Possibly needing front speakers.

I got those rear speaker boxes hoping that installing those would help with giving me more sound out of my radio. It didn't help a whole lot. So, I am thinking of maybe doing some front speakers in the kick panels. I have a spare set of kick panels I can use to cut up, so I do not have to cut my orginals up. Does anyone here have expierence doing front kick panel speakers in their car? There isn't much under the dash(since it being a non air car) so it would be difficult to mount them under the dash. Any help/advice would be appreciated.

Leave it stock Kyle, you have that stock look you have always kept!!

I'm thinking more leaving it, than doing anything. I was going to do it before, when I put in the new radio and speakers, but decided to leave it until later. Mainly because I couldn't find any speakers with a plain, mesh grille. All I found was a bunch of fancy crap. I'm not looking to have a huge "system", just something to sound halfway decent. If I do ever decide to do it down the road, I at least want an idea of what to do.

kyle a suggestion since you are not driving it in the winter to conceal any mods that you do is remove the two side air duct's for your heat (you dont drive in winter anyway) real small ones like 2" will give you enough sound that you want since your system isnt really loud anyways you wont damage the small one's just a thought and no one will know any different unless you tell them

It's a non air car, so there are no heat ducts. It comes only out the floor.

well it would be easier to find side pillar panels i think than kick panel's unless you already have them. just a thought for mounting the real small pod speakers, they do give really good sound kyle for what you need the lil small ones would work great

Hard to explain but you could make brackets to hold speakers to bolt under dash not seen ...sorta pointing at feet but out of the way....

My dad's Chevelle has them mounted under the dash, so I know what you're trying to say.

mount some 4X6 speakers in the bottom of the doors where it's carpeted- you can get some grilles from Radio Shack that look like oem when you paint them to match the door panel.

I didn't want to cut holes in any of my interior panels, and only wanted some decent sound. I modified the original front dash speaker mount to hold 2 4" Alpine speakers. They sound great and can easily be run off an amp if you wanted to. Here is a photo of it before I painted the wood I used to mount the speakers.


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get some tweeters. they're small and easily concealable yet make a huge difference in sound and quality

I tried to leave in my factory speaker


than I tried 2- 4x6's with a factory bracket


but I liked the sound of the alpine 5x8 better.so I had to rig it.

Awhile back In my '76 I had a pair of 3 or 4" JCPenny (made by Sparkomatic) enclosures that screwed to the firewall, provided lots of highs and did ok with the rear 6x9s with an '80s GM shaft radio.

Now the '77 has 4x6s up front on a factory bracket and 6x9s in the rear with again an '80s GM AM/FM/Cassette, Sounds ok considering the radio is marginal (got a bad solder joint somewhere)

I went with the factory look, and don't have any need for window-rattling sound

LMC truck has a replacement for the single in dash to convert to dual speakers

think that should work ost in dash speakers same size