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finally got the first of my speakers fitted today, 2 burns on my hands from the soldering iron .......so feeling sorry for myself...got a cold aswell so thought I would post a few pictures!

My wife got me these for my birthday last month

first made carboard pods for the crossovers and tried my hand at fibre glassing here's the result

painted these black, cut a slightly bigger hole in the door and mounted the crossovers, wired up with Vibe braided speaker cable

My car has the 10 speaker upgrade but I purchased standard door cards and modified them...I am after a stock look but still being able to tell there is a upgraded system in there......anyway I started to mod the speaker holders the lower is standard the upper one is after loads of fibreglass sanding and paint!

cut new holes in the door cards!

After cleaning all the old adhesive from the doors I added the dynamat (rip off version)sound deadening this will also act as a water shedder aswell as improving the sound quality........This is my first install so feel free to comment good or bad !!

Getting there...this is the point That I put my hand on the soldering iron..... ...moved it out of the way and then did it again
speakers mounted they are a perfect fit.....I mounted the tweeter using the standard porsche mount and grille but was able to set it at a slight angle to face into the car

I should mention the mounds I added to the speaker holder are for LED'S which are operated from a switch on the center console (the old rear wiper switch)...I tried to get a photo but I can not swich the flash off on my wife's camera ...but it looks good...
the finished effect bellow, still got the amp...rears and subs to do these will follow the same a similar design

Impressive work !

Looks like that will be nice and loud.

I’m not sure I understand the LEDs, but that’s a nice clean looking install—well done so far!

The LED'S look good on the crossovers and iluminate the foot well when on.......I am going to remove the ones on the speakers it's one step to far...

Quote "My wife got me these for my birthday last month"

And then if she's like my wife she'll reach over and turn the stereo down so that you have to listen to her and not your favourite Madness cassette....

.... oh, I see you said 'one step too far' ... I read it as 'one step beyond'

WHAT...you let your wife get in the car...NO WAY...It will be the kids next

What sound deadin did u use? And how did you fix it? Also the window switch cable? Is that the proper route 4 it? As mine currently comes up though the standard speaker hole, as iv also got the ten speacker upgrade.

I used stuff called "Brown Bread" it is on Ebay basicly a copy of Dynamat but at 1/3rd the price each door cost me £13 plus carraige.....it is self adhesive foil with some sort of butyl backing, it works!

Far as I know the window switch cable route is correct......the iluminated lock rods share the same insulation and the harness is clipped onto the lower glass channel in 2 places the top one being well above the speaker opening!