witch ones are you talking about the big ones or the small ones that are the size of a cookie that get glued on if they are the bigger ones you can mount them above the tray but hiding and still hear them i like the big tweeters they make a difference it's funny i have a few hondas around here that sound like thet have nothing but tweeters in the car i just started to make a center console out of wood and fiberglass and they will have 2-4'' speakers on the side facing towards the seats and i am almost done pics will be posted today since it's 1-am
The small ones, about 1". I'd rather not just stick them somewhere. Trying to keep all my audio stuff mostly hidden, but I also want them placed as optimally as I can for sound quality. So I'm looking for a not-too-obvious place to mount them, where they won't be very noticeable but they will be heard. Or if they have to be noticeable I want to flush-mount them. I guess the doors are an option but as long as it took me to find a good pair of door panels I'm not excited about cutting them. This would be easy in a later model car, I'd just take a hole saw to the a-pillar trim and be done with it.
I'm going to mount mine in my custom door panels(where the stock mirror remote goes) i just haven't made them yet.....
i drilled screw holes into the small squares in the back panel and mounted two extras there. of course i also have two in my three way 6X9 back there. the tweets are mounted under hang style so i can keep it all under that filler panel (i like mine stealth, going to put speaker panel material over all the holes.)
put them with the speakers by your feet i have never seen ones that work good you have to have them right in front of you how about makeing a mounting spot on your sun visors
Yes, but... ...that. Lot of changes since that pic... I have hidden the front speakers behind the kick panels now, with factory grilles. Also got some proper door panels, which I was considering as a possible mounting spot for the tweeters. Actually also thought about the upper doors, near where the remote mirror control is. Just feels wrong to cut holes in the metal though. I don't know why, I had no qualms about doing that behind the kick panels, but maybe because it's visible? Hm... What about inside the AC vents? The round ones, in the tray. Think the sound would be distorted or muffled when the air's on?
I wouldn't put them in the A/C vents. Try putting the tweeters on the floor, and wiring them up... if your happy with the sound then mount them in the kickpanels and call it good. Just because somethings supposed to be mounted high doesn't mean it has to be. A good quality tweeter will sound just fine down there.
You could use a hole saw and cut a hole in each side of the dash tray and install them in it. I had 2 3" speakers installed in mine. I have changed my mind this go around and I'm just going with a dash speaker and 2 6x9s in the rear...so I have another dash tray on the way.
If you have good 1" tweeters and amp you can hear them two blocks away. I use to run a competition system in my 69.5 Maverick. Get adjustable 1" tweeters and place them in the top corners of the windshield, on the headline, point them to the middle of the front seats. If you don't have adjustable ones, use the glue and build it up a little to point properly. (higher temp glue of they will hang down after you play them hard)
Back in the mid 80's, I had a 72' Maverick, in which I mounted my tweeters recessed in the left and right side of the dashpad. I had these ran with a crossover and had found black covers that I customized to contour to the shape of the dashpad. The highs sounded crisp with this setup, reflecting off the windshield directly to the driver and passenger. This especially sounded good with bands like Foreigner, Rush, and Journey back in those days. I think I am going to try a variation on this setup with my upcoming restoration of my 72 Grabber.
I would say that the door panels are your best bet. Otherwise reflecting off the windshield would work well. Definitely not in the A/C vents, it would sound really bad with air on.
