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Originally Posted by turbojimmy

I went to Wal*Mart out of desperation. None of the big A/V type stores had 3.5" speakers (Circuit City, PC Richard). Wal*Mart was the only place that had them, but at $6.47 each I may as well just leave an empty hole in the dash (they have to sound awful).

I looked up my Kenwoods online. It turns out that they were cheap ($20 a pair, which approaches Wal*Mart quality). I don't need an audiophile-quality system in the car - the stock 4 speaker locations are fine - but it does need to be loud enough to hear over all the vibrations, rattles and Magnaflow mufflers. So I ordered a pair of Boston Acoustics speakers. They were a little more than I wanted to spend, but it's tough to find a 2-way without a tweeter that extends past the top of the speaker thus interfering with the trim that goes over top of them. The Boston Acoustics look like they stick up a little bit but probably not enough to matter (much). Crutchfield's fitment guide said none of their 3.5" speakers would fit, but then again they didn't even show the dashboard as a location.

Jim

Yea, im up in the air as to what direction I want to go with my sound system to. Looks like those new lower door panels will be ready soon and a set of 6.5 w/tweeters will fit in there. That should do the trick.

The sky is the limit with sound systems but if the car is a street car I think id rather choose to spend a few extra dollars for some great sound considering I will likely have the car for years to come. Two each his own tho.

The problem with these cars is there is quite a bit of cubic air space to move in the interior and trunk. With a VW GTI one could get away with an average system cause it's tiny inside and the trunk is the interior but when an interior as large as it is with our cars I think one needs to consider that if they want their system to sound good.