Finally, Front Speaks

After putting the Pioneer 6x9's in the back, I basically had everything faded to the back to avoid the popping from the front speakers. Last weekend, after a wedding, I headed to Wal*Mart for a late night "dammit, I forgot to pack THAT?" run. While wandering around the automotive section, I decided to look at speakers, and found a badly damaged box of a pair of 5-1/4" Pioneer speakers...box was beaten, but the speakers looked ok, so I tried something out.

I found an employee and asked for a discount for the damaged box.

15% later, I had a new set of speakers to put in the dash.

Practically as soon as I got back the next day from the wedding, I had the speaker grilles out and the old speakers removed...I was in awe of the fact that these speakers were, literally, made of paper...britle, cracked, paper.

After measuring and finagling, I took out my trusty rotary tool and started hacking away at the plastic on the back of the grilles until it was all gone and I had an essentially flat piece of plastic, lined up and rilled a couple of holes, and attached the rather large Pioneer speakers to the grille...it was all I could do to avoid hitting things in the dash with the speakers, but I made them fit. I did have to add a couple of screws that can be seen once they're in teh dash, but they're black screws, so they blend, and i plan to recess them in sometime, just not right now...I'm not terribly worried about it.

After fitting the speakers and reinstalling the grilles, I tested the new and improved stereo, adjsuted the fade, and cranked her up, blaring the local classic rock station for all to hear.

My stereo is now complete (until I decide to run new wiring, and maybe add an amp and sub box), consisting of a Blaupunkt head unit, 2 Pioneer 6x9's, and 2 Pioneer 5-1/4's, and all of the speakers fit the original designs, leaving it visually untouched.