Kick Panel Speaker Mod

[Pop's Z]

Hi Chickenman,

The pic of the tweeters in the eyeballs is almost like mine except mine are black. I scraped the chrome off and glued them on with black silicon seal/adhesive. That worked great until my wife decided that the a/c blowing on her from the eyball was too much and grabbed and shoved and the tweeter fell off. Oh well, I'll just glue them back on maybe with JB Weld this time. They work great, though. The problem with our cars is that even with a lot of sound insulation, by the time you are going 70+ the wind noise is pretty bad, but below that threshold it's great to have the tunes. I like to have tunes of the era...I call it my own little time machine. Steve Miller "Your Saving Grace", best road tune ever............

 

Cheers, Mike

[Chickenman]

Tom Petty's " Runnin' Down a Dream " is pretty darned good too.... and FreeBird by Lynyrd Skynyrd... and...

 

LS Oakland 1977 Live. Enjoy!!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxIWDmmqZzY

Edited December 19, 2015 by Chickenman

[grannyknot]

Elton John's Funeral For a Friend, live version.

[Mark Maras]

 So, So many. Back in the late 70s it was Huey Lewis "Sports" album on the Pioneer Super Tuner for me. Volume cranked up, a favorite road in my Z. Totally in the moment. Loving the drive and doing some of my best singing ever. Sigh.

[Pop's Z]

Mark,

I had a Pioneer Super Tuner cassette deck in my original '73 back in '75, too. Great sound at the time...ah, the memories.

 

Cheers, Mike

[dmorales-bello]

Billy Joel's The Stranger album playing in my Casio AM/FM/Cassette/CB Radio was the "drug of choice" in my '77 280Z.

[Fred Sigarto]

In my 1st. Z back in 72 it was Carly Simon's ''you're so vain'' 

[HaZmatt]

Curious...what if you were to have a 280, but have removed the ecu from the drivers kick. Would these fit??

[Jeff G 78]

The fuse box would still be in the way on the passenger side.

[HaZmatt]

The fuse box would still be in the way on the passenger side.

Ahh, thats right. Forgot about that.

[Chickenman]

^ I was thinking the same thing. If there is enough slack in the harness, you may be able to unscrew the fuse-box and tuck it up and out of the way. I'll have to have a closer look at my 280Z.

[Jeff G 78]

Unfortunately, I doubt we could make it work.  I don't remember having any slack in the fuse box wiring and certainly not in the ECU wiring.