Subwoofer door project?

[03vibeowner]

I recently got a zapco 4.0 and I've decided to use it for my door speakers. I think I've decided to just run the tweeter and subwoofer one to each channel. My thought is possible see what kind of small sub (6" or 8") I could fit into the door for mid ranges, what I'm wondering is has anyone tried this before I'm wondering what speakers would fit. I already have 4 10" subs in a sealed box with a zapco 6.0 for the low end. I'm thinking this will match well but no way to really know till I get it done.

[audiovibe]

If you are wanting to toss sub in the front doors you will need to add a midrange driver to cover the frequency gap between the woofer and the tweeter. You can fit a 6-8" woofer in the doors but with the Vibe depth is an issue, and with an 8" you will need to trim the sheet metal on the door and cut the door panel. I run Zapco CK 6.5" woofers in my doors they are almost 3" deep and I had to make 1.25" spacers and trim the inside of the door panel to get them to fit. If you just want some mid bass kick try to seal up the doors you will get phenomenal results, or that might be my Zapco 500.1s on each door.I wanted to do a 10" sub in the doors but I wanted to retain stock appearance and I couldn't really think of a way to do it and make it pleasing to the eye.hope it helps

[A Psycho Martyr]

Quote, originally posted by audiovibe »hope it helps^^^Take his advice, this cat's audio setup is off the chain!

[03vibeowner]

You don't think the 8" would be able to produce midrange well enough? It would be set up with the tweeter for full range not low pass only

[vibe11]

elemental designs makes a nice 6 inch woofer i ran one in my rear door a while back i sound good

[03vibeowner]

I just realized I said subwoofer not just woofer, I already have the subs in the back for that but I was looking to put like a 8" woofer in the door.

[audiovibe]

Quote, originally posted by 03vibeowner »You don't think the 8" would be able to produce midrange well enough? It would be set up with the tweeter for full range not low pass onlyDepends what tweeter you are using, a good 8" woofer should have just as good midrange response as a 6.5" woofer. The 8" woofer will play lower but in most cases will be topping out between 3,000HZ - 4,000HZ. As long as your tweeter can play safely down in that range you should be fine.IMO if you want an 8" solely for midrange there are better options as you will not gain anything beneficial and will require much more work. You will also need a crossover of some sort for the 8" as any midrange, once you start to get to the top of the frequency response the sound will most likely start to break up as there would be nothing to cut the frequencies from the speaker.Originally I thought you were looking to add a dedicated midbass in the door.

[Sublimewind]

There are plenty of 6.5's these days that can rival 8'sI'm using Pioneer 720PRS 6.5" mids and some say you could go sub-less (if you where less of a basshead, obviously) I've seen them run w/o LP crossover, though the owner couldn't get loud.. I've seen accounts of being crossed as low as 50hz and being close enough to a sub-less system.. Dayton makes quite a few killer 6.5's (think PartsExpress.com!!) I herd a quartet of (can't remember the model) Dayton 6.5's and it rivaled a pair of 10's.. without some extension.. You could do 8's without a heck of a lot of issue, there are all sorts of shallow mount 8's out there now.. As Audio said though, how it integrates is key..

[Sublimewind]

pics of the Pioneer 720PRS set.. Installed in the highly deadened and sealed door... Speaking of deadened, if your doors aren't HIGHLY deadened, you'll never fully reap the benefits of having an 8" in your door anyway.. If the door is flexing and absorbing the low end you installed it for, it's throwing money in a hole (in your door)

[03vibeowner]

I'm thinking of putting basically three speakers, the 8" in the door, a 6.5 in a in the door (building a simple enclosure) and a tweeter to span all the ranges.

[audiovibe]

Now were talking!!!! Now ya gotta decide how you want to run them, active or passive. To run active you would need an extra amplifier and every speaker would have its on channel, 6 speakers = 6 channels. To run passive you would need a passive crossover network like what comes with a component set, but it would have to be for a 3 way.An active would give you the most flexibility but in the end will cost more.If you are going to put the 6.5 and the 8" in the same enclosure make sure you separate the airspace between the 2.