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tweeter mount help needed

onetyme77

onetyme77

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I purchased a set of 5.25 jbl gto serires component set. i want to mount the tweeters in the stock location in sail spot, (i dont know the actual name) its the spot were the door meets the dash. the jbl tweeter is way bigger than than the stock. has anyone mounted aftermarket tweeters here and how? I thought of taking a circle cutter and cuttiing out the hole, but i dont think it will mount flush because the surface actually curves a little. I need some help guys I've had my speakers for like two months and havent installed them cuz i'm stumped.
 


You're right there called sail panels. And your also correct with the install. You'll cut holes the size of the flush mount tweeter cups. Then place the tweeter cups inside the holes. Glue them in place with an epoxy mix or other very strong glue, whatever you can get your hands on. Check the fit and see if its flush or not, sometimes they fit flush and sometimes they don't it depends on the tweeter size and shape as well as the sail panel you've got to work with. Then you'd sand the panel down preferably with a red scuffing pad just to give a little grip to the plastic so the body filler and paint can stick to it. Then apply and smooth the filler as needed. If you had to much of a gap for the tweeter to be filled by the body filler you would want to us an mdf ring thats been trimmed to fit or a piece of pvc around the cup and glue that in place. Check the fit with the tweeter every so often to make sure it sits flush. Once it looks the way you want you can paint it with a matched vinyl and plastic paint you can find at O'reily's, or if your really up for the task you can coat it in a color matched vinyl. If you go the paint route make sure to apply it in multiple thin coats. That's how I've done mine on my past two cars in the and how ill be doing it on my GP soon.
 
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Find some in a junk yard on busted old door panels. Take a knife or screwdriver and scrap the melted plastic that is holding the pods on and remove them. Take a screwdriver and break all of the plastic you can out of the back where the oem tweeter mounts then take a dremel tool and start making your new mounting hole. Romove materiallittle by little until you tweeters mount in both pods and glue or mount them back to the door panel.
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thunder71173 said:
Find some in a junk yard on busted old door panels. Take a knife or screwdriver and scrap the melted plastic that is holding the pods on and remove them. Take a screwdriver and break all of the plastic you can out of the back where the oem tweeter mounts then take a dremel tool and start making your new mounting hole. Romove materiallittle by little until you tweeters mount in both pods and glue or mount them back to the door panel.
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effin!! thanks man, thats exactly how i want to mount mine, my only concern after looking at it intensively was is there enough surface to mount them like that without having over hang. but deathjr gave me an idea to fix that, either bondo the whole thing an repaint or fiberglass it. Either way i need to aquire some spare ones so i can really get in there and get it the way i want, in the mean time i think ima jus use one of the many mounting options that cum in the box and stic right in front of the pods on the the doorpanel
 
Arent those supposed to be one inch tweets? cause we were able to fit the 1 inch mb quart tweets in my friends grand prix easily. If its not alot of space bondo will do just fine. If theres more than a quarter inch ide think about fiberglass. Over a half inch and bondo would be to weak to handle the door opening and closing daily you'd definetly want to glass that.
 


they should fit just like mine but as you can see they barely fit. Mine isnt a show car or I would be needing a bit of fiberglass with all the after market upgrades lolol.
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red w halos around the needle bases its alot better than the gt cluster its an oem 03 se cluster off ebay i think it was 120 shipped
 


i wonder if it fits 98 thanks ima check it out, was it hard to swap out? dont you need some special tool to take off the needles?
 
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