Right. So, i did not have a lot of cash to spare after picking up this vehicle on the spur of the moment... but music is important to me, and my best places to listen to music have always been my cars. So I gathered together all of my leftover components, which comprised a few older amplifiers, a pair of smaller speakers (6" Kenwood mids), lots of wiring... and then stopped by the wreckers.

The wreckers is one of my favorite all-time places. "Why the wreckers for stereo components???!!" you ask.... Well... it is a great source for tweeters. Car manufacturers have been making component setups for their cars for quite some time. Tweeters are fairly common, and are virtually always undamaged. They can be found in various shapes and mounting locations. I picked out two pairs of tweeters that were mounted in fairly compact mounting cups that could hold their own as an external-mount speaker. I made sure that I also took their crossovers.

The tweeters went into the front doors accompanied by a pair of 6" Kenwood mids I had kicking around for a few years, and the other tweeters went in either wall about mid-vehicle.

Then I kept my eyes open over several days and finally stumbled on some cheap but attractive 6x9's, these happened to be from Walmart. They are Dual, and each come with low-draw LED lights. I grabbed 3 pairs of them. I also added a new amp for $130.

The van came with 5 factory speakers, and a JVC CD/Ipod deck. I added three pairs of 6x9's, four tweeters, and the two Kenwood mids. Seventeen speakers in total. All speakers are installed in existing body panels, as to not lose any cargo space.

I wanted to install a 6x9 in the sliding door, but needed to get the power and connection into it somehow... I realized that that door was getting power for the door lock when it is closed, so I looked and sure enough there is a male-female connection which mates up when the door closes. I picked up two sets of similar connections from the wrecker, one for the speaker leads and one for the illumination wiring, and with some minor cutting and drilling they went in. The 6x9 required a custom spacer to allow it to fit in the shallow door, and also allow to door to fully slide open and safety-lock in both open and shut positions (it has to slide outside the qrtr panel, remember!). The spacer is made from a hard rubber "Rubbermade" bucket which I sacrificed for the occasion . This wedge shape allows clearance of about 3mm from the qrtr panel when the door is fully open, and touching the rubber seal when the door is closed! Then I piggybacked the tweeter and installed it in the qrtr panel just past the door.

I did not want any speaker boxes or extra enclosures or loss of cargo space to the interior, and I wanted to utilize as much natural resonating space between the exterior and the interior as possible. So I built a watertight pvc box that hangs under the van just the same way the battery does next to the battery, and ported it into the cabin under the carpet, in which the amps are located.

I left the 5 factory speakers in place powered by the JVC deck.

 Two 6x9's went into the back hatch with some more hard rubber 2" spacers (cut from two more Rubbermade pails ).

 Another 6x9 went into the right rear qrtr panel opposite the jack and service tools on the left side, partnered with the 6x9 in the sliding door.

The final pair of 6x9s went along the floor on the right side opposite the sliding door. Here also is the port into the amp box:

 Here is one of them installed, above which sits a piggybacked tweeter.

For not having any subs in here, it really thumps inside, but not enough to be obnoxious outside.

This vehicle really gets used, so if anything gets banged up, it is cheap and replaceable.