Has anyone competed with a stock location speaker set up recently and done well? Just curious as to how well they did. What brands, car, electronics they used etc..

 

.... each year things change with cars so one years car may be better/ worse than the next. Bottom line if it sounds good from the factory it will be good for what your are looking to do. So good sounding cars out of the box...

Ford Edge
Mazda CX7
Honda civic/ accord
Acura TL
older 300C
Hyundai - don't recall the model or year but it had an upmarket factory system that was very good
Nissan sentra (base model) had drivers low and forward in door and they were essentially able to image like a good pair of kick panels, the fancy SE-R sucked
Impala

with external tweeters
Focus
CRX (really!!!)

 

Look at the www.mecacaraudio.com website and look at the street and stock classes which do basically what you are talking about. figure out what models seem to do best

 

john!!!! wat you doing on my site?!?!?!?!

 

I have used the stock door locations on all three of my honda civics with the tweets either mounted up on the dash firing at the windshield or in the sail panels on my current 2002 civic. I have competed in a number of shows in the last 3-5 years, mostly IASCA, and have always placed at least third. I took my 1990 civic to finals last year and placed 6 out of ten cars with that setup and would have placed alot higher if I didnt have issues with my installation. Im actually about to do a canton 3way setup in my 02' and am still going to utilize the stock door location for the midbass's because they work resonably well and because im tight on kickpanel space (manual car, big feet) im going to be doing on axis midrange pods on the dash and may still use the stock tweeter locations in the sail panels. So as you can see its definatley possible to use stock locations in some cars and a level of success, in my opinnion I think its best to give your stock locations a try before ever attempting more complex mounting locations because who knows maybe they will sound good they way they are.

 

IIRC James Chevrette competed with his Neon the first year using stock locations. I think he even went to finals.

 

my bmw had the best place mint so i saw no point