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Hi guys,

Just looking at doing my own install and having trouble working out where to put the crossover and placement of the tweeter and so forth....

The rear speakers are piss easy to put on.... the fronts are a pain for placement.

The woofer is 6.5", will i need anything special (spacers) to mount the woofer in the door?

Any tips would be fantastic, i cant seem to find any guides for r33 installs apart from HU's

Cheers,

Steve.

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The pods are tricky. 6.5" max, and then you're not guaranteed that they will fit the strange hexagon shape.

Best to take the trim off (5 minutes), then take a pod off (20 secs) and take that down to an audio place. Find a speaker that fits the hole, will screw in properly and isn't too deep.

The Skyline pods have a plastic rear, which is your maximum depth. Once you choose a speaker, it's not a bad idea to cut that plastic rear off, cause it just bounces sound around.

I'll post a pic of the pod up for you later if you like.

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Don't really need any diagrams... RCA's out of your HU, into the amp. Then +ve and -ve speaker wires go into the screw-clamps on the amp.

Easy =-]

Although if I run an amp in this car later, i'm going to try something... .running the speaker wire from an amp in the boot, up to the front of the car, then plug it into the crimps that I made that go into the HU. Unplug wires from HU, plug them into wires running from boot, and that takes care of the front speakers!

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I mounted new splits, and ran the tweeter on the mirror-sails. Instead of this bodgy install, I drilled another hole in each of the sail to run the wire out of the tweeter and directly inside the sail. The wires then run down the door to the splitter, which is constructed in-line. (rather than a big box splitter)

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RANDY Veteran

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Look at that! Two screws to hold the speaker... and they aren't even driven in properly. This JBL 3-way doesn't fit in the pod, so the previous owner just had it sitting angled.

Also, the stock speaker wire had telephone wire wrapped around it, which then wrapped around the speaker terminal. I haven't seen anything this bad before. =-o

weSky Enthusiast

weSky

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Thanks for all of the above!!!

Telephone cable??? bahahaha thats almost valid for "What The"

Hey, how did you go getting a pic of a parcel shelf (prev thread) Im still waiuting for my R33 to arrive and i want to get a heads up on design for the install and i will need to make a custom parcel shelf and work out a design...

sindows Veteran

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Hi guys,

Just looking at doing my own install and having trouble working out where to put the crossover and placement of the tweeter and so forth....

I have splits in my car, (r33) I put the crossover in the bottom left hand corner of the door. On both doors.

unarmed_skyline Experienced

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i have my front splits 6.5" alpine woffers in the door and tweeter on top corners of the dash wired into the amp in the back and my splitter boxes are next to each other underneath where the headunit is mounted on the carpet behind everything, everything is nice and hidden and easy that way cause you can use the factory wiring for the door speekers and wire it into the splitter box and run new wiring for the tweeters and if its going to the headunit almost no extra wire lenght needed

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i put the crossovers in the end of the map pockets where u cant see them, although i had to trim the top off them because they were originally too high.

in relation to the speakers, i cut out mdf and screwed that to the door onto which the speaker is drilled, so a very solid mount compared to mounting on the stock plastic mount.

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I found the plastic pods to be reasonable, but i'll be pulling the trim off and having another look though. Everything else in the doors have started to rattle now, but it appears to be just the trim itself... so i'm going to whack some foam padding around the place.

As far as parcel shelf pics, a few people have posted some up here and there. I have a pic from somone who's selling theirs with holes drilled through the speaker-mesh, and also I have a pic from a wrecker who is selling one. I like the idea of having the stock speaker mesh!

Oh... from what I could see, the hole are TINY under the mesh. My car has the holes bodgily cut out wider. Someone got a knife and cut them as wide as the holes in the metal beneath it... and it's not a proper circle either.

baron25 Proficient

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Are spacers for the fronts and rears nessecary at all? i'm getting 4x6.5" speakers put in next week but don't want them sticking outta my doors or off my parcel shelf. The factory look'll do for me (less inviting for theives!!)

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Apparently 6.5' will fit right into the rear parcel shelf, and the stock shelf comes with big speaker grilles that would cover anything you put in the shelf.

That's exactly what i'm trying to do by sourcing a stock parcel shelf!

The doors... well.. some speakers fit, some don't. It seems to depend on whether the screw mounting-points on the speakers are protruding outside of the circumference. If the holes are built into the ring of the speaker, it *should* fit... If not, everyone is making MDF speaker mounts and pulling the pods off. You won't know if your speaker choice will fit until you put it in the pod and line it up. =-[

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