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Originally Posted by IC2

It must have warmed up in Kansas for you to get back in the shop - puleaaase send us some. 22* this morning here.

Glad to see you are back and progressing instead of puttering like I'm doing.

And upholstery - looks like I have to make a few minor mods on mine - but not a big deal so am looking for your progress as I have little skills with that stuff

We're about 41F here today after 24F at daybreak. Yeah, the barn's a bit chilly but if I fire the tornado heater to take the edge off it's OK. I'm still a bit leery of stretching & gluing material, but my friend at G&J Upholstery sold me a gallon of his bulk glue to use in an old siphon spray gun, so it's just a matter of diving in We'll see how it works soon.

With a receiver in hand I had to find a place to mount it First considered the flat panel behind the seats, but it would be too hard to get to the controls, and using only the remote did not appeal to me. I looked at overhead consoles from Valley (Lynn's pointer), but elected to make a simple pod from fiberglass and mount it to the solid headliner panel, up against the valance panel centered up front. For this one I took a piece of 16ga flat stock and cut a mounting hole for the front panel, then formed a box from green floral foam and glassed it in using resin and bondo to mount the metal plate to the box. I made a pair of hardwood mounts and bolted them to the headliner. The shot of the pod on the headliner is laying flat on a work surface, but you get the idea how it fits The hole in the foreground is for a dome light assembly I picked up from Juliano's - a sweet unit that has dual circuits so it lights with the doors, or you can push each side individually for a map light feature.

You might recall that I put a pair of speakers in the headrests of each seat, and I planned to run the speakers in the corners as "rear" with the seat speakers as "front", but when I went to figure out the wiring I learned that the pre-amp in a receiver is not stable at 2 ohms load, which is what you get with two pairs of speakers wired in parallel; and that it will not push 8 ohms that you get in series Sooooo, the space that I had originally earmarked for the receiver, on the panel behind the seats, makes a good space for the amplifier that is required to drive six speakers. Here's a shot of the back with everything in place, minus speakers in the corner pods. I plan to put a map pocket below the amp, since there is zero storage room! Going to get the carpeting put in by G&J before I upholster the back panels and kick panels, to be sure they don't need trimming, but have to fab door thresholds first.

Wow Roger, it's really coming along. Nice work on the speaker mount, headliner and other components for the sound system. I like the velcro idea so much I might have to try that myself, when the time comes.

Lookin great!! On the short strokes now.

What other audio components are you going to use? (Head unit, amps, etc)?

Don Jr.

Originally Posted by Mr Blue

Lookin great!! On the short strokes now.

What other audio components are you going to use? (Head unit, amps, etc)?

Don Jr.

Don,
I picked up a basic Kenwood 345U receiver that has front Ipod and USB ports, and it came with a pair of Kenwood G1620 2-way speakers. I already had a pair of Boss D35.2 3.5" 2-ways in each seat, so that pushed me to a Kenwood KAC 2404S 4-channel amp. Should be more than enough for an old guy!