RCA Cable route? PICS PAGE 3

[Sasso]

any reason why most people using driver side rather than passenger side?

Thats where the battery is and fuel fill lines are not. Plus my amp is behind drivers seat.

[marcusus]

My cabling is running to the passenger side. No detrimental effects there. Don't know why I did it that way rather than behind the driver's seat.

[Okibi]

Yup on the NB there's a metal plate where the fuel hoses go into the tank. It's easier to do down the drivers side.

[ducktape69]

oh yeah ive already taken off that metal plate for this custom boot setup..so that isnt in the way...

[Matty]

I had mine down the pax side. On my NA there was a plastic tube under the door sill that can be split open to run cables through (just remove the sill trim and lift the carpet).

That gets it past the door opening cleanly, then there's a gap to push it through the LH tunnel and down to the boot. The amp was mounted vertically in the LHS of the boot. (Probably not easy to do this in an NB). The speaker wires were bundled and taped to the RCAs and the amp control line (blue wire) and fed through as one big snake.

[ducktape69]

well i got it all done today...BUT the crappy RCA cable broke the head off it AFTER i had routed it through GRRRRRRR...and it was the best cable autobarn had...
oh well...new cable on the way tomorrow

[Me]

i tried both sides on my na. when it was on the driver side, i hear clipping. on the passenager side, the clipping is gone. it's enough the afford to redo it.

by the way, good rca won't fix the interference problem for u. unless u r running digital or optical sign.

[ducktape69]

finally got it finished today...turned out that 2!! sets of US Audio RCA cables were faulty from autobarn...
so went and spent $50 on some top end cables and turned out perfect

will post some pics later

[Okibi]

nahh I wanna see pics now

Must have been frustrating to have 2 sets of cables break .. hope you wrapped them around the next of the nearest autobarn employee

[Ajay]

cant wait to see the pics, your car looked great before this!! now think of how its going to look!!!!

im glad its gone to a good home and im sure Ryan is too!.. he put alot of work into it and the sound from that size sub is awesome!

[ducktape69]

it definately looks amazing!

unfortunately i blew the main 40A fuse after about 10min of driving and cant really figure out why...
everything is connected correctly...

couple questions:
1. is it ok to have the earth for the capacitor and amp on the same screw(battery earth)

2. the amp is sitting on the spare tyre bolt that i used to secure the base for the amp...is it ok for the amp to be grounded like this?


grrrr...looks like the sub blew also...whats a good 10\"sub to buy?

[chatchat]

if sub.....I choose Rockford only.

[ducktape69]

yep im lookin at the rockford P1 or P2 series...
how do the rockford 'shallow' series subs compare?

[Ajay]

you blew the sub

i pumped the crap out of that thing for like 1 month straight lol!!!

[ducktape69]

hmmm yeah i know...dunno how it happened even...
im gettin the newer fusion 10\" tomorrow...
the rockford's 10\" range coil is too large for the sub box by the looks of it...