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I have a couple more questions for you. First is about the under-dash position for the first two speakers; I remember driving my car in the rain a few times and having water course in under the dash. It came from the doors, somehow, and from the fenderwells. It consistently dripped onto my left knee from under the dash.
As we cut into my chassis and removed the body, I could see the rust patterns from where there had been the most consistent soaking, and the worst offender was the two-inch box tubing that runs behind and below the bottom edge of the dashboard.
The question there is how would you mount your speakers to that bar without soaking them. I believe the answer is to create isolator posts which grow upward from that bar, eliminating gravity-affected water, and then fabricating some tabs to mount the speakers' body-sides below-grade to the footwell. Hope that makes sense.
Your breather box is my second question. It looks like the EMPI type. If so, the box breathes through a small slot on the long sides of the rectangular shape. I think that it might be mounted in a disasterous position, if that's the case.
Might want to check that.
If you can slip a piece of paper through the lower lip of the corrugated flat side where it meets the body of the box, you'll have oil all over your engine the first time it warms up.
I believe it wants to be corrugated-side up, mounted 90 degrees from where it is now. I hope I'm wrong. That's a beautiful setup.
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