any 4X10's?

[maylar 10+ year member]

A friend has a classic 70's muscle car with a 10 ohm 4X10 speaker. He's looking for a replacement. I'm sure an 8 ohm would work, but they say a 4 ohm would burn out the old Delco radio. It's a show car and upgrading the radio is not an option. Anybody know if 8 ohm 4X10's are still out there?

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[ss3079 5,000+ posts]

I can't find a 8ohm ... only 4ohm (Kicker, Sony, Kenwood, Pioneer).

What car is it? I can try pinpointing the factory speakers from a restoration company.

- Steve

 

[denim 5,000+ posts]

it has to be a GM, they were the only ones to use 4x10's that I can remember

 

[ss3079 5,000+ posts]

So it narrows it down to the Camaro/Firebird, Corvette, El Camino, Malibu (Chevelle), yadda yadda yadda.

I'll browse though my restoration book with all of the stock parts.

- Steve

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

It's an Olds Cutlass, 442 I think.

 

[cfurtick 10+ year member]

What I have done for customers in the past is use a ceramic resistor of the appropriate value to raise the resistance of the speaker. For instance.... adding a 6 ohm resistor to the speaker will bring the resistance of the speaker to 10 ohm etc.

 

[denim 5,000+ posts]

That and the Delco head unit pretty much give away the fact that it's a GM //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

d'oh read right over the delco, hehe

 

[paikiah 5,000+ posts]

if the stock radio look is important, why not just cut the faceplate and leave it on only for show,and behind it can rest a more modern unit.

Also, couldn't he get speaker to RCA jacks and use an amp instead?

 

[maylar 10+ year member]

What I have done for customers in the past is use a ceramic resistor of the appropriate value to raise the resistance of the speaker. For instance.... adding a 6 ohm resistor to the speaker will bring the resistance of the speaker to 10 ohm etc.

Yea, others have suggested that too. But that drops speaker power by 60%. And when there's only 2.5 watts to start with (old non-bridged radio design)...