Hello everyone,

This is my first post here and I'm in the works of building an SPL vehicle slash daily driver - this post will be a little long but your help is appreciated - so thanks in advance!

My car is a 2008 Honda FIT black sport. Everything is stock so far and I've got a budget of +/- $5000. I have an older Kenwood 5V excelon deck I'm planning to use for SPL(podium style) and keep the factory radio and use a speaker line converter output for subs when not competing in SPL. I'm not concerned in changing the stock speakers or radio since the quality is fine for now*.

I've worked in Car Audio for many year and this will be my first attempt at SPL. I've been reading posts on this site and come up with a few questions that I can't find.

Now for the questions:

#1 - Subs - Mr. Yuli after seeing your score with the two tens - I was completely sold on your 12" product! I also am looking into the RE MT 12 as well but the price is pushing my budget! Any other suggestions?

#2 - Batteries & Power/ground wires - looks like I can get four '+' runs of 0/1 cable and four '-' runs of 0/1 cable to rear seat floor of the car without cutting the firewall grommet - more then factory has already provided. Will this be enough power for the 4 batteries(Kinetik 2400s possibly) put under he backseat floor and a Kinetik 1400 up front in the engine!

#3 - How do the classes work in terms of amps/subs and box placement? I'm a little confused on what class I would be placed in?

#4 - Amp wise I've ordered a pair Bassworks 3001.D strapped to give 6000watts. The reason for the amp is due to the price and solid build construction! The amps will be installed against the rear seats vertically.

I hope my questions are clear enough to understand

Thanks Jed

 

dont cheap out on the subs, mts a very capable driver.

you could find a used one for 300ish shipped.

 

if your using a podium and 5 batteries your going to be in superstreet. Its a wall class so to be competative youll need to basically ruin your new car to accomodate the wall. street class's require the headunit to be installed in the factory location, 1 650 cu" battery in street A, 1 850 cu" battery in street B both under the hood, or 2 850 cu" batteries for street C. 2 strapped amps put you in street B or C as you cant use strapped pair in street A

 

Ok so I can move the head unit to the dash. I wanted the car to be stock as much as possible - but oh well. Scosche makes a nice all in one kit so I'll scoop one of those up!

Ok then one 1400 batt up front and one 2400 under the seats. This now allow more play with money (3 less batteries) - If I understood you correctly Citrate??

OK so instead of strapping the two 3000's what about 1amp per coil. I've read up on the 'FI' subs too and they come custom ordered with dual 1ohm coils so that would works too. Isn't Fi the original designers of RE subs? I'd like to purchase a second sub for backup just incase.

 

Nice Car, I own the 2007 Sport model. Good luck with your spl adventures. BTW the scosche kit is the best choice for dash. I've got the metra and scosche. The Metra model sucks the big **** and the schoche fits like a glove!

 

With the Two batteries this will put you in Street C, you can have up to (4) 12" subs and (4) strapped amps in Street C.

 

like john said 2 batteries will put you in street C, and the second battery cant be in the passenger compartment, it must be in the cargo area, if your looking at street A ( 1 12" sub) then you can only use 1 amp on your sub, and 1 battery under the hood. And yes FI Audio is owned and operated by the founders of RE

 

just so u dont get too confused the battery must be 800square inches or less for street b or c... not 850

 

crap sorry bout that lol, peter's right 800 cu"

 

LOL you calling my subs cheap?

MT is a good driver but unless you are throwing HEAPS of power at it you will find it to be pretty useless. Matter of fact, there are many other more efficient subs that will out perform the MT with in certain power ranges. I'm talking about SPL of course.