Stereo install ??

[raceboy]

Stereo install questions.

Ok, I have the RF package.

1. Where is the amp located?
2. Is it a high level input coming into that amp from the head unit?
3. If it is a high level from the headunit is it just 4 channels coming from the headunit?
4. Does the amp power all the speakers or just the sub?
5. What size are the front and rear door speakers?

Thanks.

[bestatchess]

Ok, I have the RF package.

1. Where is the amp located?

Up under the dash on the driver's side in a bracket bolted to the firewall.

2. Is it a high level input coming into that amp from the head unit?

The signal levels from the HU are pretty low level. I tapped in using Scosche NN03 & NN03R regular & reverse connectors to www.davidnavone.com 4 channel LOC to Audio Control Matrix pre-amp to power amps. (removed RF amp, replaced all speakers, pulled new speaker wire)

3. If it is a high level from the headunit is it just 4 channels coming from the headunit?

Yes, 4 channels from the HU

4. Does the amp power all the speakers or just the sub?

All speakers & sub.

5. What size are the front and rear door speakers?

front: 6 x 9

rear: 6.5

The speakers are 2 ohms.

[raceboy]

Originally Posted by bestatchess

Ok, I have the RF package.

1. Where is the amp located?

Up under the dash on the driver's side in a bracket bolted to the firewall.

2. Is it a high level input coming into that amp from the head unit?

The signal levels from the HU are pretty low level. I tapped in using Scosche NN03 & NN03R regular & reverse connectors to www.davidnavone.com 4 channel LOC to Audio Control Matrix pre-amp to power amps. (removed RF amp, replaced all speakers, pulled new speaker wire)

3. If it is a high level from the headunit is it just 4 channels coming from the headunit?

Yes, 4 channels from the HU

4. Does the amp power all the speakers or just the sub?

All speakers & sub.

5. What size are the front and rear door speakers?

front: 6 x 9

rear: 6.5

The speakers are 2 ohms.

Thanks, now if I am lazy and just want to leave the factory wiring then I still need to bypass the amp. I took a look and I see the wire harnesses coming in and going out. Is there a coupler available to just plug the harnesses into each other?

I had a great budget system in my old 350Z where I used an Alpine headunit (about the most powerful headunit out there) to power 4 infinity coaxials (non kappa and highly efficient). The Alpine deck allowed me to cross over the powered output so the little amp didn't waste it's energy trying to reproduce low frequencies (I had it crossed over at 100hz). Then I ran a JL 10" Sub and a JL 250/1. It sounded fantastic!

My hope was to do something in the same here with a minimum of tearing the truck apart. This time though I want to go with the JL stealbox and 500/1.

I am wondering about just leaving the stock head unit for now even and just replacing the speakers because that has always made a huge difference in the past. That was actually the first thing I did in the Z and it made a world of difference in the SQ. I know the stock speakers are 2ohm so you will get less power production but if I leave the stock HU then I will leave the little amp too to run the other speakers.

Do you know if the amp employs any type of crossover or are the four channels being run full range??

Thanks for all your help.

[Sammy Sandbag]

No, remember there are far more wires going out than in. Some of the members here have used pin jumpers to wire it up that way, or you can just splice into the wires, others have just run new wire.

[raceboy]

Originally Posted by Sammy Sandbag

No, remember there are far more wires going out than in. Some of the members here have used pin jumpers to wire it up that way, or you can just splice into the wires, others have just run new wire.

Far more as in how many more (too lazy to go out and count) I know it will have a center channel and sub out so that would be 4 more out than in. Hopefully it doesn't also run seperate wire all the way to the tweets as well?? Hopefully those just split off in the door.

[Sammy Sandbag]

You also have the dash tweets. The rear tweets are split off in the door.

[raceboy]

Originally Posted by Sammy Sandbag

You also have the dash tweets. The rear tweets are split off in the door.

Thanks. Yeah, I guess that makes sense since the front tweets are in the dash seperate from the door. If I retain the little amp I think I would 86 the dash tweets and center channel.

I am also just thinking about ditching the RF sub and adding the stealthbox and amp only.

[eakes]

The RF amp has the following as inputs and outputs contained in the 'blue' connector: right/left front in, right/left rear in, center dash out, left and right dash tweeters out, left and right front door out, left and right rear door out, plus 'amp on' from the HU.

The white connector contains power for the amp plus left/right front and rear out to the subwoofer.

[wmtom]

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