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Hi,

I'm currently in the process of doing some audio upgrades in my car - the next step looking at upgrading my front speakers. I've already pretty heavily sound-deadened the car - in the boot, rear seat area, parcel shelf, and front-doors.

The setup currently consists of a sunlight readable double-din touch-screen in the front, plugged into a car-pc running Centrafuse in the boot. Sound from the car-pc runs via an optical cable into an Audison Bitone, and from there into a pair of amplifiers. An Audison Voce Quattro is used for the fronts/rears, and a Kenwood KAC-9105D for the subwoofers. Rear speakers are Alpine SPR-60 - which should be adequate for the task (they're just rear fill, really). I have a pair of old - but capable - Kenwood KFC-W1204dB+ 12" dB+ for the subwoofers - I'm probably over-powering these.

The fronts are still some cheapie 3-way Pioneers I bought to upgrade the factory paper factory speakers when I bought the car in 2007 - with all of the other upgrades that I've performed in the meantime, they're really letting everything else down.

I've been heavily eyeing off the FOCAL K2 Power 165KR, but I'm not even sure if they'll fit in the front.

Does anyone have any experience with these speakers, and can share their experiences? Does anyone know if they'll even fit the front doors of a skyline (R34 GTT)?

Thanks in advance.

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They will fit in the front of a r33 (can't say for 34), but you need to do pretty heavy dremeling of the factory mounts to do so. Both the diameter and the mounting depth is larger (bigger speaker basket and larger magnet) so you need to be pretty savage. Still plenty of room to clear door trims and window mechanism though.

Re-purposing the factory mounts still seemed better then using mdf which will deteriorate as soon as it gets wet.

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Last night I removed the A-pillar covers, and factory tweeters to assess fitment. I'd been warned these were a fairly shallow location, and I might have issues mounting aftermarket tweeters here. I removed the grill and flush-mount cover, which reduced the size of the tweeter, but it was still a good 3-4mm thicker than the R34 factory-option tweeters. For test-fitment purposes, I attached the tweeter to the back of the A-pillar cover with some tape. The cover snapped into place, and seemed to have sufficient space for the tweeter, without any obvious rubbing. So it looks like this could be a win.

Plan now is to adapt the factory tweeter mounts to hold the new tweeter in the correct location. It's probably not the optimal location sound-wise, but it definitely achieves the factory-look that is important to me.

Then onto the main speakers in the doors, and finding the best location to mount the cross-overs.

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