Better speakers in a Sportrak...

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Hi all-
I bought my Sportrak a couple of hours ago, and this is my first post. I have been scanning this site for a couple of days before though learning about the bloody things.

Anyway, I have the standard Daihatsu speakers in the dash and in the back, and, cute as they are, they sound shite.

So, is there anywhere in the front doors that I could mount, say 6 inch diameter speakers such as my favourite JBL GTOs? Is there anywhere in the rear side panels to fit either 6 inchers, 8 inchers or 6x9's? I'm not after broadcast quality volume levels as I grew out of that years ago (and besides, my main car- Mazda MX5- does that well enough!! Smile ) just adequate sounds that are loud enough for my deaf ears to hear whilst chugging along. And I want a reasonable level of quality-there's nothing worse than dodgy sound! Mega builds and false floors are not my thing as the car must remain functional as I will carry a lot of stuff in it. Oh, and i assume masses of sound deadening mats will have to be fitted. Where are the usual places for this to go?

Ta!

i had a pair of 5 inch speake

i had a pair of 5 inch speakers in the rear side panels, further back than the stanrad ones sort of next to the roll cage. i dont think they would be a problem if they were upto 8 inches, i was hoping to put some 6'9s there but never got round to it but im pretty sure they'd have fitted.

I put a pair of 6" speakers i

I put a pair of 6" speakers in my front doors, tweeters on the dash. and two 16inch boxed speakers behind the rear seats. with massive amp. my car is a fourtrak and its bloody loud lol!

i had to make door cards out of sheet alu, then dyna matt them as the crap cardboard door cards would not hold the speakers, and were just pants. all you can do is take off a door card and see if there is room to fit the speakers! .

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Oh, and another thing-how do

Oh, and another thing-how do you get to the 4" (I assume??) speakers in the dash to be able to change them??

"Like the first monkeys blasted into space, sacrificing themselves for the good of mankind.." Tyler Durden.

i got medieval and used a scr

i got medieval and used a screwdriver to hack them out, cause i had no idea how to go about getting them out properly. then i bodged a mutant one into the passenger side and used the hole in the drivers side to keep my phone and wallet in. they are 4inch speakers.

You know, I was afraid you'd

You know, I was afraid you'd say that... It looks like you have to remove most of the dash to get to them which seems a little drastic...!

"Like the first monkeys blasted into space, sacrificing themselves for the good of mankind.." Tyler Durden.