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Originally Posted by Andrew4Bama
Now, I just have to decide where to mount them...
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I highly suggest NOT mounting the rear tweeters anywhere near a rear passenger's ear. I also highly suggest NOT mounting them high up on the doors...been there, done that. Here's the problem: High up near somebody's ear and they'll tell you to turn your radio off so they can hear a conversation. High on the door and they'll be closer to your front seats than the front speakers are, ruining the sound stage. High on the rear doors also creates another problem that I became annoyed with. When you fold your rear seats down to haul stuff (which I do often), the seats obscure the woofer location and make the unobstructed tweeter output more prominent. I ended up turning the gain way down on my rear channels to maintain a reasonable sound stage.
The solution in my current install is coaxially mounted "separates."
JL Audio C5-525x Evolution Car Audio Speakers
Don't go any larger than 5.25" in the rear unless you want to do some serious fabrication work. Here are pictures of my JL C5s in custom brackets. I used one adapter plate and three spacer rings to clear the window when it's rolled down. Then I had to trim both the spacer rings and the inside of the door pocket to make it fit. You can find adapter plates all over the internet for just about every car imaginable...except a 3rd Gen 4Runner. The stock adapters would not accomodate the basket on the rear of my JLs, so I had to build these. Luckily I found a store on eBay for these 4 brackets and glued them all together with PVC glue. Perhaps if you purchased shallow mount speakers you could get away without the spacer rings.
Good luck with your install. And I second the previous motion that an amplifier will also do wonders for your tunes.
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