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Quick question My girl is gonna buy me 2 sets of speakers for my new stereo project and I just wanted to amke sure that the alpine type-R 6.5" speakers will fit both the front and the sail panel. Thanks for the help!!!
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They will fit and they are a good choice for the doors (assuming you have a Camaro). They're not as good a choice for the sail panels unless you do some wiring modification. The sail panel subs get a low filtered signal from the amp so the tweeters of your Alpine coaxials will do exactly nothing. Also, the Alpines aren't the most efficient speakers and you would be replacing 2-ohm subs with 4-ohm coaxials so you will lose output volume. This is relatively easy to fix if you don't care about having hatch speakers - just disconnect the hatch speakers and run the wires forward to the sail panels for your new speakers. The hatch speakers get a full range signal on 4-ohm channels so you should get pretty good sound that way. You won't really need the little 4" hatch speakers because you'll have full range sound right behind you from the new speakers.
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i actually dont have the back hatch speakers cuz i have the v6 bird without the monsoon. ne recommendations as to which speakers to use in the sail panels?
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Oh, in that case the Alpines will work fine in both locations. On the W53 option standard audio system all the speakers run directly off the head unit and they all get full range signal (not filtered like a Monsoon system). The factory rear speakers are 10-ohm so you will probably have to adjust your radio fader to keep the 4-ohm replacements from being too loud behind you.
