- 1. car stereo installation in MGA (score: 1)
- Author: "Mark Lambert" <markl@tibco.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:02:52 -0800
- For the past 17 years I've thought about putting a car stereo in my MGA, and now that it's being restored, it's a good time to actually put one in. Any advice out there on how best to do it? Or any r
- /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00822.html (7,882 bytes)
- 2. RE: car stereo installation in MGA (score: 1)
- Author: "Denise Thorpe" <xyzabcde@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:34:33 -0500
- An MGA is positive ground (unless you've converted it, which involves nothing more than switching the leads on the battery) and modern stereos won't work without a polarity converter. With a polarity
- /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00824.html (9,067 bytes)
- 3. Re: car stereo installation in MGA (score: 1)
- Author: Bullwinkle <yd3@nvc.net>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 13:39:09 -0600
- <<<snip>>> An MGA is positive ground (unless you've converted it, which involves nothing more than switching the leads on the battery) <<<Snip>>> I think there's a few more steps: Switch the leads o
- /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00825.html (7,880 bytes)
- 4. RE: car stereo installation in MGA (score: 1)
- Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:06:55 -0700
- I tried the electrical isolation method on my positive ground 65 MGB during my college days and ended up seeing my 8-track player go up in smoke. No great loss though. You can tell that was a long ti
- /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00835.html (8,798 bytes)
- 5. Re: car stereo installation in MGA (score: 1)
- Author: "Gordie's Garage" <mg_bird@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 06:40:06 -0500
- If you have been thinking of this for 17 years, you've probably thought of most of the solutions. I have seen CD's mounted behind the blanking plate on the passenger side and the blanking plate modi
- /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00846.html (8,465 bytes)
- 6. Re: car stereo installation in MGA (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 20:02:23 EST
- Agreed. The fact that some people are reluctant to do so baffles me. Are they worried that onlookers will remark "Oh my God - the electrons are flowing in the wrong direction!"? Do they not know that
- /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00877.html (7,850 bytes)
- 7. Re: car stereo installation in MGA (score: 1)
- Author: LBCarCoMail@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 22:57:10 EST
- Lou Spradlin and I both have a similar set up like this and I can hear mine great at speed. All you need to solve the hearing problem is a 3.9 rear end ;) Thought you had one too? JZ << Subj: Re: ca
- /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00991.html (8,453 bytes)
- 8. Re: car stereo installation in MGA (score: 1)
- Author: "Mark Lambert" <markl@tibco.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:00:11 -0800
- Where do you mount the speakers so they are unobtrusive? I don't want to cut into sheet metal if I can avoid it. I was thinking about bass drivers just forward of the door, inside the kick panel, but
- /html/mgs/2002-01/msg01018.html (9,733 bytes)
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