You will love those Alpine Type-R 6.5's I had them in my Cherokee XJ.
I installed them in a little Saturn Sky with the correct 2 channel Alpine amp a couple of years ago. The sound was amazing when you match them with the correct power. My goal is to double that Saturn Sky installation (2X the power and 2X the speakers) in the Jeep.
Is there a noticeable difference in mid bass? Or any bass? I want to put 45 watts from an aftermarket radio to the 6.5 inch mids but have no clue what to buy. Stuck between 2 kicker 6.5 comprts for bass with an amp. Or 2 mid bass/ components from ct soundsContact Jerry at Showtime audio, I know he has already modified several of the pods. Tell him ed sent you, he did mine
random question, how much room is there in that dash to hide some micro amps. I am thinking of dome smaller AudioControl acm amplifiers....I gotta say it’s a huge difference and idk why alpine doesn’t switch those knee panels out from the video I saw but what a difference. I put infinity primus 6.5” speakers in and I could turn my factory radio all the way. Sounds like a full sound stage. Process was time consuming but not hard at all. Any rookie can do it. this was easy and well worth it. Metra gives you the instructions and a plug and play harness. If your considering it or want to do it I highly recommend it. I replaced 4 speakers so far all dash and the sound stage is really great!
I’d say maybe if there smaller. There is alot of unused space for the right mind On the drivers side idk about passenger and that’s a pretty big amp for the front to hide 3 different places. I would just put them all together in the cubby in the back. Theyd probably fit nicely bolted to the cover or even 2 way or glued. I have a 2 door. I would think with a 4 door you have a lot more options. A friend of mine has the metal cargo covers and he could’ve just popped all his music to the top of it and it would’ve been very clean. I can’t see much space for three 9 inch amps.
I've been watching this thread for about a year now, educating myself and doing every other mod on my Jeep for the last 6 months, kinda avoiding this one. After seeing all the work to disassemble the dash from your pictures I'm motivated now for another project. I just ordered the Metra JP-1014 pods and now starting to look at options for the 6.5" knee speakers. Looks like you only want to do this once in life, so I guess while I'm in there I'll go ahead and wire a new amp and AP4-CH41 R.2 components. I just got the hardtop off and its summertime, so probably will start buying the rest of the more expensive parts over several months and do the actual install when it gets cold again. Looking forward to the challenge and great sound improvements when it's done.
Honestly. I’m 23. Never worked on a Jeep. Only Honda’s. This is easier to pull apart and do. I do recommend a open end 7mm wrench. There’s 4 philips style bolts that where a pain in the ass to get out simply because there in a tight spot. There’s one on each side panel/ bottom of dash and one right next to the obd2 port. Same for passenger side. Would be the only way I found to remove those 3-4 bolts. Other then that a 8mm socket short. 10mm socket short. 13mm socket with about a 6 inch extension. 2 pry tools and about an hour of time and enough space to open both doors. Make sure you polyfill the enclosure as it does make a slight difference. Other then that it sounds great. With an amp even better. Think you’ll be happy. It’s really easy to do just time consuming. It’s not hard at all it took me 2 hours to do cause it was raining and I had to keep stopping untill it slowed. If not I’d give it an hour max. And once you have the speakers in you can always just run an amp to it easily after the wires extend pretty far out
Wish I could chime in. Never dealt with any of that. I’m straight aftermarket. I would check the fuses to the headunit. That would be your initial startup power and first in your wiring setup.
Did you have to modify the 4 inch speaker mount, in the rollbar, to fit the Kicker 44KSC404, or did they just fit in?
