2001 Chevy Camaro Z28 Sony Stereo System Install - Light And Loud

The old speakers are pulled out, and Oneil runs his new wiring into the speaker holes. These are not cheapo butt connectors; they have a small negative clip and a large positive to connect to the speakers, and a high-quality Snap-On crimper is used to crimp them tight. Don't use a cheapo crimp tool or you'll end up paying for it later.

Oneil connects the new 6.5-inch Sony woofer and gets ready to install it...

...One great tech tip is his use of butyl rubber around the Sony speaker to not only hold the speaker in place better, but to create a better seal.

He installs four screws into the speaker perimeter--the butyl really seals it up. As these speakers will be using head unit amplification, the more efficient the speaker is, the better.

Here's a neat way to check the speaker connection: take any kind of battery with a positive and negative, strip the wires on the head unit side, and connect the positive wire to positive terminal, negative to negative. The speaker actually "fires" forward in the door, indicating that it is in phase. If it fires backwards, the wires aren't connected properly.

This speaker done, Paul slips the door panel back on and re-installs the lock indicator and all of the screws.

The ojesus clip (the unofficial nickname of wire retaining clips) goes onto the window crank, and the washer is put onto the spline. The crank simply slips on and is pressed into place. He does the driver-side speaker install exactly the same way.

The nice thing about the component speaker kit with a crossover is that it's matched to the Sony woofer's and tweeter's frequency ranges--all you have to do is wire it up. Paul crimps forked connectors to the door woofer wires, then attaches them to the crossover with a screwdriver. In our case, the left front speaker output from the head unit will go into the input of the crossover. He repeats the process for the right-side crossover.

Paul takes the old radio kit (black piece) and he puts the new sleeve from the Sony head unit in the kit. The four small tabs closest to the kit (two on top, two on bottom) are bent in to hold the kit securely.

The chassis simply slips into the sleeve and is held in place by two clips in the back.

This is the radio plug. The wires on the right are the four speaker wires (white is left front, gray is right front, green is left rear, and purple is right rear). He'll need the power, ground, battery (for memory when car is off), illumination, and amp turn-on wires. He won't need the power antenna lead or external mute.