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echo: audio
to: MATT ION
from: DANIEL ARDELINE
date: 1996-07-26 13:52:00
subject: Re: CAR AUDIO...NEED A LITTLE HELP, I`M 13:52:0007/26/96

 MI> Good grief, that's some SERIOUS shoe-horning.
 MI> Did I mention that my T-60s are covered by the Accord's *factory
 MI> grilles*? =) 
 MI> Put simply, I wound up building up the forward side of the ring
 MI> structures with two layers of 3/8" foam weatherstrip (that stick-on
 MI> stuff that you can get in rolls at any car-accessories place), then
 MI> mounting them from below.   
 MI> The tweeters I'm running with them (2" cones from an old set of
 MI> cheapie Realistic home speakers -- what the hey, they sound real
 MI> smoooooooth!) were mounted on top of the factory mount's main
 MI> component (where the OEM drivers would normally mount), the grille
 MI> then screwed on normally from below, and the whole assembly fastened
 MI> to the deck normally.  The woofers were then slung with 3" drywall
 MI> screws from below as well.  It's ugly, but it does the trick! 
 If this isn't serious shoehorning, I don't know what is.  But hey, you can
 still use the factory grilles with it.
 MI> Now, if I could just figure out a way to put these Quart 2016s in
 MI> those factory mounts instead... muahahaha. 
 Why won't you just buy a pair of speakers that fits the factory size like
 most people?  Oh no, that would be too easy.
--- GEcho 1.00
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