Hey all,
I've been trying to get the Kappa 60.9cs tweeter mounted for about 2+ hours now. Here's a photojournalistic summary of what I've tried to do to "squeeze it in there".
Please provide any advice here since right now I've pretty much destroyed the trim piece with severe modification and need to get the final strategy ironed out on this one before ruining the other side.
TIA,
B
HERE WE GO!
So first of all here are some shots of the two side-by-side (OEM vs. Kappa):
BTW, the OEM Bose tweeter is really a Clarion:
Anyway, as you can see the Infinity tweeter is HUGE compared to the OEM. But was determined to get it in there. I had to make SERIOUS dremel mods to the OEM tweeter mount trim piece to even get the Kappa tweeter to come close to sitting flat. I even had to completely dremel out one of the posts that held in the OEM tweet. I also had to remove the small cone on top of the Kappa to help it get in there:
After I got it in there it was still not sitting as low as it needs to. The screw in front here was supposed to sit flush on top of that plastic column. As you can see this thing is really jammed in here, and won't go in much further.
It's still sticking out of the top slightly, so the piece is going to have issue when installed:
Looks ok from this angle but this is not looking good from the side shots:
Before I could get it on there, I had to remove one of the nuts holding the side view mirror, as it was hitting the MONSTER tweeter:
Now that it's on after removing that nut, it doesn't look bad here:
But these shots confirm it's not sitting flat all the way down. You can see that the tweeter is so huge that it's preventing the trim piece from sitting flush (sideways shot third one down just below):
Here's the passenger side, perfectly flush:
