Checked your posts. Apparently you have a 69. Don't know about 69 but check out what was done on 67/68 Cougar behind the kick panels and using speaker cloth like kick panels.

Slim

 

Yes, a 69 but decided to not mention that to avoid filtering the responses.

Would you happen to have a link to this 67/68 Cougar?

 

The little enclosures that mount on the cowl sides is barely shown in the 68 shop manual for Mustang, Cougar, Fairlane, Montego. The 67/68 Mustang (and Cougar) has a stamped
recess the size for 6" speakers, there are center punches where the speaker mounting holes would go. On the Cougar this area gets cut out for factory stereo.

I've considered doing this. I have kick panel speakers that are good quality (not the cheapest ones!) but the 67/68 Mustang (and Cougar) have the WSW pump pedal there along with the dimmer switch! On top of that I'm 6'5" with size 14 shoes!

Refuse to carve up my super nice original doors for door speakers...my 68 is standard interior.


Slim

 

My Fiero seats have speakers in the headrests... no need to cut up the doors or kick panels. :lol:

 

First go around I had the kick panel speakers.

They sounded very crappy, and not really much sound quality from blasting your feet.

SO change of plans.

I got a really good quality, smaller, front speaker and mounted it in the door . with a small custom enclosure. All behind the stock deluxe lower grille.Then made a x-over. I mounted the tweeters, on a special bracket hidden up behind the headliner, directed at the two front seats.

Carefully drilled 10 million small holes in the FB quarters, and mounted 2 - 6 x 9's. Everything looks stock and hidden. Added a decent power amp to these speakers, then a 12" sub in the trunk with a good amp.

The system sounds awesome.

Until I start the engine, then I can't hear a d@mn thing, unless I really crank it.

I also found the kick panel speakers really got in the way of your feet in the footwell.

However, I did see a nice installation on a 69-70 where a VMF member made a custom enclosure within the sheet metal of the kick space, by enlarging the sheet metal behind the fender. IN this way, the kick panel is still flat. A really good idea. I wish I tried that.

 

That kick panel mod (side cowl panel) is like 67/68 Cougar stock stereo.

 

Bart, thanks for the suggestion. I will consider that...perhaps. I can see this morphing into a much bigger job if I start changing seats.

ripped, would you happen to have a link to the custom enclosure thread?

I was pondering about making some custom enclosure that I would hang from the lower dash that is pointed more directly at the driver and passenger. Has anyone already tried that and have some ideas and pictures?

 

I just finished installing speakers in the fresh air vents of my 69. Looks bone stock and sounds great!

turning fresh air vents into speaker pods - 1969 Mustang Supersite Web Forums

 

Just read your write up. You commented that the Cougar speaker pods lack the vent mechanism? Huh? The advantage is they don't eliminate the vents!

69 model eliminated the vent windows so eliminating the vents didn't bother you?


Slim


By the way the install looks great!

 

Front speaker options pretty much suck on these cars. Ideally one would want a 6.5" in the door and a tweeter mounted up higher, like in the front corners of the windows like on the 99-04 mustangs. Unfortunately, a speaker larger than 4" (or 4x6") won't fit in our doors due to window mechanicsm clearance issues, and there really isn't a good place to mount a tweeter.

With a well set up front zone, rear fill really isn't needed......but these cars are near impossible to get a well set up front zone. I would look into some quality 4"x6" plate speakers (4" round and 1" tweeter, not the oval single speaker) to put in the doors. Boston Acoustic Pro 746 or Polk MOMO MM460 are a few that come to mind that won't break the bank too bad.

You can put a decent speaker in the center dash and essentially use it as a center channel.

For the rears, you can either put some speakers in the package tray or look into the rear interior quarter panels that have speaker pods built into them. Someone on ebay typically has the interior quarters with speaker pods listed, but I swear every time I mention them and I look on ebay they aren't listed. Essentially they are the fiberglass/ABS side panels that have a round pad build into them so that you can cut and mount a 6.5" round speaker into them. They are angled towards the front seat, so you will get better acoustics than having speakers facing up at the rear window from the package tray. If you get quality speakers, be prepared to use an amplifier on them. Most quality speakers are power hungry and will sound like crap off the head unit. Typically a round speaker will sound much better than an oval due to cone distortion of an oval.

 

I was referring to the Cougar/Torino pods with no vent mechanism.

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I won't know how much I'll miss the vents until I start driving it this season. I pretty much always drive with the windows down and if it really gets hot I do have AC. Thanks Slim!

 

Those had nothing to do with vents. They were mounted in the cowl side panels!

 

I wonder if small speakers could fit in the vent enclosure so air could pass around them?

 

The trick would be getting the flapper mechanism to clear the speaker. You'd need the speaker on the back side of the flapper, which would be too far in there to really get anything out of the speaker. One option would be to mount a tweeter or two onto the flapper itself.

 

Found the quarter trim panels I was talking about: 1969 1970 Mustang Fastback Mach 1 Boss Quarter Trims

Not sure how well they fit compared to originals though.

 

I believe the confusion lies with it actually being 67 cougars that had these speaker baffles in the kick panel area and not the 69/70 cougars. The 69/70 cougars had them in the doors like the mustangs. The 67 cougars didn't have the vents in the same area like the 69/70s had, so they could put the speakers with bafffles there. I see no possible way where the vents and the cougar speaker baffles could be used in the same cowl location.

Kickpanel Speaker Project

 

Yes, I fabbed up a plate to go under the oem speaker location in the top of the dash, to support 2- 3x3 speakers.

 

I did the same thing on my 69. Installed 2-3.5" coax where the center speaker was located. Also have 4x6 coax in the doors using the factory grilles.

 

for those looking at an alternative to the cougar speaker pods. this is alink to an abs plastic speaker enclosure that you could use to put a 6.5 in speaker in the kick panels and it would give the speaker better sound and protect it front the elements. a lot easier than fabbing a metal box. it has a flange that you could seal up against the metal. this could all be done without removing the fender.

Metra Part # 81-4300 | Aftermarket Universal Dash kit | Metra Online

 

I've seen a car that had small speakers mounted in the windshield pillars just below the roof line. Wasn't a Mustang, back in my Chevy days.