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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 09:40 PM
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Default Need some advice

I need some opinions (based on experience not prejudice please)
I have had all this equipment sitting around for a while and it's time to install it. About a year ago I started collecting everything I WANTED to put in the car, but my life changed and I ran out of spendable income and time before I got everything. I'm really short on cash flow right now, but then again I don't wanna sell myself short.

Here's what I got that I wanted-
HU - Alpine CDA-9887 with 80g Ipod and connector
Fronts - Focal Polyglass 165 v1 (70w rms)
Rears - Focal Access 165 ca1 (60w rms)
Sub amp - JBL GTO601.1II (580w rms @2 ohms, 424w rms @4ohms)

Here's where I fell short-
Subs - 2 JL 10w3v2
Front/Rear amp - JL 300/4

Here's what I have(old stuff, freebies, mistakes, etc)-
3 JL 10w0 12 ohms (125w rms, need .75 cuft each)
2 Fosgate P112S8 (150w rms, need 1 cuft each)
Sony explode 760W XM-2150GSX (150wx2 rms, or so they say)
Fosgate 301s (75wx2 rms)
Fosgate 150s (37.5wx2 rms)
Alpine MRP-T130 (50wx2 rms)
Koiiler XM-7676 (80wx2 rms)

I am keeping my t-top storage this time, been down that road, that's not flexible. So the box is going on the back deck, I figure I get 2 cuft without impairing visibility or doing fiberglass again. Not that I don't want to glass but it's more expensive and like I said, these are not the subs I want.

2 cuft is perfect for the fosgate subs, but I ran those on the 301s and that combo is just plain disappointing(no sound quality AND not loud). They might wake up with the additional power from the JBL but my gut is saying it's way too much for em and they prolly sound like crap anyway.

I had 2 10w0s at one point and loved them, even run off the koiiler flea market paperweight. I am shy about .25 cuft on the box, but I have about 140ws for each of them. Should I try to squeeze out another .25 cuft? I've read these JBL amps are underrated also, is more that 140w each too much for em?

What I'm really stuck on is amps for the fronts/rears. I've used the fosgates and they definately make power, but not all that clean, and these are lower powered amps. I never heard any sony amp play, I hear they are junk but even assuming it doesn't make what it's rated at it has enough power for the fronts. The koiiler I've had forever, played about the same as the 301s on the fosgate components I used to have, but lacked the kick when hooked up to subs, prolly won't even bother dusting that thing off. I found a factory refurbished JBL GTO75.4II on ebay for 100 bucks, I might be able to make that happen, but unfortunatley I got no more money than that to pull this off atm.

Soooooo, I'm thinking the sony on the fronts, 301s on the rears, go with the 3 10w0s in 2 cuft and hope they hang on for a while. And now I'm back to the semi-temporary hodge podge install I really wanted to aviod this time. The 3 amps won't all fit on the amp rack I'm doing and I had plans for a nice glass box for 2 10w3s. My 94 had so many variations of different systems in it, and all the various screw holes and loose panels to go along with it. But, this stuff has been sitting new in boxes for over a year now, and my stock cd player has just started acting up(won't eject CDS on it's own).

Sorry for the long post, you guys got any advice for me?
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