Guys,

Is it safe to use stock wiring for the front speakers to the non bose HU? I plan to get kappa or Perfect powered by an amp. I believe the perfect is rated at 100RMS. The amp I am running is probably be the same thing.


If you do run you own wire, how hard is the task?

How is the amp?

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In general, the speakers should be able to take more than what the amp (power) push?

Am I ok with the stock wiring?


Thanks in advance.
Tony

 

yeah using the stock wiring is fine. check this out http://www.onlinecarstereo.com/CarAu...roductID=12977

 

Stock wireing would even matter in this case because it wouldnt be used anyways.

Right now the stock speakers are wired to the headunit vie stock wireing harness. If you just replace the stock speakers and nothing else you use the stock wires as it is still being powered by the stock headunit and the stock wireing harness.

If you replace the speakers and add an amp and keep the stock headunit, you run a high-low convertors to the amp and new wires are ran to the speakers since the speakers are not longer being powered by the headunit via the wireing harness but now by the amp.

If you replace the headunit, speakers and add an amp you replace everything and run RCA's and no need to use hi-low convertors

If you replace the headunit and speakers but add no amps and use the new headunit to power the speakers then you use the stock wireing and stock wireing harness with an adaptor now.

Confused yet?

 

BoostTed,

You didn't realized that even if you change the speakers and add add amp, there is still the stock wiring in use (for a clean installation). The reason is that you don't run it straight to the speakers, you have to run it through the door, etc. Therefore you would reconnect the same wire that you cut (when you cut to connect the LOC, it create two sets of wiring).


Tony

 

the reason I dont like cutting stock wireing is that incase I need to go back to stock, all the stock wireing is intack. Useing the stock wireing ie by splicing into it like you said requires a few splices not just one.
1st one is speaker wire from the amp to the door's stock wireing.
2nd is if you run aftermarket there is most likely a crossover so there should be another splice from the cross over to the stock wireing for the tweeters.

thats off the top of my head.