Hi All,

Like many others I have not been satisfied with the stock speakers in my AP1. I purchased some Rockford Fosgate Prime component speakers and decided to flush mount the tweeters just in front of the door handles.

After removing the door panel from the car I used a hole saw to make the cut. A little tip here. The hole saw has a drill bit in the center of it. Once the drill bit was through the door panel I stopped the drill and reversed the rotation. Then I drilled through the upholstered surface with the drill running backwards. This prevented the hole saw from grabbing and ripping the upholstery. (some will recognize this as cutting with negative rake). Once I was through the upholstered part I changed the drill rotation back to clockwise and continued through the door panel.



No turning back now, the hole is complete:



And finally, the tweeter is installed.



There was about 1/4" of clearance behind the tweeter at the minimum clearance. Not a whole lot extra, but plenty for this application.

I am very, very pleased with the results. Having tweeters up higher where my leg doesn't block the highs makes a huge difference !!

Some will probably note that in the location I added these tweeters they are actually aimed slightly down and under the dash. While I admit that this isn't the perfect scenario, in practice it seems to work fine. In fact I've actually turned the treble down just a hair because they sounded just a tad bright to me.

An added benefit was I wanted this installation to be very stealth, which it is.

 

Nice clean work.