Speak installation

[Guest]

here is a how-to we did for speaker spacer installation for our MR2, I know its an MR2 but the same technic would apply to any speaker and door hole that does not match up, hope it helps

ok, I was an idiot and dropped a pair of linemans pliers off the door jam and onto my beloved infinity speaker!

so we had to buy some new speakers and tweeters for the front. we measured the doors and asked dimensions from the seller and we somehow still got it wrong, the seller does not have the correct size we need, so off to the garage we go

we like to do as many things our selfs as possible so we figured, we need to make some sort of spacers, I know you can buy them but this post is for anyone who wants to do it them selfs, I think ours is better than what you can buy, but thats obviously just our opinion.

as you can see we bought them too big

so we bought some supplies from placemakers and bought some 5 mill cover sheet, liquid nails, silicon, the foam came from the speaker packaging

dummy fit the speaker in the door and mark of scribe on the speaker which way is going to be "up" and left and right, this way it will always be aligned correctly

so off we go, we cut a circle

now we need to measure and cut the inner circle so we have a donut

use a template me made to scribe a nice circle

now we have it laid out we need to cut it

pilot hole

cutting

inside done

now for the outside

done

now a quick sand to round off the edges

dummy fit

need to mark holes for the screws

Mark the sides of the spacer, because when you put on the foam you are not going to be able to see the markings on the top.

drill screw holes

dummy fit

more dummy fit

one more

we cut some foam from the packaging

take the cut spacer and mark the inside

cut

now the inside

there is some thicker foam that came with the speakers as well, repeat this step with the thick foam too

dummy fit

now we glue the thinner ring

fit it

press it for a couple of minutes

now the thicker ring

we use the silicon

some tape on the door for protection and make sure nothing touches metal

maybe a little of the foam inside for extra

dummy fit

hook up the crossovers

and speaker wires

fitment time

this setup uses the stock holes

so the woofers are done, we could end this now but we thought to finish it, we are almost done!

run the wires up to the tweeter from the crossover

attach the tweeter to the bracket and screw it in

tweeter bracket

put things back together and you are done

note, we did dummy fit the door panel once or twice before we did the final install of the panel

I am sure you can do this easier, like buying spacers and things but we like to do things ourselfs

now its time for the reward

hope this helps other do-it-yourselfers

[Guest Bemrose]

well done! all done perfect

quick tip for next time, paint the MDF ring, they puff out when water/ moisture hits them

[DRFVDR]

Nice

does your kid know u stole their safety scissors ( i use them to they seem to work better ) :)

[deathz0r]

Lol.

Lots of pics. LOTS OF PICS. Jeebus.

[Guest]

lol ya, we try to do how-to's as complete as we can lol lol

if you thought this was a lot of pics you should see the one we did on how to paint a car in your own garage lol lol