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stereo for 70 super bee

Here is my radio installed, and the reason I can't put speakers in my kick panel. Sorry, wrong pic attached.
If you haven't gone a different route, you need to look into the Pyle 5".
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Pyle's used to be about the best value going as far as quality/price went.
Great freq response, and very efficient for just a bit more than jensen or spark.
My 12" non-sub boxes with realistic 23k "death star" tweeters, on a cheap 75w amp frequently blew away systems costing thousands of dollars on both volume and clarity.
 
What kind of installation kit is that did you just get a universal?

I used the kit that came with the radio. I took out the factory AM and bezel, found a butchered-up factory bezel for cheap at a swap meet and used that. No, the original radio is not for sale!
 
the problem with kick panel speakers, is that they sound terrible... since the speaker has no room to breath, you end up with no bottom end....i don't mean bump and grind, you just don't hear the drums or bass on classic music... on my 69 barracuda i had my local guy build an under dash console with speakers out on both sides, i believe i used 6" rockford fosgate speakers and it came out great... i just don't want to cut the metal behind the bezel to mount a modern stereo on my 70 superbee ... if anyone knows of a head unit that will do satellite radio.... i listen to sat radio all the time... the grateful dead channel !!!!!!!! and Fox news... I may be the only one! lol!
 
If you haven't gone a different route, you need to look into the Pyle 5".
frontspeakerdriver.gif

I scored a set of kick panels already cut for speakers for cheap at a swap meet. I'll take a look at the Pyles. Thanks!
 
the problem with kick panel speakers, is that they sound terrible... since the speaker has no room to breath, you end up with no bottom end....i don't mean bump and grind, you just don't hear the drums or bass on classic music... on my 69 barracuda i had my local guy build an under dash console with speakers out on both sides, i believe i used 6" rockford fosgate speakers and it came out great... i just don't want to cut the metal behind the bezel to mount a modern stereo on my 70 superbee ... if anyone knows of a head unit that will do satellite radio.... i listen to sat radio all the time... the grateful dead channel !!!!!!!! and Fox news... I may be the only one! lol!

I already have a pair of 3.5 inch Infinity two-ways under the speaker grill in the center of the dash (yeah, I know, I lose some of the L-R stereo imaging) and a set of 6x9s in back. The kick panel speakers would just be used to fill in mid-bass & mids up front. Might work for me.
 
David,I have a dual cone front speaker I will sell you if you want to try it. I was very dissapointed in the sound quality. Remember that the low end still shares a common part of the speaker. The dual voice coils are very small with low power capabilities. They are for the higher frequencies that our ears don't pick up well to start with. I ended up making a bracket to hold 2 - 4" Kenwoods. This works very well.
 
Hunt2elk,

aha!, well thanks to you and our ability to communicate through this forum, i don't feel it necessary to repeat the mistakes i can learn from.... i'll take your advice and get 2- 4" kenwoods..... care to make me a bracket???? :)

thank YOU!

David
 
Those are the speakers I used, but you will have to permently modify your stock bracket or make a new one. I went with the 4" over the 3.5" to get a more powerful speaker and I had a extra bracket laying around. Two 3.5" will fit without as much hassle, and actually ( '74 Sport ) on this forum makes a custom bracket for them. Maybe contact him to get his thoughts.
 
I had a nice custom audio system installed in my '69 Charger. We just upgraded it again this past week.
I had an Alpine head unit temporarily shoved under the seat. We were gonna remote mount the faceplate, until I stumbled upon this from Custom Auto Sound:

http://www.casmfg.com/Secretaudio.htm

The head unit gets hidden under the seat, the faceplate was hidden in the console. It's so slim you could even put it in the sunvisor if you wanted to. It's compatible with both of the Alpine amps I have, CD changer, mp3 or iPod, even Sirius. Sound is incredible.

Here is a link to my thread on DC.com. You might want to go back a few pages to get the whole audio installation. Speakers in the kick panels are very difficult in B-bodies due to the little clearance with the parking brake pedal. so, we put them in the doors with custom speaker grilles.

BTW, Custom Auto Sound also makes a direct-fit replacement dash speaker. It's a dual-voice coil speaker, sounds much better than 2 smaller 3" speakers. I installed that in another car & had the stock AM thumbwheel radio converted with modern internals. There are 6x9's in the package shelf. Sound is very nice.

http://www.casmfg.com/Speaker Options.htm

Hope this helps you.
 
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