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ok so i pretty much finished the important shopping of my soon-to-be system..

got these eclipse coaxials.. probably for now use as rear fill..


and just won this BEAUTIFUL 4 ch eclipse amp for 87 SHIPPED!!!




what else do you think i need? i will hold off on the sub, but i know what i will get..(RE12 and JBL150.1)

what do you recommend for wiring? sound deadener? any tips on installation?(my friend and i will both be attempting this for the first time)

any info will be greatly appreciated

Randy

http://www.knukonceptz.com <--- awesome stuff.. (amp kits.) a few people on here use it, including me... great products... poor customer service for me though..... i had to call a million times to get through.. but other than that, good stuff. for sound deadener.. i think you can get a 100sq ft. of Brown Bread for a $100 which is a good deal... others are Dynamat. E-Dead, Fat Matt, RAAMATT (somethin like that) thats all i got.. also im told that even bicycle tubes work! lol($1 a piece too)

what GA wire should i get to run the 4 ch amp and speakers?

who has had experience with peel n seal? im tryin to find it but having trouble...

14 - 8gauge would be fine i personally think... you may want to order the stuff seperate, because i have the kit that is/was $18, and some people dont like the fact that the remote wire is between the RCA cables, but i never had a problem with it..

yea i saw an 8GA 4 ch amp kit.. im totally clueless on what i would need.. will this be good enough?

http://www.knukonceptz.com/productDetai ... ID=KOLAK84

I would go with at least a 4ga kit. You said you plan on adding a 150.1 sometime later on and probably don't want to have to upgrade it or run another power wire for the seperate amp.

get 4 gauge and a distrbution block later for 8 gauge.

i have read bunches and bunches on peel and seal. I would go for it, I spent $70 on edead, and it is really really nice stuff, but ive seen tons of pics of peel and seal installs, and lots of talking about it (mostly on caraudio.com forums, if you wanna search there) and i havent heard many bad things.

most people say it works good, and its so cheap.

but yeah if you arent extremeley serious about deadening your car, if its not for competition or anything, you might wanna go for peel and seal.

well, knukonceptz doesnt have a 4 gauge amp installation kit.. could you guys list what i need to buy?

MrSo0h0o wrote:well, knukonceptz doesnt have a 4 gauge amp installation kit.. could you guys list what i need to buy?

yeah they do, its a basic one that includes:
17 Feet 4 AWG Purple Power Wire (power wire)

3 Feet 4 AWG Silver Ground Wire (for your ground)

One Inline Fuse Holder w/ 80A fuse (for fuse at battery)

3 Gold Plated 4 Gauge Ring Terminals (for battery connection and others)

2 Gold Plated 4 Gauge Spade Terminals (other connections to amp and such)

basically if you have all that, you need remote turn on wire, which can be very small gauge, so that won't be spendy. You need some RCAs, i dont remember how many things you are hooking up but you need a pair for each channel and then you need the speaker wire.

i think the only other things that come with full amp kits are like split-loom for under the hood, and then probably wire ties and a bunch of different spade or ring terminals and such.

if you are hooking up more than one amp you will want to get a distribution block, check the "knu specials" i think they have a couple on there for cheap. if you have both amps next to each other you might want to use a distribution block for the ground too, to avoid a ground loop. might want to think about a fused dist. block for the +12v too.