[Greg Reid]

Looking good Frederick.
I had that elbow thing myself. I got it from turning my engine over with a short ratchet for an extended period of time...Leakdown testing... Didn't hurt myself during the process but the next day, it was killing me and I figured that's what it was. Sleeping was a challenge for months. It took about a year before it really stopped bothering me.

[2cdavis3]

Sorry to hear about your arm but glad to see you're still plugging away at the lemans

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I had that elbow thing myself. I got it from turning my engine over with a short ratchet for an extended period of time...Leakdown testing...

The sad thing for me was I was loading pallets at work for a order that had to ship that day. There was no one else was available to load the pallets so I ended up packing the order. (about 5000 LBS in boxes weighting 60 LBS each) The trucking company failed to pick up the order for four days despite our constant calling. Of course in the mean time, someone else could have packed that order. I guess now I will act like a boss, sit around and do nothing. . . . (oops I didn't say that, I hope the GF doesn't read this)

What gauge wire do you run to the trunk for the amps? Where do you pick up the power? Battery? If so what do you use on the + post?

The wiring is roughed in place and not tied down yet. I ran a 8 gauge wire from the battery to the trunk. The wire goes along the drivers side inner fender and through a hole in the firewall. From there it follows the wiring path used by the rear light harness.

The stud for the wires is an adapter available at most auto parts stores. It also comes in amplifier wiring kits. I purchased an amp wiring kit from Amazon for about $20. You can also get adapters for the clamp type of battery cables.




I can't mount anything right now, so I just hooked it up for sound testing.


The amp. The label lies, its only 240W RMS at .001% THD. The dynamat works well. No rattles at really high volume. The JBL 6x9's really play loud and clean. Bass that you can feel.

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You guys got me to thinking about amplifiers and wiring and I remembered the amp I bought to use in my 2006 GTO. I bought the amp to replace the factory sub amp. After replacing the factory speakers with high efficiency Infinity speakers, I found I didn't need the amp so I just sit it in a cabinet and forgot about it.

This amp is a bit overkill, but why buy another when you have something that will work.

Specs

2x75 RMS 4 Ohms
2x120 RMS 2 Ohms
Total THD 0.03%
Draws 20 Amps, fused at 40 amps, 1 amp at idle
Recommend 10 gauge wire.

The amp is rather big, but I guess I can find somewhere to mount it. I can probably get away with a 12 gauge power wire, since I only wanted/needed about 25W RMS for the front speakers.

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The amp is too big to go anywhere but under the rear seat (maybe?) but if get the wiring to the rear seat, its trivial to go ahead and mount the amp in the trunk. Another two feet of wire. Now if I can find a gorilla to remove the rear seat for me. It was all I could do to install the rear seat with both arms.