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Ok a friend of mine at work has an 01 mustang with the mach audio system. He has two eclipse 12's that he wants to put in to it so here is what I am wondering about.

1.) O.K. fist off in the back of this thing right under the rear deck are two amps with a big plastic thing in between them. What are these two amps running and can I pull the big plastic thing out to make a little more room for the box for the subs?

2.) who ever had it before had a stereo installed in it but did a ghetto wiring job which I'm going to have to pull out and rewire (which I do to make sure it's wired safely and correctly) plus have to build the boxes for the subs and build a facia for the amp rack and carpet it all to make it look pretty. What would be a reasonable price to do all of this?

I probably have some more questions but can't think of them right now cause I'm tired as poop.

Thanx in advance for your feedback guys I hope to be doing the work on this during the weekend and if things go well I may be able to sell and entire system or two to this guy so I'm really intent on doing my best work ever.

Probably the stock amp and the stock sub.

Remove and give to owner.

You will have to pull the speakers and do an Ohm test to decipher what they are, close enough. I advise just rewiring the speakers while your at it. I find that when the car has a factory amp you DONT WANT TO USE IT. Especialy with an aftermarket head unit.

As for cost, I would charge according to hours.

yeah I wasn't going to use the factory amps I just never saw a factory setup with two amps and was wondering if maybe there was something I should know about. Thanks for the advice Ryan. What's the average rate per hour most shops around here charge like 50 and hour but that seems just a little too high for me I was thinking maybe 25 or so.

25 is what i charge so that should be good and im with ryan rewire all of the speakers youll be glad you did it in the end.

Depends.

If you are an actual business I would go for $30/hr.

If not I would go for $20/hr.

Im not sure what you make at your current job, but $20/hr is damn good money anyhow

The big plastic thing is actually a sealed enclosure for the rear speakers. You can detach the the whole unit and remove it but then you will loose all your rear fill. (If thats an issue for the customer). If you are just doing a HU and subs you can leave the stock wiring for the speakers. Everybody I have talked to said that in order to replace the stock speakers you need to rewire the whole car.
With 12's I can tell you now that you won't be able to get but about 2 cubes of space for each sub. The box will also be a pain the ass to get in the trunk. In order for me to get mine in you have to remove the spare tire so the box can drop into the spare tire well and then slide in. You will find out quickly that you have NO room in the trunks of those cars. And without removing or cutting the plastic enclosure out you will have just about no trunk space. I ended up just cutting mine out so the box could slide up to the rear seats. I think my box is only like 13.5 inches tall and that is the highest I could go. Measure carefully before you build any box cause it would suck ass to have it built and realize it won't fit.