So from what I am reading here the FC has 5 places to put speakers -

Speaker Size:
Dash: 130mm (4”)
Door: 160mm or 150mm (6”) (note: true 6.5” speakers are 170mm)
Rear tower: 4” or 6"
Headrest: 3.5”
Rear floorboard: 5.25”

So I was browsing my options as to what speakers to get I decided to go with Infinitys. My ideal set up is like this:

Dash: 130mm (4”) - Infinity KAPPA42.7I
Door: 160mm or 150mm (6”) (note: true 6.5” speakers are 170mm) - Infinity KAPPA PERFECT 6.1
Rear tower: 4” or 6" - (Will these fit 6.5's?) Infinity REF6022SI
Headrest: 3.5” - (Tweeters from Kappa Perfect Components)
Rear floorboard: 5.25” - Infinity REF5022I
Also a 10' sub - Infinity KAPPA PERFECT10DVQ

So my question is. How can I power all this? I have a feeling a traditional 5-channel amp won't do it. Any ideas?

 

why do you need so many speakers... i put 5 1/4 in the dash instead of 4" with tweeters on the dash by the a pillar, 6 1/2 in the strut tower with a tweeter on the top of the cover, 2 12 " in the hatch, plenty of sound from a 4 ch 1200wmax amp and 2 400/1200 mono amps

 

What are you trying to do?

If you want loud, then stuff speakers where ever you can fit them.

If you want a coherent (front) soundstage, you gotta be a lot more picky.
In fact, building a good sound-quality stereo system in an FC is a major challenge.
Stay away from the high door panel mounts - these utterly destroy the front sound-stage due to the close proximity to the driver / passenger.


-Ted

 

I would skip the the ones on the dash, and go with a kickpanel setup instead.

 

so what exactly are you going for?

 

I want clean sound, I don't need to get all the speakers I was just saying if most people do get all 5 thats the set up I am looking at. I was thinking basically fronts, rears, tweeters that come with front components put those in the dash or headrest, then a 10' sub (are the bins good boxes for subs?)

 

i would do the 6' in the door and 6' in the towers. If you got the components then it would be a total of 6 speakers. I would do components in the front and some 2 or 3 ways in the back.

 

I just put a system in my 87. You have several choices and it's hard to give advice/opions because music tatse is so varied.

Anyway. I put 6 1/2 Infinity Kappas in the doors. The previous owner had Alpines mounted there so I just replaced with the Kappa's. I used a 1" spacer to keep the speaker from interferring with the window. If the orginal door had been "uncut" I would have looked at doing molded kick panels.

I put 6 1/2 Infinity Kappas in the rear towers. Crutchfields said The stock grill cover would not clear the tweeter in the Kappa's. Mine did clear, not a problem.

I used the passenger storage compartment as a box for a 10" Kappa sub. I surrounded the sub with Poly fill, just like you would a small subbox.

I used an Alpine MF550 to power the sub, and a 4 channel Alpine amp to power the other four speakers. The Kappa's are rated a 75 watts, 4 ohms and the Alpine supplies 90 watts at 4 ohms.

I use an Alpine deck with IPOD connector for the headunit.

Wiring for the dual amps and speakers cost me around $130.00 The speakers, head unit and both subs cost around $1100.00 from Crutchfileds. I already had the 10" sub.

The system sounds extremely clean and hits hard on the sub, if you want it too. I mounted 1 amp behind each seat, so you only see them if you tilt the seat forward. With the exception of the door speakers and the headunit it all looks stock, but sounds great.