I just got done installing a new speaker into the front driver side speaker(door). when I took the stock speaker out it had a plastic incasing, but it was to small for the the new speaker, so I took the entire plastic incasing out and drilled new holes on the metal wall. I screwed the speaker in and it works perfectly. However, when I went to roll down the window, it came to a dead stop near the bottom. I figured out it was hitting the new speaker(ouch!). I was thinking about customizing the old plastic incasing to make it fit the new speaker, but it'll take me at least an hour an a half, and I got one more speaker to go after this one. Can anyone save me the trouble with any better ideas or anything? -Hector L. THNXS!

 

MDF spacer ring between the speaker and metal, for however much you need. I may be doing that as well soon.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by EJ1*SOHC~ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I just got done installing a new speaker into the front driver side speaker(door). when I took the stock speaker out it had a plastic incasing, but it was to small for the the new speaker, so I took the entire plastic incasing out and drilled new holes on the metal wall. I screwed the speaker in and it works perfectly. However, when I went to roll down the window, it came to a dead stop near the bottom. I figured out it was hitting the new speaker(ouch!). I was thinking about customizing the old plastic incasing to make it fit the new speaker, but it'll take me at least an hour an a half, and I got one more speaker to go after this one. Can anyone save me the trouble with any better ideas or anything? -Hector L. THNXS! </TD></TR></TABLE> You say mounting it to the metal it sounds perfect? Here are 3 basic rules for mounting speakers, [ and if you think they sound "perfect" now, try this,
1- You need a flat surface to mount the speaker to
2- You need an airtight seal between front and back of speaker, [all the way around]
3- You need mass, [the more mass the better]
An there is rule 4- a speaker mounted to wood will sound better then a speaker mounted to anything else.
So as CooBlueDAB said a "MDF spacer ring", I would go one step farther and make a custom MDF adpt, use the stock speaker housing as a template to make the mounting base out of 1/4 or 1/2 inch MDF, so they mount and seal the same way the stock ones do, then add a "spacer ring" as thick as you need. 94

 

Another thing to enhance the sound would be to use some sort of sound deadening (Brown Bread, Dynamat...) material to seal off any openings in the door.

 

I cut the old speaker incasings to fit the new speakers. It worked perfectly and sounds even better! ! I plan on doing the MDF spacer when I find them.


Modified by EJ1^LORTA at 2:02 PM 3/22/2005