Finishing the speakers in the 4runner and the project is slowly expanding from various "might-as-wells". I have some old amplifiers laying around from a pre-previous truck I used to show and Id like to use them in the 4runner since their just taking up closet space,

but Dang.... theres no friggin place to put them, so that theyre completely outta the way (I refuse to have a box in the cargo area) , mostly hidden, and still get good air circulation, and capable of putting up with offroad abuse.

Where do all you guys mount yours ?

 

Plenty of room under seats.

 

front seats ? looked under there....


I have room for one small amp under the Driver side, and no room under the passenger side due to the heater back in there. bummer.

no circulation that I can see under the pass. rear seat if I took out the jack, even then thats a small space too.

 

mounted to a piece fo plywood which is then mounted to the back of the seats, and then put the subbox in front of it

 

I mounted one under the drivers seat, and the other behind the left rear cargo panel. I removed the plastic box from the back side of the panel to make more room.

 

I also hear some people putting them back in the rear side panel cargo space and putting a grill over it to provide ventilation.

I am considering taking off the door of it and building a combo sub enclosure/amp mount that will not intrude into the cargo area.

 

Not a 3rd gen, but the idea is universal.



From the rear, you can hardly see them.



With my tinted windows, you can not see the amps from the side glass at all.
They get plenty of air this way, and if I ever have the need to tweak the settings, they are easy to get to.

They are simply bolted with lock nuts and washers to the stock fiberboard in the seatbacks.
Plenty of hard jolting in the mountains, and not one has worked loose.

 

Under the driver's seat like you mentioned, and I relocated my jack from under the rear passenger seat and put my sub amp there. Obviously there is almost no circulation back there so you need a quality amp that does not need lots of circulation. My JL 250/1 fits with room to spare and I have never had an issue with it. Other than that, I would mount them in a custom enclosure (mucho spare time needed to make) and mount them agains the drivers side cargo wall. This would save your cargo space, allow you to still lay your rear seats down for large items and hide all the wires nicely.

 

I need to take a picture of the 12" sealed enclosure I glassed-in and MDFd behind the body panel, I think you might be inspired. I Removed the storage door and the storage box behind it, and glassed all through the body forward to the top of the wheel wells and the rear seatbelt mech, to right up to where the plastic interior panel meets up. Then, built a flush outer panel and flushmount trim ring, but I still need to vinyl it all up to make it purty , I just put the last layer of glass on this morning.

Result is a flush mounted, 14 inch circle that bulges (like sticking your face through panty hose) from the passenger side rear panel. Sticks out less than 2" from the panel itself. Gives just over 1.20ft^3 which is acceptable for this speaker.

I already had the 12" laying around else I woulda used a 10", If Id used a 10, Id have had room to mount a small amp with it and done it different.

The amps Im trying to fit in (somewhere, anywhere outta the way, in this 4runner), are old HiFonics series VII Zeus (600w) and Olympus (440w) and theyre like 18 inches long, each. These were decent amps a decade ago. lol

Already scoped out the Driver side rear panel, might be able to fit "one" there. If I put in some micro fans in that spot under the passenger rear seat will be a close fit for a small amp.


Keep the responses coming in......

 

Put them on the back of the sub box....

OR take a hack saw underneath your rear passenger seat and fit on in there like li_runner mentioned. I took a good chunk out of it to fit a couple Pioneer brains. The first picture shows the 2 units I placed on top of each other under the passenger rear seat. The second picture is them both in place:

 

I pretty much did wat sdastg1 stated. I built a mini wall and vinyled it. mounted it on the wall btw the rear seats and the cargo cover thing. It doesnt move and it'll take like an hour + to try to take it out. Heres a pic hope it helps