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lube-o-rific
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Speaker Fitting Advice
« on: Dec 12th, 2008, 9:01pm » |
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Hi Guys,
I'm going to have to fit some new speakers in the Scorp as the factory ones are to say the least quite dismal.
I've been reading and some peeps have fitted 6x9s either with or without the OEM speaker grille.
Before I make a right hash of it with some nice 6x9s, does anyone have any advice they can give on fitting them into the OEM housing?
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Matt
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Re: Speaker Fitting Advice
« Reply #1 on: Dec 13th, 2008, 10:42am » |
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the rear grills will need to be opened up then cut/inlarged in order to fit the 6x9's ( a dremmel is handy for this) then you might have to cut out the metal speaker mount out of the parcel shelf for depth
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lube-o-rific
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Re: Speaker Fitting Advice
« Reply #2 on: Dec 13th, 2008, 10:54am » |
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Thanks for that Matt.
I'm going to have a stab at it today, I might look into removing the OEM housing and having the new speaker grilles showing.
I hope that I can securely mount the new ones correctly.
Cheers! 
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Re: Speaker Fitting Advice
« Reply #3 on: Dec 13th, 2008, 4:35pm » |
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I took the OEM speaker/housing off today to inspect the situation. There's a huge hole in the shelf underneath the housing, flip know why such a big hole.
I'm going to have to rebuild around the huge hole and recover the shelf in something nice so I can put in some nice 6x9s.
Popping in some replacement 5x7s looks like quite a task as the OEM housing is all glued and fixed together.
So I'm going to go the whole hog. 
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Re: Speaker Fitting Advice
« Reply #4 on: Dec 15th, 2008, 2:26pm » |
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Hi Lube-o-rific,
HERE Is an old post of mine may be some help
Al
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Re: Speaker Fitting Advice
« Reply #5 on: Dec 15th, 2008, 6:16pm » |
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for recovering the shelf, use some ice carpet, same stuff the do the subwoofer boxes in 
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Re: Speaker Fitting Advice
« Reply #6 on: Dec 15th, 2008, 7:12pm » |
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Thanks Matt and Al.
I do like the look of Al's leather on his shelf. I'm going to have to find some good quality stuff.
Cheers Guys!
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Re: Speaker Fitting Advice
« Reply #7 on: Dec 15th, 2008, 7:53pm » |
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do you know fletchers in bham? they used to keep rolls of stuff like that, carpet, leather, plastics etc, might be worth a drive over
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Re: Speaker Fitting Advice
« Reply #8 on: Dec 15th, 2008, 7:57pm » |
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Hi Matt, Is that Fletchers Auto Store, part of Oscott's?
We have the Oscott Trade Center here in Coventry. 
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Re: Speaker Fitting Advice
« Reply #9 on: Dec 15th, 2008, 8:03pm » |
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thats the place used to be a great place and you could get anyting for anything from them, now its just a big boy racer store 
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Re: Speaker Fitting Advice
« Reply #10 on: Dec 15th, 2008, 8:10pm » |
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I'll have a trip to Brum at the weekend then.
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Re: Speaker Fitting Advice
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