In a message dated 7/7/99 1:10:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time, kyle@sonic.net
writes:
<< Okay, so that brings up my next question - where in the heck are
they supposed to go? The car is a '69, FWIW, tho' the doors
aren't materially different AFAIK....
From the looks of things, there's no way to mount the speaker in
the panel itself without interfering with the window crank.
What am I missing? Do people actually cut the aluminum panel
below the door panel too? >>
I was trying to look for erik miller's page on his stereo install, but it's
gone now. What he did was cut a hole for his 6.5" speakers in the lower most
part of the door panels. What made his install even more difficult that what
you would have is that he used a 6.5" coaxial with a protruding tweeter. So
to make sure that the tweeter level was flushed in enough to allow the window
crank full travel, he had to rear mount the speakers on some fiberboard which
were also rear mounted on the doors. So basically...he cut a 6.5" hole in the
door, got a piece of fiberboard about 1/8" thick and a tad larger than the
hole, cut a hole just a hair under 6.5" in teh fiberboard...mounted the
speaker to the back of the board...and then screwed the whole unit to the
inside of the door/back of the front skin. To do this, he removed the window
and contorted his way in through the access hole. He also used allen bolts to
be super sure that no one would be able to remove the speakers easily. To top
everything off, he cut a 6.5" hole in the vinyl-wrapped fiberboard door
panel, and put a grille in that hole. No interference with the window
crank...and great sound. We could easily hear everything even while cruising
at 70+mph on the fwy.
In your particular case, you don't have to go through as much as erik did.
Just rear-mount a board and screw your speaker in from the front. That should
sink the woofer in enough to clear the crank's throw.
Van
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