Modifying Factory Speaker Retainers in BH Legacy

[suubyduuby]

Currently just replacing the factory front speakers as rattling and cracking pretty badly. The factory retainers in my legacy are all one piece with the factory Clarion speakers.

So far, have Dremel'd out the old speakers from the retainers and working on a way to mount some new 6.5" components in the factory retainers. Are there any off-the-shelf mounts that can be used, or is modding the factory retainers the only way to go if you want to keep them?

Figured would be easy to cut up some MDF to size and mount, but want to keep the factory retainers as they are angled up to project the sound better. Doing one side first, and once I've got it all sorted will do the other side and post up some photos. May be useful for someone down the line...

[subieboy]

 suubyduuby said:

Currently just replacing the factory front speakers as rattling and cracking pretty badly. The factory retainers in my legacy are all one piece with the factory Clarion speakers.

So far, have Dremel'd out the old speakers from the retainers and working on a way to mount some new 6.5" components in the factory retainers. Are there any off-the-shelf mounts that can be used, or is modding the factory retainers the only way to go if you want to keep them?

Figured would be easy to cut up some MDF to size and mount, but want to keep the factory retainers as they are angled up to project the sound better. Doing one side first, and once I've got it all sorted will do the other side and post up some photos. May be useful for someone down the line...

been covered a few times now,

short answer make new ones from mdf

For longer concise version: do a search

[Guest]

Depending on what gear you have access to this can be done other ways, I have an old metal lathe and clamped the magnets in the jaws and used the lathe to cut the surround off, I prefer the plastic surrounds personally but it's just personal preference really.

[Scoobydoo]

Not so powerful speakers will fit into the factory spacers, if they are 16cm. Any bigger and you'll be pushing it. Also if the magnets are too big you'll need to cut the weathershield off but you may have already found that out.

The best option is to make new ones from 12mm MDF, then you'll save yourself a few headaches in the long run.

[spark_38]

Try some of these. The ones on the left suit both 6" and 6.5" speakers and give the correct mounting depth for most off-the-shelf speakers. The ones on the right are suited to some installs with 5.25" rear door speakers fitted.

[Scoobydoo]

The BE/BH has different factory speaker ring mounting points to the BD/BG and most of the Imprezas. I don't think the above spacers would work for the BH.

I should see if I can get a photo of the different ones that I have.

[suubyduuby]

 Scoobydoo said:

The BE/BH has different factory speaker ring mounting points to the BD/BG and most of the Imprezas. I don't think the above spacers would work for the BH.

I should see if I can get a photo of the different ones that I have.

Bought a set of the 902s today and your right...the mounting is different than on the BE/BH, but only slightly.

However, now that I have these I'm just going to drill a couple of new mounting holes at the bottom. Top hole fits nicely on the top mount, but bottom two are off by around 5mm each side.

Figure that's probably the easiest route next to fabricating a custom spacer out of MDF. However, if all else fails that's what I'm gonna do. ;D

Found some good info here too:

http://www.subaruaudio.net/subaru-speaker-spacers/

http://www.subaruaudio.net/my-wrx/audio-system/