Custom Kick Panels, HELP!!! - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

CLS4LFE · 03-27-2003, 04:21 PM

Okay, here I go again, I have searched and searched enless website and fourms. I have an 88' Corolla sedan, door panels with the pockets in them, so I do not want to cut into doors. 4inch fit up front, I need at least 6.5 inch with a tweeter.

Does anybody out there have custom kick panels for a 88-92 corolla sedan? I will pay if someone wants to make them for me, as easy as people say it is to make my own, I do not have the time, and I don't wanna mess things up, I just need better front fill for my daily commute, this car's noisy you know. i have to keep the car as "stealth" as possible also, because of where I park on the street, thats why kick panels are my best option.

Thx

Phreshnphunky · 03-27-2003, 04:46 PM

get some horns.

horns will fill your front.

CLS4LFE · 03-28-2003, 02:57 AM

Thats a great idea, you must be referring to horns in the front, than use your rear 5 1/4s as mids/midbass and then sub in the trunk. I have seen this used before, dosent sound too bad, but I am not putting a complete system in my 88', its just my beater for the commute, so I want to run the speakers directly off the Pioneer MP7400 which I have had for some time in the dash. It pumps the rears just fine, but I get no front fill at all, and I am running Infinity Kappas all around. I am getting desperate, next week, I am cutting into the doors, or I will ask my local upholstery shop if they can do something, I am not even going to try to make kick panels, and the local shops want like 350$ for a custom set! Update! I have a ghetto idea, I have some 6x9s and little 6x9 boxes, I will mount those under my feet on the floor see if that works....

Phreshnphunky · 03-28-2003, 03:07 PM

ideally you want to please yourself before you please the rear passengers

if you just use speaker to put more of a front fill, you wouldnt have to worry about the rear drowning out the front.

meaning

you could fade it forward provided you want to do that..

or

you could use directional tweets and place them on the dash and then find the best range of 4inch in the stock placement.