absolut187

Thaat sucks ha

absolut187

I mean u suck lol

have a nice day

Toddyboy

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WTF?

abnormal72

I recently bought a 97 toyota tercel which i have yet done anything audio with but on toyota tercel forum.com they say there 6.5 shalllow mount fit the front doors flush mounted, ditching the factory grills, and you have to use the supplied grills with the new speakers.
I dont know what the measurement on a 6.5 has to be to be considered shallow mount but you have a good idea already what depth will work.

I would like to see the pics of what you do and how it turns out.

maltesechicken

???? . . . Okay then

Abnomal72
I don't know how much of a shallow mount is needed. I just measured the minimum depth and the factory mount (with no door mods) is 2 1/4" deep.

The factory mount is elevated 1/4" from the rest of the sheet metal on the door.

What I plan on doing is cutting out the elevated mount - it is right around 5" in diameter, pretty much the size I need for a 6.5"

Having removed that 1/4" elevation brings the mounting depth down to 2" (still not too bad, I'm currently looking at some Kaption comps with a 2" mounting depth). Yet, what I plan to do is make a baffle out of 1/2" MDF to compensate for the lost elevation, and then give me a little more. As you can see in my pic posted earlier, I currently have a 1/4" baffle ring. So if I do the 1/2" MDF baffle, it should bring the speaker to the same elevation from the door that I currently have, and a final mounting depth of 2.5" I still hope to use the factory grills, but I will have to see if that is possible with the extra speaker diameter.

I don't know how soon I'll do this, but I hope to have at it some time in the next month or to. I'll take pics along the way.

Lucifer_Ghost

One person suggested a dremel but warned of more clean up.

I would recommend the dremel as well. Just take the door off its hinges, do the work some place else, then put it back on. No clean up .. well, in the car anyway.

A dremel will be a little more precise than a jigsaw (mind you, Im saying that cause I hate those things... grrr)

LG

selective sound

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Just use a good pair of tin snips the metal is so thin there, a tin snip will cut through like butter.

BLU3Fi5H

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In some cases simple tin-snips work great. I didnt think they would cut sheet metal all that great, but tested it in an old 88 Firefly i had back in the days and the tin snips are still good enough to cut metal now (about 6 years later). These are just regular tin snips from crappy tire.
Just thought i would mention it since it really doesnt make much mess.