Help I need step by step instructions
Here what I did so far
1.) I ran a power wire to the distribution block from the battery.
2.) From the distribution block to kenwood 2 channel and kenwood 4 channel amp
3.) Than grounded both amp in seperate location
4.) Remote wire from the head unit to the amps
5.) Front and rear Rca's from the head unit to the amps
What am i missing?
*my subs already hook up to the 2 channel amp I just need help wit 4 channel amp
It sounds like you have everything right just hook up your speakers to the 4 ch. amp and you should be good to go, assuming you have your amps properly fused which it appears as though you do. You will also want to tune your amps once you have them working properly.
Dave
Yes I have it fused correectly. Ok that's where I'm getting confused at? Is hook the speaker wires up to amp. Now I already have speaker wires connected to the head unit. Do I run a secondary set from each from the 4x6 and 6x9 to the amp?
Yeah you will have to run separate wires from your amps to your speakers, one channel on the amp per speaker. The only thing coming out of the headunit going to the amps are the RCA's and the remote wire.
Dave
woah woah woah. hold on a second.
Are you running the factory speakers, or after market speakers? If you put in an aftermarket deck and wired the harness adapter so all the speakers are currently getting head unit power and using stock wiring, that's fine. BUT if you are talking about factory speakers, don't bother amping them just replace the speakers with something better THEN worry about amp hookup and tuning. If you have aftermarket speakers and want to amp them, you will just run speaker wires from each speaker directly to it's designated output on the amplifier.
On the other hand....you have other fingers.
"You really need to staple your face shut"-THE Joey Baggs.
JLAudioCavalier wrote:woah woah woah. hold on a second.
Are you running the factory speakers, or after market speakers? If you put in an aftermarket deck and wired the harness adapter so all the speakers are currently getting head unit power and using stock wiring, that's fine. BUT if you are talking about factory speakers, don't bother amping them just replace the speakers with something better THEN worry about amp hookup and tuning. If you have aftermarket speakers and want to amp them, you will just run speaker wires from each speaker directly to it's designated output on the amplifier.
Your right JL I was assuming he had aftermarket speakers since he had an amp.....my bad lol.
Dave
ha no problem. I just wanted to clarify that those paper stock speakers aren't going to sound any better when you throw more power at them. Ya spent money on an amp, now spend money on speakers that will do the power justice and make your music sound much better. I can't think of a car with worse stock speakers than a Jbody.
On the other hand....you have other fingers.
"You really need to staple your face shut"-THE Joey Baggs.
I'll wait for more info before I advise, but you should ground your amps to
one location. Multiple grounding spots is bad news.
I'm using aftermarket 4x6's and 6x9's
Thanks you all for the advice it help
JLAudioCavalier wrote:I can't think of a car with worse stock speakers than a Jbody.
My '86 monte carlo SS had 3.5's in the front and 4x10's in the back. wtf do you do with that!?
"In Oldskool we trust"
You do what I did in my 84 Mercury Zephyr. Make the best of what ya got. I managed to ream out the holes, put some decent quality 4" speakers in there and a 10" IDQ in the trunk. All running off a JL 500/5. It didn't suck. Wasn't the best in the world,. but I made due
On the other hand....you have other fingers.
"You really need to staple your face shut"-THE Joey Baggs.
