Stereo Systems installation in Splitties

Vintage Idiot · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:13 am Post subject:

Hope everyone is doing fine...haven't had too much time to do much to my new-to-me single cab, but thanks to this website I managed to take care of some little things and found those locks made of unobtainium for the '67 treasure chest.

Wanted to shoe a pic of my stereo...bought a cheap ass "motorcycle stereo" off of ebay for about $30...wouldn't recommend for a bike, but fit perfect and only had to make on small drill hole to bolt down the PVC pipe I clamped the speakers on. Sounds fine enough for me. Definitely better than the sound of a factory installed one back in the day.

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driverlost · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 3:21 pm Post subject:

Another great thread I've been watching and thought I would share my set up.

I just scored a 1960 Automatic brand all transistor radio on eBay for $4.95. Set me back $15.00 with shipping. I made sure the holes would line up with no hacking and went to hacking on the radio.

I gutted the cassette player out of an old Panasonic radio and put the 2 together. So now its an FM only radio with an input for my iPod.

Off:

On:

My Panel had a radio back in its day, so I used the stock speaker holder in my parts stash for a center channel speaker.

I also stashed two other satellite speakers under the dash out of sight with no hacking.
Drivers side:

I even added a little 40 watt amp to help the 2 outside speakers. All hidden out of sight and no loss to the partial tray.

iPod plugs run through an extra ash tray I cut up.

This topic has been a great help for these ideas!

Thanks,

Rob

BarryL · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:26 pm Post subject:

Tight! So did you use the tape head's input wires for the Ipod? Did it have pre-amp out or did you use the high-out into the amp? I love conflations like yours. Original knobs should fit that, if you find some.

driverlost · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:38 pm Post subject:

Thanks! I started to use the old tape head input and ran into how to switch it. The old school cassette player had a micro slide switch that would move as the cassette was put in. 6 wires. d'oh!

Feed line to the amp that closed to cassette or radio for each channel. I started thinking of double pole, double throw switches and got real at that point. Laughing

Dangling switch to mess with or aborted project as I launch it from frustration. You know how some projects start pushing the time invested to out come value mark lol.

So I just went with the RCA into the amp for the iPod. Next Radio donor will have RCA in and out. For sure the best option and possibly worth a redo some day.

I had cool knobs with the old radio but they are the center blade type mount and the new radio has the flat cut. So I'll be on the look out for old school knobs.

BRANDEN HOY · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:01 pm Post subject:

driverlost · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 4:20 pm Post subject:

GOOT · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 8:34 pm Post subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqNPo4E0k68&lis...ature=plcp

I still need to take pics, but the system consists of (2) 5 1/4" JL audio 2 way speakers rated at 60watts rms a piece with a mini amp/ipod hookup that puts out 40 watts rms per channel all mounted in the spare tire well.

Sambafraser · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 12:48 pm Post subject:

How big is the space below the 1/4 window on a Kombi door? I was just thinking that would be a good place to fit a small recessed tweeter. The Mk4 on VW Golf /Passats use a 3cm tweeter like in the picture below. The white circle next to the door mirror. These are good for adding clarity. But they need to aimed at you to really benifit.

oldschool64bus · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 1:03 am Post subject:

GOOT · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:41 am Post subject:

oldschool64bus · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 2:21 pm Post subject:

zcruisers · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:25 pm Post subject:

flemcadiddlehopper · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:02 am Post subject:

I am in the same situation as you are. How to mount and hide (keep the vintage look) a system .

I am somewhat impressed with this set up. The speaker mounts with the bent pipe almost look as though they belong. If you just used one elbow for each speaker and mounted them under your tray just above the headlight pod, you would get good stereo separation.

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/794464.jpg

gordo.

scottvw · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:20 pm Post subject:

Here is the the system I just put in my bus.

Front Speaker housings.

So I have gotten to the point that I need some tunes for the bus. I am going to go the amp route to run my XM. I called Crutchfield and they got me all of the stuff I needed.

I started on the front speakers. I didn't want to cut into the door panels or the front kick panels so I made 2 tubes for my 4" front speakers. I was going to try and mount them on the parcel tray but there really isn't enough room. I will more than likely mount them to the bottom of the tray with the T brackets I mounted to the bottom of the tube.

I finally have tunes and man does it sound good. I bought all of my components from Crutchfield. I called them up and was lucky enough to get one of their sales guys named Brian. I told him exactly what I wanted to do and he put it all together. I didn't need one extra piece of hardware to do the job.....he nailed it. It cost me $725 total. Based on what I was quoted at Car Toys, this was a much better spend.

I basically have a JL Audio volume control that hooks into my amp that I can run my XM Inno through. 2 4" speakers up front, 1 8" Bazooka/Amp, and 2 6X9's on boxes under the seat.

I have included my parts list in case any of you are interested in copying what I did. I definitely have an appreciation for installing sound equipment. It took me 2 evenings to do it.

I have a toggle switch to power the amps. The nob to the right is the volume control. I plan on putting my old stock radio back in.

flemcadiddlehopper · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:31 pm Post subject:

I've always thought the space near the rear hatch hinge covers would be a good spot for a pair of 6x9s. build boxes and have them completely covered side to side with acoustic cloth so it only looks like headliner. Not sure if that space is as desirable on a westy.

Gordo.

oldschool64bus · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:49 pm Post subject:

Sambafraser · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:22 pm Post subject:

The recessed speaker with headliner material speaker cover ís a good idea.
I saw a German registered 1989 Ruf CTR a while back and I was particularly impressed by the intergrated roll cage instalation.
It was wrapped in around the roll cage with the same Porsche headline material (the dotted stuff they have in a VW) so that the cage and car blended together.

Dasdubber · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:23 am Post subject:

Fibreglass makes mounting options virtually endless - unfortunately the shallow depth of the splitty doors and nose makes it a challenge to fit a deep woofer/driver in comfortably. Here is our most recent (and most complex) installation using 2 x amps, active three way front stage (with splits in the doors and four woofers in the nose), rear splits in the corners and 2 10in subs in the roof.....lots of fabrication and wiring!

This is a rear roof sub enclosure so we didn't have to use the under rear seat area (filled with storage draw and ECU etc etc).

Fronts were done in a similar way:

And rears:


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