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Don't over-analyze this thing... Dude, this is drop-dead simple, and you are making it WAY more complicated than you need to! Run your RCAs from the deck to the amp. If you have a high-pass filter of a decent frequency, then run it in the ON position, but only if it can affect both channels of the amplifier, the model of which NONE of us have ANY GUESS of; it seems *my* crystal ball is again malfunctioning, and you have not mentioned what it is... Run the amp in stereo. Connect amplifier channels to required doors through passive crossovers.
Do this...
1) Turn all filters off on the amplifier.
2) Turn amplifier gain ALL THE WAY DOWN.
3) Install amplifier properly, including signal cables to the necessary inputs, i.e. right deck output to right amp input, and left deck output to left amp input.
4) (And this is the MOST IMPORTANT STEP IN THE PROCESS FOR YOU!) Pretend the amplifier isn't even there... It's not an "amplifier" at this point in time. It's a heavy, expensive, terminal block for anchoring the wires connected to your crossovers. There are no knobs or switches anywhere on this heavy, expensive, terminal block, so don't look for any. If you see anything that looks like a knob or a switch, you've had too much to drink, and are hallucinating. What I am saying with this is FORGET EVERY ADJUSTMENT, DON'T TOUCH A THING!
5) Connect the passive crossovers to the outputs of that heavy, expensive, terminal block EXACTLY as if it were a head unit's outputs... If it is a "two channel" heavy, expensive, terminal block, with four terminals, (R+, R-, L+, L-) all four terminals will have a speaker wire anchored by it. Don't skip any at all.
5a) Can you bridge a deck's outputs? (That's all it is, just higher powered.) Not generally, no, so again, right wire to right door, and left wire to left door. This will take 90+% of your confusion away, if you simply pretend the amplifier ISN'T an amplifier, but a heavy, expensive, terminal block.
6) Connect the wires to the passive crossovers, installed in the doors or the kick-panels.
7) Connect the speakers to the required hi- or lo- pass outputs on the passive crossovers.
8) Once you are done with connecting everything up THAT way, that heavy, expensive, terminal block has now magically transformed to an amplifier, and NOW you can go in and set your new amplifier's crossovers and gains...