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#1 ·
So finally after some waiting all my equipment arrived and it was time to do some serious installing.

Components of system:
-Alpine PDX-f4 4 channel amplifier
-Kicker 6.5 Components -REAR 100w rms
-Kicker 6.5 Components -FRONT 75w rms
-Kicker 3.5 Midrange - Dash speakers 30w rms
-AudioPipe 3 way passive crossover

Wiring:
-4AWG from amp to second battery in trunk which is running in parallel to the starter battery
-Monster 16awg speakers wire 50ft - ran to every speaker
-Monster 4 channel RCA combined cable

Equipment Used:
-2' hole saw
-Dremel
-Door panel popper
-velcrow
-various tools
-6x9 to 6.5 adapter
-6.5 spacer

After deciding on all the equipment and looking at all the audio specs i had a problem. I wanted to still make use of the 3.5 Dash speakers. After looking the internet for a long time i came across the kicker 3.5 midrange speaker which ran at 30W RMS. the problem was i did not want to run this speaker separate from the two front channels. On Ebay i discovered the AudioPipe 3 way passive crossover. I did not think audiopipe was a good brand at all but after hearing some good reviews on the crossovers i decided to just wing it lol.

Problems with install:
Very hard to run 16awg speaker wire through the rubber grommets in the back doors. where the rubber connects to the actual car frame the jeep has a wiring connector which basically takes up all the room. I managed to work around this by sticking a flat head screwdriver into the plastic grommet and gently feeding the speaker wire past the oem wiring harness. Other then that the install was pretty straight forward except, the front door. This was because i had to run a power wire from the amp into the door and another wire from the 3 way crossover back into the car and into the dash speakers.

The kicker 3.5 speakers were a little tall in the dash so i took a dremel and gently shaved down the little honeycomb pattern in the center of the speaker grill. This gave me just enough room for the covers to fit perfectly.

















Old Front speakers


New 3.5 in dash :D


Part of the grill that needed to be dremel'd down


Kicker Crossover mounted in rear door
Just used some industrial strength Velcro



Tweeter mount locations for front door



Alpine Headunit


Kickers in front door



4 channel amplifier, second battery, and sub amp



Rear door tweeter location


Audipipe front crossover woofer, mid, tweeter


View of midrange and tweeter in front


Front Tweeter


Kicker 3.5 Midrange


Rear door flush mount



After these pictures were taken i have aded curved mounting rings for the front tweeters.

System really sounds amazing, more then i ever hoped for. The hard part was really just fine tuning the amplifier with the HZ selection.
 
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#10 · (Edited)
I added a set of stock JK Infinity tweeters to my rear doors. I wanted something to look as stock as possible and i these did the trick, plus i got them for free. The only thing i modified on them was the stock capacitors that were soldered in. I changed them out to 4.7uF 50V versions just to get a little more out of them.

The system overall sounds more balanced and slightly crisper.


 
#11 ·
Slightly crispier.......? Don't you want it a lot more crispier?
 
#12 ·
How are you feeding the three different channels of signal to the front from your amp? Are you using a three way crossover for each side?
 
#13 ·
Yes, for the front two channels I used a 3 way crossover (woofer, midrange, high) mounted inside the two front doors. The crossover;s frequencies were in the same hz range as all the speakers so it produces very good sound. The back speakers are a set of components as well, but with the standard crossover that was included.
 
#18 ·
I agree with 2for3.

I went with all 6 new speakers for better sound quality(but I can still get ghetto loud lol)
My biggest issue was the lack of mid-high range from the rear speakers as my sub would over power it (even when I wasbt pushing the sub hard at all)

But I disagree with subs being immature... Of course putting abother JL W6 v2 back in my. Jeep would be immature, as I'd never use it to its full capability, but my Toby 10 does the job perfectly for just enough added low end but can still slam if needed. Also only runs on 60watts per channel at 4ohms LOL and is no wimp. Also makes for a good show at the drive in :D
 
#19 ·
Sorry. Not really immature. Just not professional.

I guess it's just personal taste.

I don't see anything wrong with it. I just hope you guy don't bump it when pulling up to a job interview.
 
#20 ·
Unfortunately there aren't many factory replacement speakers that can handle the duties of filing in ether low end with any volume and not sound distorted. I know there is a guy running a full wall our a cargo area full of 12' s on here somewhere, but that takes it way too far if you want a functional SUV. however, if you are shooting for balanced sound with clarity and any sort of volume, I don't know how you could do it without a low end devoted driver.

Thoughts?
 
#28 ·
yup, on my double Din i can just push the music icon and the sub control is right there. very simple integration with music.

On another note i also had the alpine imprint processor, but sold it before i changed speakers and amplifiers. I feel it would really make the sound perfect.
 
#30 ·
I got mine for 600 on Ebay. The only hard part was bypassing the video/ settings in motion feature. without the two wires hooked up you can't even access the settings. Alpine has a new technology that requires the brake petal and EBrake to be pushed in a sequence to know that its not being bypassed. I had to get the PAC bypass module to effectively bypass the system. Other then that the radio is great. I love it.
 
#37 ·
Also on another note. I've been getting into offroading, actually go down to assateague island about every weekend and noticed my sub box moves all over the trunk lol. Some industrial strength velcro worked great. Stick the two sticky parts together making 2 strips into one. The velcro sticks to the trunk carpet and the sub box carpet. Works great and can still move.
 
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