well i just got my kenwood amp yesterday, and i was wondering where is a good place to put it so it wont over heat or get messed up.... anyone have any ideas.. pictures would be nice also..
Thanks.
well i just got my kenwood amp yesterday, and i was wondering where is a good place to put it so it wont over heat or get messed up.... anyone have any ideas.. pictures would be nice also..
Thanks.
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sedan or hatch?
OH! i forgot to mention it.. its a sedan..Originally Posted by lostforawhile
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Back of the back seat works pretty good. I also helped a friend of mine mount an amp on the bottom side of the rear deck in his car. Never had any heat issues even being upside down. Also, building a panel and putting it on the side towards the taillights in the trunk works great also.
alright.. hey btw i read some wheres.. that if you put an amp upside down its "supposed" to mess it up some way.. is that true?
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i have heard that if you set it up upside down the heat gets trapped and it overheats and ive heard of people mounting them sideways that dont have the vents facing up and they overheat.
right now i have my amp under my seat but im not sure if i really like it like that.
well i dont believe mounting it upside down will hurt it because the heat sink is supposed to get rid of the heat. i broke my amp by having it on the sub box, vibration metal fatigued off the pins of one of the rectifiers.
Last edited by AccordB20A; 03-26-2008 at 02:56 PM.
hmm.. allright.. well i think im either going to put it on the back of my seat and just when im ridin ill fold the seat forward so it wont get hot.. or ill just build a nice lil platform for it to sit on.. idk..
anyone have any other ideas? pics? im open!
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Bolt that thing to something that will not make it stealable. I could rip it off that back seat with ease. Bolt that damn thing to a 1" piece of particle board. Make it a bitch to steal.
OH! alright im glad you brought that to my attention, thanks.. lol i didnt eeven think about that.. but yeah..Bolt that thing to something that will not make it stealable. I could rip it off that back seat with ease. Bolt that damn thing to a 1" piece of particle board. Make it a bitch to steal.
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he might be able to steal it but if there in a hurry they wont even see it on there lol my car was stolen they took my sub and face plate but left both my aps that were mounted to my back seat
here is a couple pics of my setup
Last edited by ghettogeddy; 03-26-2008 at 03:32 PM.
My Hifonics doesn't overheat, and I run it at 1 ohm (1.3 after impedence rise) all the time! Before I got my 3g, I had it mounted under my seat in my Pathfinder and it stayed right around 100 degrees.
Kenwood and Audiobahn get really hot since they are A/Bclass. As for mounting your amp, you could put a piece of wood under the carpet, and screw that wood down to the seat in many places, and when you mount your amp, try to find tamper-proof screws and tamper-proof bit.
When I build myself another box, I'm gonna make an MDF floor in place of the carpet, then flush mount my amp in the middle of the trunk.
Last edited by Bass Man; 03-26-2008 at 04:19 PM.
oh, that looks real nice... i think imma just put mine on the back seat untill i get done with some other things for my car then ill make a nice plat form.. idk..
pics please!!
thanks everyone for your help!
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Here's an install I did in a friend's Civic. Built the floor and carpeted it and all.
I made an amp rack for back of a Hummer H3 with really thick poster board(I don't know the name of the stuff, but it is purferated on one side, and shiney on the other). I just traced the back seat onto some carboard, then used a table router to cut it out, then wrapped it with enclosure carpet! The guy loved it!
haha sounds good.. well i think i have an idea on what i want...
wow that one you did in the civic looks raw.. but im going ot try to stay as light as i can.
btw what is a light sub, that sounds reallly good?
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thats my old setup
If you just want a little beat behind the seat, Infinity is a pretty good all-alrounder. Cheap, light, and requires little airspace.
Spiffy!
thats my old setup
Is that a floating amprack made out of a shopping cart??
no i bent 1/2 aluminum tubbing and mounted them to the box
my dad does custom canvas and that includes making new structures so i just used some of his left over tubbing
i got a 1052w off ebay for 13 bucks and all it needed was a lil soldering lol 100 buck sub for 13 shipped lol
dang.. ebay is almost to real to be true..
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Yep! Usually they have broken tensil leads that in no way effect the voice coil or motor structure.
Another good sub to look for on Ebay is the Alpine Type E... They usually go for less than $20 (for an $80 sub) and have the same problem. I've seen 2 12" Type E's absolutly rock in a Mustang. About 2 years ago, I thought about getting a group of those deffective Type E's for like $200 for 15, but I didn't have any money back then... I could have made a crazy profit.
i miss my subs....i could not mount the amp on the back seat because i have a rear sturt bar
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ok so use the bar as a point for mounting the sub rack to. use those rubber insulated cable clamps to mount the tubing to the bar, then anchor it down at the other end. the strut bar is an excellent mount starting point.
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