Old Timer with OEM Stereo Experience Help!
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Melting Slicks
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From: North side of Houston Texas
Old Timer with OEM Stereo Experience Help!
Wow! I just heard a sound I haven't heard in a looooooong time! A CF/C3 brother & wife here in town gave us an aftermarket AM/FM/8 track for our '78. I finally got around to putting it in, and lo and behold, it really works! The sound I'm talking about that I haven't heard is the freakin' 8 track! And yes, I have a stack of ol' Motown that I haven't heard in till now.
Anyway, my question is how to hook it up. The thing's got 4 wires coming off the back. A red and black wire that were no brainers. However, it's got only a green and gray left over, and given that it's a stereo, I'm not sure exactly how this works. I hooked up one speaker to it (one wire to each remaining wire), and it worked fine. But I obviously can't do that with four speakers, so I'm wondering how this works.
I'm wondering if it's positive from each speaker to the stereo (left gray, and right green for example), with the negative from the speaker going to the body's ground. But that means, in my eyes, that it's only a two speaker system.
Anyone have experience with these kinds of things? I'm not an electronics whiz, but this one's really making me feel stupid.
Cheers!
W
Anyway, my question is how to hook it up. The thing's got 4 wires coming off the back. A red and black wire that were no brainers. However, it's got only a green and gray left over, and given that it's a stereo, I'm not sure exactly how this works. I hooked up one speaker to it (one wire to each remaining wire), and it worked fine. But I obviously can't do that with four speakers, so I'm wondering how this works.
I'm wondering if it's positive from each speaker to the stereo (left gray, and right green for example), with the negative from the speaker going to the body's ground. But that means, in my eyes, that it's only a two speaker system.
Anyone have experience with these kinds of things? I'm not an electronics whiz, but this one's really making me feel stupid.
Cheers!
W
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jan 2006
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From: Boca Raton Florida
yea you have the connections right. If your going to run 4 speakers, run it thru splitter cables to seperate amps for the front and rear. Good 6x9s for the rear with 100W or so amp and a custom panel to mount them unless you like the Kicker Box type. There is a good write up on corvettefaq for this. For the front a 40W will do.
