Aftermarket Amp with Front Door Speakers

[eclipserider]

Hey everyone. I have 6.5" Eclipse point source speakers installed into the front doors of my 98 GS-T Spyder and an aftermarket Eclipse HU. I have an amp now that I would like to install to power the speakers. I was wondering if it would be acceptable to run wire from the amp to a point inside the car (ie. factory amp location) and connect to the OEM speaker wire. This would eliminate running a wire through the car into the door. Or would it be better to try to feed a wire through the door to connect to the crossover box installed with the speakers inside of the door.

If these options are equivalent where do I hook up to a factory wire point inside the car? If running wires through the car into the doors is better, what is the best method to do that? I notice that there are wire harneses between the door and the car and no real point to bypass new wires.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Mackzero]

The easiest way to do this, is to run another 16ga speaker wire from under the front pass. seat to each front door. Use the factory wire for your tweet wire and the new 16ga one for the mid wire. Install the crossovers under the pass seat, and run a 12 ga wire to your amplifer in the rear. I personally would just run 2 wires into the door and bypass all the factory wiring, but that is just me. It is fairly easy to do, use a metal coat hangar as a guide wire if you don't have one. Then tape one of the wires to it tight with electrical tape, the tape the other wire to that wire. Pull it through carefully and make sure you have plenty of wire, you don't want to be too tight.

 

[BlueTalon95]

You could also drill your own pass through to the door. Its not hard at all. Just make sure you get one of those accordian black rubber things to cover the wires.

 

[97GS-TSpyder]

Man yall are crazy. Look at the wires of the speakers, take off your kick panels and find the wire there, snip it, and splice.

crazy kids

 

[Dr3wStx]

Man yall are crazy. Look at the wires of the speakers, take off your kick panels and find the wire there, snip it, and splice.

crazy kids

I'm pretty sure he was asking if its worth replacing the factory wires with better ones since he is going to wire up an amp anyways. Your reply doesn't even make sence to me.

To help with the question, I would say you probably wont notice any diffrence in sound, from the stock wires. But if your like me, I would feel better useing some nice 16ga, rather then that brittle stock crap.

 

[97GS-TSpyder]

SOrry let me retype my post

1)Take off door panel
2)identify wires on speaker, then identify in car side of harness
3)Snip wire, then connect the wire from the door to the car to the amp wiring.
4)put door panel back on

its not that hard
and your factory wiring is more than adequate, i did this same thing with a 600 watt 2 channel. No reason for 4 if your not doing surround sound.

 

[Attack Eagle]

please note you will NOT be putting the amp under the passenger seat which I infered from the first post.

see the tech article section for a wire color breakdown at the amp.

 

[RockSolidGST]

The factory amp is under the seat...... Just remove the pass seat... Take out the fact amp , use a speaker poper to find the speakers and put the amp there..... Its where i have my 4 chann. as long as the amps small enuf should work fine... and no1 can see it

 

[Attack Eagle]

if it's that littel why use it?

you want 50+ w rms...

note it is height that is an issue... i've never been able to fit an amp and still have the seat stay oem and full motion.

 

[RockSolidGST]

I have an alpine MR340 under there , its a pretty big 4 chan... I just had to do a little bending of the metal bracket underneath the seat.... Didn't affect anything tho seat still feels the same..... and the seat still has full motion....But again.... Depends on what kind of amp is he trying to put underthere , if not can always splice the wires at that location and run them up to the back of the rear seats... not a hard task exp if the seat and center console is already out... If u got any more questions just ask im an installer and did a full system in my car

 

[Attack Eagle]

Me too

I jsut would never mod a seat to put an amp under it...

PARTICULARLY on a convertible... for obvious reasons.

PLus if he is asking this question... then whereas you or I might beable to pull it off... he just might not reweld reinforcements to the bottom of the seat...


or he might get rained on withthe top down and have nice h2o in his amp if it was floor mounted


Best bet... trunk... at least it is locked and semi secure when the top is down.