Motors New Car - Audio System? (Interior Pics)

We just picked up a '93 Mustang 5.0 LX a few days ago. Everything is stock and in perfect condition (hard to find in a 93 foxbody these days), and the speakers sound pretty good, but I was thinking about a couple smaller-sized woofers in the back just to give it a little deeper bass. I've been looking around, and there is a lot of expensive stuff out there, but I'd like to keep it around a $200 price range. I figured that isn't much but it might buy a decent system.

I looked at this package and it seems really inexpensive. I haven't had any experience with car audio systems so help me out here. Also, do you think I'd be able to install some equipment myself...how difficult are these kind of installations...?

Pictures, btw:





I'll get some shots of the interior soon.

 

i'll give you the two sight i live by for car audio.
http://store.teptronics.com/index.html
and
http://www.etronics.com/index.asp
with teptronics being the one i like better i find their shipping to be a bit better and i love their service.
and 2x smaller subs. 6" inchers 10.99 each. http://store.teptronics.com/pw677.html
and a amp to go with them
2 channel 240watt http://store.teptronics.com/la120.html 24.99.

those prices more what you were looking for?

 

Thanks for the reference. I'll take a look at them.

 

Some new pictures of the 11-year-old interior ...





Just to get an idea of the room in the back for woofers.

 

from experence (i have a 96 ford contour) that has the same stereo

throw the factory unit away as soon as you can my speakers are stock

but with the factory system they sounded like sh#t

but when i put new head unit in and it gives new life to the stalk speaker system it sounds great it has more bass

 

My advice is not to buy really cheap car audio.

Those links woodshop posted are very poor indeed.

My advice if you want to spend morre is get a CD player headunit.

Get a decent set of 6 or 6.5 inch mid bass up front.

Use a four channel amplifier and run the front channel 1 and 2 to the mid bass and tweeters.

Then get a decent subwoofer and bridge the channels 3 and 4 to the subwoofer.

Simple and decent.

Try looking on www.crutchfield.com and www.sounddomain.com

 

Whats wrong with the gear stick it looks like its come completely off and is just flapping to one side.

 

If you are looking for a cheap subwoofer then it will be very hard to beat a AdireAudio Shiva.

There are good efficent woofers that do not cost the earth.

http://www.adireaudio.com/mobile_audio/drivers/shiva.htm

The Shiva at around $125 is a solid performer.

http://www.acoustic-visions.com/~acoustic/products/subwoofer_drivers/by_brand.shtml

Then spend as much as you can on an 2 channel amplifier.

With 250-350 WRMS to a Shiva gives a good sounding bass system which will get pritty loud.

 

i saw pyramid linked agian

ffs will people stop linking to crap audio, sony sounds better than pyramid, heck the 9 year old blown OEm door speaker in my rover sounds better than pyramid

spend the mone on a good headunit, then spend on some good speakers, then spend on a 4ch amp then spend on a sub

and dont think scrimping is going to help, its better to spend the money and get good kit than cheap tat

i mean ffs a 6inch sub for 10.99 i bet it barely passes as a midbass driver and im not syaing a damn word on legacy

 

OT but

http://store.teptronics.com/shopbycompany1.html

woohahahahahaha
pyle
rockwood (not fosgate)
pyramid
legacy

please tell em americans dont buy these oversized doorstops and use them

 

Never even knew you could get 6" subs????

 

No it's in neutral.

I think the first thing I'll do is buy a new head unit, for sure (since I need a CD player anyway). By the way, I was planning to spend a LOT more than $11 for a sub, lol. Anyway, I'll have to see how much better a new CD receiver will sound with the stock system; then I should make my decisions from there. I'd like to get a simple but decent one, preferably black to match the interior, and mp3 CD playback is a plus.

 

yep JL do one
focal do a 5 inch sub

and they are propper subs

diamond, crystal, RE, JL and i think another make do 8inch subs

 

I take that back, it was in 1st.

 

was gonna say if that was in neutral then some one has either ripped out first ir the gearbox is mounted at a really dodgy angle

 

It is still angled even in neutral; that's just how it is.

 

don't you just love manuel transmissions
my car is an automatic ohwell
i drove manuel for a while evey now and then when im driving i try to use the clutch and there is none

relax man i don't think the guy wants to compete in sound compititions
i think he just wants some decent sounding music i thought the ford speakers in my car were crap till i changed the head unit

get a decent head unit and if it still doesn't sound good then you can proceed with subs amps ect. and even if the new head unit doesn't improve the sound (because of the speakers) you will still have a better start



just remember when you start with crap no matter what you add to it it will still be crap

 

me personally i wouldn't go with any thing less than a 10'' sub

i have an 8'' sub in my home audio system it pumps you can see its pumping but there ain't alot of bass coming out

 

you ahve yet to come across a sub like the resonat engineering 8 inch or the crystal 8inch or the diamond 8inch

trust me small 8 inch subs can get silly loud and silly low (two of the crystal 8 inch subs shift as much air as a crystal 15inch woofer)

 

yeah probly cost a pretty penney to

the 8" sub i have was just a cheap $19.00 sub i got from wal-mart at the rime i didn't have mutch money and i needed some cheap bass for my home