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Originally Posted by gilvie
Cam, I guess that I screwed up that last post. I checked out the Pioneer speakers and they seem fine, but they come with "crossovers"? How do I wire that up? Would I be required to modify the headunit and get an equalizer to be able to use these speakers?
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I mentioned modifying the headunit in case you wanted to add a stronger amplifier to power the speakers. This will give you RCA outputs.
You can just remove the old speakers and run these speakers and it will still work, but it will sound alot better if you were to get an amp.
The crossover is a little box that seperates the signal between the midwoofer and the tweeter.
If you were going to use the stock headunit to power the new speakers you would tap into the speaker wire before the stock tweeter.
I would tap into the speaker wire from the back of the headunit since you shouldn't mount the crossover in the door. what you'll have to do is cut and splice the correct wires to a new set of speaker wires, run the new speaker wires to the crossovers mounted inside the cabin somewhere(under the seat would work) then run the new speaker wire through the door grommet into the door.
The reason for tapping into the speaker wires this way is because you don't want to have to run a speaker wire from the door back into the cabin to the crossover then back into the door.
If you decide to go back to stock speakers, you can just disconnect the speaker wire from the back of the headunit and reconnect it.
When you wire the crossover you will have a positive and a negative input, you wire the speaker wire from the headunit into these inputs and then you will have two sets of outputs, A postive and negative for the mid and a positive and negative for the tweeter. You will have to wire both of these sets of speaker wires from under the seat, through the door sills, behind the kickpanel and into the rubber grommet that connects the door and the body of the car for the wiring. In my installation thread I explain how to do this.
The reason I rec. not installing the crossover in the door is because of moisture and vibrations from the door rattling.
If you don't want to go through all this trouble you can just get a set of coaxial speakers, these are speakers that have the tweeter built into them and it has just one set of terminals to wire them up. You could just disconnect the tweeter and mid and tap into the speaker wire before the tweeter in the door.
The disadvantage to this is that most coaxial speakers are not that great of quality and your tweeter will be mounted low pointing towards your legs, this doesn't yeild the best sound but it is the easiest upgrade.
If you decide to go this route, the Pioneer Rev series coaxials are good for the money.
I would suggest that if you are going to go through the trouble of installing component speakers that you go ahead and just get an amp to power them.
If you get an amp to power them you will get to skip the step of tapping into the speaker wire, instead you just run RCA's from the back of the headunit to your amp, then run speaker wire from the amp to you crossover and then to the speakers.
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