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Anyone have 3-way component speakers up front?

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I was wondering if anyone was running a 3-way component system in the front doors of their Av. I am currently running an older Kicker Resolution 6.5 component set in the front and I am dismayed by its lack of midbass output. The set I have is from the year before they went to the metal deposit cones. Anyway, I bought a kicker 4" resolution midrange off of ebay yesterday and I plan to get a Kicker 6.5 midbass to pair with it. I plan to hook the 4" up with my current R25 tweeter and crossover and run that with 50W per side. Then I want to use the other currently untapped channels of my amp to run the midbass speakers with 50W each. Does anyone have any ideas for mounting a 6.5 midbass, a 4" midrange, and a 1" tweeter in the doors? I would like to be able to do it without permantently damaging the doors so I could put the old crappy stereo back when I resell it, but I also want it to look and sound it best. Any ideas are appreciated.

I am also tossing around the idea of buiilding a completely new crossover for the 3-way system so that I could present two 4-ohm loads to the 4 channel amp. That way I could get 200W x 2 instead of 50x4. But I dont know if sound quality would suffer at the lower impedence. Thanks!
 
G ot the junk yard and get some door panels. This is what I have done in the past. I will be adding some new door speaker in a couple of weeks. I want 2 6 1/2 drivers in the front doors so I might be lookin for some door panels myself. I would do some fiberglass work but I don't want the speakers to be seen.

Sound quality should not suffer at all, just don't blow your speakers.
 
I have the JL XR 653's in my front doors. No tweeter pod in the 02's so all 3 are in the door.. They sound Great (y)
 
Thanks!. The 02 doors were built differently? I was thinking that I could maybe fit the 4" in the location where the tweeter pod is by cutting it round and then relocate the tweeter elsewhere. I still want to keep it in the door though for better imaging. I saw a post a few weeks back where someone had made custom moldings for the doors. Does anyone know where this was? Thanks.
 
Nice job.. But you can't use the midgate...I have a Huge system and can still use the midgate.. My JL amps are in the rear doors...
 
Cool grillwork, Topperge. Did you do that yourself? Do you still have the molds?
 
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