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Sounds like you made good choices with the stereo equipment. It looks like glue is the only way you're going to get the grilles back on. Lucky you. I had no idea 5.25"s would fit in there. I've got 6"s mounted in the bottom of my doors. I had to cut and fabricate all mounting myself. I mounted the tweeters in the original 4" speaker holes behind the grilles. I had to superglue the grilles on, but it worked.
As far as the limitations inherent in a slight power mismatch between amp and speakers, don't worry about it. There are two ways to mismatch power, too powerful an amp, or too powerful speakers. In your case, the amp in the head is capable of blowing the speakers after high volume for a while, but you'd be able to hear the distortion, which is the speaker's cry for help. It shouldn't be a problem. If the amp was weaker than the speakers, then a situation can occur where you turn the volume up as high as it goes, and the amp starts sending a 'clipped' signal to the speakers, which can destroy them much more quickly than a too powerful amp.
As far as determining rms wattage by cutting peak wattage in half, it is usually the case, though there are variances depending upon brands. As far as speakers go, there are BS companies out there which will advertise a subwoofer as "500 watts" which is an overestimation of even the peak wattage, and the rms or 'continuous' wattage is really like 150. I'd watch out for that kind of stuff. In the world of speakers and amps, peak wattage is a functionally useless figure. Happy listening.
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