Some annoying guy from Wellington with too much money has been scooping up old Pioneer stuff left right and centre recently, so was very relieved not to have to get into another bidding war with him! Scored another KP-707G cassette deck, GM-4 amp and a super gimmicky line level indicator panel off Trademe last week for what I thought was a fair price. It's a bit ratty-looking, but I'll modify and throw it into the other car to fill the gap in the centre console while I continue with the switching puzzle! I like the challenge though.Ī recent email conversation with Ewan hayatonka resulted in the purchase of another KP-88G off Yahoo. While the factory woofers are an industry standard 4" size, the speaker mounting tabs are recessed, so it's not as easy as replacing them with off-the-shelf items. but they turned out to have munted woofers as well I had planned to pull apart and cannibalize these Carrozzerias (exact same speaker chassis) that I'd scored off mjrstar. ![]() a sure sign that the foam edge has disintegrated I also need to pull one of them apart as the main woofer has developed a slight crackle. ![]() The rear parcel shelf speakers were hooked up to the previous headunit, but as mentioned, I'll need to drive them separately with a preamp if I can't find the correct interconnect box. I wouldn't have been able to complete the installation without this new old stock component cradle - another lucky find off Yahoo. One of the decks proved more suited to the task than the others, due to the pre-amp being directly accessible without having to remove the entire tape player mechanism, and so I set about pulling this apart and modifying to accept a standard 3.5mm input with the help of slacker.cam and Ned. The original plan was to open one of the non-functional decks (in the first photo) and somehow figure out a way of tapping a standard auxiliary cable into the pre-amp channels this way I could discreetly attach an external music player and still have treble/bass, volume and fader controls available, as well as preserving the "time capsule" feel of the interiors in both squid (the Skyline sedan) and banana (the Savanna RX-7). I haven't yet managed to test this amp as I haven't been able to find any documentation nor figure out the pinouts for the horrific tangle of extra wiring and outputs you can see in the photo. This was top of the line back in the early '80s, with a hearty 30W+30W of continuous power (40W MAX). Rounding it off with a GM-D8 bad boy main amp. The decks had broken drive belts, but proved to be fine otherwise.Īnd a third cassette deck that was ridiculously cheap, with a seized drive. It all started with this stack of early '80s Pioneer Lonesome Car-boy audio gear I picked up for cheap off Yahoo, with the help of Ewan hayatonka. Please note that I'm not confident enough in my skills to offer to build similar units for other people yet, but am happy to provide guidance/comments. Here is a thread for me to document various exploits with vintage Pioneer car audio ('70s and '80s era).
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