what size are the stock speakers in a 79 280zx? i cant find out anywhere. also, theres only 2 speakers right? how hard is it to install the deck also?

 

I was also wodering about speaker sizes, but I got a 80 zx. How hard is it to get to the front speakers, do I have to completly remove the dash?

 

4" in the front, "oversize" 6.5's in the back (sometimes called 6 3/4"). 6x9's will fit in the back with some minor cutting. The front right speaker is easily accessed by removing the glovebox. The front "left" speaker is dead center in the most forward part of the dash! I've never been able to reach mine. You'd have to pull out the whole dash to get to it. I simply left it where it was and mounted new front speakers elsewhere.

 

my Z is a 2+2, I don't know if that changes anything. My rears( I just pulled the panel covering them) look more like around 4" and are set in a plastic cowl type thing that sets them back and pionts them upward.

 

so i pulled the speakers and found that there are 2 4" speakers right behind both of the seats, and 2 4inch speakers in the dash. the one in the center, i decided is impossible to get to, however i will reach my destination haha.

 

I just cut the wires to the dash speakers and ran two tweaters to my A pillars. Mounted two speakers behind the seats and put a cheapo sub box in the hatch and strapped it down with the T-top straps Hey it works. System souded alright for a bunch of cheap stereo parts up until someone stole my $40 CD head unti. Who the hell steals a $40 dollar Walmart CD player!?

 

a tweaker my friend!

 

I got a pair of speaker grills from the junker, possibly originaly from a caravan or something. Anyway they can hold 6" rounds and have a plastic face with fabric inserts that come apart from each other, which will help when I finish them in contrasting colours. For the rear I am going to fabricate an MDF panel that will hold boxed 6"X9" speakers and mount it with heavy duty bolts it where the tailight cover panel used to be. That will also give me a place to mount an amplifier right in the centre and cover her up good with a thick plexiglass shield to protect it from those stereo grabbing bastards. They will have to steal my car to get to the stereo and I have other measures in place to ensure that never ever happens

 

The install of the deck is not bad at all. I just did it in my 83. All you need is a ground, battery, accesory, and antenna. In mine the battery was a blue wire with a red stripe, the accesory was a yellow wire with a green stripe and the antenna just plugs into the new one the way it did the old one. Its really very easy dont bother with one of those clips they sell in best buy just wire it up yourself. I did mine in a half hour tops.

 

On my old '81, it had a pair of 6x9's behind the seats (had already been cut for them). I pulled out the tubs, and cut holes for 2 more 6x9's in the tops of the tubs ( and the tubs were still semi-functoinal!, at least able to hold a few CD's). I managed to put two new kenwood 4" speakers in the dash (I had the dash out for other reasons). I pushed the 4"ers with the head unit, and the 4 6x9's with an amp. It actually sounded pretty damn good. In my '80, I just have two Polk 6.5's behind the seats and a speaker box in the hatch with two Polk 10" subs powered by an amp. Next is to put mids in where the 4"ers are and mount tweets on the A pillars. Or, build a custom adapter for the door panels for another pair of 6.5's... not quite sure which one I will do yet. I found that turning the box backwards so it fires off the rear window glass makes it really bump hard... almost too hard. But it sounds really good. I like to pull up to stop lights bumping some classic Beastie Boys or Run DMC just to see the look on kids faces when I know they're thinking "Check out the old white guy bumpin' old school... how lame... " I love it. Usually, I'm just blasting Metallica or something equally offensive.


Rod.

 

Right on man but hopefully old school Metallica right? Not that new watered down junk! Anyway sounds great, gives me more ideas to play with. So by the way do you have all those Z's still, or used to have them?

 

Metallica stopped being "Metallica" after the balck album. "Load", "Re-Load" and "St. Anger" are turd sandwiches on moldy bread.


Rod.

 

Right on man, exactly how I feel. It is like the Black album was decent but still soft compared to Puppets, Lightning, Justice and Kill 'em all. And of course Justice was their prime in my opinion. It was hard and heavy with a twist!

 

My 1982 280ZX 2+2 had 4" front and 6" rear speakers. I've never seen a 280ZX with 4" in the rear compartment. Maybe the older ones had those?

...or maybe I had a 'premium' sound package? hehe...

 

^^ Bleach's 2400th post

 

My buddies '79 has 4" speakers in the back too. Must have been the "El cheapo" option package back then.


Rod.