Kicker coax install

[tjcool]

gday all thought id share this with you

bought a pair of kicker 6.2 speakers for the front doors
they hump
im running them straight off the Pioneer deck no amp etc

i bought these speakers cause they are quality and because they had a screw in tweeter. I thought it would be good to keep the cars interior pretty close to stock so it doesnt look to gaudy / blingy so i could hide the tweeters instead of mount them on the dash etc
BUT
they were too wide to get the cover back on the door speaker
so I flush mounted them in the doors
hope you like it

1st i got rid of the old jbl pieces of sh*t out the door and pulled the skin off
I checked the depths and found a good spot to mount em and marked it up


then i got a staley knife and cut though the vinyl/ padding out then got a 2 1/2 inch hole saw and cut the moulded plastic out too


i put in the tweeter through the door skin and did the nut up on the back
the first nut was too deep so i broke little brackets off the other set provided and they were perfect. I think the depth was about 250mm or so, so it fit very well in the void the NA models have here

i then ran new wiring for both the mids and tweeters (seperately wired )through the door into the car via the rubber grommets between the door / body ( bit fiddley) then ran the wires up under both sides of the dash to the back area of the stereo head unit. ( making sure to label everything well !)



I then plugged the wires onto the speakers and tweeters and mounted the door skin back on door


i then got the crossovers that are provided with the speakers to split the midrange/bass and tweeter
I wired them up accordingly, the left tweeter and midrange to the crossover then wired the lhs front speaker wires from the head unit to the crossover and same for the right - heres a crppy diagram of what im trying to say incase its not clear

and in real life


again i didnt want the crossovers in the cabin so i fit them perfectly in behind the pioneer deck

and what a difference they make
they are simply awesome sound for no AMP and i paid $220 for them by haggling the guy at JB hifi ( the sticker price was $289.00)
i couldnt be happier or reccomend Kicker speakers more highly
and this all took me about 3 hours
hope i have been of help to any of you contemplating new speakers for @ 200 bucks



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[Fuzzlet]

Nice work there mate Have you considered mounting the crossovers in the door? (in the same void that you've used for your tweeters). The extra length of copper wire would add a bit of resistance to the system, so by having the length of cable between crossover and speaker lower, you'd get a slightly louder sound....having said that, its if u can be bothered



Haha I also forgot how messy NA dash's are...god I dont miss mine hehehe

[jules]

Looks like my Pioneer split install.
Very neat.

Jules

[Ajay]

great minds think alike!..



i used fusion encounter splits \"back in the day\" looks good where the tweeters mount and the sound it great too (by the way my door looks NOTHING like this now )

yours came together nice.. i wish you could get those \"tweeters\" seperate wouldnt mind getting a set..

good job

Cheers
Ajay

[Brad]

Sorry Fuzz, but I have to disagree there on the crossovers in the doors, doors are wet environment, not a good mix with crossover components.

I'd suggest the next thing to do would be to add an nice little 2 channel amp (or 4 if you plan on having a sub sometime). This will really bring the splits to life.

FYI, I'm running JL Audio 6\" splits, mids in the doors and tweeters on the dash vents.

One small point to keep in mind on speaker placement, you want to strive for minimal path length difference between all speakers. Hard to achieve in a car cabin, but the general rule of thumb is kick panels first, followed by top of dash, then doors. In the kicks, the height is largely irrelevant as your ears have very little sensitivity to vertical location. I spent many hours to back to back tests with quite a lot of different music, sticking tweeters all over the car with bluetac before being able to really believe it.

[Fuzzlet]

Sorry Fuzz, but I have to disagree there on the crossovers in the doors, doors are wet environment, not a good mix with crossover components

Depends how they're mounted though. In the SE, mine sit between the door card and plastic seal, plus I've covered them again with plastic

[m0b1liz3]

This may seem like a silly question but I don't have much experience with component speakers. Do they offer big improvements in bass and mid response?