1988 Ford Ranger XLT ((NEED AUDIO HELP))

[baxtej44]

yea there more going on there then i fisrt thought.

as far as getting to the front speaker i would say it just taking out the two front screws.

but as far as the back idk if it was good or bad just really different.

but my three speaker idea sound good still with 4 hours of sleep. it will work and be different. and kinda makes life easer. if you build a wedge box lest say 3 feet long you can have the sub in the middle chamber and the 6x9 right nex to it in there own chambers not that they really need it but it will look clean, and kinda cool in my two cents and its alot less fabing. and it you dont have the room to lay them out flat you can put the speakers on the side then you only have to cover the depth of the speaker.

so are you saying to mount the speakers shooting audio up? or straight into my seats? i'd assume the sub is going into my seats because it won't fit shooting up unless i get like a 5" sub lol.


i can't wait for this... anybody got a few different pictures of different wedge boxes?

if I can't afford the sub now, can I still make the same box, just not cut out the 10" circle for the sub? and just put the 6x9's in it? will look stupid at the time, but easier than making a new box.. unless the big box will mess up the speakers or anything without a sub in it.

and should i go ahead and buy the sub and amp at the same time? or get my amp with two fronts? or with the two rears?

i'll probably do 3 or 4 installments of money...
1) fronts
2) rears
3) sub/amp

well I wish I would have seen this earlier I have my door panels off of my 87. but yes that is just a vent it is so when you shut the door you dont blow out the seals around the windows, ya you can stop laughing I don't think my 87 was ever that tight but maybe when it was brand new. and I know that there is no spot in my doors for speakers yet, (not saying yours doesn't) but since I changed my dash to a genV dash I need to find a way to mount door speakers. My plan is to enclose the the sheet metal in the with a removable sheet incase I ever have to change a window. I will then take a speaker ring that will fit my speaker like this

But keep in mind that I am planing on making new door panels and blocking of the vent area. and that I have alot to finish on the truck before I get to the door speaker. good luck. It looks like you can place stock 4" speakers in the dash mod your doors for a poss. 6"x9" and do a wedge bass box and amp behind the seat. should be a hell of a system.

thanks, at least i think you are complimenting my truck.. lol
i'm only the second owner, the first being my grandfather

and he really took care of it nicely. only 83k miles on it too.

 

[rjppunk]

oooh the lack of a door pocket does makes things a little less ideal. hmmm, you can still replace the dash speakers with the 4" full ranges but I'm gonna have my buddy design a cross over for it.

 

[4x4fun]

if you make a box or get one made it has to be three chambered or the sub will suck in on the speakers, but my thought was you can have them all facing the seats provided there is room. or hav the sub facing the seat and the speakers facing the doors. kinda like a lil boom box thing.

 

[rjppunk]

id still put 2 ways in but put the woofer in the boom box 4x4 is talking about and mount the tweeters somewhere at head level

 

[baxtej44]

if you make a box or get one made it has to be three chambered or the sub will suck in on the speakers, but my thought was you can have them all facing the seats provided there is room. or hav the sub facing the seat and the speakers facing the doors. kinda like a lil boom box thing.

so like the box is like this?

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|6x9|woofer|6x9|
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if the speakers were facing the doors you think the sound would reverberate more and i'd get a better sound?

id still put 2 ways in but put the woofer in the boom box 4x4 is talking about and mount the tweeters somewhere at head level

i can maybe put the tweeters behind like by my seat belts? or is that a no?

 

[4x4fun]

yes thats how

and about facing the other way it depends on how close they are to a more open area if there all side by side and there shooting into the back of the seats then it may be better to have them facing the doors

 

[RangerFabWorks]

i got 4 1/2 inch blaupunkts in my dash and 6x9s in my doors and love the sound and bass they put out. i have a standard cab and did the whole sub/amp thing and it vibrated the hell outta me. i put my 6x9s under the window crank handles. i also have a pioneer headunit. thats my 0.02

 

[baxtej44]

yes thats how

and about facing the other way it depends on how close they are to a more open area if there all side by side and there shooting into the back of the seats then it may be better to have them facing the doors

what if i made the box span the whole width of the shelf back there, so that the speakers were on the very outsides, shooting forward?
like this:

driver seat middle seat passenger seat
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|6x9(see note*)|woofer|6x9(see note*)|
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between the left speaker and woofer i can either have a big speaker compartment, big woofer compartment, or a combination of the two, or just an empty compartment, for possible new speakers later or somethin?

same with the right...

i got 4 1/2 inch blaupunkts in my dash and 6x9s in my doors and love the sound and bass they put out. i have a standard cab and did the whole sub/amp thing and it vibrated the hell outta me. i put my 6x9s under the window crank handles. i also have a pioneer headunit. thats my 0.02

sounds pretty tight, sounds like alot of work lol...
anything behind your seats?

