A non-ranger audio question

[Airmaster]

My friend has a 2004 Mitsubishi Lancer (save the name calling for later), and i want to help him out with a relatively inexpensive system.

He has four speakers, two in the front doors and two on the rear deck behind the rear seats.

Is it possible to throw two 6.5 inch subwoofers into the rear deck and take out the speakers? I mean i think the trunk is relatively sealed and the deck to which the current speakers are mounted is pretty solid.

If this idea is not completely crazy then move on to my next question. Could i use tweeters and a crossover to pair up to the subs and create a "component-like" system?

If this is all worthless to do go ahead and just hand it to me, this is just a random brainstorm...

If none of this is possible I think ima find him four good speakers and a nice head unit, but I'll still have a 6.5 inch subwoofer laying around.......

 

[baxtej44]

i would think you would need free air response subwoofers in order to do that without any type of enclosure. but don't count on my word, wait for the gurus to come in here.

also, i don't see why you couldn't use a crossover with a subwoofer and a tweeter, basically any size speaker is the same concept, just different sizes, materials, slight design differences... (maybe i'm just pulling this outta the air!)

 

[strvger]

with only tweeters and subwoofers, you'll miss all the midrange frequencies. that is where the human voice is found as well as many different instruments. most subs only go up to about 1500 Hrtz or so at best. most tweeters don't start picking up until the freqs get up to maybe 12-14k Hrtz. so, everything in the middle is lost or distorted.
kinda like having only 2 guns in your arsenal, a .22 and a .460 Rigby. you can get squirrels and rabbits or elephants and cape buffalo. everything between them will be very, very iffy. just my $.02.

 

[baxtej44]

with only tweeters and subwoofers, you'll miss all the midrange frequencies. that is where the human voice is found as well as many different instruments. most subs only go up to about 1500 Hrtz or so at best. most tweeters don't start picking up until the freqs get up to maybe 12-14k Hrtz. so, everything in the middle is lost or distorted.
kinda like having only 2 guns in your arsenal, a .22 and a .460 Rigby. you can get squirrels and rabbits or elephants and cape buffalo. everything between them will be very, very iffy. just my $.02.

very good $0.02... probably worth at least $1.00 lol.

 

[njdriver02]

how much is relately cheap? hard to give advice without this info.

I had an 04 accord before the ranger, with an alpine mrp 250 amp powering infinity kappa front and rear components, with the factory head unit.

What I suggest,

1. get a ten or 12 inch sub for the trunk , free air subs your talking about arent as common, and i think a 6 1/2 wont hit that well. So many people are always selling there subs on ebay, you can find a good deal on there with an amp.

2. aftermarket headunit (with sub preout, you wont have factory signal distortion, and more power. once again you can pick this up cheap on ebay.

3. do a little research and pick up some front components with a separate tweeter. back just do a two way.

 

[rjppunk]

You would have to wire up your own cross-over for that anyway. For a cheap setup I would get some decent component sets for the front doors and a new head unit. while things are apart I would run speaker wire, signal cable, and a 1 single speaker wire to the trunk in the event that you ever want to amp all of it. It's nice to do that while the car is apart, things don't always fit back snug after multiple attempts at taking them apart.

 

[4x4fun]

My friend has a 2004 Mitsubishi Lancer (save the name calling for later), and i want to help him out with a relatively inexpensive system.

i have an 2010 lancer i love it. but its not a truck

as far as the system.

any real bass youll need an amp. a HU cant push an sub.

now they make thoes boxes for 6x9's if you mounted them below the rear deck, and created some back pressure for a set of 6x9 back there that might work.

but a good set of speakers and a good HU is about the best bet for non amps