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Old 05-05-2002, 11:16 AM
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WHere do you guys have your amps mounted, or placed?

I was looking at my fathers infiniti I-30, and noticed with his Bose setup, he has an amp that is supported by a steel harness sort of thing hanging from the trunk on the right side, about where the right rear speaker would be (except he doesn't have right and left rear speakers, he has i belive 1 8 inch sub/speaker right in the middle of the rear. Kinda weird. If i wanted to clear room in my trunk and try to suspend my amps (2 of them), would it be difficult to do this.

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where do you guys put your amps.
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Mine are in the trunk.

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Re: WHere do you guys have your amps mounted, or placed?

Originally posted by jag5311
I was looking at my fathers infiniti I-30, and noticed with his Bose setup, he has an amp that is supported by a steel harness sort of thing hanging from the trunk on the right side, about where the right rear speaker would be (except he doesn't have right and left rear speakers, he has i belive 1 8 inch sub/speaker right in the middle of the rear. Kinda weird. If i wanted to clear room in my trunk and try to suspend my amps (2 of them), would it be difficult to do this.

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where do you guys put your amps.
I have mine mounted to the back of the rear seat on a MDF board in the trunk. It breathes freely back there without getting real hot.
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Old 05-05-2002, 07:43 PM
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Can you see your amps in the trunk, the ones mounted to the back of the rear seat? do you have a picture
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Mine are in the trunk.
Showoff I always wondered did you feel a diiference in handling with all that extra weight back there?
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Old 05-06-2002, 02:46 AM
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Re: WHere do you guys have your amps mounted, or placed?

Try under the seats.

http://www.cardomain.com/member_page...=196550&page=5

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Originally posted by jag5311
Can you see your amps in the trunk, the ones mounted to the back of the rear seat? do you have a picture
Sorry, no pics for that I haven't quite invested into a digital camera yet No, you cannot see my amps, because they are blocked from their veiw from my sub box. But, I was thinking of moving the amps to the front, near the sides. I just got to get myself motivated.
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Showoff I always wondered did you feel a diiference in handling with all that extra weight back there?
Yes. when I had my old system in my GXE, my car with BONE STOCK suspension out cornered one with every mod up to then. (tokicos, eibachs, FSTB, sway bars, 16" wheels with sticky tires).

we were driving through a windy road behind my house.. I stuck like glue to the corner, his back end let go on him and he spun out and hit a tree. $3500 in damage.


so YES, weight distribution make a ton of difference!

(which is wny everything is between the wheel wells. I'd like it to be lower in the car too, but that's the extent of what I'm going to do to it.)
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Old 05-06-2002, 10:06 PM
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I have my amp mounted on to the back of my sub box, fits perfect. You can't see it when you open the trunk, well not really. If you open the arm rest hole inside the car you can see have the amp though with the 4 guage wire connected to the amp
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facing out of the ski hole
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mounted to a wooden floor in the trunk, placed as far back as possible right now, but only because i don't have my subs in yet, my next goal is to rebuild the rear deck and mount one of the amplifiers in the trunk, upside down between the rear speakers.
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I mounted up my Kenwood 749s 4channel on the rear deck between the 6x9's wich was a perfect fit along with about 3rolls of dynamatExtreme to hold down any vibrations. My KickerZX460(twin custom mounted cooling fans) is mounted on the floor right up against the back seat with 2 1farad Rockford-Fosgate caps and that powers for now one 12" HE2 in a sealed box, soon to be 2 JL w6's. All my fuses/distribution blocks are under the rear seat and a 4gauge p-flo is ran right off my Optima Yellow top.

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Old 05-07-2002, 09:53 AM
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I put mine on top of the engine, then cut out part of the hood so I could see them when I drive.












Wait no I didn't. Click the hompage for pics of where they are.
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Is that just sitting there looking good or did you finally get it installed?
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Re: Re: WHere do you guys have your amps mounted, or placed?

Originally posted by Tony Fernandes
Try under the seats.

http://www.cardomain.com/member_page...=196550&page=5

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nice setup.. did you cut the carpet to do that? did you screw the amps down?
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I heard somewhere that mounting the amp to the sub can damage the amp, or do something bad to the inside, is that just jibberish.

Well, i guess i have a few options, let me know what you think.

1. I can mount them to the rear deck (in the trunk) so that just leaves the placement for the sub.

2. I can mount both amps to the sub, one on the left and one on the right, then position the amp to either blow through the armrest hole or just position the sub as far back as possible in the trunk.

3. Put one of the amps on the back of the sub, and have the sub set back so that amp actually sits in the hole of the armrest spot, and then possibly mount the other amp to the rear deck.

What do you think of those ideas?

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p.s. I will be having some better quality pictures coming.
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Old 05-07-2002, 09:33 PM
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Originally posted by jag5311
I heard somewhere that mounting the amp to the sub can damage the amp, or do something bad to the inside, is that just jibberish.

Well, i guess i have a few options, let me know what you think.

1. I can mount them to the rear deck (in the trunk) so that just leaves the placement for the sub.

2. I can mount both amps to the sub, one on the left and one on the right, then position the amp to either blow through the armrest hole or just position the sub as far back as possible in the trunk.

3. Put one of the amps on the back of the sub, and have the sub set back so that amp actually sits in the hole of the armrest spot, and then possibly mount the other amp to the rear deck.

What do you think of those ideas?

thanks
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p.s. I will be having some better quality pictures coming.
mounting the amp to the acual sub is a bad idea...to put it on most boxes is fine.\

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Originally posted by ObsidianIce69
Is that just sitting there looking good or did you finally get it installed?
It's bolted in, but I'm still waiting on some of the wire connectors that are on back order from my supplier. grrrr.

I've also got tons of other projects I'm working on , so I just kinda go back and forth at random..

this weekend I started to get everything hooked up and install my front speakers, and I ended up installing an FMU and a few other things under the hood.
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Originally posted by Matt93SE


It's bolted in, but I'm still waiting on some of the wire connectors that are on back order from my supplier. grrrr.

I've also got tons of other projects I'm working on , so I just kinda go back and forth at random..

this weekend I started to get everything hooked up and install my front speakers, and I ended up installing an FMU and a few other things under the hood.



a few things under the hood huh?
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I used to keep mine on the top of the trunk, on the outside of the car, but after having to replace it a few times, it would randomly dissapear, i decided otherwise.

no really, i wouldnt mind having mine on the rear deck of the car but im affraid if i did that people would just jack it or the sun would get to it.
im just gonna mount it ontop of the sub box.
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I have a 700watt amp under my drivers seat, and a 200watt amp under my passenger seat..if you mount them and have 1" of clearence between them and your seat, they breathe freely and only get hot enuff to cook a piece of dust.
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not a great picture, but here is my setup. . . I have a second old school soloberic now and I plan on putting the amps under plexiglass on the trunk floor and cooling them somehow while putting both subs againstthe seat. . . Right now the trunk look ugly.

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Originally posted by ThumpinMaxima
I have a 700watt amp under my drivers seat, and a 200watt amp under my passenger seat..if you mount them and have 1" of clearence between them and your seat, they breathe freely and only get hot enuff to cook a piece of dust.
Plus they get direct AC
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