<VV> Speakers

[DTerry8123 at aol.com]

I did this several years ago. I took two 4X6 in., 4 ohm speakers, wired in  
series. I used good quality high efficiency car speakers and mounted them  
on a piece of fiber board that is the same size as the original 6X9 speaker. 
I  covered the top of the fiber board with black grill cloth and the 
perimeter with  some rubber weather stripping like the original speaker had to fit 
up  against the underside of the dash. Then  I glued a block of wood to  
the assembly for the speaker mounting bracket to hold the speaker up to the  
dash. I did the same thing for the original rear speaker. It sounds the same 
as  the original speakers, No better or worse with my stock AM/FM radio. 
With the  rear speaker, you need to find speakers that are very shallow, or you 
will have  problems with the grille and the package shelf depth. 
Or, if you have the original speakers, they can be re-coned.
 
 
BTW: This is the third time I tried to send this message in the last three  
days. For some reason the others did not go through.

 
Dan Terry
1965 Corsa 140 coupe.
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/29/2016 9:17:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
virtualvairs at corvair.org writes:

A long  time ago I thought about mounting two small 4 ohm speakers, wired 
in  series in the stock location.  I never did it but it would present  
roughly 8 ohm impedance to the radio and depending on the speaker  
selection, could sound pretty good.  One challenge would be finding  high 
efficiency 4 ohm drivers, that won't break the bank. You could also  use 
an impedance matching transformer.  I think Hammond makes some  that 
would work great and are fairly inexpensive.
--J.B.

edward  szuch via VirtualVairs wrote:
> I'm in need of stock speaker  replacements for my LM Corsa.  It came with
> the push button AM  radio with front and rear speakers.  I've found some
> replacement  6x9's but in 4ohm impedance vs the stock 10ohms.
> I see Clark's has a  10 ohm 6x9 but it's very very thick and I think I'd
> have trouble  installing it.
> Has anybody found thin 6x9 speakers (about 2.25") at 10  ohms to use in 
our
> Corvairs?
> I'm worried about damaging the  amp in the radio with the wrong impedance
> but I'm not sure how  important that is if I don't crank it up.  I mainly
> use it for  listening to the news - not much else on AM.
> Thanks very much.
>  Gary Szuch
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