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Old 11-19-2011, 07:39 PM
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Default 3 amps with a dual 12 box?? (Pics please)

I'm going to Bi-amp my setup and prep for competition in the spring. I'm wondering where to mount all the amps. I have two mounted in the well under the box, but it's VERY tight and no room to adjust anything. I was thinking of mounting the sub amp under the box, and one amp on each side of the box, behind each rear wheel. -Make sense?

I want to keep this as clean and stealthy as possible. I'm also leaving the battery in the engine compartment as that would be too much weight cantilevered over the rear axle.


Here's what I have now, and it still looks like this. I'm going to replace both amps and add a small 50x2 for the tweeters..

This is what I'm thinking of doing and wondering if anyone else has done anything like this. I have the support of a local Audio shop if I'd need anything else. Not sure if he'll sponsor me, but that's not what I'm looking for.

"Please excuse the crudity of this model, I didn't have time to build it to scale or to paint it." LOL
The red is where I plan to put the amps.




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Originally Posted by bayer-z28

Is this yours?
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^ Yeah. It's an older pic back from 04 or 05.
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Is your car a hardtop? And what subs are those?
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Is your car a hardtop? And what subs are those?
Those are Infinity Kappa's. And obviously its a t-top. T-tops in the sub holders.
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How are infinity subs compared to say Kickers. I had 4 infinity 6.5, 2 6x9, plus 2 12"Cvr kickickers. I loved infinity for hi but didnt know anything
Bout their subs.
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Dam I thought that was an amp lol. Clean install.
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Anyway....................



Anyone have any idea how to hide three amps?? I found a link, but the rack is on the back wall.. This has a LOT of other misc info though.
https://ls1tech.com/forums/stereo-el...ack-update.htm

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You could always put 2 amps under the front seats. Unless they need to be close to the subs.
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^ I may put the tweeter amp up front somewhere, come to think of it. Just got a rats nest of wiring as it is. Thinking of running a 0 gauge into the cab somewhere, maxi-fuse up front, and run a small branch off of that for my other small stuff like my pass window, WB02 and a couple other things.
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Originally Posted by ls1ya
How are infinity subs compared to say Kickers. I had 4 infinity 6.5, 2 6x9, plus 2 12"Cvr kickickers. I loved infinity for hi but didnt know anything
Bout their subs.
And the infinity RMS power range is VERY broad, and a high max handling, higher sensitivity for a responsive sound quality sub. Also they drop quite low in the freq range, they can replicate it to an extent, but lack the excursion for the heavy power, low resistance sub sonic freq's. I bought them because the specs were much better than most at the time and they could drop lower into the frequency range.

It's around this:
-DVC, 2 ohm bridged, 4 Ohm parallel. (Running mine bridged)
-recommended power range 75-400 watts RMS
-peak power handling 1,600 watts
-frequency response 23-400 Hz
-sensitivity 89 dB




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