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[Civic96Lx 10+ year member]

am i loosing bass, do they have to be pretty sealed like a subwoofer would be... cuz i have some 6.5's in my doors and they dont go into my factory screw locations so i had to drill it in and it is a little tilted and not up against the back of the door...

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[Civic96Lx 10+ year member]

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[bass_lover1 10+ year member]

Yes, you will lose a bit of midbass response as well as overall clarity will be reduced.

My recommendation would be to fab up a 3/4" MDF spacer that should allow the basket to clear to stock speaker cutout.

 

[Civic96Lx 10+ year member]

...so something that will go over the speaker location and allow it to flush mount it.. what should i use to seal it up?? silicon??

 

[Trey803 5,000+ posts]

You shouldnt have to seal it with anything except a little non-hardening model clay around the edges of the "baffle" Another way to increase the midbass is to cover you doors in a dampening material.

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

am i loosing bass, do they have to be pretty sealed like a subwoofer would be... cuz i have some 6.5's in my doors and they dont go into my factory screw locations so i had to drill it in and it is a little tilted and not up against the back of the door...

I put 6.5" drivers in my front doors where the factocy location only allowed for a 4" speaker to reside.

Consequently I had to make a spacer to both allow it to sit flat against the door panel as well as allow for the backside of the driver to clear my window workings.

When I still used the OEM-sized speakers in the factory location ~

Before:

After I went with 6.5" components (though these are not the components currently installed)

After:

 

[Grmanalishi 10+ year member]

Closed cell foam or a MDF baffle. If they are behind the door and not flush you might get reflections with the door panel. You may or may not notice a sound difference.

 

[Civic96Lx 10+ year member]

how about this??

http://cgi.ebay.com/2-INSTALLBAY-XTC-UNIVERSAL-6-5-6-1-2-CAR-SPEAKER-BAFFLE_W0QQitemZ270118066422QQihZ017QQcategoryZ50552QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

how would this work??

 

[Civic96Lx 10+ year member]

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[///M5 10+ year member]

If your doors don't look like this

or this (without acoustic fabric, ensolite in this case)

You need to fill those holes, the MDF baffle is really helpful as well. Just bolting up speakers is a sure way to make them sound bad.