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Title: SPeaker sizes in car help!!!!
Post by: tbirdera on November 26, 2006, 11:11:14 AM
ok i have a 88 t bird , what size speakers do the dash take??  also what size speakers do the doors take???  please let me know i would liek to buy some speakers today. thanks
Title: SPeaker sizes in car help!!!!
Post by: 86elan on November 26, 2006, 01:13:21 PM
3.5" in the dash
6.5" in the door
Title: SPeaker sizes in car help!!!!
Post by: baxo on November 26, 2006, 01:23:27 PM
and 5x7" in the rear.
Title: SPeaker sizes in car help!!!!
Post by: ipsd on November 26, 2006, 02:30:25 PM
actually the rear deck speakers are 6x8" speakers. A 6x9" will not fit but most aftermarket 5x7" are made to bolt into the 6x8" opening.
Title: SPeaker sizes in car help!!!!
Post by: tbirdera on November 26, 2006, 05:59:32 PM
ok thank you so much
Title: SPeaker sizes in car help!!!!
Post by: bhazard on November 26, 2006, 09:14:03 PM
I found that if you bend or remove the hooks that the rubber straps go on to hold the speakers in you can fit 6x9's in there, you have to drill holes though.
Title: SPeaker sizes in car help!!!!
Post by: tbirdera on November 26, 2006, 09:25:25 PM
o0 i been put 6x9 in the back i just needed to know the sizes for teh dash and doors cuz its time for a system  :)
Title: SPeaker sizes in car help!!!!
Post by: tbirdera on November 26, 2006, 11:39:44 PM
hey is it possible to put 4 inch speakers ion the dash instead of 3 1/2 inch speakers cause its hard to find some 3.5 inch speakers .
Title: SPeaker sizes in car help!!!!
Post by: Tbirdmaniac on November 28, 2006, 10:03:50 AM
Hello!,

Quote from: tbirdera;115730
hey is it possible to put 4 inch speakers ion the dash instead of 3 1/2 inch speakers cause its hard to find some 3.5 inch speakers .


Hmmmmm!, I'm not sure You able to put 4" speakers in the dash, because the 3.5" is very close to the speaker grill...

But if Your factory speakers in the dash are goods, and if previously Your car have a premium sound, there is no problems, the dash speakers it's used only for a mid and high frequency (tweeters), if not, put an UNPOLATIZED capacitor of the value between 2.2 to 4.7microfarads in SERIAL with the positive lead of them, and it will be fine...

Connect the front speaker of the dash and the doors of the each side in parralel, this will not load Your radio, because with the in dash 3.5" with capacitor the resistance on load is very not significant...

On My side in My '85 Bird when I putted a factory premium sound in the car (harness and whatever), My in dash speakers are done, very very done, I putted a Mototola 3.5" piezoelectric in the dash, and a good bass speakers in the doors, thats-it!...

On the rear I putted out the 5x7" and installed two good BOSE 6x9".

Putted out the factory premium sound amplifier, and connected on the harness a Sherwood 240watts (total) amplifier, and it sound great and loud...

Hope this help...
Title: SPeaker sizes in car help!!!!
Post by: tbirdera on November 28, 2006, 05:57:55 PM
thx for the info bro
Title: SPeaker sizes in car help!!!!
Post by: DVP on December 04, 2006, 12:14:17 AM
i have a 4 in the pass siode of my dash. i took the top clips off the grille and twisted and pushed and pulled till it fit. sits in nice now. couldnt get it in the driverside cause the gauges are in the way and there isnt much room to work in