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Originally posted by DaveNagy

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? 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?

-Dave

i would not top mount to the door cards. Instead do the spacer idea and just mount the speaker to the door and use the spacer to bring it forward. in order to bring it that far forward you will need to cut out the factory grill. There are pegs inside the grill that restrict clearance, to get it flush with the door card, you'll have to cut them out!


search for jlm's focal speaker install, he brought the speaker flush with the door card. he had to cut out the grill then glue it back on, but the picture shows what you want to do.