Hi all,
I have a pair of alpine spr-175a 6 1/2" splits for the front of my VL Commodore and would like to know the best way to install them. was thinking making angled pods for the wwofers and mounting tweeters where the side mirrors are (electric no knob there). I have allready S/D the doors and door trims and the pods will be made out of 18mm mdf. Just after some feedback on what you have found to be the best.

Thankyou for any help at all.

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most people follow the general principle of woofers in the doors and tweets nearby in the kickpanels.

and there's good reason for it:
*woofers need 'space' to breathe; essentially some form of enclosure, and the doors are convenient to provide this; so, as you're doing, mount them on custom pods, allowing them to vent into the doors
*all the speakers (ie: woofer, tweeter, and midrange in a 3-way setup) should be kept as close together as possible to avoid the problems of 'separation', where you can hear high freq in one spot, and midbass in another, which creates poorer imaging
*the kicks usually provide the best in terms of equidistant pathlengths for the tweets: that is, the L and R tweets are a similar distance from your ears; door or dash mounting them tends to leave the R tweeter much closer to you than the L, and that causes staging problems

i'm not very familiar with the interior of the VL, so can't offer specific advice.

good luck

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