2002 Silverado stereo suggestions

NaughtyLMnky Ty for the reply. Im not crazy about cutting foam out of the seat. I prefer not to mess with the integrity of the vehicle too much but, it does sound cool. It would retain the floor space. Im figuring when you sit in the seat of your friends truck you can feel that there is very little padding left right? Just curious but, doubtful I would go that route.

  forbidden , What size sub were you speaking of? Just one or two? That seems like a nice small box.  I know the solo baric is supposed to be like having a pair of the normal subs. I have two 10" kickers in my car and the bass is good.  As far as the amp goes I am assuming your talking about an amp that excepts hi level inputs?   I guess since the head only has 4 outputs I am going to have to run a couple of the factory speakers off the amp as well initially if I am gonna steal a set of its outputs. I have a feeling the factory speakers wont stay in long. I doubt they are gonna give the good quality sound I am looking for but, that shouldnt be a problem.  Thanks for your advice.  Im mainly hoping for some good ideas on how to do the sub while keeping my desires in my mind that I listed in the opening post.  Thanks alot guys

Boomer, almost but not quite right, One aluminum driver (10") will probably be way more than enough output for you, if you want 2, all the power to you. We built his box to sit under the center part of the back seat and come to the back of the front seat. The sub we used for him was an MB Quart premium 10", the box volume net was .775 cu.ft. It fit like a glove and sounds great. I wish he would have gone aluminum though, it would have embarrassed the Quart.

Now for the amp issue, all you need to do is connect the high level input wires from the amp to the speaker wires, you do not disconnect the speaker wires from the head to the speakers. All the high level input wires leads are doing is "sampling" the signal to convert it to a signal that can be amplified. It's a pretty easy task actually.

Nail down the sub for sure first and then we can get you started on which amp and how and where to put that box in.

I didn't get to sit on that seat myself but I was told it was still pretty comfortable.  I would also assume that he left as big of a layer of foam in there as possible but I would think you could notice the difference before and after.  I was also thinking that with a truck you usually don't utilize the back seat for passengers all too often.  At least I don't.  I know it probably wouldn't want to be something I would want to sit on for a long trip but those occurances would be few and far between. 

All of these are just my personal assumptions.  It probably really relies on how much you have to gut the inside of the seat. 

I am usually one for maintaining the integrity of the vehicles interior also but I am finding it harder and harder to find space for a decent install in trucks.  This the first truck I owned myself.

Thanks for your replies and time. It would be cool if you could mount to the bottom of the seat without cutting any foam but, Im not sure how you would do the enclosure. That would probably hang so low that you may as well just put it on the floor. 

forbidden I dont want to extend all the way to the front seat as that would block passenger leg room.  Im trying to keep in mind how small of a box a certain woofer can have while making a decision. You seem familiar with the eclipse alum cone. What would be the approx box size for a single 10"?  The smaller box the better but I dont want to totally sacrifice the bass performance rather Id like to find a happy medium. A kicker solo baric 10" is recommended for a min of .66 and a max of 1.0 Sealed.  Would the eclipse require larger?