a 5 1/2 component speaker system and installing the woofers in the doors and the tweeters in the rear compartment. But I will install 3 1/2" rear speakers too, so the tweeters sound redundant.... What do you think?

[mptoledo]

Originally Posted by gstoli

Congrats on the dash speakers. I am buying the same set as long as I find them chip from a legit seller that would make me confident that I can return them if I do not like them.

I think you would have to trim the rear compartment to fit the 4" rear speakers properly. I have measured the rear compartment again and again and only 3.5" speakers will fit.

BTW I have the OEM rear speakers (not installed... I hate the factory sound so much that I did not bother installing them) and I can see two speakers on each side. They are 3 1/4" in diameter. But why two? I guess they connect in series, but still why two?

I am thinking of buying a 5 1/2 component speaker system and installing the woofers in the doors and the tweeters in the rear compartment. But I will install 3 1/2" rear speakers too, so the tweeters sound redundant.... What do you think?

The rears were hidious, even worse than the front. Yes the 2 speakers on each side in the rear were just split on each side( Weird).

ON mounting the rears (that sounds funny ), anyways, I am thinking about two ways, one is to get a board and mounting them at a slight angle, or finding some cheap computer speaker(or something) casing and mounting them in that. I am going to Best buy, oddlots(amazing what crap you can retool there) and where ever else I can think of. I may even hinge two boards together, cut a big hole for the magnets and use that. Either way I have decided to put them in the middle compartment as the tried them behind the seat rest(where the stock were) and it really killed the volume and quality.

For some reason I get a kick out of puzzles like this and love figuring it out.

The fronts were easy. I just cut out the center and three posts in the back so the speaker would fit. They sounded great until I hooked up the rears. The rears are so clear and loud!!

The whole key was setting the radio's custom users settings, mids, lows, highs, sub,..... The presets were garbage.