speaker installation - preserving mk1 door panels

[sciroccos at earthlink.net (Jim Ruffi)]

Original speakers in a 78 would have consisted of 1 4x6 in the dash, as far
as I can recall.
I have installed 5 1/4's in the doors many times, with low-profile
grilles...I'm pretty sure I've done 6 1/2's a couple of times, but it has
been a while.

Also: I once made flat rear door cards out of luan plywood and covered them
with black vinyl.  I installed 6" woofers (had 10 inchers in the deck).
Sounded awesome and I was able to reinstall the cards later and return that
area to stock.

Jim

>-----Original Message-----
>From: George Herndon [mailto:gherndon@eyeontech.com]
>Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 1:59 PM
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: speaker installation - preserving mk1 door panels
>
>
>
>in my 78, i have original speakers with a small 4 inch or so flush
>speaker grill.  i have some 5.25 inch speakers that have a small, but
>not flush speaker grill.  mounting depth isn't an issue.  i don't
>want to, but will consider enlarging the actual speaker opening in
>the door to accomodate the larger magnet, etc.  does anyone have any
>thoughts how to do the least damage to the door panel?  does anyone
>have 5.25 speakers installed  that don't interfere with the door
>handles?
>
>tia,
>
>George Herndon
>gherndon@eyeontech.com
>