Hi Chad,
Most of the newer radios use a system that needs to have both leads
from each speaker to be hooked to the radio with no ground anywhere in
the speaker line. If my memory serves me right, the original radios had
one lead to the speaker and the other side was hooked to ground. You
would have to run new wires to the speakers to the new radio and if you
wanted to hook up the orig radio in the future you could ground one lead
from each at ther radio and then hook up one lead of each to the radio.
Allan R.
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:51:40 -0800 (PST) Chad Zeilenga
<chadzeilenga@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> To all,
> I am looking at installing an aftermarket radio in my
> Imperial. The original does not work great and I
> would like to add CD capability to my car. I plan on
> leaving the original in the dash and mounting the new
> one under the dash hidden and use a remote for it so
> that it could be concealed more. I have obtained all
> of the necessary connectors for the wiring so that I
> don't have to hack away at the original wiring harness
> and can plug the original radio in at any time in the
> future.
> I understand with the AM/FM Imperial radios there is a
> three prong connector going out to the splitter under
> dash. What wires are what? The power wire and
> antenna wire should not be difficult but I am unsure
> about the speaker wires. Is it difficult to adapt a
> modern radio into an Imperial? I do understand that
> the sound output will be lower due to the original
> speakers being 8 ohm units while the newer radios work
> best with 4 ohm speakers. Does anyone have any
> advice?
>
> Chad
> 1973 Imp
> 1966 Galaxie
>
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