I would try doing this if you would like to install some excellent speakers
in the doors of your vanagon:

I used Boston Acoustic CX4 speakers, I removed the original grills and cut
the cover right behind the mounting surface, all you want to retain is the
cover, not the screw housing and old speaker.

 You will want to mount the screws in the middle of the ring of plastic
surrounding the speaker holes, you will have to take a dremmel to the spkr
housing so that it will allign with the holes you just made in the modified
cover.  it looks good and looks stock, but sounds 10 times better than the
original speaker

Malibu Tony 85' westy  6 degrees BTDC

More Clearence for front door speakers

Fellow Vanageeks,

     I've noticed in reports in the past of list members having a narrow
choice in speakers for the front doors.  Having had to replace my door
cranks with new VW ones from Bus Depot, I noticed that the replacement ones
give about a 1/2 inch more clearence for the speaker.  Hope this helps out
all you audiofiles out there.

Jason M Yasment
'84 Westfalia