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Re: Stereo install

To: kyle@sonic.net, datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Stereo install
From: DemonTSi@aol.com
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 03:06:01 EDT
In a message dated 7/7/99 1:10:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time, kyle@sonic.net 
writes:

<< Okay, so that brings up my next question - where in the heck are
 they supposed to go?  The car is a '69, FWIW, tho' the doors
 aren't materially different AFAIK....
 
 From the looks of things, there's no way to mount the speaker in
 the panel itself without interfering with the window crank.
 
 What am I missing?  Do people actually cut the aluminum panel
 below the door panel too? >>

I was trying to look for erik miller's page on his stereo install, but it's 
gone now. What he did was cut a hole for his 6.5" speakers in the lower most 
part of the door panels. What made his install even more difficult that what 
you would have is that he used a 6.5" coaxial with a protruding tweeter. So 
to make sure that the tweeter level was flushed in enough to allow the window 
crank full travel, he had to rear mount the speakers on some fiberboard which 
were also rear mounted on the doors. So basically...he cut a 6.5" hole in the 
door, got a piece of fiberboard about 1/8" thick and a tad larger than the 
hole, cut a hole just a hair under 6.5" in teh fiberboard...mounted the 
speaker to the back of the board...and then screwed the whole unit to the 
inside of the door/back of the front skin. To do this, he removed the window 
and contorted his way in through the access hole. He also used allen bolts to 
be super sure that no one would be able to remove the speakers easily. To top 
everything off, he cut a 6.5" hole in the vinyl-wrapped fiberboard door 
panel, and put a grille in that hole. No interference with the window 
crank...and great sound. We could easily hear everything even while cruising 
at 70+mph on the fwy.
In your particular case, you don't have to go through as much as erik did. 
Just rear-mount a board and screw your speaker in from the front. That should 
sink the woofer in enough to clear the crank's throw.

Van

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