Trunk lid mounted amps?

I have a Lancer evolution I have the thought stuck in my head that I would like to mount my amps on the trunk lid.  First of all how would you hide 2   4awg power lines and I bought monster 400series spkr wire and interconnects. it is all pretty thick wiring.  I got a really good deal on the wiring 60%off retail so thats why I bought it.   So back on the topic I was think of mounting the amps on a peice of 1/4"  aluminum and then fabing a fiber glass cover that will go around the entire top part off the lid. 

I read a couple of posts of making custum boxes and such but none on this.  Time is not an issue and my main concern is giving it the flawless look and not seeing any lines going to the lid.  I mean sh%t how would you fit all these lines through the 1" square tube with bolts going through it.   Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Also what type of fiber glass and resins should I use?  I have a body supply store that sells Evercoat products

And finally if any of you need home audio speakers, amp,  prepros, highend dvd player let me know I work and about to own an AV shop

thanks

Luis Antonini

thanks for the heads up on the ad  i will edit that out as for the overheating problem a couple of fans with a thermo switch might solve the problem?

Luis

I s there a way to edit that out????

Amp fans are the only way to stop it but you'll have to run power wire to the amps, RCAs to them, speaker wire and the remote wite. Plus you need to ground them. Then you gotta figure out how to mount the fans. And as mentioned too many slams and those things are coming down.

As far as the hatchback it would depend on the size and weight of the amp.

yes it is made of alum. but I was thinking of useing 1/4" mdf as a back panel and bolting it down with washers and such.  Any creative ways to hide the lines geting to the lid?

thanks for all the help

Luis

Luis, don't worry about the simple oversight on your first post there. You will be able to edit your posts in the future pending you stay and enjoy the site. Now as far as the amps go, I would not be mounting them to mdf that can flex, expand with moisture and break. I would however mount them to 1/8" aluminum (with some sound deadener on the back). The aluminum is going to be a far stronger mount for the amp rack. Ensure that it is fastened in all corners and wherever it can attach to a support brace if possible. You do not want that thing moving around at all.

To hide the wiring, there is a product on the market that is made out of some type of polypropylene. It is a flexible mess tubing. You cut it to length with some scissors, push it together and it opens wide enough to easily pass all of the wiring through. Then you pull it back to length and it collapses around the wiring. It looks like a metal braided hose wrap that one would find in a engine compartment to protect against heat. This is how I would hide the wiring.

As far as mounting the amps go, this entirely depends upon the amp you choose. If you use a conventional amp that has heatsinks that are down either side of the amp and the entire heatsink runs across the top of the amp, the amp will cook itself to death, so not a good idea. If the amp has it's output devices lined down one side of the amp, then you should be alright with this type of amp. Xtant amplifiers for example would meet this criteria as the devices that produce heat are all to one side of the circuit boards. The other thing to consider here is radiated heat from the surface of the trunk lid. It is going to get hot under that trunk lid, this will affect the amps and their ability to dissipate heat. Cooling fans are nice, but on a hot day with the tunes up, I don't think a cooling fan is going to help too much as the heat is going to be trapped up against the trunk lid. I guess you will have to try and find out.

The work is going into a ford festiva.  The amp will be a 4 channel, either a kicker, fusion or alpine havnt decided yet, so weight would be around 10-20lbs i guess, plus it will b mounted on a fibregalss panel that replaces the factory one.