Back after 10 years? with a 67 camaro, gutted full build - PICS!

Wow, looks like you got a big job ahead of you rebuilding that car.

First and foremost you're in a perfect place to do some serious deadening.  There are some great options for products these days and you could really have a Cadillac quiet ride if you wanted.

Definitely don't put any mids and highs behind you.  It is still an acoustic nightmare.  Kicks or a-pillars for mids and highs, midbass can go into the doors just fine.... really mids in the doors can be OK, but if you can keep them on-axis (pointed right at where the dome light would be) you'll  generally have better results.

Unless you really love nostalgia I'd avoid old school amps.  Anything worth owning is OLD.  And I mean old to the point where electrolytic capacitors are due to fail.  So if you do buy an old school amp, make sure it's something that's really worth the cost of being professionally restored.  Even then modern class D technology is very nice.  You can get big power in a small footprint that runs nice and cool that you can stash in some out of the way places and not run into overheating troubles. 

So if you can get some really rare old school amp to put it on display, that would be pretty cool, otherwise if you just want good sound from something hidden you should definitely lean towards modern options. 

Sweet! In like Flynn to see finished product.

Some nice metal work going on in that vehicle.

This deserves a full-fledged 3way+subwoofer install, something powerful to drown out some of those sweet exhaust notes when you want to. There's so much possibility for massaging in large midbass drivers in that front area while you are doing the fabrication, it would be shame to miss that opportunity. You might also consider running mics in the tire wells and firewall area so you can feed that signal to the amplifiers with the opposite polarity. Noise canceling, ya dig?

Rsx_03 said:

I'm a electrical engineer so semi following you, ciaonzo, do you mean microphones on an active inverting operational amplifier fed into my amplifiers to make basically noise cancellation? Problem is noise has to be at an equal amplitude to have cancellation effect. You'd need a dedicated system and calibrated. Awesome idea, I'll be looking into a dedicated system for extra quite rides. 

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Yes, exactly! Come to think of it, the mic grabbing the noise from outside the cabin would be introducing higher frequency noise that isn't actually heard inside of the vehicle. Maybe you could run one with shelving filters and feedback. I'm reaching here, I'm not an engineer.