Changing crappy-*** setup, need help

[Cam 10+ year member]

I HAD my crappy kenwood deck driving crappy Delco speakers in all 4 corners. I Changed to the crappy kenwood deck talking to a crappy lanzar amp drivng crappy delco speakers (baby steps, gimme a break - the wiring was nice at least.)

The problem I have is obviously my crappy delco speakers sound like *** with some power, my crappy deck only has one set of outs, so I can't fade front/back anymore.

I only have room for like 5.25's up front, so I was hoping to put 6.5's on the rear shelf (hoping to order some SSCS6's today if I can find somewhere that can get them fast.) in some custom pods.

I'm wondering if I should ditch the fronts entirely (tweeters are in the dash, I'd keep those), and just run the 6.5's on two bridged channels each (200 watts peak, still on the crappy amp - that gets upgraded later as it works fine now). Or if I should try to run 5.25's (I'll have to buy some at some point, mine are 8ohm, so play awfully quiet at the same volume as the 4ohm rears) up front, tweeters up front, and 6.5's on the shelf.

Thoughts? Comments? Flames?

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[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

Other way around - ditch the rears, and upgrade the fronts. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[supraman1379 10+ year member]

x2 ^^^

 

[Cam 10+ year member]

I know that's a generally accepted "good practice", my problem is that I have SFA for space up front, so I want the 6.5's for some midbass.

I'm thinking I'll want to upgrade the 4.25's up front as well instead of ditching them, but I'm near positive I'll need soemthing to fill the gap between 4.25's and the 12" IDMAX in the trunk.

 

[mtdewelf 10+ year member]

kick or door pods? i was able to get 6.5"s in my 4.5" holes w/o cutting any metal and only using a small spacer, ~1/2"

 

[2loud4u 10+ year member]

Make some fiberglass door pods for the 6 1/2" mids.

Not hard to do. If I did it anyone can.

Or like said above make some mdf rings as spacers.

 

[forceofwill 10+ year member]

My car came with 4x6's and I fit 8" mids and huge tweeters up front, and I drive a manual. You should easily be able to fit 6.5's. Just ditch the rear fill.

 

[Cam 10+ year member]

My car came with 2.5" speakers buried in the dashboard, so... anything is possible, clearly, but here's the situation:

I've already built custom kick pods for 5.25's (4.35 is a typo, sorry) and they BARELY fit (small kick panel area, plus pedal E-brake). Vinyl upholstery panels for my doors have been recently replaced with repro's for the cost of a left testicle, so I don't want to modify them.

So the only thing I can fit up front without destroying my door panels or making it look super half-assed is 5.25's.

I'm not hung up about staging or image, I just want to be able to play loud enough to hear over my exhaust, and not sound like it's being trumpeted out a giant ***.

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

sigworthy //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Chriscivic 10+ year member]

any new speakers should be an upgrade from what it sounds like //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Cam 10+ year member]

I was f*cking around with this tonight, and I might be on smack altogether. The speakers up front are old, decrepit clarion 6" speakers, so I may be able to run 6's up front after all. Sorry for the earlier rant about space.

Only thing is I need a really shallow mounting depth to fit my kick pods (they're shallow to clear the ebrake)

New and fantastic suggestions?