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A cap never hurts when you're running that much power.
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Personally the number one things your gonna want to change is the gauge of the speaker wire. If you will be running of the stock wire you will not hear all the benefits of the speaker upgrade. Build the system over rated with larger then neccesary wires everywhere, since then you will never have to replace the wire just because you decided to get a bigger amp.
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upgrade your power wire to 4 gauge, and run good speaker. also buy a cap, a 1 fraud should do just fine. the sub box depends on the type of music you want. sealed box will sound good and take up less room that a ported box.
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a cap could be used... it will help out, but if your looking to save some cash you dont need it. i havent upgraded to the BIG 3 Yet. I dont have a cap either... and if you look @ my sig... things are running fine. this new JBL amp doesnt drain much power as my alpine did... now i dont get my interior lights and fog lamps dimming as much either. i was running an alpine mrd-m300 class d amp.
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a dist. block is good to have when using multipal amps. it has multipal outlets on it for wiring. inside the block there's a fuse for each outlet. its main purpose is it can help you out on power voltage and prevent you from blowing your amps and fuses. i hope this sounds ok.
if you goto my sig in my photo album i have photo's of my dist. block in there somewhere... hehe
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Hey Glenn,
Do you mind explaining what type of wiring you ran starting from the battery, so I could have some idea what I need to do? Please include gauges and anything else about the wiring. Greatly appreciated.
- Mike
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i have 4ga from battery with a fuse right beside the battery. its a 40amp fuse. i contiuned with 4ga to under my rear seat where i have my dist. block which i then have 2 cables from the block. both are 8ga and one goes to my component amp and the other goes to my sub amp. my grounds are in the trunk also 8ga wire. my rca's and speaker wire come from my deck down the passengers side. so does the remote wire. for my remote i usedvery small wire which i might be changing soon. i split my remote wire in the trunk and ran it to both amps. my power cable runs down the drivers side. both ground wires are very short, should be less then 2ft always.
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Thanks Glenn, so let me ask you one last question until I have another question to ask you:
You ran the power wires down the driver's side and the RCA cables and remote wire down the passenger side right? If so, do you get any electrical hum from the engine coming out of your speakers?