8" subs in rear speaker location 3 dr

[ludlamtheory]

Hello good people, brand new here. haven't even picked up my yaris yet, I get it thursday.

quick background: was the I.C.E. moderator at 7thgencivic.com for years, kinda disappeared from the audio world, but im back

Has anyone tried putting 8's in the rear speaker mounting location of the 3 door?

[wsladaritz]

I think I remember reading about someone doing that. Or at least talking about doing that. I put in some 6x9 but it's nothing like a professional install. It's my own custom work though :)

[yarisugi]

Looks possible, but probably need to find a way to support it and sound deaden behind because the sheetmetal on these cars are THIN!

[ludlamtheory]

there would definitely be some reinforcement, and either a sealed enclosure or the sealing off of the whole panel for an IB environment.

[YarisSedan]

http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28620

I put these in the rear deck of my sedan. Shouldn't be too difficult to modify to make them fit in the LB. Supposedly they have the same footprint of a 8" sub while utilizing the size of a 6x9. Although they are a bit larger than 6x9. Typical 6x9 opening requires a adapter plate for Toyota. Without the adapter plate this just barely fits in the opening with no clearance.

Expect horrible rattle afterwards though unless you dynomat the entire surrounding area.

[sqcomp]

The Image Dynamics ID8 should work well in that environment...

[ludlamtheory]

SQCOMP, I've actually got a pair of brand new peerless SLS 8's from an old project that never got finished.

In addition, the ID8 would limit me to 100-110 hz, where the SLS would allow me to go up higher. I'm gonna try to see how high I can run them without pulling the stage too far back. 150 - 200 hz maybe.

I'll be running the stock deck into a PPI DCX-730 processor I've got in a box somewhere. My line of work has me parking in questionable neighborhoods late at night so this will definitely be a stealth daily driver install.