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Old 11-02-2010, 08:14 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by TitaniumTT View Post
If you look close, you can see where I mounted mine. They are under the plastic mirror trim, on the flat spot on the door panel just behind the vent. They are angles and the sound is pretty damn good. Alpine 6.5" components with some pretty trick mounting.
Nice setup Brian, did the angle rings come with the speakers? I'm guessing you just drilled a hole for the wires, and either screw or adhesive mount the tweeter base to the door panel?

What I've been thinking of doing is a surface mount on the plastic triangle piece itself, with angle rings to point the tweeters towards the driver/passenger. Since the plastic triangle piece is a bit flimsy as-is - it won't support a tweeter's base mounting screws all that well and one of mine is cracked anyway, the thought was I could laminate a piece of 1/8" thick sheet plastic (acrylic or ABS will do) to the its outer surface to beef it up. Then shape the edges of the now thicker triangle piece with a dremel/sander to make it look stock and paint it to match interior. This would provide a stiff surface to mount the tweeters to. Best part is the design is portable - if you want to get rid of them for any reason, or put them in another FC project, just pop them out and replace with another stock triangle piece.

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