 

[RangerFabWorks]

what if i made the box span the whole width of the shelf back there, so that the speakers were on the very outsides, shooting forward?
like this:

driver seat middle seat passenger seat
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|6x9(see note*)|woofer|6x9(see note*)|
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between the left speaker and woofer i can either have a big speaker compartment, big woofer compartment, or a combination of the two, or just an empty compartment, for possible new speakers later or somethin?

same with the right...



sounds pretty tight, sounds like alot of work lol...
anything behind your seats?

nope leg space is valueble. 6x9s in the door is easy.

 

[rjppunk]

You want them in front of you, those tweeters are very easy to mount

 

[baxtej44]

nope leg space is valueble. 6x9s in the door is easy.

i don't have a back seat. so spreading the box out won't cut down on that, because hopefully i will be able to make it the exact depth of the shelf so that i won't have to scoot the seats up

You want them in front of you, those tweeters are very easy to mount

i want what in front of me?
think i could mount them in the trim that is toward the engine in front of the windows? i believe a picture showing that was posted earlier. so i assume i'd have to cut a hole in my trim right? my sisters boyfriend is really good at car audio stuff, but they just broke up (for like the 6th time i might add lol) but i think he would still help me out with this stuff.

 

[rjppunk]

I meant like I had in my car in the photo I uploaded. You want the pointing towards you at ear level, behind you is just going to make you uncomfortable

 

[baxtej44]

I meant like I had in my car in the photo I uploaded. You want the pointing towards you at ear level, behind you is just going to make you uncomfortable

ok ya, is that called the sail panel?

not like it really matters... i looked at the video about installing component speakers, i can use that, and more material for reference.

i wouldn't want to do a surface mount, it looks terrible lol..



can you do a partial flush mount? like what if it doesn't all the way fit?


and if I just have two regular 6x9's or so in the back, do i still get the two tweeters in the "sail panels"?



and what about my wedge box, when i make it, just don't cut out the hole on the middle compartment(for a sub eventually)? So in case by the time I get a sub they end up having a 12" that fits that i want instead of a 10 or vice versa?


construction materials on the box as well?

 

[4x4fun]

sorry iv been stuck dealing with my whore ex fiance .........

as far as the really long wedge if you wanna build the box. you can make it as long as possable and just leave one big hole in the center for one or two sub's llater. that will work yes. but look at the over all pic. the speakers dont really need alot of space if you have enuff space to mount them then your good.

so if you want to mount them all flat look at in a lenght perspective, if you only have 4 feet to work with and your 6x9 take up almost two feet of that then you cant put in two 12s and two 10's will be close, but if you mount them on the side then you only lose 10 inches from there mounting depths. then you can fit 2 10' or 2 12's

there not actually numbers but soething to look at. and remember.

 

[Psychopete]

The fronts from my '88 were 4" from inside the outer mounting edge. It's tricky to get the fronts out due to the windsheild being in the way. I am going to install 4" 2-way pioneers. I suspect that I will need to make some sort of adapter for them, but they're currently in the mail now, won't know until I see.

As far as sub, I am in the process of installing bucket seats (made adapter plates for using the stock sliders on seats that came out of a '65 Stang) and putting a bass cannon between them due to lack of room behind the seat. I could barely fit a single 10" back there with the seat all the way up. I am going to use a 1000w RMS amp with an AudioBahn Immortal (4 voice coil @ 1 ohm). Haven't decided on rears brand wise, but I am likely going to try and go for the rear upper corners.

My Ranger interior is a ship wreck right now . Also making a new dash panel out of steel that resembles the stock one. The reason is so that I could fit aftermarket auto meter gauges in there (2 x 5" 3 x 2 5/8").

Space is limited, get creative!

Pete