[eightbanger]

Originally Posted by RETROSOUNDUSA

Thanks for the great Post Eightbanger! We do make a thin Dual Voice coil 4x10 speaker (R-410N) Santoprene surround, neodymium magnets! Here's the link to it on our site: http://www.retrosoundusa.com/products/details/id/68
Email our tech support (support@retrosoundusa.com) for questions!

This is exactly the speaker I went for in the end, the original speaker bracket required some re-working to hold the new speaker in place...got there in the end.

Originally Posted by Hubscrub

here some pics of what i did (as promised) in the second pic i trimmed som more off the original speaker later it was a tight fit with the tweeter sticking out of the main speaker.

Thank you Hub for posting the pics, looks like a perfectly good solution to the problem.