First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List ......................................................................... Hey Chris,
So I take it that your sub woofer box also doubles as a gray water tank (from the PVC pipe hanging on it) ? ;-)
Now my junk-in-the-trunk takes up everything forward of the trunk lid opening but yours ..... As it is when we go on overnight cruises (or longer) we have to put our suit cases on the back seat and I bought some black towels to drape over them but I can still put SOME stuff in the trunk (no spare though).
Looks real nice. Great job. Hugo At 08:49 AM 1/24/2008, you wrote:
First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List ......................................................................... Bobby, You don't need to go overboard to get good sound up front. I would put the speakers you already purchased in the kick panels, and add tweeters up top. You can mount the 3.5s in the stock locations in the kick panels, or if you want to hide them better, you can mount them behind the kick panel in the vent area. I put 6.5s in my vent area with room to spare, but I had to disable the vent to do so. I didn't really care about the vents, as the top is always down when I'm driving the car anyway. For the tweeters I made two panels out of 5/8" MDF that lie on top of the dash and extend to the corner of the windshield, then I removed the grill and mounting hardware from the tweeters and flush mounted them in panels. I had already determined where they sounded best, and I made the panel in a manner that I could put the tweeters in that spot. After the tweeter is installed in the panel, I covered the panel with black grill cloth to make them blend in. The panels are held into place by pressure from being a tight fit, so no modifications to the dash are necessary. The only people that have ever actually seen them without me pointing them out have been people at stereo competitions. This can be seen in two pictures in the third row from the bottom of this page http://www.chrisandchristi.com/pp69convstereo.htm. Click on the small pics to see a larger version. Depending on the impedance of the 3.5s and tweeters you may need to run the speakers in series rather than in parallel. That will also depend on the impedance load your amp will handle. Your amp will have plenty of power to push them, so this will not be a problem. Since you have 6x9's in the back, the majority of the sound will still be coming from that location, but the addition of the highs in the front will definitely help. Chris R. 69 Firebird Conv (x2) http://www.chrisandchristi.com
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