bry509

Captain obvious up there is right sounds like you have a really bad short somewhere. First thing I would do is check for recalls on that vehicle. Second if you can I would take my car up to schucks being a newer car youre going to have an obd2 connector under the dash usually by the steering column, schucks will let you use their diagnostics tool for free and it saved me a ton of money rather than taking my car to a mechanic. After I ran the diagnostic on my car it turns out they had a recall on my mitsubishi because they mounted the wiring harness right next to the downpipe and melted . Good luck.

Yeah if it is 18 I'm fine the way I want to install it. Whats the proper place to ground in a trunk??? I used one of the bolts that was holding in the rear stock speaker on the top inside of the trunk when I installed my 8".... Well I finally get to hook it all up tomorrow :D

Quick question. I never installed an amp wire kit that didnt already have the fuse in place. I heard that it's a good idea to have the fuse as close as possible to the positive battery terminal but I was wondering just how close does it need to be? I was thinking about installing it about after a foot and a half on the wire is that ok?

Bro, I too learned the hard way. I installed the 8" sub on my own and decided to go really cheap and bought a wal mart wire kit for like $15 and the wire I believe is a 16g. It was only a week after that I decided I wanted to go bigger and got those two twelves. I just got done pulling the wires and I left the moldings off and carpet pulled up in anticipation of getting my new wires. Hopefully I wont want to go any bigger for a long time, this shit is expensive. I need to find a cheap hobby.

Thank you very much. A new battery is next on the list. About the kenwoods over heating, I did do a lot of research on a few amps and people did say it over heated. Knock on wood I wont have trouble but I could always fab something up with computer fans.

No link, I picked them up off a friend for $25 for both. They both work and pounded from a little 100w amp in a sealed box so I cant wait to get 250w to each one in a ported box. Thanks for the info, it gives me more confidence for my set up. I had no idea the gain control actually controlled the power output, good to know. I'm going to run all 500 if I can though good thing I finally installed my voltmeter gauge. Alright that gives me a lot more confidence. I'm not even sure what the mitsubishi '02 galants alt is rated at but I'm not worried with what I have.

First off wanted to introduce myself, just got into audio. I'm sure these types of threads are common so I'll try to keep it short. Been reading the forums for a couple months after watching some of Meade's crazy videos on youtube. I had a small 8" sub in my car and now I'm upgrading to two twelves and waiting on my new amp and wire kit and I CAN'T wait to get all this up and running. I have some questions I hope you guys wont mind answering. Here's my set up: -2 generic 12" subs (selenium bass 200w rms 400w max 4 ohm svc) -Large ported box that holds two twelves (picked up for $15 and rebuilt it) -The amp I got is Kenwood KAC-8104D (one channel 500w rms at 2 ohms) -4g wire kit from ebay 80 amp fuse -12g copper wire for the subs to the amp First, I was wondering since the amp is going to be pushing 500w rms and I'm wiring the subs in parallel, is it ok to continously power the subs at 250 watts and 2ohm? Does it matter what ohm the subs are rated at? Also, I've been looking over some of your guy's builds and I see people hooking up small batteries and caps to their amp, for the set up I have now would you recommend I hook up another bat? If so how are these wired up I couldnt find any info after searching. I also just wanted to get some opinions on my equipment, you know wire size, what you think of the amp I chose, etc... All constructive compliments are welcome (I know what I said) The big thing about my build is that I was trying to keep it under budget so keep that in mind and I'm pretty new to car audio but already an addict. Thanks for taking the time to read my post and/or responding. Keep on bumpin'.