Door Refinement & Speaker Installation (Part 2)

With the driver door complete, I turned my attention to the installation with the associated tweeter and crossover.  The stock dash speaker is a 3.5" speaker which provides an adequate spot for the tweeter installation.  Unfortunately, the shape of the dash makes aiming the tweeters appropriately rather difficult.  The driver side is the worse as you are contending with the gauge cluster blocking almost any ability to point the tweeter at the passengers.

A really easy way to make this style mount is to simply use 1" wide piece of 1/8" thick aluminum stock.  The speaker mounts are directly across from one another allowing you to simply run it from one side to another.  You create a little a few bends in the bar to recess the tweeter into the opening.  Lastly, you can bend the bracket created to angle the tweeter a bit.  The angle of the bracket combined with the angle mount for the tweeter provides you a reasonable amount of adjustment.

With the bracket formed, I painted it quickly with Rustoleum black automotive primer and then with a VHT flat black engine paint.  I mounted the tweeter to it and then folded up some of the SecondSkin closed cell foam sheet and stuffed it into the dash behind the tweeter.  I figure the foam will block any light blacking out anything you would see through the grill and could cut down on some noise.

The original 3.5" speaker weighs 8 ounces and was replaced with a 2 ounce tweeter and 5.5 ounce crossover so there isn't much change in weight from these items.