Howdy again,
The Kickers you are thinking about to be honest I have never heard them powered up. To me they would make nice subs mounted infinite baffled in the front doors this would put more bass in your front stage. Check out the Kicker L7 10" or the 8” square sub you should be able to remove the med kid and it should fit but don't hold me to that I have never measured the space just make sure that you have an air tight seal between the sub and the mounting location...you can get them in dual 2 ohm(you could run it @ 1 or 4 ohms depending on how the sub is wired) voice coils or dual 4ohm (you could run it @ 2 ohms or 8 ohms) voice coil depending on your amp or amps load stability I run dedicated amps 1 class d mono amp to the subs and a multi channel to my components you could also build a small enclosure to mount directly under the sub that you mounted in the med kit area and make sure that this area is sealed directly under the sub and there you have your sub box. What amp or amps are you working? If you have a 4 channel amp for the front stage you could run your components and & the 8’s off each channel. The Kicker square could be run off dedicated amp for the rear?
This is how my system will be in my W123 once all the components get here and are installed Head unit Alpine CDA 9815 (don’t have yet) , Diamond Audio Hex 5.25’s (got them) and a pair of Digital Designs 6.5’s mids (got them) but are really bass speakers in the front powered by an A/D/S P840.2 8 (got it) channel amp all 8 channels of the amp will be used on the front stage, the rear subs are Resonant Engineering RE 8’s (will be here this week) they are single 2 ohm 8" subs they will be wired to a 4 ohm load powered by an XTANT 2200ix(got it) bridged to 1 channel for a 4ohm single channel putting out about 400 watts the amp has been bench tested to put out between 500/600 watts depending on voltage and even though it might be a little over kill cause it’s not a power house system maybe a Stinger1 farad capacitor.
*Suggestion it’s definitely worth paying to have a system professionally installed rather than taking the chance of burning up the components that cost us so much of our hard earned money…
Just my 2©ents
HogLeg
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