On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:08:16 -0500, Brandon Buckner
wrote:

Are those set up like the late 80's (i.e. '86-89) Toyota Celicas? I had
one with 3" speakers that pointed down. Interestingly they came with
there own "box" that was removable and had 4" passive radiators in them.
I found that mounting a 4" speaker in place of the passive radiators and
either leaving the stock speakers in but disconnected or removed but the
hole blocked or replaced with smaller speakers to complement the new 4"
speakers you could get it to sound pretty damn good. Of course, my rears
were blown and hence disconnected and I didn't bother replacing them for
fill so I don't know if they still drowned out the fronts or not. It did
need more midbass though, thats my only complaint.

Sounds like your Celica has the same type of speakers as my Camry.
I didn't know 4" speakers can be used as the in-dash sepeakers. The
sales rep in BestBuy told me 3" speakers is the biggest size for my
car after he looked up his inventory database. I will check with
BestBuy again and see if 4" speakers can actually be installed.

Jason

The guides didn't tell me very correctly for mine. Crutchfield had said
3" or 3.5" speakers with 4" replacements. It confused me until I took
out the speaker "boxes" and looked for myself. Sure enough, 4" speakers
fit, but only if the passive radiators were removed. Then they just
sounded terrible unless I either left the original speakers in and
disconnected or blocked of the smaller hole entirely. Alas, I no longer
have that car though.

Brandonb


wrote:

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:08:16 -0500, Brandon Buckner
wrote:


Are those set up like the late 80's (i.e. '86-89) Toyota Celicas? I had
one with 3" speakers that pointed down. Interestingly they came with
there own "box" that was removable and had 4" passive radiators in them.
I found that mounting a 4" speaker in place of the passive radiators and
either leaving the stock speakers in but disconnected or removed but the
hole blocked or replaced with smaller speakers to complement the new 4"
speakers you could get it to sound pretty damn good. Of course, my rears
were blown and hence disconnected and I didn't bother replacing them for
fill so I don't know if they still drowned out the fronts or not. It did
need more midbass though, thats my only complaint.


Sounds like your Celica has the same type of speakers as my Camry.
I didn't know 4" speakers can be used as the in-dash sepeakers. The
sales rep in BestBuy told me 3" speakers is the biggest size for my
car after he looked up his inventory database. I will check with
BestBuy again and see if 4" speakers can actually be installed.

Jason