5.25's in rear of X-Cab

todddd41 · September 6, 2004

Once upon a time I found a pics or a link to pics on this forum where somebody had trimmed the sheet metal to put 5.25" round speakers behing the stock gtrills on a NBS extended cab. Problem is I can't find them now. Has anybody done this or know where to find these install pics? I'd like to look them over again to see if it's something I want to do before I buy speakers.

Would the 5.25's be much of an improvement over the 4x6's, and if I use 4x6's, should I use plate mount, or coax?

Thanks

DSZ71 · September 6, 2004

Well you dont even need to trim it out. What you can do is make a spacer plate, so that only the magnet sticks through the old 4x6 location hole. Like this pic. See he just used a 1/2" piece of wood (MDF or 3ply will work perfectly). And the door panel has no interference with it at all! By the way, the speaker mounted is a CDT 5.25" coax.

todddd41 · September 9, 2004

Wow, I wish I was that smart. Do you know if the clearance issue changes at all with my truck being a three door?

Thanks for the info, I think I'll g with the 5.25's

DSZ71 · September 9, 2004

Wow, I wish I was that smart. Do you know if the clearance issue changes at all with my truck being a three door?

Thanks for the info, I think I'll g with the 5.25's

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This truck is a 3 door. Should be no issues with clearance. If you look closely, you'll notice that you have like 1.5" gap between the door panel and the inner door metal panel. Plus about another 0.5" space due to the speaker grille and how it concaves out a bit. So you have plenty of room to do what you want.

Tucson_02Silverado · September 16, 2004

It might have been my post of past

Alternate Xcab speakers

todddd41 · September 17, 2004

That was exactly the one I was thinking of. Thank you.

I see some discussion on using bass blockers on the stock speakers in that thread. Did you actually do that, and how did it work out?

Tucson_02Silverado · September 17, 2004

I'm not using bass blockers, myself.

I have a Panasonic CQ-C9800U head unit. It has built in High Pass and Low pass filters along with Sub crossover. It does have an option to change the rear speakers into subwoofers just by turning the option on. The 5.25"'s just can't push the air like a dedicated sub can. You could notice it though, but it seem at the sonic level and not much at all at the "thump" level.