sebring / stratus amp wiring help

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Topic: sebring / stratus amp wiring help

Posted By: kfr01
Subject: sebring / stratus amp wiring help
Date Posted: May 09, 2004 at 9:58 AM

Alright, the only car I've ever installed a car stereo in was an old car w/ lots of room in the engine bay and the amp wire run was very easy. I finally got all my various components (thanks for the suggestions and help over the last couple months, btw) and I'm ready to put the install in my sebring 2001 sedan. However, I opened my hood today and the v6 doesn't leave much room at all for working! Does anyone have experience installing on this body model?

My number one question ..

1) where is the best place to pull the 4g wire through?

2) I don't think I'll be able to go through the wire hosing attaching the doors w/ my 2 strands of 14g wire going to the components. What's the next best way to get 14g to the doors.

Here's hoping someone can save me some time and stress! - Thanks,

kfr

For those curious my final setup will be:
Eclipse 8443
MB Quart PCE216
Xtant A4004T Bi-amped to the components
Image Dynamics IDQ 10"
Xtant A2002T bridged to the sub

I'm so pumped to get it installed. :-)

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Posted By: dudek38
Date Posted: May 09, 2004 at 10:24 AM

1) where is the best place to pull the 4g wire through?

2) I don't think I'll be able to go through the wire hosing attaching the doors w/ my 2 strands of 14g wire going to the components. What's the next best way to get 14g to the doors.

1. just run the wire on the battery side to the fire wall with tie wraps. inside, take off the side kick panel,pull the carpet up from the floor and start looking for a place to drill a hole. make sure you see both sides of where the hole will be. drill it, keep the edges from being jagged. run the power wire through the hole, try to use a grommet or load up on electrical tape.
then run it down the side under the long door step to your amp. run your rca's on the other side of car.

2. i ran into your problem the other day, if u cant get the wire through the wire loom, i drilled two holes, one through the side and one on the door, just under the wire loom. i wrapped my speaker wire in electrical tape for protection and concealment. make it the same length as the "stock wire hose" it doesnt look bad.

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the florida keys

Posted By: Clean Install
Date Posted: May 09, 2004 at 2:09 PM

You can just use the factory speaker wires for input on the crossover....

just check the polarity of the speaks with a battery

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