Helllo i got my maxima for my 17th bday, couple week ago. n it came with blown bose speakers. soo i bought some 6x9 225watt Lightning Audios n 4" Lightning Audios(b/c i read it came with 4" speakers in the bose systems) but sold them to my uncle cuz he needed them. Plus he said they were to small. So what is the maximum size i can go in the front doors w/o clearance problems.

Thanx for any help.

 

I would think you may be able to put 6.5's, if you take out that stock amp housing.

 

will i need a bracket. or would it absolutely fit. cuhz my dad is re wiring my car completely this saturday. and i know he doesnt want to spend too much time on it. since he would want to ride his motorcycle.(01 Suzuki GSXR 1000). i i nee it to b a quick rewiring n plug n play. i am not reusing the amps.

 

The amp's are attached to the speaker pods. Just tear the junk apart to see which wire goes to which respectively polarity to the speaker. Yes you will need a bracket on the door's 6.5's are I think the normal replacement size most use thou theirs those who put 8" in their door's also.

 

ok. ur saying i keep my bose bracket. tear out the amps. and just mount some 6.5" speakers.

 

If you do a little modding of the stock bose bracket you can fit up to a 6.5" in there, or you can just make a bracket yourself out of something sturdy (I used plyboard)...it doesn't look as nice as the stock bracket, but unless you take your door panel off on a frequent basis it does the job quite well. As for the back, 6x9s are what you're looking for.

 

I am assuming you changed out the head unit?

The bose HU doesn't have power and all of the speakers are individually amplified at 1 ohm.

You can bypass the amps (if you have power from a new HU) and the 6x9s will fit in the rear, but you will have to either cut the stock Bose pods, build some pods or buy some in order to fit a 6.5. There is a member named James92SE that makes them. He was selling them for $35 shipped, but I don't know if he still is. I bought a pair from him a few years ago and they are great.

 

yea. I just went and picked up some 6.5" 3 way Lightning Audios 150watts. And i already bought the 6x9s. Soo im good. Just slight modding to get the 6.5s in.
And yes i have an new H/U its an alpine its ****ty. My dad is giving me his Kenwood tho. Soo i pretty much am puttin in a whole new system. new H/U, Wires, and Speakers.

 

Howdy neighbor....

Welcome to the org.

 

thanks for the welcome. where r you located in TN. do we ever have Maxima meets. N also nice car.

 

Crossville...about 90 miles from you..

 

my setup is plug and play.
I reused the factory wiring and connectors.
I also made brackets to fit 6.5s up front.


BTW lightining audio is junk for speakers.

 

it is. my uncle said they are good. oh well ill step my game up later. i just need something right now better than blown speakers. soo it dont matter much to me.

 

my dad always works in crossville. alot. he has a job thats he has to go work on the bank there. heating and air control.

 

but lightning Audio is made by Rockford Fostgate

 

and our speakers are bose
one has nothing to do with the other.

 

oh well i got them n sticking w/ them. soo i got to put up w/ them

 

You can put pretty much any size speaker in the front doors. I have 7" midbass drivers in my doors right now. I've even had 6x9's in the front doors at one point in time. You could probably fit 8's without too much modification. Although I'd reccomend getting some 6.5" speakers for the front because they'd be very easy to install and they'd give you the better sound than anything smaller.

 

Go talk to anyone that installs audio equipment for a living...

The best (sound quality) route to go is to rewire the audio system. My gf can explain it better than I, but stick 6x9s in the back, buy some speaker brackets for the front off of ebay.com and a new head unit and run some nice speaker wire to the door speakers and rear deck speakers.
Or bypass the amps and find the pos and neg speaker wires from the head unit if you use the factory harness. There should be 4 wires that plug into the individual speaker amps. Take your time finding the correct pos and neg wires. You don't want to take those door panels off any more then you have to, just to fix simple mistake.

Oh and do the rear first since they are easy.

 

what gauge speaker wire. i dont really know much about systems. im more of a performance guy.

 

I used the 12 gauge that came with my speakers, my wiring was shot anyway so I had no choice. So you can use 10-12 gauge, but anything bigger than 12 would be too small if you want a booming system, and anything smaller than 10 would be pretty thick, unless youre gonna throw in an amp and subs.

 

i got it done yesterday. we just re-did it using the factory wires.

 

Sound good?

 

soo far i just got the backs in. i didnt have time for the front b4 i had to go to work on sunday. soo they will probably get done when i come back from florida.

 

I fit 6.5" speakers just fine. With some modding I could have put 6x9s in there. I dont know why you say your Alpine is ****ty. Alpine is the only thing I will buy now. Used to go with Kenwood or Pioneer then got an Alpine and never am I going back to Pioneer. You get more for the buck with Alpine.

 

its an older alpine.

 

hey were is a link showing me how to mod the pods for 6.5" speakers. im about to get the speakers out of the way today. hurry please. i might just build my own if i cant get any responces.

 

if you want a place to look for links and all sorts of information, look in the sticky's at the top of the main page of each individual forum.

 

just build your own.

 

what do i need to build my own.

 

i am in my garage moding my BOSE speakers right now. i may give up on that and build my own.

 

just a piece of MDF

 

thats what i figured. do i have to make like a box or something, like how the bose speakers come. or can i just have like a single piece just to screw the speaker to.

 

I just cut it to be a plate and it works OK

 

yea i have one braket cut out. now gotta cut the whole for the speake and im set. oh and i gotta sink the screw holes a bit so the screws can reach the metal.

 

I just used the factory bolts

 

i had to use different screws. it works all good. sounds great. i came from no speakers to just back speakers. and woke up yesterday tired of not having all my speakers work so i just woke up at 1:30 in the afternoon and just started working. im proud of my self just jumped on in the not knowing what to do and come out succesful. thats what learning is all bout when it comes to cars.

but i have an offer for $1800 for my car. soo as soon as im ready to sell. i can order my 13bt rotary turbo engine n trannny abd start that project.

 

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huge piece of mdf that i thought i could just cut up. but lowes said i had to buy the whole darn sheet. well i have enough mdf to make boxes for my next 5 cars.


look at my pimp *** blackberry on my knee. not as cool as my sidekick II but i like it alot still.

 

I just put some 6x9 pioneer 3 way speakers in my doors and they sound really whimpy I don't get it I guess I have to amp them?

I mounted the 6x9s in the door by drilling new holes lower in the speaker whole>>>>>>..