New system ideas
 

I want more space in the cargo area of my truck, so today I went out and started making a template for one very similar to what a lot of people have done and put it behind the right rear wheel well of my truck. Stupid me didn't pay think first, and got all done with my template only to realize I had two very major problems.

1) The way I set the new box up, I cannot fit my 12" sub.
2) My amp is a bazillion feet long and won't fit on/in this box either.

So I can either leave it alone and keep a system that's ridiculously overkill in my truck... or downsize to something that will fit in the box I want AND sound good without being too much.

Anybody have any suggestions for a good amp/single sub (10") that sounds good in our trucks? I don't want to spend a whole lot of cash either.

Here is what I'm currently working with, even though I doubt any of it will be reused:
(2) 12" Kicker CVR subs
(1) 1200W Power Acoustik amp.

No pics of it in the truck, but here is the box in my old Neon so you get a very rough idea.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-h...s640/subs1.jpg

And this is the type of box I'm looking to build:
http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt261/Club7G/31.jpg

mtx 10's dont sound bad with 450 watts pushed to them in there. now you got me thinking about building one of these boxes. i got the mdf haha

I never thought about that... any pics of how it mounts? I don't even know if it would fit there.

Ahhh, yeah. My amp is not small at all. I just looked up the dimensions, holy crap.

Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 13.8 x 4.8 inches

The box I built is only about 13" deep, so nope, no way it'd fit.

No clue, but I wish they didn't! Also, it appears that nobody makes a pre build box for what I am doing which stinks.

I considered going without subs and just amping my interior speakers too actually. I don't need window shattering bass, I just like having more than stock speakers can usually handle, haha.

the problem with running longer wires from the amp to the sub is that you will get more noise in the system. i dont think there is enough room under the seats in yours anyway. i tried last night to mount my lil 400watt alpine under any seat just to get it out of sight and there was no way to mount it and have the seats fold. and under the fronts. forget that there is enough room for me to slide my lil hand under and thats it haha. you might have more room if you dont have power seats. just this was my experience with it

I have a power drivers seat, manual passenger. The more I think about it, the more I'm leaning toward just running a small amp for interior speakers and not even dealing with subs anymore.

So, next question. Ignoring subs entirely, can I do a decent amp/speaker setup (interior speakers only) for about 400 bucks if I install it all myself? If so, ideas on what is good?

The way I see it, either you are gonna run a bunch of wire from the Head Unit to the Amp, or from the Amp to the Subs lol.

I don't know a ton about the 2doors but i'd assme you guys have the spot in the back to mount your jack & road side stuff. If so I was able to getta JL 300/4ch which isn't much bigger then BlazerChik's JL.
https://blazerforum.com/forum/member...cool-18628.jpg

That is a great spot, I'll have to look into that when I start buying new parts.

I mounted my amp on the outside of the jack area so I'm still able to get into it.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6169/...8324e1911e.jpg

I'd probably go inside the jack area so I can hide it. I'd rather people not see an amp and think I have something worth stealing.

How do I figure out what amp/speakers to get? I already replaced the door speakers, so I'd rather keep them, but I don't see pioneer's that have the same RMS for the rest?

Pioneer - 6-1/2" 2-Way Car Speakers with Composite IMPP Woofer Cones (Pair) - TS-G1644R That's what I already have.30W RMS, 180 peak.

if you wanna find cheap and good speakers hop on ebay. and start misspelling name brands and you can find some smokin deals. people will post them up in a hurry and leave a letter off or jumble the letters in the brand so when people search for them they dont see the ones that are jumbled. noone bids on it so you can bid cheap and get a smokin deal.

Not a bad idea, but I'd prefer new this time.

Or they just don't know how to spell lol.

Anybody?

personally I think the type/brand of speaker depends on the person's taste I've heard some $400/pair of speakers that I thought sounded like sh*t. I personally really like a good clear highs & mids so I have all Infinity Referance in the truck w/ a JL amp & am really happy, It sounds really clear to me. but that's IMO.