[BigWheelinBubba]

Man this thread takes me back to 1990.. wiring up a Kenwood 1021 in a buddies Escort with some Kicker Competition SS10's. Dammit I feel old now. Thanks!

 

[catbones]

Nice install and setup there... what are you running? what deck you going to put in ?

I've got some 15 - 20 year old amps and sub from ohhh when I was a teen, going to pop them in this summer hopefully... I think its like 2x 250 for front I got and a 300 for the back or something like that...with pioneer in the mids of it all.

 

[akmo23]

Its all fair for your budget but get a grommet for the wire passing the firewall I bet you get a short in less than a year other- wise. Why not a residential switch what did that lamp do to you. :rofl:

 

[fuzzysig]

just fyi. home wires are made for high voltage low amperage (110 volts, 5-10 amps)
car wires are made for low voltage high amperage(14 volts 60-120 amps)
normally you should follow the amplifier's recommended specs for wiring depending on how many amps it needs

unless you want to have melted wires and possibly fire or just never play bass through those speakers.

you can find power wire almost 100% guarantee at any junkyard for like 5 bucks with the proper fuse.

so for everyone else who is installing an amp don't use house wires lol.

 

[Cooki_monstre]

just fyi. home wires are made for high voltage low amperage (110 volts, 5-10 amps)
car wires are made for low voltage high amperage(14 volts 60-120 amps)
normally you should follow the amplifier's recommended specs for wiring depending on how many amps it needs

unless you want to have melted wires and possibly fire or just never play bass through those speakers.

you can find power wire almost 100% guarantee at any junkyard for like 5 bucks with the proper fuse.

so for everyone else who is installing an amp don't use house wires lol.

Completely untrue. Wires transmit power in the form of electricity. Wires have a limit on how much power they can transmit. For Example ...

We know that the formula for power is w = V x I, where w is watts (power), V is voltage, and I is current (Amps). I wire that claims it can handle 10 amps @ 110 volts can handle 1100 watts of power. That means you could also supply 110 Amps @ 10 volts because the power being supplied has not changed. That being said, as long as the gauge of wire is the same you will be good to go. The issue you can run into using household wire is that it tends to not be very flexible. Whereas welding wire which most people use in-car audio installs is very ductile.

 

[gman]

This is awesome. I used to like big sound systems, but now I think that I will be happy with just a set of 6x9's and a headunit with bluetooth/aux input.
Maybe a small amp to power the 6x9's. I'll buy it all used and I don't think that I can put more than $100 into it.
It will also have to go in after every single mechanical issue is addressed and I'm confident that my van is at it's current best.

Especially because I don't listen to hip hop anymore, and because the electronic music I listen too doesn't go that low on the frequency spectrum.
At my peak, I had an 3000 watt (real professional audio equipment not false adveristing) amp and a 50lb subwoofer. Some guy who was sponsored by car audio places just gave it to me for like 1/3 of it's value because he was just trying to get rid of it and he got it for free. I knew that I was lucky and that literally any person would have immediately picked that up.
I think the whole system was wroth about $4000 but I got it all for just under $1000. That sub would melt your face off.

However, the fact that you got this done so cheap is really cool, and having a sound system is sooooo cool.
I may make a similar post for a very small 6x9 build. Maybe I can do it all for < $80.

I think that the coolest thing about this post is the fact that you installed an on/off switch for the amp, because sometimes you just want to chill lol.
Pretty awesome.