Eyeball
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Bringing this one back from the dead…They are the RoadPro RPSP-15 speaker. They look identical to the now discontinued Kenwood KES-3 speakers which is what got me looking at them in the first place. I'm guessing they're made by the same manufacturer as you can find these speakers with a few different brand's logos on them. Turns out they have excellent reviews, both on Amazon, and on a number of CB/Ham related forums (especially for a $16 speaker).
When you remove the grilles from the original enclosures, you'll see they have the threaded bosses for the 4 mounting screws. You just need to drill a matching pattern in your trim panel and screw it on. You'll notice I put washers under the screw heads. This keeps the speaker itself in place as the original enclosure handles that duty on an unmodified speaker. I really don't think you could find a better speaker to shoehorn into this spot, and you definitely can't go any bigger without making a custom bezel for the grill. Be warned... while the driver side is a piece of cake to install, the passenger side takes some very careful planning as there is a wiring harness that takes up most of the real estate where the speaker magnet needs to go.
After seeing your post and the clean results you achieved, I was inspired to the same. I picked up a pair of the speakers from Amazon. I pulled off the trim piece today and started thinking through placement. Then I paused after looking at the speakers and how they will need to sandwich between the speaker cover and the overhead trim piece.
The rim that goes around of the speaker that gets sandwiched between the speaker grill and the overhead trim piece is only about 1/8 wide.I can see if the hole is cut even just a small bit too big, the speaker will just fall through.
Your install came out great, do you have suggestions to share about how you got those hoes just right?
(For those that are not familiar with these speakers, I have attached a picture showing the speaker rim)
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