I am going to do this in the spring

1.Remove speaker and bracket
2.Weld small extensions onto the bracket sides
3.Enlarge the hole to fit my speaker of choice

There is enough empty space directly below the hole to accommodate the larger magnet, and enough empty space directly below the speaker itself to accommodate the bracket extensions.

 

I checked out that web site. Very nice stuff. High quality speaker and radio components. They also make/sell a very nice turn signal unit!

 

I just found this today years later and will be calling that company tomorrow for a new speaker.

 

I know i'm replying to a zombie thread, but I just replaced my front speaker with a DVC retrosound. I think it was the cheaper $100 one.

Some notes:

It comes with a thin mounting metal strip. I removed the stock speaker (having glovebox out helps) and it's mounting bracket. The mounting bracket fits in to the front gap that the stock bracket uses. I then put the speaker in place, used one of the bracket's holes and mounted it to the speaker, then angled the bracket to an existing bolt hole. I cut off the excess and it's good enough.

I don't recall if there's a better quality retrosound DVC 6x9 but if there is, i'd recommend it. The tweeters are usable but pathetic. The bass is fine, but i suspect this is widely dependent on how much adjustment your head unit allows.

I'm using a pioneer head unity with their "pioneer sync" app which has some pretty good options including "dynamic bass" which really helps.

The PO cut a 6x9 hole into the passenger door and I managed to fix that speaker up enough for it to sound decent. I'm planning to do the same for the driver door. I applied a bit of fatmat/dynomat and it's acceptable. I plan on taking the door off in the future and drilling holes for proper electrical wiring passthrough and maybe door locks.

If i were to do it over again i'd definately get something with better tweeters, or mount dual 4" with quality tweeters. I'd also get a flexible neoprene baffle and maybe some sort of stretchable nylon mesh to keep junk from falling into the speaker cone.

 

I was looking at this thread just the other day as I got an original stereo that I thought worked. It doesn't, but the speaker from Turnswitch that will work with the original stereo is only $50. Not too bad considering you need the original speaker bracket.

 

"no one has ever died smoking tires" A few years ago I went to the final day of a Good Guys Car show held here in San Diego at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. At the end of the show a large group of people who had attended the show had gathered to watch the cars leave that were in the show...It was customary to do a burn out and sometimes a donut as you left there if you were a show contestant. There were quite a few very impressive burn outs and donuts from these beautiful expensive high horse powered machines. An individual driving a beautiful1958 Corvette Red and white Roadster was compelled to .out do the 1969 Very Customized Charger that had just done an epic donut and burn out on exit. The Corvette driver had his 13 year old son in the passenger seat of his roadster. Halfway through his burnout/ donut he lost his nerve. The car instead of going 360 degrees and finishing the donut went 180 and then slide across the parking lo. Fortunately for the crowd it slide to the other side across from all of us and jumped a curb, suffered serious road rash from the decorative larger rocks in the rock garden there and was stopped by the large tree there which bent the car in half where it made contact just at the passenger side door. where the owners son sat. It was a very expensive experience for him. Fortunately no one was physically injured. I know the police came and arrested him for endangering his kids life. I dont think he could claim the accident on his insurance since he was recklessly joy riding his destroyed Vette he clearly had much more money than brains....so be careful doing burn outs etc...if that car had gone out of control a few degrees earlier into that burn out donut thing....the car would have slide through the crowd where stupidly myself and a friend were standing with little more than a rope to keep the crowd out. I dont think the Fairgrounds and the Good Guys allow those burnouts on leaving any longer.