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With a receiver in hand I had to find a place to mount it First considered the flat panel behind the seats, but it would be too hard to get to the controls, and using only the remote did not appeal to me. I looked at overhead consoles from Valley (Lynn's pointer), but elected to make a simple pod from fiberglass and mount it to the solid headliner panel, up against the valance panel centered up front. For this one I took a piece of 16ga flat stock and cut a mounting hole for the front panel, then formed a box from green floral foam and glassed it in using resin and bondo to mount the metal plate to the box. I made a pair of hardwood mounts and bolted them to the headliner. The shot of the pod on the headliner is laying flat on a work surface, but you get the idea how it fits The hole in the foreground is for a dome light assembly I picked up from Juliano's - a sweet unit that has dual circuits so it lights with the doors, or you can push each side individually for a map light feature.

You might recall that I put a pair of speakers in the headrests of each seat, and I planned to run the speakers in the corners as "rear" with the seat speakers as "front", but when I went to figure out the wiring I learned that the pre-amp in a receiver is not stable at 2 ohms load, which is what you get with two pairs of speakers wired in parallel; and that it will not push 8 ohms that you get in series Sooooo, the space that I had originally earmarked for the receiver, on the panel behind the seats, makes a good space for the amplifier that is required to drive six speakers. Here's a shot of the back with everything in place, minus speakers in the corner pods. I plan to put a map pocket below the amp, since there is zero storage room! Going to get the carpeting put in by G&J before I upholster the back panels and kick panels, to be sure they don't need trimming, but have to fab door thresholds first.