After 3 days of hard work and partying, I managed to rewire the front component speakers and installed the JL 300/4 amp in the Blose location. I used Knukoncept Complete 8 Gauge 4 Channel Amplifier kit and extra Knukoncept 12 gauage wire to manage all the wiring job.

I ran the power wire from the battery through the rubber grommet behind the battery. And ran the 8 gauge wire on the passenger side to the trunk. It took me awhile to figure out how to take the back seat off.

Running the speaker wire to the left door was hard. the hardest part was getting the wire through the fuse box. I ended up taking the whole fuse box off in order the fish the wire through. I used the rubber grommet below the stock molex plug to get the wires to the door. Before i want to relocate the crossover from the door to the trunk but it was hard enough to run one wire to the door so I gave up that idea. The right side was much easier ran the speaker wire from the right door > under the center dash > to the left side of the car and into the trunk.

the amp install was not as hard as i thought. I bought some 3/4" MDF board from homedepot and cut it to the size of the amp and drill the holes for screw to go through. I have to cut 2 long strips of MDF to raise the amp in order to fit the amp into that space. I used the stock bolt to bolt down the MDF board.

Connecting the RCA was not hard at all, first i tried with some crappy RCAs cut it up and use crimpers to connect to the JL amp but the connection was weak, so I ended up cutting the KnuKoncept RCA wires and connect to the amp, the signal was strong and clear without any LOC; I just set the amp to low signal input and may be halfway up on the gain.

Im happy with the results it was a good DIY consider that it was my first amp installation. But I found my MB quart PCE 216 is a bit too bright when listening to certain kind of music. And Im still waiting for the 4080 box and JL 10w1v2 to come in.
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That's the warning I've always given people about MB quarts. Definitely ear hurting brightness. I still perfer Boston Acoustic over anything else. Great write up for others to possibly follow. Am I the only one around that uses fish tape to snake wires in and around things?

 

Man im still waiting for my 10w1v2 from www.indoaudio.com its been a while. thinking to cancel the order and go for something else such as elemental designs 11kv.2 . what do you guys think?

 

I think that you might want to take the quart tweeter and spray some of the clear spray on it that you can get from an art store to preserve pencil drawings.

And indoaudio is very spotty on their service, especially with products like JL that aren't suppsoed to be sold through them.

 

I know which kind of spray you are talking about, but how does that affect the tweeters?

Do you suggest me to change to another sub? I spent about $110 shipped on the JL 10w1v2. Im waiting to hear my friends elemental designs 11kv.2, his is coming in tomorrow.

 

The Elemental Designs subs are supposed to be nice. I haven't heard one myself though. Another sub to consider is the Image Dynamics ID10. $120 shipped and it's a great sub.

 

So you totally got rid of the Bose amp? Are you just running 2 channels to the front & 2 channels for the sub?

 

That's what I did! Well.. 2 channels to front, 1 channel to sub

 

It dampens their mechanical resonance peak...

 

Yea thats what I did. So i can save space. and also i can have a option to add another mono amp later if i have the $.

 

ditch that krappy bose amp and get a mono for the sub and 2chan for your components.

 

Isn't that what he did?

 

yea thats what i sorta did...ditched the bose amp which is now sitting in my garage floor. and only have the JL 300/4 in the car now...still waiting for the sub...considering to change to Image dynamics ID10 V.3 D2 or Elemental Designs 11Kv.2 sub...but they are all back ordered... man i have been waiting for my sub for 3 weeks and counting

 

etang, what wires on the stock wiring harness did you connect the bare ends of that RCA wire to? i'm assuming you tapped directly into the balanced output from the stock headunit?

 

i followed this guide:

I tapped into the head unit output wires