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Another option for a-pillar mounting is to buy a couple pairs of a-pillar covers from a junk-yard, some cloth from wal-mart (or your old clothes), and give a try custom glassing/bondo bombing the tweets in.

You really don't need much in terms of tools for a-pillars since they can be fabricated, hand sanded, and whatnot fairly quickly and easily.

 
Well I guess there are some other options out there that would suit me. I really don't want to put the tweets in the dash. Imaging would be way off and I want to keep the mids and tweets close together. Should the tweets aim toward the driver's seat or toward the middle like the dome light?

 
Alright fellas, I need your input badly. I don't want to put the tweets in the dash so I have included some pictures of ideas of where to mount them. I have the places numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4. Let me know what you think.....

 
Instead of asking people what would be our best guess I suggest you to use double side tape and put the tweeter in all different locations that you think they will sound ok and properly (for you).

Put it in loc. 1 and play some music and lesson for all difernet seating locations at your car (specially front, both seats), then do the same with location 2, etc, etc.

Once you have a choice then make the final installation.

One quick advice is that most of users found speakers "harsh" which most of the time I have found that most likely it's a poor installation. You have no idea of how important installation is over a system, a regular component can put a high end component to shame if is under good installation. I have seen people complain about their $$$ expensive components not perform well but all comes out to installation (keep this in mind).

One trick is that midbass woofer has to be as close as possible to the tweeter, we often make some mistake and put the woofer in stock location and tweeters up in the dash, or side mirrors, etc. and this make your ears caught high frequencies closer than the low freqs. and that's when we think a comp. is harsh and anoying but in my experience I can tell you most of the time is about installation (of course metal tweeter are brighter than silk, don't want to go deep on that), and also the tweeter attenuation plays a big role since sometimes we put speakers at 0 since they came shipped like that (but is important to play with this also).

Remember, whenever a manufacturing is designing a component, they are only guessing where the tweeter will be mounted in relation with the woofer and the drivers (lessoners) position.

Sorry for going long and write you a book, but I hope this info can help you.

 
Thanks.........that was very informative. I guess it would be a good idea to play around with them in different positions. Should they angle toward the driver's seat or more toward the dome light for example??

 
Yeah, I'm thinking either location 1 or 2. When I get rid of the truck, I might want to keep my comps so I don't want to cut any holes in my door panels. The a-pillar covers and sail panel can be replaced. Thanks!

 
After receving my Rsd's and some careful consideration, I'm looking at installing the tweets in either location 2 or 4. My question is, wouldn't 4 be optimum since they are closer to the mid woofer?? The tweets angle so I can point them up toward me.

 
Good question Tbayz, even though the websites say like 5.5-6.0, it's more like 6.5 inches for the 12's for the full mounting depth. Like an inch more than they say online, almost screwed me over.

 
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