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Originally Posted by Bonestock
I got all the new speakers mounted tonight. Sorry no pics... I caught a nasty cold and didnt feel like taking time to snap off some pics. I will get some of the tweets I installed in the stock location... thats easy! LOL
Anyway if and when my WRX HU ever arrives I am curious how to connect the crossover to the front component speakers. Here is my crazy half-baked plan:
Using the adapter harness, cut the wires between the WRX radio and SVX connector for the front speakers/tweeters (if they have separate wires). Attach the radio side wires to the input of the crossover and the "woofer" side to the 6 1/2's. Then, if there are separate wires for the stock tweets, connect them to the "tweeter" wires on the SVX side form the crossover. If not I will have to run dedicated wires from the new tweets. I was thinking of zip tieing the crossovers up under the dash somewhere or even in the center console.
Seems simple enough? LOL I hope so! Why go this route? I really dont feel like trying to run dedicated speaker wire into the doors since the stock wires are already in place.
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Are you talking about a passive crossover as in a unit that separates the signal for the front speakers into the high for the tweeters and the low for the woofers in the door? If so, here's how it's set up in my car:
left side: The stock wiring takes the signal to a 4-channel amp in the trunk. The output from the amp goes back to the wiring where the head unit is and connects to the original wire that used to lead to the speaker in the door. Instead of attaching directly to the speaker, it connects to the crossover, which chills there taped inside the door. The woofer is right there, so it's wired up easily. The tweeter is trickier. The wires from the tweeter run down into the door, where they connect to the crossover. I'm sure that this was a PITA for whoever did it, since you have to run the wires through that little bendy rubber tube that connects the door electricals to the rest of the car.
The right side is similar, except that the line from the amp to the crossover doesn't use the stock wiring at all; I ran new wiring because there was a short or something and the amp would go into "protect" mode whenever you turned the volume up too high. Had to use a coat hanger and my whole arsenal of 4-letter words to get the wires into the door.
I would advise to either be careful not to mess up any existing wiring, or just bypass it altogether with wires that go through safe places. Because I have an airbag light occasionally, which is intermittent, probably to a short or something. Guess where the airbag unit is? Right up under the head unit, where there are tons of "bonus wires" and other junk left behind by whoever originally installed the original system. Electrical tape does NOT cover all sins. Do it right or at least don't f*** it up too.