6x9's The Doors Of A 99 Ext Cab?

Wingnutt · May 18, 2007

Well after pulling the sound system out of my recently departed Blazer, It's time to figure how to fit it into my 99. I am planning on completely by-passing the origional unit and just tapping into the power and ground wires to simplify the wiring.

Just from eye-balling the area behind the grill where the factory 6 1/2 round and tweters are, it appears that 6x9's can fit into the doors (front) with a little trimming and the use of a 1" spacer to keep them away from the windows. I was wondering if anybody has pulled this one off yet? If so how did it work out? TIA

ScottyBoy · May 19, 2007

I havent seen anyone do it yet. I've also been trying to do the same thing in my 01 Suburban. But I'm scared to hack up my door and door panel to try it. I've even ran numerous searches on the internet searching fot silverados, sierras, yukons, tahoes, denalis eascalades, and even for avalanches with custom 6x9 installs. All I could find were a few trucks with 6x9 boxes under the rear seats or behind the rear seats. Keep me posted if you find anything more because I still would like to put 6x9's in the front doors of my truck if I can.

Dyabolical · May 19, 2007

I havent seen anyone do it yet. I've also been trying to do the same thing in my 01 Suburban. But I'm scared to hack up my door and door panel to try it. I've even ran numerous searches on the internet searching fot silverados, sierras, yukons, tahoes, denalis eascalades, and even for avalanches with custom 6x9 installs. All I could find were a few trucks with 6x9 boxes under the rear seats or behind the rear seats. Keep me posted if you find anything more because I still would like to put 6x9's in the front doors of my truck if I can.

Are you wanting to use the 6x9's because that is the only thing you have or because that is just want you want to put there? I would just stick to 6.5's.

asilverblazer · May 19, 2007

I did it, they barely fit. And you really have to cut up the door panel. I mounted mine to the door panel rather than the door itself. This eliminated the need for a spacer. I did it for the same reasons, departed my blazer and those are what I had. Ironically on my 88 S-10 Blazer, the rear 6x9's went up front on my truck and the front 3x5's? went in the rear...

Wingnutt · May 20, 2007

Ya it's because they are what I have on hand. After much more eye-balling I think they will fit under the grill with nominal trimming using a spacer. As soon as I have the time I might pull the panel off and do some careful measureing.

asilverblazer · May 21, 2007

"Nominal" is not the word I would use...

ScottyBoy · May 23, 2007

I'd like to put 6x9's in mine for 2 reasons. The first being that I already have them, and the second reason being that I'd like to get a lot more bass up front. I had an old Cutlass with 4 pioneer 5-way 6x9's across the back deck. I have since sold the car and have 4 6x9's now taking up space. And those 6x9's were BUMPIN! It sounded like I had 2 -12 inch woofers in my trunk when in reality All I had was 4 6x9's.

Asilverblazer, do you have any pictures of your 6x9 install? Or at least the end result?

asilverblazer · May 23, 2007

End result...

You can see that I left the Factory tweeters. The 6x9's are at the bottom, looks like three speakers if you look close the silver section with one on each side of it, then the factory tweeter further up.

Wingnut · May 23, 2007

That's pretty cool.

asilverblazer · May 24, 2007

I really wish I had just bought some new speakers, if I replace those 6x9's it will leave a huge hole in the door panel. Guess that means rhey'll be in there a while, all the same I have other projects...

...err, money pits.