the speaker grill on most door panels allows quite a bit of room for the speaker, so putting a ring in there is not the prob, its with all the deadener on the door itself that gets in the way when you go to put the panel back on. thats what i was talking about.i'm not sure what your talking about when you say "clip", but you deading it all, then you stick 3/4 of your sized speaker mdf on the door and stick your speaker on it, its as simple as that...