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The sticky claims a little less than 2" for speaker depth.
So I need a spacer?
Well gee, just how thick can I make the spacer before I have to worry about the speaker surround hitting the plastic door card? My speakers are 3" deep. Can I go 1" on the spacer?
^^My thoughts exactly. I'm sick of forums including speaker depth, but then they don't include how much room you have from the door panel to the plastic door card. Let me clear some things up.
If you were to roll down the window, you have right under 2" from the door panel to the window. This is where they get the 2" figure in the sticky.
I spent some time measuring the doors,
In the front doors of an 05 Legacy GT, you have exactly 3.25" from the window to the plastic door card & not a sixteenth inch more or less. So you do the math. That's about 1.25" from the door panel to the plastic door card. Can you get away with a 1" speaker spacer? Probably not. You still need to mount a speaker on there & that's going to be at least a quarter inch if not more. Remember, you need room for excursion. Your speaker surround is literally going to be pressed right up to the plastic door card after you put it back on the panel. NOT good.
***Take a look at the picture I included. See what's circled? That's the nut holding the window track to the door panel. Take the nut off, & throw a few washers in-between the window track & the door panel to push it back into the door cavity a bit. What? Lol ya riptard. You need to remove the speaker to do this. I did this & gained a quarter inch. I wouldn't go any more as you'll run out of threading on the stud. Plus you're putting tension on the window. Mine didn't roll up any slower, but if you go too much, it WILL roll up slowly.
so a little less than 2" of speaker depth? Rofl, no.
Car lingo:
Door panel: the metal thing you see after removing the plastic door card
Door card: The plastic thing covering the door panel. The thing you remove to get at your speakers.
Everyone gets those two mixed up.
Annnnd....
MiniDSP, JBL MS8, Audison Bitone & Bit ten, etc...
Idk why legacygt.com only includes the cleansweep. JL audio paying them to do this? There are oodles of other processors available. Threesixty one two three. Lol there's three more
What's the depth of the rear speakers? Idk, I never used them. I CAN tell you it is a lil more though...
Good luck!
My previous system:
Silver Flute 5" (2.75" depth) The 6" version would have been pushing it.
Dayton RS 75 Midrange
Dayton Silkies
Single Goldwood 8 on the rear shelf
Phoenix Gold M50 on the mids
Pair of Phoenix Gold M25's on the midranges & tweets
M100 bridged for the goldwood. This was overkill big time.
I don't even remember what my x over points were
Oh yeah.
I used the stock speaker wires as trying to fish wiring through the door is ....too hard. Serious. Will that be okay even if I have an external amplifier? Lmao, look up the numbers. Unless your not running football fields of wire, yeah it'll be plenty. Trust me Im an engineer?
Does it count if you're a student? No serious, I'm ee.
Srs
Good luck!
