Well I have most of the components. I have the Rockford Fosgate loaded box, the amp, the LOC, and most of the speaker wire. Amazon should deliver the 4guage wire for the amp tonight. I received the Sundown dash mids today. Still waiting on the harness for the tweeters and the company the I bought them from seems to be MIA. So may end up making my own.
I am not sure where I will place the amp. I am going disassemble the trunk tonight and determine where the best place to put it will be. I have painted my amp board. Amp and sub will be installed tomorrow.
Msquared I thought about what you said and I know I will not be happy with the stock door speakers. I wanted to do this whole project on a budget since I know I will be adding a non-stock exhaust and I like to ride a lot with the windows down.
But I also don't want garbage speakers either so I am meeting in the middle. I ordered a pair of Stevens Audio M-6 midbass speakers. They are a boutique speaker company so I was able to talk to the owner/designer. They are quite popular on the DIY car audio forums. They are rated 95db sensitive/4 ohm and have a frequency response range of 70hz-4Khz (+/- 3db). Owner said these will be driven just fine with the factory power and will be even better in the future if I add an amp. He recommended I start with giving them the full signal and then would work with me to adjust from there (if I need to add a coil to block some of the higher frequencies). The Stevens were $176 shipped which seems very reasonable for a higher quality driver. I also ordered the Metra harness and adapters for the Camaro.
I am adding a 150uF capacitor to the Sundown's mids. They actually claim they will play lower, but on the DIYmobile forum guys recommended cutting them off here.
Budget so far: $570 for everything. I did have some speaker wire, and heat shrink laying around and I am not counting that.
So we will see the results. Ultimate goal is to add an amp to power the fronts and a DSP and go active on all channels.
More on Steven's.
