Does any one have a diagram of how the Monsoon system was wired? I want to hook up some aftermarket speakers in the door panel but there are 4 wires coming out of the factory speakers. I want to know if your suppose to hook up all 4 wires to the aftermarket or just 2 of thgem????? Anyone who can help please do so. I have already posted this in the stereo forum but no one has aswered me.

 

You can't run aftermarket speakers with the Monsoon system.

 

That's not really true, you can run aftermarket speakers but you really need to understand how the Monsoon system works. First off, the stock Monsoon speakers are all 2 ohm, whereas most aftermarket ones are 4 ohm. So replacing the door speakers will do two things: 1) reduce the volume coming from those speakers which will 2) cause an imbalance in the front/rear soundfield. Also, there are actually 2 seperate speakers in each door, a tweeter and a mid, and they receive power from seperate sources. The mid receives power from the Monsoon amp, while the tweeter receives power from the head unit. Most aftermarket component speakers (two piece) are set up with a crossover box to receive power froma single source, but can run with independent sources like this. If you are trying to install a single replacement full range speaker, the only way I can really think of to do it and make it work would be to use the leads that went to the factory tweeter (the ones coming off the head unit) as I believe the leads for the mid (from the Monsoon amp) are filtered to provide only a limited audio range. However, I'm really not sure how this would sound, but if you are up for experimenting, you could try it.

 

http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=105043
http://www.houston-f-body.org/tech/monsoon/Schem1.htm

 

Thanks for the linkies...got a new project!