hi. I just bought a Pheonix Gold Octane R 500W amp and Octane R 12 inch sub with a ported enclosure and an install kit. I am new to this and I was wondering if any of you knew of some good installation guides. I drive a 1990 pontiac firefly, would the amp+sub work ok for this car? I dont plan on having the system going while the engine's not running or something like that.


thanks alot

 

scrounge around big 4 sale eh?

fairly simple to do an amp with a kit,

red wire goes from battery, to a fuse (should come with the kit i believe) no more then 18" from the battery, from there the red wire continues back to where ever u want to mount the amp,

DO NOT CONNECT THE FUSE YET, as u dont want the live power wire in your car sittin around.

once u get the red wire thru the fire wall, wait a minute, till u connect the blue wire in the kit, to the remote wire (usually blue, but consult your deck manual) on your deck,

keep the deck outta the dash for now as well.

run this wire up outta the way under the dash over to the drivers side, and have it meet the red power wire, use some wire ties and zip em together, clip the excess off the ties, loosen up the door jam trim panels a bit so u can tuck the 2 wires underneath it so they arent visible, all the way back to where u will mount the amp,
next run the RCA cables that came with the kit, from the back of the deck, into the hole in your dash where the deck would be, up under the dash behind your glove box to the passenger side door jam, repeat the same steps u took with the power and remote wire, tuckin it under the trim to make for a clean install.

now once all those wires are laid out, u wanna find a good place to ground the amp at, like under a seat bolt or existing screw or bolt if possible, just make sure u sand the area down to BARE clean metal, attatch the ground wire securly to this spot,

connect up your wires, (i normally go power, remote ground last to avoid accidently welding an alan key to the side of my amp while tightening the power wire) but i could be doin this *** backwards too, so anyone who can correct me on this feel free.

then connect your amp to your sub, + to +, - to - and set your gains how u want em, and enjoy.

hope that helps

 

That is excellent, thankyou. What about the danger that I may kill the battery in the car or maybe the alternator cant handle it, should it be OK the way it is?

 

u should be ok, might get a little dimming, but i have seen an 82 tercel take a RF bd1000 with no more then some headlight dimmage on bass notes, same car with 2 amps and 4 12s comin back from red deer with the music blarin high beams on etc etc.... hit the signal light and the car shut off at 120km lol needless to say the music was turned down after that.... no damage done, other then that brief OMFG WHAT DID WE DO!?!?!? feeling till the car started back up lol

so like i said a 500w amp u should be cool [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

 

You don't need to worry about this if your deck is off and if you have not placed the fuse in the holder. Myself, the very last thing I do after every connection is made (including the speakers) that is when I pop the fuse in.

[ September 09, 2003, 02:46 PM: Message edited by: maltesechicken ]