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Thought I would post one of my side-projects for my 1970 Convertible. I want to put speakers in the front kick panels. The pictures below show my steps. My rationale was that I have a Convertible and it is an A/C car, and the 1970s have the flow through ventilation grills in the door sill. So.....I will have plenty of fresh air, but need some tunes. I will be running a Boss power amp, rear speakers and subwoofers off of my Boss DIN 1 flatscreen head unit. I installed Kicker 5-1/4", 40CS54 Speakers. The "CS" series are low profile, and fit nicely. First step was to get an extra set of kick panels.....just in case I want to return to original. Next, was to get some MDF from Lowes, and make a template the same shape as the vent box, and also, the hole for the speakers. Cut the MDF shape and speaker hole, and painted it black Cut the cable going to the vent door, and secured the door with a sheet metal screw Sprayed undercoating on the outside of the vent door, and the area where it seals to the air box Added dynamat on the inside and outside of the vent box Put the BoomMat speaker baffles inside the vent box. Routed the speaker wires through the BoomMat and through a hole in the airbox, sealed with RTV Mounted the speakers to the MDF, and the MDF to the airbox Took new kickpanels and used an X-Acto knife to carefully trim the vent louvers out of the kickpanel Looked forever on EBay and Amazon to find speaker grills that I liked and were the right diameter, and could be mounted. They have an inside "ring" that gets screwed to the MDF, and the grill is press fit on that ring Pictures below. Not sure how it will sound, but will be fun to find out!