This last weekend, with the gracious assistance of fellow s2ki member, bigreddog, I was able to begin the process of installing a *very* upgraded system (maybe not the best, but sooooo much better than stock! ).

 

You just need to make a set of adapters for the doors out of 3/4" MDF. Looking at the owners manual the mounting depth is 60mm. I have a set of Focal 165W that have a mounting depth of 78mm with a 3/4" adapters, and I have no problem with the window or the door panel fitting back on.

Just make a set of these:

 

Jim's solution is probably better than mine, but I used a generic "spacer" made of plastic. The holes do not line up with the stock holes, so I drilled directly through the sheet metal(4 new holes). I check the screws from time-to-time to see if they've backed off at all. I also has the BA Pro 6.5's.

 

awesome... thanks to both of you, Jim and Skip....

Jim - do you have any plans for that wood that you cut? Any sort of stencil/tracer type image? Or did you just pencil it on the wood and go for it??

The first image ("brackets.jpg") looks like aluminum, whereas the one mounted to the door in the second one looks like wood... is that just the lighting in the photo on #1?

Thanks again!

 

It's the lighting.

You can trace out the original speaker basket with it face down, the real key is making sure there is enough material so you can reuse the original mounting holes and not have to drill holes like Skip did.

A jig saw and about 1-2 hrs would be PLENTY to mount these up.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by jono
awesome... thanks to both of you, Jim and Skip....

 

I've got the same speakers installed using 12mm mdf spacers. I'm installing brown bread in door panels, trunk, where spare tyre used to be etc this weekend. See photos in my sig - they sound great!

EDIT: notice in the spacer photo that I have three "bulges" around the edge - this is where the speaker screws were positioned. I've also got a dynamat DIY gasket behind the spacer.