Size of Front Replacements

[John Wilde]

What size can I fit in the dash for stock replacement?
Can you get a 4 inch in there?
I am having a deck and new speakers put in next Sat.
This is not a pimp my ride set up, I just want something
I can enjoy on the way to work.

 

[6APPEAL]

John,
The factory size is a 3 1/2, for a drop in replacement. A 4 will fit, but will require some modification to the mounting area. HTH
John

 

[John Wilde]

Thanks for the info.
It seems that Rockford Fosgate has pretty good bolt in unit that Best Buy carries. I think I will go with that and a good set of pioneer 6X9s in the back.

 

[Blazer406]

John,

How did the speakers turn out? I have alot of stuff I pulled out of my S10 Blazer some time back.... trying to figure out what components I can re-use.....

I have Oz Audio
qty 2 1" tweeters
qty 4 4" mids
qty 2 5-1/4" mids
qty 2 6-1/2" mids
qty 2 alpine 10's
1 Alpine 30x4 bridges to 80x80
1 Soundstream D200 100x2
Eclipse in dash cd player.....

Now.... what can I stuff where?

 

[TURBOGTA1]

Thanks for the info.
It seems that Rockford Fosgate has pretty good bolt in unit that Best Buy carries. I think I will go with that and a good set of pioneer 6X9s in the back.

John, I dont think the Fosgates are going to work. They will lay rite in the hole, like a glove, but when you go to put the speaker cover back on, its not gonna sit flat. Take a good look at the speaker and measure from the mounting tabs to the very top of speaker/tweeter. Not much clearance in between the stock speaker and cover sitting in place. Good Luck
What works real nice is a componet set-up with a tweeter in each front speaker hole, and a mid (two-way taped) to each side of the windshield post.

 

[John Wilde]

John, I dont think the Fosgates are going to work. They will lay rite in the hole, like a glove, but when you go to put the speaker cover back on, its not gonna sit flat. Take a good look at the speaker and measure from the mounting tabs to the very top of speaker/tweeter. Not much clearance in between the stock speaker and cover sitting in place. Good Luck
What works real nice is a componet set-up with a tweeter in each front speaker hole, and a mid (two-way taped) to each side of the windshield post.

They kind of did not fit but even worst they blew up and sound like sh*t.
I think Infinity make a set, I may try them next
I should probably do the componet set up, but I don't want a amp right now.

 

[Blazer406]

I have pretty much made up my mind to put my OZ Audio 1" silk dome tweeters in the dash..... Oz 5-1/4" seperates in the doors..... not sure about the back deck....... might require a hack saw..... thinking about 6-1/2" seperates with 2 10's in an isobaric box with ports that come up through the back deck.......

Just my preliminary thoughts.... I would almost buy a good set of 6x9's (with the adaptors of course) to get decent mid-bass as well as some highs.... and leave the lows to the 10's.....

I would hook my Alpine 30x4 up in 4 channel mode .... with door 5-1/4" speakers in parallel with dash tweeters....on front two channels.... and back 6x9's on the rear channels so I would have the ability to fade.... then the subs run off my old Soundstream D200 100x2 .... probably bridged.....

 

[John Larkin]

These might fit The tweeter sticks up 1/2" about mounting plate. However they won't blow up.

And my personal favorite + best place to buy from I have 4" just like these in my wife's car. They are "virtually" flush mount and coaxial. You will need to watch the power you send them plus put a bass blocker on them (100Hz highpass) to keep from blowing them up too.

 

[John Wilde]

I will buy these next.

http://www.infinitysystems.com/caraudio/product.aspx?ProdId='KAPPA32.7CF'&Ser=KAP&Cat=MEL