Gen 2 Speakers install in front and rear doors! - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

Gen2RacerX · 10-23-2003, 03:18 PM

I need some in installing some speakers in my Gen2! I want to install some pioneer speakers in my front and rear doors. Is it possible to install speakers in the front and rear doors?? How would i go about installing these speakers in the doors? What size pioneers will i need and how thick speakers xan i put in the doors?? Someone Please help me out here!!...

Payce

I would like them to look like this White Gen2's doors!

Gen2RacerX · 10-23-2003, 03:19 PM

Nick · 10-23-2003, 03:44 PM

i think your best bet is to take the door panel off and get a measuring tape out

take mesurements and i'm sure you can figure it out

shuluke · 10-23-2003, 03:51 PM

where did you get that picture from? a website?

Gen2RacerX · 10-23-2003, 03:55 PM

i got it form this sounddomain:

http://www.sounddomain.com/memberpage/441590

shuluke · 10-23-2003, 04:03 PM

wow, that is something else. I would measure and try. Im currently adding a "better" sound system to my gen 2. Im just going to replace the old speakers though, i dont want to run wires from my door to the rest of the car.. The door is barely held on by those 2 hinges...

Shuluke

oranz · 10-23-2003, 04:07 PM

why speakers to the doors... replace the speakers from the original place... put tweeters front... and subwoofer to the trunk... works for me...

Nick · 10-23-2003, 04:12 PM

yeah, unless you make a mount that holds on to the actual door, not the interior trim it'll probably just rattle/crack its way out

88 LE · 10-23-2003, 05:57 PM

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Originally posted by oranz
why speakers to the doors... replace the speakers from the original place... put tweeters front... and subwoofer to the trunk... works for me...

Cos the stock location sucks and their also puny speakers (3.5" or 4").

88 LE · 10-23-2003, 06:08 PM

Heres a pic of my door panels:

The panel is 1/2" MDF with a piece of 3/4" MDF glued onto the top of the 1/2" piece.

The 3/4" piece is sanded down so its at an angle and I used bondo to blend the 2 pieces together.

Speaker mounts on top of the 3/4" piece and the grill sits into a lip (used a router with a straight cutting bit).

The whole panel is then wrapped with vinyl.

Speakers are a Oz Audio 5 1/4" mid and Lanzar DCT tweet (1" solf silk dome).

FRITO · 10-23-2003, 07:30 PM

88le has the best design.

but how did you attach the mdf to the panel? how did u run the wires into the doors? (make a new hole and new grommet?)

88 LE · 10-23-2003, 07:38 PM

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Originally posted by FRITO
how did you attach the mdf to the panel?

With a whole bunch of little self tapping screws.

The screws go in from the backside of the stock door panel into the new panel.

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how did u run the wires into the doors? (make a new hole and new grommet?)

I ran the wires through the stock grommet / rubber boot (in between the door and the car). Used a coat hanger and fished the wires through.

Crossovers are mounted underneath the dash to the plastic panel that pops off.