Thread: Roadster owners- what are you doing for tunes in your ride?

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I saw a pretty big smoke cover in a Jeep today. Check w/ an offroad store too.

Hmmmmm. A good exhaust system is stereo, open headers makes it surround sound!!!!! Who needs a radio anyway?????

Steves32, Thanks for the tip. Actually there are quite a few vendors for radio splash covers, just search under "marine radio covers" or "universal radio covers". My problem is this is my first complete car build and I did a lot of things out of order and in this case I have cut a hole in the dash for the radio which is too far to the right side where the '32-in-a-'29 dash narrows to about 3 1/8" inch and just about all the splash covers are 4 1/8" tall and about 9" wide so I am sort of stuck with a hole in the wrong place. Since there are several types locally I can hopefully just use the blister lid which is smaller and rig up my own gasket setup. I am only worried about water running over the top of the radio face since the rubber strip along the bottom of the A windshield just laps up against the windshield frame and will probably leak in a downpour. I hope the roadster will be a fair weather touring car but you never know when rain may come. Steves32, thanks again for the tip I think I can adapt part of a unit and use only the hinged blister with my own gasket. So far just about every part on the car has needed some adaptation so what is new?

Dave S. I recently got an exhaust setup with 2.25" pipes and an H-crossover in front of turbo mufflers so I hope it will turn out to be a medium mellow sound but I mainly want to play music at slow speed and when parked at one of those informal parking lot meets. In the summer I commute along I95 with the top down in my little Sunfire convert and I can hear the melody up to about 50 mph but at 65 mph all I get is the wind and the low notes so I crank up the volume and for me it is worth it to have the radio on even at 65 mph. With the Model A vertical windshield and the antique style wind wings the wind noise may be a lot louder in the A but I can still play the radio going slow on local blacktop roads.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Just never was big on the tune playin' part of building a car for me.... Mine are usually "toys" (aka race car in street clothing) and when I'm out and about with the car it's not usually to check out the radio stations..... Been all over the country in roadsters, can't really see where the trip would have improved with a radio..... Just a matter of preference and priorities, I guess. However, the Bonneville has a Bose system and a 10 disc CD player---long distance cruizin' in comfort!!!!

i do not have a roadster not that i would not want one .but i like to hear my engines it is the best song i like to play it best played at 6500+ rpm s .a radio just could not cut it

I put mine in the trunk, out of the weather, and out of sight. Everything is operated by a remote to a little eye on the floor. I always put in a stereo in my cars. On a long distance trip it comes in handy at times. I enjoy listening to the motor at other times, a little of this and a little of that
Ken

My head unit is tucked under the dash & my changer is behind the seat under the body. Rain doesn't get to it. I don't listen to it all the time but I do when I'm driving the local roads or our yearly cruise down the rose parade route the day before.

Yea..... it's worth it.

Well, a lot of my problem has to do with the fact that my mistake was cutting a hole in the dash very early in my build without understanding the implications later on. Now I think I have solved the rain/water problem with a nice clear plastic cover over the radio with about one inch space for my fingers and I will post a picture when it is completely installed. However it looks like now I will not be able to change the CD disk with the cover bolted down! I am mulling this over to add a slot which would then nullify the purpose of the cover OR maybe I will just load about 15 or 16 of my favorites onto one disk and leave it in there and just switch between the radio and the one and only CD disk. Still, I often play one track on a CD over and over in my Sunfire and have left one disk of Ace of Base selections in there for several years so I think I can cut one CD with a few favorites from Ace of Base, Mammas and Pappas, Eagles and maybe a few Beach Boys tunes and just leave it in there. Man oh man there are a lot more complications building a kit from scratch than restoring a car! With my MG midget restoration all I did was farm out the body work, buy parts and install all the bolt-ons in the places where they go but now I have to make brackets and figure out everything but then a lot of you others have done that too so I will work it out.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

One word........................

Ipod.

I rarely use my CD anymore- I just plug in the Ipod & go.

I hid my stereo behind the speaker grille on my 40 dash and i have an Ipod mount that is removeable by undoing a wingnut.