Any progress on the tweeter video?
Hey all! Sorry to leave you hanging for a couple days. I have done a few big things on this in the midst of my other work and projects, and was going to do my video on Friday last week, but with groovyd having some trouble with the middle dash speaker, I decided to try something slightly different before recording. Two major things... tldr, I will summarize on the bottom.
So first off, the Infinity speakers do sound really a lot better when you replace all 3, as opposed to doing just 2. If you intend to do just 2, I have tested and highly recommend disconnecting the center speaker and tweeter in that case. They seem to muddy up the sound somehow if they remain active with the new speakers. And the 2 speakers on the outsides of the dash, behave pretty well for installing, however, the middle speaker has a wire loom that needs moving (this is actually pretty easy, but only if you lengthen the cable going to the tweeter next to that speaker, More on that in a Second!) If you move the wire loom toward the cabin of the car, I have confirmed it is completely out of the way for the speaker install, and all is well. the speaker will drop straight in and lie flat. HOWEVER, I also just checked deeper in by pulling the tweeter on the dash out to dig around a little under the dash, and I found that the speaker does lie flat but is also pretty much in direct contact with the car frame. Obviously, that's not ideal and so you might think it makes sense just to make the bracket thicker. The trouble is that, as best I can measure, there is almost exactly 1cm between the dash base and the decorative cover once that is back on. I designed the bracket to barely fit in that space with the Infinity speakers. But I also just realized that the center of the dash seems to have an extra millimeter or two of space above it for that third tweeter to fit in. So to resolve the issue
@groovyd is having, I am printing right now a slightly thickened bracket (about .5mm thicker to be exact), which is barely bigger, but should be just enough to pull the center speaker completely off of the frame, while still fitting under the cover. With the other issue groovyd had with the blade connectors being too tight, I have started prying them up just slightly to loosen them before shipping, so you can get them on more easily. Then just use some pliers to crimp them down ever-so-slightly to make sure they are snug.....or just solder them if you don't mind doing that sort of work.
I also spent....
many many hours of time the past week protoyping, testing, and protoyping again brackets to hold the tweeters so you can actually replace all 3 stock tweeters perfectly, with no issues. The tweeters and their brackets are actually far easier, to install, because they have no tolerance issues fitting into the space allotted. And the door tweeters, if you have the brackets, are super simple to swap without any screws even. I have posted pictures on this post, and will add the free STL download and ordering ability to the site for those too. I also built plugs for all the tweeters and can solder and mail those too. The weird bit is the center dash tweeter. As
@flashflooder mentioned long ago, it is a passive tweeter (with a resistor inline). This is actually serendipitous, because,even though I cannot just send a cable for that one to you, if you buy the focal tweeters, they do come with the appropriate resistor cable already. Then you can attach the plug that I CAN send and you now have a longer tweeter cable, which allows you to move that wire loom I mentioned in the first paragraph. It's simpler than it sounds; I will show in the install video.
In short! After doing all the work above, I will test the center speaker one more time with the thicker bracket and then I will now be able to shoot the video for install, because I can actually fully install everything in the way that my perfectionism requires, without hacking it all together. For those of you who have already ordered the front dash brackets and plugs, if I find that the center speaker benefits from the thicker bracket, I will be happy to just send the new design straight to you at no charge with some extra speaker adhesive padding to install with. I think that's everything, but let me know if there are any questions! Below are the brackets printed and tested successfully with the door tweeters (smaller brackets) and the center dash (the weird looking one). Both are exact replicas of the original stock speakers, with space in the center to mount the focals.