Damn that was a good car.
I have bought a rather expensive sound system/speakers/amps etc for my project car...So it can be noisy inside and outside...
It has a fibreglass shell...the old aerial used to be in the roof...but unless I have to have it visible, I want the aerial hidden...
Can I simply get an aerial and glue it to the inside of the roof inside the headliner or in the cavity in the B pillar (no steel frame)?
Or is there a better way of getting good reception through fibreglass?
Does the aerial have to be vertical?
[Edited on 19/10/08 by tegwin]
I used to have one of these fitted to an old car that had no aerial hole and I didn't want to fit one either.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Universal-Electronic-Screen-Glass-Mount-Car-Aerial_W0QQitemZ290265088813QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item290265088813
An aerial extended behind the dash would work ok too but might pick up interferance.
[Edited on 19/10/08 by McLannahan]
plent of people on here are using E36 BMWs as a donor, and i've just realised E36's (i know mine certainly doesn't) don't have an
external aerial. maybe someone on here can give you one out their donor?
not entirely sure how it works, but in the headlining on the passenger side, in the rear, there's an aerial amplifier, and maybe the aerial is in
the same bit. i'm not sure, but maybe look out some of those bits?
[Edited on 19/10/08 by blakep82]
I am not sure, but i think Hondas have the aerila integrated in the rear windscreen together with the heating lines. I think
Old Escort Mk.4 had the arial on the rear window and it worked fine for me.
Damn that was a good car.
You can put the antenna anywere, your biggist problem is radio interference from the ignition system. I had a big block Corvette that was ordered without a radio, when we put one in the static was unreal, The radio equipped Vettes had a metal shroud around the dissy and across the back of the engine, then grounded sleeves over the spark plug wires.
connect the antenna to the chassis, then it'll make the chassis an antenna!
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Originally posted by robertst
connect the antenna to the chassis, then it'll make the chassis an antenna!
long time since did electromagnetic transmission stuff but the aerial needs to be a particular shape so I doubt the chassis will work.
volvo 850 has aerial in rear side window and those little mp3 players with radio use the headphone screen (I think) as the aerial.
From what I have seen, the aerial needs to be vertical so if you can glue yours in that position, then it'll probably work.
I had one of these stuck under the roof of my fibreglass Bumfinger Pick-up. It worked fine.
Screen mounted aerial.
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Originally posted by mistergrumpy
Old Escort Mk.4 had the arial on the rear window and it worked fine for me.
Damn that was a good car.