Moving Speakers in Door Panel

[NJSHO]

Has anyone ever attempted to move the door speakers down further in the door panel, and modify the panel, so that they dont fire into the dash as much? Is there enough room behind the carpeted part of a gen 1 door panel? Would the door panel be able to hold a speaker or should it be mounted to the metal behind the panel? Any info would be great. Thanks

 

[yamahaSHO]

I personally would not bother. Same with kick panels. They may make the distance between the two less of a gap, but that all goes away with someone sits down in the seat and their legs block the speakers.

I personally think the location in the stock doors are pretty good. The far speakers seems to sound like it is firing directly at you when the nearest speaker does not. This almost evens up the sound so that you're not getting blasted from one side. This is my own opinion. I have installed many car stereo systems and I have always hated kick panels and the like.

 

[93medusa]

you'd have to relocate the window motor i'm pretty sure

 

[SHO92]

I've had a system in all 3 of my SHOs, along with helping all my friends with theirs. My current SHO is the first I've had kickpanel speakers in, and I'd never go back to door mounted. The way I did my kicks isn't very optimal, but I still want a functioning parking brake, so I had to work around that. The Taurus doors have horrible speaker locations since the speaker is so high up in the door, but it doesn't sound as bad as it could.
I'd recommend kickpanels in a Gen1/2 to anyone, speakers made for on axis listening would be even more optimal, but off axis works great also.

NJSHO, I remember seeing someone on carsound.com with speakers in the door panel, but it was a regular Taurus, so its going to be hard to find again. Its best to mount the speaker to the metal skin of the door, but mounting on the doorpanel itself, with some reinforcing should work too. Thats assuming the motor isn't in the way, and you keep it far forward.

 

[K-Dawg]

I've done a bit of looking into this subject and have come to the conclusion that Tauruii could not be set up much worse for speaker placement. Whether you're trying to mount them somewhere in the door, in kickpanels, whereever, it all sucks big time. The floor pan shape is weird, and with the parking brake, proper kickpanels would be difficult. The stock speaker mounting bracket sucks. And the shape of the door behind it only makes it worse. Then the window motor is right in the way of mounting the speakers in the lower leading edge of the doors. The only real option would be to fab some pods that mount on the door panel, but they would have to mounted sturdily, which the door panel does not easily accomadate. Short of hacking up the door panel there's not much that can be done for optimal speaker placement.

I'm currently working on beefing up the stock brackets and sealing them up. Hopefully it will work out.

 

[MADMIKE]

To much work and not a great outcome..leave them