Biggest speakers you can fit in the doors and where?

[AJMBLAZER]

Reposting this here as I figure I can get more audiophiles here.



I have a 4 hour each way drive coming up with Big Ugly over Memorial Day weekend and I'd like to be able to listen to something other than it and myself thinking. I'm contemplating putting a stereo in.

It's a CUCV so it doesn't have any speakers from the factory and the doors are plain with only the plastic/vinyl/whatever upper burgundy interior panels. There are no bottom carpeted panels or anything like that.

I'd like to stick some 6.5's or 6x9's in the doors and was wondering if they could be installed in the upper door panels? It has manual windows.
If so, how deep can they be? They'd be top mounted to the panels, not anything underneath.

 

[chevyin]

Reposting this here as I figure I can get more audiophiles here.



I have a 4 hour each way drive coming up with Big Ugly over Memorial Day weekend and I'd like to be able to listen to something other than it and myself thinking. I'm contemplating putting a stereo in.

It's a CUCV so it doesn't have any speakers from the factory and the doors are plain with only the plastic/vinyl/whatever upper burgundy interior panels. There are no bottom carpeted panels or anything like that.

I'd like to stick some 6.5's or 6x9's in the doors and was wondering if they could be installed in the upper door panels? It has manual windows.
If so, how deep can they be? They'd be top mounted to the panels, not anything underneath.

Top mounted to the panels, as in not cutting a hole in the doors? Most car audio mids, including 6.5's and 6x9's, are designed to run infinite baffle (in car/truck doors where Vas is surpassed), sticking them in small speaker boxes like rear parcel shelf boxes or small door pods destroys their low-end output almost every single time. I wouldn't recommend it.

If you mean cutting into the doors, this will create that infinite baffle situation they want/require. But, the shape of the door and placement of the window track almost definitely means you'd need to place the speakers low in the doors (better acoustics this way as well). There's also the possibility of splitting the difference: building the speaker out from the door with a 3/4" thick baffle board, requiring a smaller hole to be cut.

If you dont want to cut your doors, look into the kick panel speaker mount panels LMC sells.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

They'll be mounted on the outer surface of the door instead of under it, inside of the door. They'll be exposed to the outside and using their own grill instead of concealed inside of the door.

I guess top mount and bottom mount apply more to horizontal mountings.


I'm considering the kick panels but I sorta want to keep this cheap. It's not really in the budget but I can squeeze it in if I try.