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Factory crossovers?

  • Mitchd03
    Mitchd03
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    • 891

    Factory crossovers?

    Does anyone know where the factory speaker crossovers are in the Z31? I replaced my door woofers with some new pioneer splits but wanted to bypass the factory crossover for the tweeter. Is it on the tweeters under the dash or are they in-line somewhere?

    Much appreciated.
  • turblown
    turblown
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    • 400

    #2
    Hold on, what. There are tweeters under the dash? I've been in the dash of my 85T plenty of times, and I swear I've never seem them. AE option or something?

    1985 300ZX Turbo GLL ^Click for log^

    Originally posted by nater86zx
    No such thing as hoarding Z parts. When it comes to z parts, its not hoarding its preparedness!
  • 862sik
    862sik
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    • 2159

    #3
    Yeah to my knowledge there is no speakers in the dash.
    My Build Thread
  • OK85ZX
    OK85ZX
    Senior Member
    • 1690

    #4
    There are. Check the perforated sections just above the vents on either side of the dash. I'm not 100% on if they are GLL specific or not, but the location is the same regardless.
    1985 NA2T(now RB) * 1988 SS x2 * 1984 AE x3 * 2006 350Z
  • les_joey_paul
    les_joey_paul
    Senior Member
    • 743

    #5
    They are in my 85 gll
    Aftermarket radio installed. They don't produce music sound but sometimes they produce feedback intermittedly
    http://z31performance.com/showthread…2-2-(-now-NA2T
    My build thread (:
  • Dave-D
    Dave-D
    Senior Member
    • 397

    #6
    Speakers in the corners of the dash below the perforations was a GLL trademark only IIRC.
    All other models had no speakers and no perforations.
    Black 1985 na/coupe brought back from the dead.
    2000 frontier for work.
    2004 PT Cruiser for gettin' grocery's.
  • turblown
    turblown
    Senior Member
    • 400

    #7
    Ahhh, OK. That makes sense. I thought he meant "under" the dash as in near the foot vents, lol. Interesting. I never thought those were anything other than dash perforations (stock radio was tore out when I got the car and I ran all new wires to the doors when I put a radio in). Interesting! Learn something new every day.

    1985 300ZX Turbo GLL ^Click for log^

    Originally posted by nater86zx
    No such thing as hoarding Z parts. When it comes to z parts, its not hoarding its preparedness!
  • OK85ZX
    OK85ZX
    Senior Member
    • 1690

    #8
    Dave-D;345792 wrote: Speakers in the corners of the dash below the perforations was a GLL trademark only IIRC.
    All other models had no speakers and no perforations.
    While I can't speak for all, I know of two non-GLLs that definitely have the dash perforations.
    1985 NA2T(now RB) * 1988 SS x2 * 1984 AE x3 * 2006 350Z
  • 862sik
    862sik
    Senior Member
    • 2159

    #9
    Now I got to look back, I have a GLL model and have nothing up there. Lets see if mine was GLL.

    Edit....Just checked and my model is definitely a GLL. But I don't have any tweeters up there at all…just the holes and nothing under. I can see the windshield from the lower part of the dash.
    My Build Thread
  • Mitchd03
    Mitchd03
    Senior Member
    • 891

    #10
    My car definitely has tweeters, the right side of the dashboard produced music with no woofer in the door!

    Asking because I found a plain black box with what looks like speaker wire going into and out of it where the carpet meets the dash on the left hand side (passenger for me), two sets of Red and red/white wires going in/out, same as front left speaker, and one set of white/black that were cut, but couldn't find a box for the right side. And the left tweeter doesn't work.
    I'm thinking aftermarket. If I feed those wires 9v and hear a pop, i guess I'll know!
  • Dave-D
    Dave-D
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    • 397

    #11
    @ Mitch 03 I'm pretty sure Z-bum and I are referencing USDM cars and their set ups as far as which dashes have speakers and which dashes do not.

    Being down under with a RHD car, your car could conceivably have more in common with JDM models than ours. Its entirely possible non GLL cars set up for the Japanese home market or available for export to your area of the world could be set up with different options.
    Black 1985 na/coupe brought back from the dead.
    2000 frontier for work.
    2004 PT Cruiser for gettin' grocery's.
  • michaelp
    michaelp
    Senior Member
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    #12
    No 87-89 had speakers in the dash btw.
    - VG30DET (HE341) 86 300ZX - 1982 280ZX Turbo - Headered NA 1986 300ZX 2+2 - 2000 Xterra -
  • G-E
    G-E
    Junior Member
    • 6320

    #13
    Well if you need photographs to understand what a black crossover box with wires sticking out is like, I don't know what else to say....

    As for the other topic, you're right, I haven't proved my designs are flawed, no one has proved they're flawed either, it's all fear mongering
  • 300zxturboftw
    300zxturboftw
    Senior Member
    • 3709

    #14
    To be fair. G-e's bbk and bss have done really well in my garage performance testing, aka hard parking.
    Usual Z31 suspect: Garage Queen (aka broken)
  • Mitchd03
    Mitchd03
    Senior Member
    • 891

    #15
    Very likely. Anyone ever been able to get to the tweeters without removing the dash? Would be interesting to compare at least, and nice to hide the aftermarket ones.
    If not I'll just surface mount my tweeters and chop the old wires.