Greeting and salutations o worthy followers of the Scoobynet!

I have a question that I was too embarassed to ask since the day I joined the forum! . . . When I bought my CAR, first thing I did was install a Boy Racer Stereo (a JVC with cartoons graphics and the rest of it!) . .Few months down the line installed a some boy racer ALPINE spekers 4 x 200w . . .Playing and modifying the ICE system is a really slippery slope - especially as I love my chuwns!

I am now considering installing an AMP and a subwoofer!

Just the following questions please. . . . .

1) Will taking this course of action make me/my car chavy>

2) On a more serious note . .I have no experience in this field so have to ask what is good to get and at a resonable price! (will it make my car go faster???) . .Is this generally a good idea as i hear unconfirmed story's of subwoofers having a bad effect on the structure of the car as its being pounded by low frequency's

Many thanks!

 

Firstly, installing a sub wont damage the car at all. The only affect it will have is weigh the car down.

Now, on what to buy? It all depends on your preferance, personaly id go for a 10" sub with a sutable amp top power it, this would give plenty of bass with out being over the top. Sony do good subs without being expencive. I hope this helps you a little.

 

An amp will make your other speakers work a lot better too. I've never bothered with a sub, but do have a decent 4 channel phoenix gold amp driving the front door speakers (nice Kenwood dual mags) plus some infinity components I installed in the rear shelf. Obviously doesn't get the bass of a good sub, but it's more than enough to sound very nice with plenty enough bass at more than loud enough.

Invest in some dynamat / dynamat Xtreme too, will stop the areas around the speakers / sub flexing and massively improves the sound.

 

Cheers for that guys!

Also my wrx Uk300 has front tweeters from the factory . .these worth replacing? And when you say the Sub will add a bit of weight, are we obvoiusly talking negligible ammounts . . .

But could someone explain to me the idea of a base tube v b.box please , and which one is better . . . . . .

 

1) Will taking this course of action make me/my car chavy> Of course not

2) On a more serious note . .I have no experience in this field so have to ask what is good to get and at a resonable price! (will it make my car go faster???)

 

I have a 10" sub in the back of mine in a box (from bass junkies I think) that's just big enough for it. You'll see some about with a pair of 12" subs in a huge enclosure, but having had 1st hand experience of this in my 'yoof' know it's not necessary to get a good sound. It depends if you're going for sound quality at a more than adequate sound level or are thinking about entering an SPL competition!

I'd recommened moving / reposting this question in the ICE section as you're likely to get more responses.

Good luck.

 

Replacing the front door speakers in their entirety with a nice component set is by far the best way to go, if you're using standard tweeters with upgraded bass units (or any other brand of woofer) you'll potentially have a mis-match between the two parts.

If you've got the Alpine bass units in the door, I'd recommend going with some matching alpine tweeters and alpine cross-overs, and that will make a serious difference

 

As you joined in Aug05 I presume you have a WRX300 not a UK300.?

Anyway, here's what I did to my WRX300:
http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=478600

Rich

 

Thanks a lot guys . .Will be looking in to that! . .And lets not be pedantic . .WRX300 UK300 . . Whatever!

 

me, pedantic.....never

WRX300....UK300 - different cars, different years (05 vs 01), therefore maybe a different recommendation.
e.g. I'm still using the factory fit tweeters from my WRX300 in my new setup, but that will mean nothing to you if you have a UK300.

Just trying to be helpfull.

So what DO you have then...?

Rich

 

guys,

do you need to change the standard speaker cable as well or can you litterately just drop new speakers in?

 

Rich . . .

I mean, I hear what yr saying , but WRX 300 uk300 . . I mean who cares . . . . . Its BLUE, its got gold wheels and its quick . . . To answer the next question - as far as I know they just dropped the new speakers in , and no rewiring done!

Regards

 

You don't need to change the standard speaker cable unless you're running a fancy active cross-overed set-up. However, if you're putting in a nice set-up, you might just find that it is worthwhile fitting better speaker cable to improve the sound.

If you mount an amp, you will need to run speaker cable from the amp to somewhere - be it to join with the "original" speaker cable just behind the head unit, or directly to the speakers (the secon option being prefereable to my mind)

You DO need to run new cable if you're fitting a sub, obviously, as there is no existing sub wiring!