Need Stereo Help, new and stumped Options

[TrdKing]

Ok I went and picked up some 6 1/2" speakers for my celica and came home only to find out about the front being 6 3/4" and the backs 5 1/2"?

What do people actually put in for speakers? size? power? brand?

I bought a decent deck and was just looking for some cheap speakers that sound good to go in with the deck.

After looking at the back speakers is there anyway to actually fit an aftermarket speaker in there they seem to mold to the plastic mounting piece. Could I buy a 5 1/2" and put that in their? Will it require any modification?

I read through the front 6 3/4" inch front speaker install and was wondering is that what everyone is doing? Is it that hard? What about the back?

I bought some Performance Teknique speakers for 150 CAD but they are all 6 1/2"
but heard they arent that great. I am going to bring them back and probably get some panasonic speakers to go with the panasonic deck.

Please help me out I dont want to buy crappy stereo stuff and I would prefer something I can put in myself.

[Abraxis64]

just as an aside, since somebody brought up alpines and i'm not sure how aware people in the celica community are about sizing issues:

the car that i reference when i look into my garage and say to myself "that's my car" is a 90 crx. hondas, as you may know, use 6.5" speakers, but not really. in fact, they use 6" speakers, which is a sizing term lost on most manufacturers (phoenix gold still gets it right). specifically, 6" speakers are 16cm/160mm and should be listed as such. there are also 6 3/4" speakers, like the alpines in the above picture. while alpine doesn't acknowledge this fact openly, there is a tacit understanding that they're speakers are not what many people would consider a 6.5" speaker (look, for instance at the product number--170a--and notice that there is nary a 6 in there). these speakers in fact measure 16.5cm/165mm and are rounded up to 17cm, hence alpine's product numbering.

not that a lot of this matters to us in this venue because, as has been discussed, we have quite odd-sized speakers in our celicas. but now you know...and you know what flint, duke and crazylegs used to say: knowing is half the battle

peace