i know this is a thread for the audio interior but noone is viewing it and i need help asap. how many amps are in my 1993 and where? it has the wave thing in the back. took it all out but i was wondering where the amp or amps are located. please help

 

There are 2 amps in the "bose thing", one in each door speaker box, and one in the center console to the right of the radio ( pass side ) for the center dash speaker

 

so 5 amps in all?

 

Under accessories here

http://www.wrex-racing.com/html/fd/9...ric_manual.zip

The wave assy has it's own amp as well ( internal to the assy).

 

it wont let me open that. really what i need to know is if the door speaker amps are in the doors. was wanting to use the speaker wires in the door instead of running new ones. does the factory speaker wires come thru the car or are they only in the door

 

yes they are in the plastic boxes in the doors next to the speakers

 

well scratch the idea of using the factory speaker wire.

 

is there a way to feed wires thru the door without taking the doors off

 

You can jumper to the factory door speaker connector (two of 4 wires) with new speakers and the head unit will feed power with its built in amp through the stereo to oem connection. No, speaker grill covers are part of the door panel which needs to be removed for the wire connection. Doors don't come off but panel does.

 

i am installing a alpine c.d. and new door speakers. wont i have to run new wires from the speakers to thru the doors and to the head unit.

 

No you won't. You could if you wanted to. It depends on if you're integrating the factory amps, or are going to try and bypass them which would be a pain in the ***. Wire up the CD player like normal, then there's a pea green/black wire which is the turn-on lead for the factory amps. Just wire that to the remote turn on lead from the head unit (usually blue). Then all the factory amps, and speakers would work like normal.

 

I believe there was a write up on the forum on how to use the OEM amps and speakers with a new head unit. Pretty detailed and easy to follow.

Super 77

 

It's simple. It's no different from any other car except all you gotta do is connect one extra wire to turn on the factory amps. No big deal.

 

do u have to have the expensive adaptor. or just a wire harness from wal- mart. because just turning the factory amps on with the remote on. how would the amps have the inputs from the c.d. player

 

Nah, you don't need the adapter if you don't want it. It's easiest just to leave it like it is. What the adapter does is convert your CD players speaker outputs to line level inputs for the factory amps. All it's really doing is reducing the volume of the signal. I would just go without it. I think the wire harness kit I used may have been for an FC, not sure. It plugged right in. Only it didn't have a wire in the slot to match up to the lead to turn on the factory amps. That's the pea green/black wire that everyone talks about.

 

wont it blow the amps if its not reduced?

 

Another consideration is that it is usually the speaker amplifiers that go bad in our RX7's, not the speakers. I've rarely seen one with 80k + miles that didn't have damaged amps so think twice before integrating old or damaged amps into a new system. Also, did you get clear on all the 5 speaker amps: one in each door right in the plastic speaker housing; one for the center tweater (loacated on the right side of the center console about even with the glove box -- or, in the back of the center console way back past the ashtray and everything -- location depends on manufacturing date); two amps (held together as one unit) inside the wave on the driver's side near the front. My tweater amp hadn't been working for years! Got them all rebuilt at a place in Florida called something like Factory Car Stereo Repair. . .hope this helps

 

don't you have to use the LINE-OUT on the deck, and buy a deck with a 0-5V lineout?


I think if you hook speaker outputs to the stock speaker leads you'll fry things quickly!