Robbidoo
Silverstone
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- 10 Jul 2015
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Sorry about the big title but I need the brain trust in here.
I'm trying to replace the dash speakers in my 996 turbo and I seem to have an unusual amount of factory cabling below the mounting point on the driver's side, which is fouling the speaker when I try to drop it in.
Previous owner seems to have cut the black plastic shielding already, but i need another 10mm at least to get the magnet of even the most meagre of after market speakers to drop in. (I have Alpine SPG-10C2 which are the go-to drop in replacement. I also have Audison APX4 which are actually slightly more compact - neither fit).
Here is another image I found of the area (from @Super_Paulie 's ebay page) but I don't know which model 996 it's from. You can see a cable there but nothing like as many wires and girth as on mine:
Has anyone else done this and come across the same issue? How did you get around it?
I am open to ideas.
1. Moving the cables seems... tricky but does anyone know what they do and how I would go about doing it?
2. Custom grills/pods for the speakers? might look a bit non-oem but even running the speaker sitting 10mm out of the dash sounds 10 times better than the OEM bose, so I could live with it.
3. Heavily modifying the Porsche grill to get the speaker right up into it? Anyone done that before? (Right now I have both the @Super_Paulie adaptors as well as the www.cai-store.com Rod ones. Again neither give enough clearance)
I am pretty desperate. No bad ideas in here. All recommendations welcomed!
I'm trying to replace the dash speakers in my 996 turbo and I seem to have an unusual amount of factory cabling below the mounting point on the driver's side, which is fouling the speaker when I try to drop it in.
Previous owner seems to have cut the black plastic shielding already, but i need another 10mm at least to get the magnet of even the most meagre of after market speakers to drop in. (I have Alpine SPG-10C2 which are the go-to drop in replacement. I also have Audison APX4 which are actually slightly more compact - neither fit).
Here is another image I found of the area (from @Super_Paulie 's ebay page) but I don't know which model 996 it's from. You can see a cable there but nothing like as many wires and girth as on mine:
Has anyone else done this and come across the same issue? How did you get around it?
I am open to ideas.
1. Moving the cables seems... tricky but does anyone know what they do and how I would go about doing it?
2. Custom grills/pods for the speakers? might look a bit non-oem but even running the speaker sitting 10mm out of the dash sounds 10 times better than the OEM bose, so I could live with it.
3. Heavily modifying the Porsche grill to get the speaker right up into it? Anyone done that before? (Right now I have both the @Super_Paulie adaptors as well as the www.cai-store.com Rod ones. Again neither give enough clearance)
I am pretty desperate. No bad ideas in here. All recommendations welcomed!