[newold_m]

Looking forward to your updates! Those are the speakers I am leaning towards as well. It’ll be great news if the factory speaker adapters can be made to work w/o anything extra. I was leaning towards getting these adapters custom cut to accommodate the 8” speakers but that company never responded to my email/website inquires.

 

[newold_m]

Thanks, @newold_m ! I have a feeling (from the kind gent who steered me towards the Focals) that we can just reuse/modify the old grills from the OEM 8" -- but that will be a piece of the puzzle.

Looking at that link you posted, it says the hole is cut for a 5.5" speaker...so I doubt that those would work -- but it says "Standard cutout diameter is 5.5″ but we can change this to whatever you need, just ask." Did you try phoning them as well? Again, a lot of people buy inexpensive 6.5" speakers to drop in there and zip-tie them into the cages -- but I want as much big boom as possible (LOL)!

Apparently the speakers are on their way. I asked a rep at WoofersEtc about the crossover yesterday, and they seemed to confirm that the crossover (capacitor) is already inline with the tweeter, which should make things easy. Apparently we just remove the original tweeter in the dash (front L and R) and those should have the crossover already there. In turn, we just replace the tweeters that come with the 8" (wire them to the 4" in parallel), and we're good to go. Apparently the 4"is a direct fit.

Fingers crossed here!

Living in West Coast by the time I catch a break from morning/afternoon meetings it’s usually too late to call but maybe I’ll give that a try. In any case if you can make the stock grills work then that‘ll be the simpler solution

Are you getting the ISU 200 model? I think that’s the latest 8” one that is currently on sale.