Is there a site that has a bunch of answers to questions.. like how to stuff? For example how to change the speakers in my car? When I bought my car it had an amp, an after-market head unit, and a sub.. but stock speakers.. my boyfriend happens to have speakers which would fit.. however, we haven't a clue how to get em in, lol He's installed speakers in other cars.. just not hondas...

If anyone knows where I can get this info, I'd appreciate it! Thank you!

 

I know you wanted a website...but if you're into doing stuff yourself on the car, pick up a manual from Helm (www.helminc.com). They might seem expensive....but they're the real-deal shop manual and will tell you pretty much how to take everything in your car apart if you needed to.

 

I'm not sure but I think you can download instructions from crutchfield.com. I'd check them out first for the speakers, and yes the Helm is a must for any other repairs.

 

Now that I see your Prelude is exactly the same style as mine, here's the deal on your speakers. The front door speakers are VERY shallow. To replace them with a bigger speaker magnet you need to remove the entire door pannel and cut and shave the surrounding plastic linning behind the speaker. DO NOT attempt to cut it out while the door pannel is on the door.... there are wires and plastic linning back there! You have one inch tweeters by the door locks, 6.5" door kick pannel, and 6"x9" in the back deck. Now, I think you better double check the installation of the previous owner, since the front speakers ran off the factory head unit amp, and the rears ran off an external amplifier in the back deck. Unless they bypassed it, the factory head operated the rear amp, so if they replaced the head, I don't know how they operated the rear speakers, unless their intent was to just use the sub and leave the rears dead. Now, if you are going to run new speakers off the aftermarket head, you will need to bypass the "Accoustic Feedback System". This post is starting to run on, so post with more explicit questions and I can help you out.

 

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thanks guys! i plan on doing something wiht the speakers when i get back from vacation. i'm going away from tues-saturday. so prolly the week after that or sometihng...

 

as a matter of fact, i was wondering how to bypass the acoustic feedback system... can you explain please? i wanted to put a new head unit in and i dont know how to bypass the acoustic feedback

 

There is a black box under the back deck, right behind the lock to release the seat back. The easiest way to do this is to check the color codes for the left and right rear speakers off the head unit. I don't know what they are, since I used RCA preouts of my aftermarket head unit to my amps, then just ran new speaker wire for my new speakers. But if you get the colors for the wires off the head unit, just look for those on the input side of the black box in the back deck. You can then just splice and tap in off of those right in to your speakers. You will need to replace the rear speakers, since they have a four input connector and a microphone to monitor clipping. THAT is what the Accoustic Feedback does..... when clipping is detected, the black box automatically adjusts the rear volume (bass, really) to prevent distortion and clipping. You can't just connect straight to the speakers since the microphone is part of the circuit. You'll see a little black spot on the speaker connector.