Need help with Mach 460 door tweeter

[WhiteStallion94]

Long story short, I am a complete stereo noob, but my younger brother is pretty good at that sort of thing so I am going to let him put a stereo together for my car. The one thing I need help with is mounting the tweeters though. As you can see in the picture below, there is a mounting bracket piece inside the door, which I unfortunately did not receive when I purchased the tweeters.

(Edit: photo embedding not working for me. Picture in link: http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/9199/img0072oy.jpg)

Is there a simple way to mount the tweeter without that piece?

Thanks in advance.

 

[joekd]

Are you trying to put MACH tweeters on a non-mach door panel?

 

[WhiteStallion94]

Are you trying to put MACH tweeters on a non-mach door panel?

For now, yes, although my passenger side door panel could use replacing and I have considering replacing them and painting them to match.

 

[ttocs]

if your saying you don't have the pod/mount to put on there I am not sure what you will do. You can remove the bottom of the pod and they will still fit above the standard door panel but otherwise the mach system had its own door panel.

 

[WhiteStallion94]

Is it possible to mount the tweeter on a non-460 panel? I seem to remember that it wouldn't fit, so wouldn't there be some modification involved?

 

[ttocs]

yes but you need to remove the bottom of the 460 tweeter pod/enclosure. It simple falls off most of the time by this point anyway but....

 

[WhiteStallion94]

Ok, I see what you are saying. Looks like you have to take a dremel to the pod so it just simply sits over the door panel inside of fitting inside it.

How would I physically mount the tweeter without that bracket piece though? Is there a way to bolt it up inside of the door by the side view mirror?

 

[ttocs]

throw a short screw into the back of the enclosure into your sail panel with the tweeter out of the pod. Then you can just mount the tweeter with the regular mounting screws as normal.

 

[WhiteStallion94]

Thanks! I'll give that a shot.

 

[lutter94]

If you find a way to mount these pods in a non-mach door, you should do a little write up with pics. This is the first I have ever heard that they use a different door panel. I don't have them, but thought about adding them later.....

 

[ttocs]

if he finds a way? I just told him how. Its not hard to do. Just remove the bottom portion of the enclosure and they do not look out of place at all on the regular door panels.

With that being said the sail-panels are not all that great of a place for a speaker. It adds seperation but ruins the soundstage. I do not run any speakers in mine and i Have the pods.

 

[joekd]

They are different door panels, I had bought some non-mach sail panel covers when I was first doing my speakers thinking a surface mount tweeter woudl look better and there was no way to use them with my mach panels without looking like complete trash so I ended up mounting my tweeters inside the OEM mach housings.

 

[jumbowolfe]

I just recently did this. I mounted my Infinity component tweeters in mach 460 enclosures. The pods came off a 2002, but I cut the bottoms off of the pods to fit my 94 (I previously did not have a mach system). Then I cut ABS plastic to make rings for the holes, the mounted the tweeters to the ABS plastic. Then I just screwed down the ABS rings I made to the pod, and mounted.

The only issue I ran into was the dome on the tweeters. They "rose" up too high to get the stock 460 covers on, so I had to (don't cringe stereo guys) take a hammer and flatten the top part of the metal dome every so slightly to get the covers to fit.

I can take some shots of it, but it was pretty basic. Just use ABS to mount the tweeters into. Make a football shaped ring buy using the stock tweeter shape. I actually dressed the enclosures up a bit as the guy who had these previously made the classic mistake of taking a screwdriver to pop off the covers. I covered mine in black vinyl with spray adhesive and they came out pretty sharp.

Let me know if I can help out, it was a fairly easy process.
Mike

 

[ttocs]

They are different door panels, I had bought some non-mach sail panel covers when I was first doing my speakers thinking a surface mount tweeter woudl look better and there was no way to use them with my mach panels without looking like complete trash so I ended up mounting my tweeters inside the OEM mach housings.

Wow, ok then 3rd time the charm maybe? If you click on the link above you will see the tweeter pod/enclosure and notice how the bottom portion comes off? If you trim that pod just above that line, then mount it to the sail you will have a hard time noticing if they are mach door panels.

 

[jumbowolfe]

Don't know if you found this yet on youtube, but this was a guide for what has to be done to get them to fit in a non-460 Stang.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RMFUd_enuE

He sorta hacks them up in this video. On mine, I just used a band saw to cut the bottom off evenly to fit my door panels.