I just bought some Kicker Resolution seperates. The crossover is open with holes in it. This cannot be good sitting in my door with the moisture getting into it. What I did for now is I wrapped the crossovers with a plastic bag and put some electrical tape around it. Will this be OK or does the crossover need to breathe. My other ? is, if I move the crossover and mount it to the back seat. By me moving it farther away from the speakers will I loose a lot of power or sound due to the resistance of the longer wire. I figure it's about 7ft. away. Any recommendations to what I should do will be appreciated. Also, is it possible to get a wire through the black thing that connects the door to the firewall without taking the door off? Thanks.

 

You should post this in the Audio and Electronics section.

 

I did but more people look here.

 

I think by having the crossovers wrapped up you'll be okay. They don't need to breathe. The only worry I may have would be maybe a spark and it melting the plastic maybe causing a fire. I didn't know any moisture got into the doors, but since you have nice crossovers you should mount them somewhere to show them off. Mine aren't pretty to look at so I don't mind dropping them down in the bottom of the doors. Just get a good quality wire if you're having to use a lot of wire so you don't loose that quality of sound. Just my .02

 

Thanks a lot. Did you have to fish a wire through the black rubber tube or did you just use the factory wiring?

 

I agree with the above post. If it's gonna be a longer run you can just use a lower gauge wire and you'll be fine. Since mine had the Bose system, I just used the existing factory wire to the door (tapped on from the amp in the rear) and ran the tweeter wire up to the dash.

On my 2k3 (and 2k2 I beleive) there is a Molex (do a search for this if you've got that year Max) connector that uses pins and you cannot go into the door that way. When you want to run your own speaker cable into the doors, you have to drill a hole. People say on the 2k-2k1's it uses a standard grommet that you can run wires through.

If you decide to mount in the trunk, you'll either have to use the factory wire for the doors and run your own tweeter wire (if you've got the Bose wiring). If you don't have the bose wiring you could run the x-overs behind the dash and tap into the wires behind the stereo in the factory connector. This is what we did on my friends Accord.

Either way you will be hard pressed to hear a difference with the different gauge wires. The factory ones are thin but the speakers sound awesome all the way around (RF FNP-2614 6.5" components running off of a JL 300/4).


However, if they are nice x-overs - show them off!