converting door speakers

Hey guys!!!

I wanna put in 6 1/2" drivers into the doors....
What is invovled, and did you have clearance issues wiht the
window once installed?

make a spacer, or buy a plastic one from metra, I have soundstreams in mine, and no problems at all (and they are large)

My car had the Bose speakers in it. It had a plastic holder for the speaker that was secured to the door panel. When I upgraded to my 6.5" Memphis M speakers. I took out the plastic hold that held the 5.5" speakers and dremelled it out so it would fit the 6.5" speakers. It took a few tries to get it to sit below the section of the door skin that was rubbing against the outter part of the woofer. But once I managed to get past that, they worked fine.

I am guessing GP's without the Bose speaker package do not have those nice plastic holders???

mine had some, but they put the 6.5's against the door panel

Originally Posted by archemedes

mine had some, but they put the 6.5's against the door panel

Aye correct, that is the part I had to work around. I cut deep into the plastic so that the speaker would sit lower in the cradle. And I then used my dremel tool to shave off the plastic of the door skin so it would not rest against the woofer. It worked out rather nicely. Granted I had white plastic stuff all over the place before it was all said done, but it doing that made it work

mine the mounting surface was pretty thin

I cut the inside of the plastic housing out and made a 1" spacer for my kickers. The good thing about wood is you can sand it down at an angle for beter imaging. @ 1" I had no issues at all.