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[DaveNagy]

Wow, nice install Bad Ess. I was just wondering about how one might seal around the speaker to prevent sound from escaping and bouncing around behind the door card. PVC pipe... You sir, are a genius!

Some questions:

Do you (anyone) feel that the stock speaker grills are "okay" to use with upgraded speakers? Especially 6.25" speakers? Is the hole big enough? Do they seem acoustically transparent enough? I like the idea of a stealth install, but I also think the stock grills are ugly! If they were hurting the sound as well, that would give me an excuse to get rid of them.

If one did get rid of the stock grills (not easy, I guess) could you "surface mount" the new speaker and then just snap the aftermarket grill onto the speaker? (Are grills still made that way? I guess they must be.) I realise to be able to mount the speakers securely to the outside of the door card, you'd need to make a thick spacer that filled the entire gap between card and door. Do-able?

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I made an adapter from 3/4" birch ply and turned a pilot for a 6" section of PVC sewer pipe.

Can you elaborate on that "turned a pilot" phrase? What exactly did you do to the PVC pipe?

Are the doorcard and door exactly parallel to each other around the speaker? If I made a 1.5" thick spacer out of MDF, would the door card lay flat against it all the way around?

Please post pictures and further desciptions of how you mounted the tweeters. You're a brave man with a Dremel.

Again. Good stuff.

-Dave