wheres the best place to hide an amp where theres a good suplie of air flow? thanks alot!

 

Spare tire well.

 

screw it to the muffler.


adam

 

someone's been pretty negative in their last few posts....

anyway, try spare tire area or in the driver side compartment

 

lmfao, camp3ro.

thanks for noticing.

 

I took out the cardboard thing in the lock bock and put in some wood and mounted my amp to that.

 

So did I.

 

That is one ugly cat or dog.

 

thanks for all the replys. Is there anywhere else I can put it. I keep to much junk in the driver side wheel well. and I still want to keep the spare tire and jack.

onebadwagon: is that a cat or dog!

 

Put it in the "hole" between the taillights and the gas tank. Then get a carpeted board that covers the amp. That's what I'll do. You can keep some more junk down there and it will be hidden. I'll probably get my board on monday so expect pics next week.

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Try right clicking the picture and selecting "save picture as"....check the filename for the answer!

 

thats where I was going to put it but the nitrous bottle is going to be in the way! What about under the seat, is there a good amount of air flow there? thanks alot!

 

I thought it was a furby :lala:

 

Under the seats you can run into some issues. One is that you'll have to run your speaker cables longer, which may or may not effect overall performance. Depending on the size of the amp it may also not cool properly. Of course you always have the option of running fans which will allow you to put the amp almost anywhere. There's a tech article on this site on how to install the amps into the back seat. If you go to the main TGO page, and on the left menu it will say tech articles. Go there and at the bottom will be the instructions. I recently did this type of an install with a PSone and was very happy with the result.

 

thanks joezero, but when I fold down the seats the anchor for the 5 point hraness gose there(dont trust the stock ones still recovering from my wreck a year later!). What kind of fans are you talking about< the ones like in the coumputer. The most watts im runing is 300.

 

that cat is a PIMP. just ask him, lol.


adam

 

Yeah computer fans work. Any fan that runs on 12 volts is fine. So is the anchor for the harness connected to the back seat itself or to the body behind the back seat?

 

That cat has some 'cool' blue eyes though.

I've had my amps under my seats for ~3 yrs and never had any problems.

One's a Pioneer 40x2, and the other is a Punch 100 DSM. They keep my tush warm to.

 

joezero, the anchors are attached to the body behind the seats when they are folded down. I guess I could put it between the two anchor points, but will it over heat when i fold the seat back up.

AJ_92RS, I was thinking about puting there, its not that big of an amp.

 

Here's the tech article. http://www-ec.njit.edu/~ljd8271/amplifiers.htm
What this guy did was put plexiglass over the top of the amps and used fans to cool it.



But if you have the back seat down a lot you may not need the fans. I did it a little differently because what I was mounting wasn't as deep so I didn't have to remove any of the foam backing, so I guess it depends on how big the amp is. I don't imagine it overheating with the back seat up on short trips like to the store or a friends house. But like the example above there's enough room to install a fan so you could leave the back seat up all the time.

 

Thanks joezero, I was just reading that after my last post. I dont have that big of an amp, its about a 3rd of the size. but how whould you do that with a split seat.

 

The split seat is constructed in the same way, just with two pieces instead of one. So you would only cut apart one side.

 

I want to mount both 5 point harness like this(www.ws6transam.org/harness.html). so that means i would have to put the amp in the middile of the seat, and that would render the split seat useless. i just cant think of any where else to put it! thanks for all the help.

 

This is where i put mine

 

that old pheonix gold stuff is great, i used to have an m44 on my mids/highs.


adam

 

Is it possible to mount it more to the left or right instead of centered with the seat? I've never used/installed a 5 point harness before, so I'm not sure if that can be done. But it seems that if it could be moved say 4-5" off center you might have enough space for your amp.

Here is another option. This is from smokingss' car. He was able to hide his cd changer and xbox below his amp rack. But I think it would be easy enough to build something like this and carptet it to match and just leave it empty on the top.


BTW, this is in a 4th gen so it may look a little different back there, but the concept is the same.

 

byjoe I think I got it ! I think that is a perfect place to put it. and then I can mount my t-top bag on top of it. I just got to make sure the hacth well close when i put the t-tops in the bag. thanks for all the help.

 

If you don't use the storage area on the driver side in the trunk, an amp wouldn't be noticed there.

 

I allready thought about that, but I keep to much junk in there. and I like to keep my spare on the other side, and the n.o.s. bottle in the trunk area. so im pretty much out of room. thanks for the idea.