Thread: speaker size?

i just got my 2000 grand prix gt, and need to find out the speaker size for the front door speakers, since i blew them)
hope someone can help me out,

becky

I'd go for 6.5's. They'd fit and they'd be louder.

Stock is 5-1/4"
I put 6.5" in mine.

do the 6.5"s fit without any mods?

Theres actually a plastic speaker mount you can dremel if you'd like. Slightly less damaging.

I could get you a picture of stock if you wanted, probably wouldn't help, but at least you'd know what part I'm talking about.

I just did my buddies 99 GTP. I didnt take any pictures, I should of.
He put 6.5 in the doors, new tweeters.... BTW were a ***** to fit, 6X9 in the back, it sounds to tits.
When you buy the 6.5 they will come with 3 different mounts. You will have to clip off the excess on which ever one will give it the elevation that lets the back of the housing sit flush. When they say they just "drop in" they do and dont. We ran r-types all around and the back of the 6.5 housing was larger/wider than normal 6.5.

Summary- If you buy them new you'll get the mounts, if you buy used, you might need to rig up a mount to elevate all depending on the size and type of 6.5 you go with.

The motor was bigger? Or the terminals were positioned so that it made it bigger? The basket was bigger?

All of those are different based on each subwoofer. And one thing to note, '6.5"' woofer's OD will measure slightly more than 6.5" and the cone diameter will be slightly less.

Well you could cut out an MDF ring and mount that to the door and mount the speaker to that. If you did that, you could fit an 8" woofer in there....

Originally Posted by matt5112

The motor was bigger? Or the terminals were positioned so that it made it bigger? The basket was bigger?

All of those are different based on each subwoofer. And one thing to note, '6.5"' woofer's OD will measure slightly more than 6.5" and the cone diameter will be slightly less.

Sorry, I shoould of gave a litle more detail in my post. My bad

The only thing we ran into was the circumference of the housing/cone/basket... whatever you want to call it. The wiring mounts fit fine, the magent (motor???) fit fine, the hole location lined up but keep in mind we had Alpine fitted door mounts. I do agree that depending on the mid range you choose you will have either an easier or harder time depending on the size of the magnet and the basket, thus you will just have to make your door mount thicker to sit it flush. The biggest thing is obviously not to force it or to make the door mount to large you cant get your door skin back on.
As far as fitting an 8in in the doors, great idea but Matt, would you have to saw out of the door surround? If you think it was made factoy for a 5 1/4 to put a 8 inch in the doors, you would either need a big ass door mount and then put the door skin over with your fingers crossed or you would have to saw out some of the factory metal to compensate for the larger depth and circumference. I never run 8's in the door so you tell me.

Mike

I plan on 8's either this winter or next summer. The plan is build an MDF box that will mount in the door. sounds insane, and it is, but I'll make it work. The amount of bass the particular 8's i picked are really too much for the doors to handle. Hell, the stock speakers make the doors rattle a little.

http://www.grandprixforums.net/front_speaker.php

Heres a ghetto way to do it.

how do i replace the rear speakers?

Wrong, take out the rear seats. The bottom section can be pulled out by pulling on the plastic tabs, one on each side. Then undo the seat belts (I think its only the two center sections you need to remove, not the outer ones) and the two other large bolts there holding the rear section in. Once thats done, the upper carpeted piece will come out and you can finally unbolt your rear speakers.