SPAZZ, any pics of your install? I'm starting to think that you have a different OEM setup behind your interior panel than I (or many of us) do as I can't seem to understand the mounting you did.

Are you just talking about mounting the 6x9 to the inside of the panel... like screwing the screws through the holes in the speaker frame and into the panel itself, bypassing the metal mounting bracket all together?

If so, this could work... the speaker hole in the panel is a nasty guy, and scrapes my hands up whenever I reach back there as it has plastic sharp edges all around it. If you plan on using speakers that would require tearing up the OEM metal mounting brackets to mount them, I would consider doing what SPAZZ is speaking of and mounting them to the speaker hole area inside the cladding. Just be careful not to use a screw that would penetrate through the panel.