Well, those of you that read the build log know of he troubles I've had with my system and car. Combine that with the fact that we traded the Jeep in on the wife's new G35 and I'm left with nothing to haul stuff in. The decision has been made to sell my car and get a truck. The bad news on that is that I like driving my little go-kart and I'll miss it. The good news is that I'll finally have a truck again, I get to start from scratch on the system (some things will carry over and thus the point of this thread which I'll get to in a minute) and I'm getting a G37 at the end of the year to fill the performance car void left by by the departure of the SRT-4.

Now to the point...

I'm removing all the nice stuff currently in the car and I need to replace it with other stuff. I'm pretty much decided on the amp. hifisounconnection has the Kicker ZX550.3 on eBay for $230ish shipped. That will power the whole system and not limit me to a 4 ohm sub like a normal 4 channel amp would. What I'm looking for now is a set of components and a 2ohm final load sub on the cheap. They're not for me per se though I'll have to live with them for a time so they can't be total ass. I'm looking for cheap here. I need the comps to be 6.5". The sub can be a 10 or 12 but needs to work well in a small sealed enclosure and get fairly loud (target market for selling the car in mind). Known brands are also a plus so I don't have to try to convince some kid looking at the car that the speakers and subs are good. I'm considering putting 6x9s in the back and getting a 5 channel amp as well thinking about the target market, but I'll probably just stick with the front stage and sub for cost reasons.

I'm going to go pretty hard core on the install, again target market. The sub will be glassed into the rear corner of the trunk (small sealed enclosure). The amp will be mounted along the opposite trunk wall with a fiberglass trim panel flushing it in. I'm leaving the current HU in the car (cause I hate it). The front speakers will be going in the pods I already have built. The tweets will go in the pillar pods if they fit and in the corner of the dash if they don't fit in the pods I already have. I'm seriously considering just leaving the Eurosports in there since I have a full set of the new Gold series for the truck already.

I'm looking for ideas and suggestions. Think "mass market" rather than the net brands that we normally talk about. I want to get what I need ordered in the next week so I can get to work, get the car sold and get the truck, and then get to work on the real system.

Well, those of you that read the build log know of he troubles I've had with my system and car. Combine that with the fact that we traded the Jeep in on the wife's new G35 and I'm left with nothing to haul stuff in. The decision has been made to sell my car and get a truck. The bad news on that is that I like driving my little go-kart and I'll miss it. The good news is that I'll finally have a truck again, I get to start from scratch on the system (some things will carry over and thus the point of this thread which I'll get to in a minute) and I'm getting a G37 at the end of the year to fill the performance car void left by by the departure of the SRT-4.

Now to the point...

I'm removing all the nice stuff currently in the car and I need to replace it with other stuff. I'm pretty much decided on the amp. hifisounconnection has the Kicker ZX550.3 on eBay for $230ish shipped. That will power the whole system and not limit me to a 4 ohm sub like a normal 4 channel amp would. What I'm looking for now is a set of components and a 2ohm final load sub on the cheap. They're not for me per se though I'll have to live with them for a time so they can't be total ass. I'm looking for cheap here. I need the comps to be 6.5". The sub can be a 10 or 12 but needs to work well in a small sealed enclosure and get fairly loud (target market for selling the car in mind). Known brands are also a plus so I don't have to try to convince some kid looking at the car that the speakers and subs are good. I'm considering putting 6x9s in the back and getting a 5 channel amp as well thinking about the target market, but I'll probably just stick with the front stage and sub for cost reasons.

I'm going to go pretty hard core on the install, again target market. The sub will be glassed into the rear corner of the trunk (small sealed enclosure). The amp will be mounted along the opposite trunk wall with a fiberglass trim panel flushing it in. I'm leaving the current HU in the car (cause I hate it). The front speakers will be going in the pods I already have built. The tweets will go in the pillar pods if they fit and in the corner of the dash if they don't fit in the pods I already have. I'm seriously considering just leaving the Eurosports in there since I have a full set of the new Gold series for the truck already.

I'm looking for ideas and suggestions. Think "mass market" rather than the net brands that we normally talk about. I want to get what I need ordered in the next week so I can get to work, get the car sold and get the truck, and then get to work on the real system.

Maybe look into something like an MTX7500, or a Kicker CVX.

nG

6.5s why not alpines from best buy, or infinity. I agree w/ ngsm on kicker, CC has some cheap kicker stuff. What about a JL W0 or W3? I think you can get those cheap and your "target market" thinks JL means its great no matter what model it is.

Is there something on the SSA shop I can help out with?