How to make speaker brackets
 

1. Purchase 3/4" MDF
2. Remove door panel.
3. Remove speaker and basket.
4. Take speaker basket and trace around the outer edge of the basket.
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5. Find center of the traced pattern.
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6. Determine hole cutout size. (Normally found in instruction manual for speakers)
7. Using compass trace circle the size of the cutout hole.
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8. Using jigsaw, or other tool to cut out hole.
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9. Now using a jigsaw cut around the pattern you first traced from the speaker basket.
10. Insert basket into cutout.
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11. Trace the four hole around the outer edge.
12. Drill hole for screw to mount bracket to car.
13. Using large diameter drill bit make holes larger so screws will be counter sunk.
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14. Pre-mount bracket to door with four screws to check fit.
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15. Take bracket off and paint.
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16. Re-mount bracket and mount speakers.
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very nice write up :rev:

Great Job Jim!!

Kick a$$!

This is the only part I didn't get...what exactly is counter-sunk, and how will the screws hold the wood in place if the pr-drilled holes are larger that the screw diameter used?

btw...you made this look so easy I will definitely be doing this by myself for my next car (hopefully the S)

i did mine last night and only just saw this thread, good idea on painting them, didnt think of that so i will be psinting mine today, finishes the look off.

Good Job! Added this thread to my how to section (link below).

As a word of advice, the door panels get a good bit of moisture in them when it rains. Using MDF might not be the best idea although it is easy to work with. Since you're not using it to make an enclosure, I would recommend using standard finished plywood. If it's exposed to moisture, it won't expand or buble like MDF. The paint does help though.

The best solution would be 3/4" plastic like plexi or something. Of course, that's a little harder to come by.

He is counterboring the mdf bracket so that the bracket mounting screws will be below the surface when it is mounted. Otherwise, the flange of the speaker would rest in the mounting screws for the bracket.

The couterbores do not go through the mdf bracket. They only go deep enough so that the head of the mounting screw will be below the surface.

huh? :rev:

What part do you not understand. Do you not understand the words countersunk or counterbore?