Step Inside: THE Ultimate Dirt Cheap SQ System Challenge!!!

[dftnz7 10+ year member]

Okay guys, a little off the wall challenge here that I could use some serious creativity and thought on:

I have acquired as a "gift" a complete POS '86 Chevy 2wd Ext Cab S10. I have decided to use this thing as a little runaround instead of scrapping it, and as such, needs a sound system of some sort. I will post pics as soon as I have time. The truck has the following "attributes":

--More rust than actual body left

--Tiny white wall tires

--Ugly *** topper (now taken off and sent to recycler for $$$ aluminum)

--Multiple "Buckle Up," "Unions Build America" and "Follow Me To Ernie's Diner" bumper stickers

--A mismatched bench seat that is red when the rest of the interior is blue

--A Driver's side window that when rolled down, falls off the track. Did it to me on Easter when I brought it home in a snowstorm and wouldn't roll back up and I was only wearing jeans and a hoodie.

--Heater is always on, and is stuck on Low fan.

--Catalytic converter has a hole in it the size of my fist, and is so loud people hear me coming at start staring from 2 blocks away...getting fixed tomorrow though.

--Great Stuff Expanding Foam in one huge rust hole in lower ext cab area, which helps keeps water out of rear seating area. Totally visible from exterior.

--To top it all off it has a Hardee's Star on the antenna that I have purposely left on it for effect.

--AND it has one working speaker, which is in the passenger side rear of the truck.

Stock system, per Crutchfield: Tape deck, 4 speakers, 2 4x6 plates in front dash and 2 4x10s in rear pillars.

My challenge to you, the experts: Put me together the simplest, cheapest, best sounding stereo system possible, and it must consist, at a minimum: front speakers of some sort, and a subwoofer of some sort.

More credence will be given to responses that back up their suggestions with some reviews/data/personal experience vs. just finding the cheapest crap and saying to buy it. We are going for utmost value for the utmost cheapest price. If this thing blows up tomorrow, the speakers go to the scrapyard with it!

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[DD_Dave 10+ year member]

sounds like it has potential

 

[HellsRise 10+ year member]

Yeah..that's definitely worth putting money into...

 

[skadude016 5,000+ posts]

concrete!

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

Yeah..that's definitely worth putting money into...

sarcasm isn't funny when used by retards.

 

[jbl_marshall21 10+ year member]

I would get a decent size 4 channel. Total mobile audio has like a 320.4, which would give you about 80 watts rms to each door speaker, and around 200 to a sub. That is plenty for some decent sq. As for speakers use the forum boner PG 6.5 components. Someone else can figure you a sub.

 

[Pop da Hatch 10+ year member]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/needpics.gif.edd6d28e76618c28c46f343991bcced5.gif I want a laugh

 

[Weeznur32 10+ year member]

ever think about making this a comp car?

 

[thur5d4yf4n 10+ year member]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/needpics.gif.edd6d28e76618c28c46f343991bcced5.gif I want a laugh

x2

 

[JRock10 10+ year member]

I ended up using stuff i had laying around for my 1985 S10. It's not as bad as yours, but it has 270,000 well used miles on it. It's not my daily anymore.

KDC-X679 w/sirius

PPI 300.4 that i won in a DEI contest in 2004

RF 500S that I got from somewhere

Dash- Polk 5.25 mids, Kicker tweets, Polk EXIII Xover

Doors-Diamond M3 6.5 comp set, mids at bottom of door, tweets are where the power window switches would be

Subs-RF Punch Z 8" and P1 8" (Yeah, I know. They're kinda close, so I went with it for now) in a ported box around 1-1.25 cubes.

It's not bad, and I still enjoy driving my truck. i do use it for my mobile detailing business.

 

[DD_Dave 10+ year member]

ever think about making this a comp car?

it would make a real sleeper in the sq lanes.....

 

[JRock10 10+ year member]

ok, here's my go at it. all from onlinecarstereo.com:

HU:

Kenwood Excelon

Dash (if you want them):

Kenwood Excelon

Comps:

Phoenix Gold

Diamond

Amps:

Kicker

Autotek(decent sound, underrated power)

Subs:

JL Audio

(this will draw some hate, but I've seen good performance from them)

Kicker

(again, more hate, but they work)

Edit: $472 Gets you HU, Diamond Comps, Kicker amp, JL Sub.

 

[02parkave 5,000+ posts]

sarcasm isn't funny when used by retards.

so you should maybe not use it then, huh?

 

[dftnz7 10+ year member]

Some good ideas in here sprinkled into the usual juvenile idiocy that is so rampant here at times. It could be a nice sleeper SQ comp truck for sure, as long as I can convince the people to actually get into it and not be freaked out. Unfortunately I am not looking to tie up much money in it.

 

[btdickey99 5,000+ posts]

whats cheap to you?

$500?

$1000?