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Old Nov 25, 2004 | 09:17 PM
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amp wireing location help

Hi i just bought a 4ga amp wireing kit and couldent figure a way to go from my +batt post to the inside of my car.

plz help me with finding a no hole drilling answer and if i do have to drill a hole where would i do it?

and oh if you guys did something dirffent plz let me know.
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Old Nov 26, 2004 | 06:59 AM
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i drilled a hole its very simple just get a flexible bit holder thingy, and a drill prob 1/4 inch, get a cone shaped grinding tool, sand out what ever make it somewhat flat, put a gromet and BAM should be good to go.
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Old Nov 26, 2004 | 07:58 AM
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you can relocate the battery to the trunk or something, or drill a hole ....or run it through your steering column like i did ...if you know how to do it right ...you can run all your cables either down the centerr or on one of the sides
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Old Nov 26, 2004 | 04:23 PM
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if you want there is a gromet under your passenger side kick pannel you can put it through or you can drill the hole. i wouldn't run all wires down the middle run your power wire down the passenger side and the rca's down drivers side this way you do not get any engine noise through your speakers
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Old Nov 27, 2004 | 09:37 AM
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hey i just found that hole today at the passenger side and made it bigger so i could fit that wire in.

and i just had bad luck too because when i just got done installing my amp kit and hooked up my amp i turned on my cd player and i saw my amp starting to smoke realy bad! so with my reaction i turned of my acc switch and disconnected my amp power wire.

the amp was a rockford fosgate power 550x i installed everything the right way and cant figure out why this happend and it blew my 60 amp fuse!
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Old Nov 29, 2004 | 07:35 AM
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Originally posted by 3rd gen V8
...i installed everything the right way and ...
Must of missed something. Smoke right at start up could be bad ground, improper polarity, shorted speaker wires, and on and on.....
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Old Nov 29, 2004 | 06:29 PM
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A bad ground coud cause that to happen? and i think it was just a bad amp or something.
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Old Nov 30, 2004 | 05:53 AM
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Originally posted by 3rd gen V8
A bad ground coud cause that to happen...
Could. Could also have been that the amp was DOA, just not as likely.
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