Originally posted by rcurley55
This is a 00 Si, if you are familiar with this car, you know how small the speaker openings are.....
Without trimming metal on the door panel (and thereby weakening the plastic door panel - where the driver mounts), it's not possible to get these drivers in the door. The magnet is larger then the physical opening in the door.
This type of mounting gives no MDF option. The basket barely clears, but the magnet is just too large, seeing as that driver has the same motor as an IDQ8 if I'm not mistaken. The same is true for a ID CX62 mid.
I'm going with kicks anyway, but a while back, I wanted CXS52's in kicks and CX62's in the doors for dedicated midbasses...now I'm working on the horn setup below...
Could I have gotten them in the door with extensive modification, YES, but I was and am still aiming for an installation that allows me to return to near stock conditions......Also, with the amount of work necessary to do them correctly, I would have just build new panels for 8"s and gotten serious about it...
Yes I know the car, it fact I've worked on them before. If you want to put the CX62 in your door and still have a factory look. It can be done. I know because I've done it. It takes some time to pull it off but you just have to think outside the box to do it. Do this, take your door panel off. Look at where the speaker is you will see that there is some black plastic holding the speaker in place. If you unscrew that and thats only four screws you'll see that there is a hole almost big enough to mount a 8" diver in. It's bigger enough for any 6 1/2 on the market, now if you don't put the plastic piece back in the car and make a MDF baffle you see that you can put the whole door panel back on and it doesn't look like anything has changed from the factory look. Now just to back what I've said up, I've worked in car audio for years and done installs like this. Sometime to get the best in there you have to think a little bit and do some problem solving, but it all will work out in the end. I know that can be done and if you still don't think so I'll be happy to do a DIY on this in my 97 EX because it has the same doors as your 00 Si. I fact I have a pair of ID6 the speakers that the CX62 were based on at home that I could use. Trust me, you can put them in there just look at it from a different angle.