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Do 1" tweeters fit in the stock EX/LX sail panels?

Thanks!

 
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Do you own a dremel tool? They may need modification depending on depth, etc...

 
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lol.....I hope dremel sends you royalty checks once and a while.....jk

 
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Yes, I do own a Dremel. Probably the best thing I own....other than a DVD burner.

Anyway....are you talking about the sails with the factory tweeter pods? I checked my "smooth" ones and it looks near impossible to dremel out a hole to mount the tweeters. Not enough clearance back there with the wires for the mirror.

 
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I didn't look at your profile. I managed to get a set of EX coupe sails to work in a sedan. Another idea would be to take the stock sail panels from your sedan and mount them via a surface mount cup. From there, glass it to make it look like the EX flush mount. Just a few ideas I had.

 
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I have a coupe

I could do that, but if I can get the EX sails for $7 each at my dealer and the install will go very smooth, I'd rather go that route. And I've never glassed anything before.

 
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In that case, the EX sails will work perfectly. You may have to cut and trim them a little to accomodate the flush mount cup, but they're not a problem. That's the method I'd recommend and use every time.

 
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Thank you. So a 1 incher is the correct size?

 
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diamond audio tweeters fit...i'm running diamond audio m3 components right now, and using EX sail panel

the m3's came with 2 sets of adaptors for the tweeters, one set was too long to fit, but the other set was perfect fit.

 
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It's tweeter specific. Even tweeters of the same size will have mount cups, different shapes, no screws, 2 screws, tabs, etc, etc. Yes it's possible to fit 1" tweeters, but some are easier than others. I'm struggling to remember what speaker it is, but I dealt w/ one last year that was a 1" tweeter with a cup that didn't seperate. The tweeter speaker itself was 1" but the body was much bigger.

 
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I was saying that they should fit. True, some of the cups would need more modification than others, and more than likely the plastic in the bottom of the existing cup will have to be removed. I did my first set with a razor blade, exacto knife, 40 grit sand paper, and finished with 120 grit. It too a little longer than the dremel, but it's not too hard to manage without.

 
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Thank you all. I think I'll try it out.

 
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Yeah, I generally stick to razors and exacto knives when working with small areas of ABS plastic - much cleaner and easier than a dremel. A bic lighter to heat up the blades makes slicing through much easier too. Hey my outlook is any tweeter will fit there, it's just a matter of how much modding your willing to do.
I had a kid ask me once, "hey will an 8" subwoofer fit in my door?" I said "yup - we'll have to completely rebuild your trim panel from fiberglass, but It'll go in."

 
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haha Very true. I just ordered my Kicker components. I can't wait to install them! Yeeeeeah!

 
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I posted a thread on how I did mine including how I mounted them behind the sail panels.

 
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I'm just curious, are you looking to flush mount them in the sail panels or are you going to have them angled?

 
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I'm really not sure yet. I'd like to angle them towards me as much as possible, but I'm not sure that's possible with the EX sails. If I knew how to glass I could make it exactly how I want with the ones I have now. Any ideas?

 
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Well I got my components last Thursday and picked up the EX tweeter pods and installed the tweeters today. It took me about an hour of being moderately careful and I think they came out great. This is my first time doing something like this, but it was pretty easy. Just grinding/sanding/cutting the inside so they fit perfectly. Here's one of em.


Damn I love my new camera!

 
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looks nice! very clean. I'm planning on doing this with a pair of MB Quarts hopefully early this summer.

 
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Quart tweeters fit perfectly, minimal effort

 
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Thanks! I had to use a bit of finesse to fit em in there. There was a little bump on the inside of the pod that I knew had to come off and I took maybe 1mm off of the entire inside diameter. I also had to grind away some in the corner and side of the pod to get the clearence I need to get a perfectly flush fit.