Title says it. Has anyone put subs in our doors? Just curious wondering if it will work. Never really tore into the doors to see how much space there is. I'm a big guy stuffed in a small truck. I used to have a 1600 watt 10" sub and 1000 watt amp but I got tired of cramming myself in side of my toy. So just curious on some compact sub ideas. I'm rollin without a system.

 

Would be way too much vibrations!!!
Also subs require a given size of space ( volume), to sound correct!

 

That is true. Much space is needed. And vibrations would make it sound crappy.

 

You can definitely do 5.25 or 6.5 subs in the doors, it'll be heavy with all the deadening and material of course. Check out dd audio 6.5in woofer, they can use as little as .33 cubes and fit tight spaces

SW6.5 | DD Audio

 

I had an 8" bazooka in front of the passenger side of the bench of my 78. It sounded pretty good for what it was.

 

My best advice for you would be to swap to bucket seats and make a center console box. Putting subs in the door will not work.

You could get really squirrely and do a blow through.

 

In my 77 I have a kenwood 8" under my bench on the passenger side and it hits pretty hard!

 

On the doors of my Explorer, I coated both the interior door surfaces and the outer part (under the door panels) with Herculiner and then coated both interior and outer with double layers of Dynamat Extreme. I was surprised at how well it deadened the doors and killed the rattles. It really improved the sound of the stock 6x8's as well. Not sure if it would stiffen up the doors enough for a sub, but you could try it.

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These guys seem to have a bunch of smaller (sub-8-inch) woofers and subs, but I'm sure other places would have them too.

 

Maybe something like this:

Tang Band W69-1042J 6"x9" Subwoofer | 264-837

Or this, but they look pretty deep for doors.

http://www.parts-express.com/tang-band-w6-1139si-6-1-2-subwoofer--264-832

 

+1 on that raylcc, partsexpress has good stuff at a real good deals, in my opinion, you could spend less there than at a car audio shop and have a better sound system.

 

I finally just put some 200 watt 4" speakers in my dash. There never has been any speakers in the dash since I've owned the truck. Sounds really good now.

 

I have kicker 8" midbass in the lower door, sound pretty good. There crossed over at 80 to 250, great midbass.

 

Iv had four 15s in mine an 6.5 in doors but mine extended cab

 

I envy people with extended cabs.

 

I had two RF Fosgate 8" DVC in the storage compartment under the jumper seat and it sounded very good. There are rattling due to thin sheet metal, but only if turn up very loud. It was a project in car audio class which was pretty cool.