I took out my front speakers/crossover & disconnected the tweeters and installed some alpine 2 ways and I have more highs then I did with the seperate tweeter, as long as my leg isn't in the way! I quess thats what the higher tweeters are for.

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When mounting the crossovers y'all mentioned using double sided tape. I have some industrial strength velcro, will this work just as well?? Also, could you go a little more in depth about how you wrapped the crossovers in cloth?? thank you.

I am doing the install tomorrow, I got the speaker adapters yesterday and the components arrive tomorrow.

Thanks again

Rick

 

It would work. The bigger the piece the better though. If you take off the door panel you will see that in the front of the door to the left of the window (in the down position) there is plenty of room to mount a crossover. Just make sure that window is down. You don't wanna interfere with it's operation. On the 2005 there is a 1" metal bar that runs through the door. I just put the sticky tape on the crossover and mounted the crossover with the bottom resting on the bar. That way it wouldn't go any farther down. Putting a piece of tape on the bottom of the crossover so that it sticks to the bar will lift it off the bar just a little and prevent rattling.

As for the wrapping the crossover in cloth or something, that makes is difficult to put tape on the back of the unit, so I didn't use any. Mine is just taped in. I made sure that when I stuck it to the door the only part of the crossover that touched anything was the bottom, which was double-sided taped anyway, so there was nothing that was able to touch the crossover and make a rattle sound. Sometimes the tape will come off after time, but that's never happened to me (20 years now). The only thing that I've had rattle in the doors was the wiring coming off the crossover to the speakers. You can always wrap that in something if it should happen, but most people don't have that problem unless they put a 8" sub in the door. You should be fine.

 

should have put them behind the grill thats ugly, mine work great behind the grill, besides the thieves can;t see that you have a system, there is a hole made by ford for 1" tweeters behind the grill

 

Finally got my comps in and they rock!! The Infinity 6.1 Perfect's 6 1/2'' fit great, only had to add room for the tweeter.

Thanks everybody for all the help!!

 

How did you get the subs to look so snug there, is that a special mounting plate?

 

Went ahead and changed out the back door speakers from the audiophile system with some Polk 5x7's

As my systems stands I have the Following:

Front: Infinity Kappa Perfect 6.1's (6 1/2'')
Back: Polk DB 5x7's
Sub: Audiophile box
HU: Audiophile 6CD

I know I could add an amp but don't know if I should. The Perfect 6.1's are rated a 100W rms and 400w peak power. It is really loud as it is. Would I gain much more??

 

Amp those comps for sure and sound deaden those doors if you haven't already, and it should be more crisp and mid bass should improve.