Before selling my Jeep a year ago, I pulled out a lot of the aftermarket supplies. I'm wanting to put a very basic system into the Volare, but it currently has only a mono dash speaker and not one other speaker in the entire car. Apart from the sub box I have, I am considering options for installing speakers into the interior. I have dabbled with the idea of attaching some surface mounts lengthwise on the back walls along with the box and some tweeters up front. There is just so much flexibility that I wanted to see if any others have toyed with this idea. Any ideas are welcome! Thanks!
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The Volare will have front stereo provisions under the metal dash cover in the area just behind the windshield. I don't remember if all covers had the holes for stereo speakers or not. I have a dash cover (metal) if you want to fab one up. Also have plenty of other F body stuff. Surface mounts might get into the way of cargo and truck speakers, just sitting there could be bad news to the back of your head in a collision.
Ive done its all different ways and its hard with a wagon cause of the length. But right now I think I got it the best its ever been. All I have up front are two small powerful tweeters, that only get feed highs run off the deck. And in the back are 2 6x9s and a 12in that only get sub output lows on an AMP.
That's what I was thinking. So your 6x9s are full range? Are they in the rear doors or rear hatch or somewhere else?
I got places stock all the way in the back for 6x9,and they run off the sub outputs, so they only get lows, so they aren't full range as wired. I only get highs from the 2 tweaters up front. Which works better then when I used the full range 4x6 in the dash and full range 6x9s way in the back. I had to really push them harder to get the same sound, which wasn't as clean having to crank it more.
Nice Mopar! From my experience with wagons I've had the best results with the following setup. 6-1/2 speakers in the front doors then a box with 2 12's against the back of the back seat, facing rearward. On top of the sub box I attached 2 generic 6x9 boxes facing forward to play over the seat. I mounted my amps for the 6x9's and 12's directly to the box with a plug for the power so I could remove the system easily for hauling stuff. The front speakers were run right off the head unit. For some security I ran one end of a thick bike lock cable under the seat and bolted it to the floor with a round headed carriage bolt. Then I bolted another thick bike lock cable to the box with a carriage bolt and big washer. That left the other ends of the cables to put a big padlock through and lock together.
After much research, I have decided on the following setup. I'm running a pair of 6.5" components up front with the midwoofer about halfway up the door (love them old unobstructed door panels) and the tweeter about 6" higher in the upper front corner of the door. These will run from an amp. I'm building a ported box the spans the area b/w the wheel wells behind the back seat for one 12" sub with own amp. That's it. If I find I need a bit more rear fill, I'll mount a pair of modest 6x9s on top of the sub box and run them directly off the head unit. I'll let you know how it turns out!
Volare Stereo Provisions I don't know if your original intent was to keep the interior stock looking or not. If you do this info may come in handy. Your Volare is basically the same as the Dodge Diplomats, Plymouth Gran Fury's, and Chrysler Fifth Ave's from 1981 to 1989 as well as the 1977 to 1981 Dodge Diplomats and Chrysler LeBaron. So much so that everything forward of the rear doors will bolt onto your car with no mods at all. That means all sheet metal and mechanical parts. Anyway the Volare dash top consists of two pieces, the plastic dash pad and the metal dash cover that butts up to the windshield. The metal dash cover from all the 81 to 89 Chrysler Fifth Ave's had stereos and thus the cover has the factory holes for the stereo speakers in the factory location and your dash has the factory cutouts already there under your dash cover making it easy to install stereo speakers in the front. Just have to run wires and that part is done. The back speakers will be a bit more difficult but can also be done. The Volare wagon was built from 1976 to 1980 with its twin the Dodge Aspen. There were also two other siblings produced in wagon form from 1977 to 1981 as the Dodge Diplomat and Chrysler LeBaron (Town & Country), and it Canada the Plymouth Caravelle. The last three were a bit more upscale than the Aspen and Volare but all were available with stereo radios and if equipped had brackets and cutouts and speaker grilles in the plastic tailgate panel that used 6 x 9 speakers. Coming up with those is a bit more difficult because there were not alot of the M-body wagons built and not many of the F-body wagons had stereo radios. The Aspen and Volare are F-bodies. The Caravelle, Diplomat, and LeBaron are M-bodies and the Chrysler Fifth Ave. and Plymouth Gran Fury from 1981 to 1989 are also M-bodies but never produced as a wagon. I hope you find this helpful. Gregg
