I've installed a pair of subwoofers in the rear, which are powered by their own amp, and I've replaced the 3.5" door speakers with new ones. Now I'm to the subs in the door, and I'm wondering if it would be possible to mount my 5.25" speakers where the subs should be (after making an adapter plate, of course) on the stock wiring and just forget about the ones behind the seats.
A couple more details if it helps: 1LT, no bose, no onstar, Alpine head unit, stock amp.
I've installed a pair of subwoofers in the rear, which are powered by their own amp, and I've replaced the 3.5" door speakers with new ones. Now I'm to the subs in the door, and I'm wondering if it would be possible to mount my 5.25" speakers where the subs should be (after making an adapter plate, of course) on the stock wiring and just forget about the ones behind the seats.
A couple more details if it helps: 1LT, no bose, no onstar, Alpine head unit, stock amp.
Thanks.
Yes it's possible but you'd need to be very careful on your choice of speaker. The Delco amp is only putting out somewhere around 18-20W so you can't use a power-hungry set of component speakers. Also keep in mind there's a crossover in the stock amp that is only feeding lower frequency signals to the factory door "subs" and without knowing what that is sticking a 5.25" speaker in there may not result in much. My advice would be to leave it where you got it. If it's not giving you the results you want doing the tinkering you're proposing won't give you any better result - yanking the factory crap out and starting over again is the only way to do that. That includes the rear speakers as far as I'm concerned, don't bother.
Paranoia check - where did you get the signal to feed the subs? If you tapped off the rear speakers and used a LOC then you're not getting the frequencies you need. Get the signal from your Alpine instead.
Yeah, that's what I was wanting to know is whether there was a crossover that's only going to give low-range signals to the speakers.
The reason I'd bother with all of this is that I'm hardly getting any midrange in the car right now (with the stock delco 5.25's in the rear) and it would seem that it would be related to their placement (like if I fold the passenger seat down, I get better sound from that side).
Ditch the stock amp, get a better one, get the speaker mounts from nakidparts and put component 6.5 in the door replace the 3.5 with the tweeter from the component set up and you're golden.
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