Where to run power wire for subs?
07-26-2011, 08:47 PM
#1
Junior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Derry, Pennsylvania
Posts: 79
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Car: 1990 Camaro RS
Engine: 305 TBI
Where to run power wire for subs?
Im putting subs in my camaro and i was wonder where is the best place to run the power wire from the battery threw the wall between the seats and the engine and to the trunk where the amp and subs will be. Thanks!
07-26-2011, 08:52 PM
#2
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Posts: 69
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Car: 1986 IROC-Z28 Camaro
Engine: 350 carbureted (swap from 305 TPI)
Transmission: 700R4 rebuilt with shift kit
Axle/Gears: 3.42
Re: Where to run power wire for subs?
I ran mine through the passenger side fender, then through the firewall passenger side where all the wires to the ECM go through the firewall, then underneath the carpet (on the outside of the passenger seat), then through the plastic that covers up the rear passenger side seat belt and the spare tire, and then out of the side of that plastic cover in the bottom of the hatch. This way its completely hidden all the way to the back of the car.
07-26-2011, 09:11 PM
#3
Supreme Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Cary, North Carolina
Posts: 9,192
Likes: 0
Received 16 Likes
on
16 Posts
Car: 1992 RS
Engine: Carbed 350
Transmission: 700R4
Axle/Gears: 3.42 posi
Re: Where to run power wire for subs?
I ran mine the same as above.
You want to make real real sure thyat there's never ever going to ever be anything that rubs through the wire, and allows it to ground on anything. I have bought several parts cars in the past, because some dummy ran an amp wire through the pass door, and it grounded, causing the battery to explode under the hood from the short, starting a massive underhood fire. One I bought - the heat was so intense that the carb melted on top of the intake!
Where I drilled my firewall hole, I drilled it large enough for my amp wire to be inside a piece if fuel line, and I used a 4in piece of 3/8 interanl size fuel line, that I split down the side, and wrapped around the amp wire as additional protection from the hole that I drilled.
You want to make real real sure thyat there's never ever going to ever be anything that rubs through the wire, and allows it to ground on anything. I have bought several parts cars in the past, because some dummy ran an amp wire through the pass door, and it grounded, causing the battery to explode under the hood from the short, starting a massive underhood fire. One I bought - the heat was so intense that the carb melted on top of the intake!
Where I drilled my firewall hole, I drilled it large enough for my amp wire to be inside a piece if fuel line, and I used a 4in piece of 3/8 interanl size fuel line, that I split down the side, and wrapped around the amp wire as additional protection from the hole that I drilled.
07-26-2011, 09:22 PM
#4
Junior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Derry, Pennsylvania
Posts: 79
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Car: 1990 Camaro RS
Engine: 305 TBI
Re: Where to run power wire for subs?
What about the wires from the head unit to the amp? Where did you run those threw the wall?
07-26-2011, 09:53 PM
#5
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Posts: 69
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Car: 1986 IROC-Z28 Camaro
Engine: 350 carbureted (swap from 305 TPI)
Transmission: 700R4 rebuilt with shift kit
Axle/Gears: 3.42
Re: Where to run power wire for subs?
For the remote wire and the signal wire (I think thats what its called) those you'll run together through the same route as above, BUT on the driver side. Keep the power and and signal wires separate. And instead of having to go from the engine bay, run the wires from behind the head unit, underneath the driver side dash, then through the carpet on the outside of the driver side seat and to the back just like the power wire.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
db057
TBI
10
08-11-2015 10:11 PM
