I've got a 97 Civic EX and was wondering if there was any kind of crossover system incorporated in for the tweeters in the apillars and the mids in the doors.

 

yes, a passive (in the form of the capacitor) is inline with the tweeter

 

Do you have any idea what kind of slope/cutoff freq I should expect with this? Thanks for the help.

 

slope should be -6dB/octave - very shallow...for the cutoff frequency you would have to actually find out what rating the cap is (in Farads (F)) and then use a site like www.bcae1.com to determine the crossover point

There's no real need to re-use this though - any comp set you get will have a passive with it...

 

The problem I'm having is that I'm going to get a set of horns pretty soon and only have one amp right now, which im going to use for my mids, and no active crossover. I need a temporary fix, until I get a second amp and a crossover, so I don't screw up the diaphram, but I don't think a 6 db slope is gonna cut it.

 

What set of horns?

That will not cut it, and I wouldn't recommend horns on passives anyway. You could build custom passives, but there's no point. The only passives I would use is if you had the CD1e's from ID and you picked up the matching CS.x crossovers (or what ever they are called).

Otherwise, don't waste your time...

 

I'm going to get some cd1e minis, and I am most likely going active once I get the gear, but there is still that small chance I will use the passives from the component set from ID... but, the plan right now is definitely active, just need a small amp for the horns and the actual crossover. A set of Phaze Audio 6.5" mids are on the way right now, hopefully the two will match well. Thanks for the help man.

 

this is what you need:

http://forum.elitecaraudio.com/showt...hreadid=100235

 

Umm doesn't the cd1e have an internal high pass. From id site:

"Utilizing a an internally high-passed ceramic element compression driver the CD1E has an impressive 97 dB 1W/1M efficiency combined with 100 watts RMS power handling the CD1E.."

Or is it just want to run it as a component set?

 

yes, you are right, the CD1e is internally high passed, but he wanted to run both horns and mids off of one amp channel - this would allow him to do it while letting the crossover gain down the signal to the horns so that the two blend well together...