icu400
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- Austin, TX
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '95 XLT
Hey yall. Some of you probably remember me from about a year ago when I was here browsing around doing my intstall. I ended up with 2 stealth boxes in the back of my explorer with 2 infinity 10's and a decent sony/pioneer speaker system in the cab. I had a blast doing it, and i've been a happy camper every day since. Here's some pics for the curious viewers.
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/604166
Anyway, now that i'm here again, I need a few questions answered about the stock sub in the premium sound system. My syster has a 99 explorer (mine's a 95, ) and she just had her sub blow out in the back. Now, she doesn't want me to tear up her trunk the way I kinda had to do with mine (I had to cut out part of the rear right trim panel), she just wants a working sub in the back.
The way I see it, I should be able to pick up a decent polk, JL, or rockford 8" for like 80 bucks or so, and most of the one's i've seen run in the 50-100 rms range. From the specs i've read, the factory amp puts out 85 rms (4 ohms? probably) but thats really probably only 70 or so. In any case, that should be enough to power a decent 8" to at least sound better than the crackled spitting that the popped stock one is doing now. In any case, i'm not really worried about the power.
I am however worried about the size, and integrity of the factory enclosure. I read the specs, and the enclosure is 15 liters. Thats about .7 cubic feet I think, could be wrong (i remember converting it and comparing to recommended volumes of a few subs a while back and i don't remember any issues, if anything it might be too big, and I could fix that easily enough). I AM worried about depth though. Can anyone find me the top mount depth of either the stock sub or the box? I'm not currently living at home now, so I can't really go home and take her car apart to find out, and I'm trying to shop for a speaker that I can get her for christmas so that I can do the installation over the holidays.
If anyone has any experience switching these out and has any points i'd love to hear them. Since I already know how to take out the panel, and I know about the wiring system I think i'm good to go there, but if you have any expertise with the box, speaker, amp, or have any recomendations about what to stick in there instead, i'm all ears.
Thanks in advance guys, its nice to be back here again.
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/604166
Anyway, now that i'm here again, I need a few questions answered about the stock sub in the premium sound system. My syster has a 99 explorer (mine's a 95, ) and she just had her sub blow out in the back. Now, she doesn't want me to tear up her trunk the way I kinda had to do with mine (I had to cut out part of the rear right trim panel), she just wants a working sub in the back.
The way I see it, I should be able to pick up a decent polk, JL, or rockford 8" for like 80 bucks or so, and most of the one's i've seen run in the 50-100 rms range. From the specs i've read, the factory amp puts out 85 rms (4 ohms? probably) but thats really probably only 70 or so. In any case, that should be enough to power a decent 8" to at least sound better than the crackled spitting that the popped stock one is doing now. In any case, i'm not really worried about the power.
I am however worried about the size, and integrity of the factory enclosure. I read the specs, and the enclosure is 15 liters. Thats about .7 cubic feet I think, could be wrong (i remember converting it and comparing to recommended volumes of a few subs a while back and i don't remember any issues, if anything it might be too big, and I could fix that easily enough). I AM worried about depth though. Can anyone find me the top mount depth of either the stock sub or the box? I'm not currently living at home now, so I can't really go home and take her car apart to find out, and I'm trying to shop for a speaker that I can get her for christmas so that I can do the installation over the holidays.
If anyone has any experience switching these out and has any points i'd love to hear them. Since I already know how to take out the panel, and I know about the wiring system I think i'm good to go there, but if you have any expertise with the box, speaker, amp, or have any recomendations about what to stick in there instead, i'm all ears.
Thanks in advance guys, its nice to be back here again.