Speaker Mod/Install

[aaron2874]

Due to the fact that I can't stand listening to the factory stereo anymore, I had to upgrade my speakers. Normally, this would not be interesting except I had to do a little modding. So here it is...

I bought 4 Infinity Kappa 62.9i speakers for the doors, an Infinity Kappa 10" sub for the trunk, and an Infinity KappaFive amp to run it all. Now here is the interesting part. I went to a number of stereo shops and could not find adapters for the door speakers so I made my own. I made four mounts out of the original factory speakers. All it took was a dremel tool with a cut off wheel and about an hour. The factory speakers are actually one complete unit so cutting out the speaker is necessary. Once you trim everthing out, you can press in your own speaker. I knew I could because I checked before I did any cutting by flipping over my new speaker and sticking into the old speaker a little bit. I did have trouble fitting my speakers into either the front set or the rear set (i don't remember) but that was easily solved by cutting off some of the lip of the old speaker on opposing sides. Then I was able to press in the new speakers. Saved a little money on this project... sweet... Here are some pics...

 

[doreo]

hows the sound?

 

[aaron2874]

hows the sound?

Now that I have enough power and good quality speakers, it's great. Still need to do some adjusting to my crossovers, but so far I am very pleased. My wife is not to fond of the louder door chimes, but she will get used to it

 

[aaron2874]

All of your links say "file not found". I assume you are talking about a line out converter. I actually used 1 four channel for the door speakers and a 2 channel for the sub. My complete system upgrade only consisted of 4 door speakers, 1 sub, 1 amp, and 2 line out converters. I had never used line out converters before but they were easy to wire in. However, I am beginning to think that there is some problem with the channel going to the rear speakers. They are just not getting the same power as the fronts and neither is my sub. I'm wondering if there is something built into the stereo or in the line somewhere that is quieting down the rear speakers. I'm going to mess with it some more this weekend.

 

[dvn]

My wife is not to fond of the louder door chimes, but she will get used to it

Question. Is the chime sound sent through all speakers or just the fronts?

 

[skyteam11]

Question. Is the chime sound sent through all speakers or just the fronts?

The Chime is sent through the right front door speaker. It sucks but untill someone can figure out how to reprogram the radio so it can be turned down, it can be very loud.

 

[skyteam11]

The turn signal goes throught the door speaker as well

 

[LS1notFOUND]

Make sure your door chime is set to the lowest volume setting in the vehicle settings too!

 

[aaron2874]

Make sure your door chime is set to the lowest volume setting in the vehicle settings too!

You can do that? Must be a setting through the stereo. Im gonna go check...

 

[aaron2874]

Yep. It is a setting in the stereo head unit. Unfortunately, there are only two levels to choose from: normal and loud. Mine was already on norman... grrrr....

 

[AndrewGS]

However, I am beginning to think that there is some problem with the channel going to the rear speakers. They are just not getting the same power as the fronts and neither is my sub. I'm wondering if there is something built into the stereo or in the line somewhere that is quieting down the rear speakers.

The factory crossovers are interfering. To fix it you have to tap into the speaker wires right behind the head unit instead of at the speaker location.

 

[aaron2874]

The factory crossovers are interfering. To fix it you have to tap into the speaker wires right behind the head unit instead of at the speaker location.

CONFIRMED!!! I had originally connected my amp to the factory wiring. I thought I had everthing tuned right, but then I would play a different genre of music and be like, "WTF?!". Anyway, I did a test today. I pulled the panel off the front right door and ran 16ga speaker directly from the speaker to the amp. Guess what... There MUST be an inline crossover because this speaker was far outperforming the other speaker in the drivers door in every way. Now I have a real appreciation as to just how good these Infinity Kappa speakers sound AND how f'ed up the the Chevy engineers are. Should have done it right all the way the first time...