6.5" speaker mounting options

[Slooptin]

I'm in the process of re-doing the sound system in my crew cab and I was wondering where yall mounted 6.5" speakers.

For reference, the truck came with a 4 channel amp and 2 10" powered subs. The amp was connected to 4 6.5" speakers and all of it was mounted behind the rear seat and wasn't done well. It also has a retrosound head unit with 4" dah speakers wired to the head unit outputs. The PO crudely mounted 4 6.5" speakers in the rear cab corners behind the seat but I'm switching to 6x9's because it looks cleaner. That will take up 2 of the amp channels and I want to reuse at least 2 of the 6.5's closer to the front seat. I don't really want to do the kick panel mounts because I'm afraid I'll kick the driver's side speaker to death trying to set my parking brake. I'm tossing around doing door mounts, but I'm not too keen on drilling into my doors and running wires into them either. That route would also push me to dynamat my doors which I can do, I'm just lazy. Could I stuff two 6.5's into the center speaker hole in the dash or build a small speaker box to sit on top of the trans tunnel?

 

[Juggernaut]

I installed my 6" speakers in the doors close to the kick panels. It was easy to do but now I am regretting it! I went from crank up windows to power windows and found the motor hangs down to the middle of the speaker hole. Now my only options are to patch the hole or find or make some kind of extensions for the speakers. Not sure about the dash, but I had to cut out some of the metal in the dash to fit tweeters in my 78 dash

 

[R Carnella]

I mounted my 6 1/2" component set in my kick panels

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[CalSgt]

I mounted my 6 1/2" component set in my kick panels

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That's what I did too, I had to get 1" spacers because the speakers were too deep for the kick panel. I spaced my parking brake away from the kick panel by stacking 3/4" worth of washers under the mounting bolt to reduce the chance of kicking the speaker in while setting the brake.

The door speaker holes were already there when I bought the truck.

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[Craig 85]

If you have power windows and chose to mount them in the doors they need to be at the very front corner of the door or the window assembly will hit the magnet when its lowered.

 

[WesN]

To this day I feel bad about cutting up door panels back in the 70’s and early 80’s. One of the things we did at the speed shop was install stereos and hacked speakers into many fine Camaro’s, Mustang’s, Corvette’s and yes Square’s. Take a big hole saw and spin it backwards to cut through material and cardboard and then spin forward to cut through metal. Sorry to anybody restoring one of the cars that received cut up door panels.

 

[Catbox]

I have no ragerts!
I had @Maxwellvis put these Kicker separates into our doors.
He did a great job of measuring many times before making any cuts into the panels.
They came out great and sound fantastic.
Now to get the rest of the system in the truck.

Well perhaps there is one small ragert.
I would have liked a set of speakers with a better grill to keep more of the daily dirt and sheeit off the speaker itself.

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Window crank can be used to cover the tweeter when the window is all the way up if so desired.

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[bucket]

To this day I feel bad about cutting up door panels back in the 70’s and early 80’s. One of the things we did at the speed shop was install stereos and hacked speakers into many fine Camaro’s, Mustang’s, Corvette’s and yes Square’s. Take a big hole saw and spin it backwards to cut through material and cardboard and then spin forward to cut through metal. Sorry to anybody restoring one of the cars that received cut up door panels.

Back when my crew cab was nearly new, someone installed a stereo and put speakers in all 4 door panels. It's no big deal now, all the door panels are pretty baked now and it's no loss. I'm sure most of the stuff you cut holes in is in poor shape now anyways.

My Suburban is the same story. Long long ago, someone hacked (and I do mean HACKED) some 5 1/4" speakers into the front doors. I cleaned up the holes, enlarged them some so they were actually round and then installed a pair of 6.5" component speakers. It sounds great and I have no guilt since I improved upon what someone did in the past.

 

[SquareRoot]

Custom Kick Panels, Stage 2 Complete

I've been slowly working on getting this kick-ass stereo system in the 85. Finally got my custom fiberglass/MDF kick panels done. Now I know you can buy these but, I've seen them and they are way to cheesy for me. I'm hard on things and only want to make **** once. More importantly, I refuse to...

www.gmsquarebody.com

Been down this path. Waaay down. Lol

 

[TPISly-C10]

2- indash 3.5" kiker
2-Fosgate 6x9 in cab corner with Brothers adaptor
1- S/O 8" sub/amp all in one under passenger seat
sound great with retrosound unit!

 

[Dlrbill]

I'm in the process of re-doing the sound system in my crew cab and I was wondering where yall mounted 6.5" speakers.

For reference, the truck came with a 4 channel amp and 2 10" powered subs. The amp was connected to 4 6.5" speakers and all of it was mounted behind the rear seat and wasn't done well. It also has a retrosound head unit with 4" dah speakers wired to the head unit outputs. The PO crudely mounted 4 6.5" speakers in the rear cab corners behind the seat but I'm switching to 6x9's because it looks cleaner. That will take up 2 of the amp channels and I want to reuse at least 2 of the 6.5's closer to the front seat. I don't really want to do the kick panel mounts because I'm afraid I'll kick the driver's side speaker to death trying to set my parking brake. I'm tossing around doing door mounts, but I'm not too keen on drilling into my doors and running wires into them either. That route would also push me to dynamat my doors which I can do, I'm just lazy. Could I stuff two 6.5's into the center speaker hole in the dash or build a small speaker box to sit on top of the trans tunnel?

 

[JohnC]

I replaced my dash speaker with a stereo speaker, and I’ve got two in the doors. I think cab corners would be better, though. Where can I get adapters?

 

[Dlrbill]

I made some speaker enclosures and mounted them on the doors.

 

[Shawn Watson]

I've gotten sidetracked with engine compartment stuff but here's where I left off on 6.5" speaker locations. Had to bore a damn hole in the body because my Fosgates are over an inch deeper than the kick panels.


Shawn

 

[glenwood]

I'm in the process of re-doing the sound system in my crew cab and I was wondering where yall mounted 6.5" speakers.

For reference, the truck came with a 4 channel amp and 2 10" powered subs. The amp was connected to 4 6.5" speakers and all of it was mounted behind the rear seat and wasn't done well. It also has a retrosound head unit with 4" dah speakers wired to the head unit outputs. The PO crudely mounted 4 6.5" speakers in the rear cab corners behind the seat but I'm switching to 6x9's because it looks cleaner. That will take up 2 of the amp channels and I want to reuse at least 2 of the 6.5's closer to the front seat. I don't really want to do the kick panel mounts because I'm afraid I'll kick the driver's side speaker to death trying to set my parking brake. I'm tossing around doing door mounts, but I'm not too keen on drilling into my doors and running wires into them either. That route would also push me to dynamat my doors which I can do, I'm just lazy. Could I stuff two 6.5's into the center speaker hole in the dash or build a small speaker box to sit on top of the trans tunnel?