Amp wiring.

well since when I did mine it took a heck of a long time for me and my buddy to do, albeit it was our first sub install. Being idiots we worked from the trunk to the battery originally, but then we realised that there isn't a hole in the firewall on the drivers side, and had to start over. So I decided to post up how I ran the wires, but if you have a better way, feel free to post away.

So for the power wire, I ran that up the fender, with the fuse stuck to the air box, and along the strut tower bar to the passenger side. I then cut a slit in the rubber casing covering the conveniently large hole in the firewall, and threaded it through there. It helped us to remove the glovebox, but it probably isn't nessicary. I then moved it across to the center console, and after removing that ran it underneath and under the small piece of carpet between the console and the rear seat. We then popped out the rear seat, ran the wire across, and between the seat backs to the trunk. Now not that between the seats the hinge is metal, and here is where we scraped insulation off the wire, which caused some lovely sparks later on. Be sure to protect the wire with some of that ribbed plastic casing.

Next we ran the RCA's fairly simply down the opposite side of the center console to keep it away from the power wire, under the carpet, and through the center again to the trunk.

Finally we took the grounding wire and scraped some paint off of the underside of the rear deck around one of the factory holes, took a decent sized nut and bolt, and tightened it down good.


Now I am sure there are plenty of other ways to set this up, one would be to place the amp under the passenger seat. We did this in my buddies Camry, but it required removing the seat and lifting the carpet, and since had hadn't vacuum in a while, that was a tad annoying. I liked the way that I had done it simply because the seat comes out with two tabs, and I only had to take out 8 screws for the center console. Enjoy.