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Can You Retro Fit Tweeters In The Factory A-pillar Mounts?

Bliksem

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Bliksem

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My car wasn't optioned with the factory A-Pillar tweeters, but I have found some a-pillar tweeter trimmings and was wondering if I bought them and fitted them to my car if you could fit aftermarket tweeters (focals to be specific) in them?

here's come pics of the factory tweeter trimming:

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rocketboy Enthusiast

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Theres not as much room behind the A pillar trims as it looks so fitting aftermarket tweets may not fit too easily behind the factory grills. The factory optioned tweets are quite small.

Give it a measureup and see, some of the focal tweets are fairly small so you never know I suppose.

RANDY Veteran

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I looked into it when I was doing my install.. Not enough room.

And from memory, the little rectangle doesn't pop out, it's just a groove in the plastic if you didn't have the tweeter option. You probably would have to cut the holes out?

RANDY Veteran

RANDY

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Stylish.. now THAT's doing it right!

If you can get your hands on the pillars, wouldn't they have the tweeters still attached?

Or is the quality of the optional tweeters lacking somewhat?

RANDY Veteran

RANDY

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Naww bro! Get two a-pillar guage-holders, and then stick them in that. Then light them up with a bright blue light and write "NISMOHKSGREDDY" on them.

;op

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Chris Rogers Grand Master

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Yep, but I was going to replace the whole panel with one that had the tweeter option :O

nice , neat and only you know what is under it :spank:

finding them could be fun though.

Chris Rogers Grand Master

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what about the tweeters on the r34 pillars? can they be replaced by aftermarket?

never tried. I think the one I have coming up on friday has them so I'll look.

R34 Sedan Community Regular

R34 Sedan

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If you have $600 focal speakers (very nice) you don't want to be mounting them in the A pillars as the positioning is extrememly poor sound wise.

I had a professional install done on mine with a pair of focal split's, and they mounted the tweeters at the back of the dash board (tilteded on an angle), paying great attention to the positioning and angle they mounted at.

If your spending the money of this sort of quality gear it;s really worth positioning the speakers correctly. Extremely happy with mine, they really look quite neet.

Bliksem Veteran

Bliksem

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ahh thanks for the tip mate.

I have heard alot about tweeter positioning, if you ask FHRX he will suggest mounting them in the foot well, other people suggest near the windscreen, and others about a hand space from the midbass driver. I guess it all depends on personal taste. Chris Rogers will prob suggest another place again :dry:

R34 Sedan Community Regular

R34 Sedan

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Yeah mine are mounted near the windscreen.

Other thing is when your installing quality gear you really must sound deaden the front doors to get the most out of it. Really is amazing the difference it makes. As with everything it must be installed properly, if you can afford it Dynamat Xtreme is the best, but some of the others are OK.

Heaps of info on sound deadening in these forums.

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donut_kng Experienced

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I have just fitted a set of pioneer splits to my front doors, I also was after the clean and tidy look so i sprayed the silver tweeter trimmings matt black. The combo of dynamat extreme on the inner and outer door sheetmetal and the positioning of the tweeter is great, the tweeters literally scream at you, not like some other tweeters ive seen where you struggle to hear them. Heres a pic of my door setup.

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