I have never done this before.

My amp has a hi-level input with 5 wires. Left +/-, Right +/i, and ground. Where and how would I tap into this to get the inputs from my stock TC?

Would I just use the left and right rear speakers? How would I get to them? What bolts and what not do I need to remove?
What could I use for a ground?
What could I use for a remote start in the rear?


ANY ANY ANY help is greatly appreciated. Please flame me for being new at this if you have nothing better to say.

 

I just installed an amp and sub in the back of my TC last week. It was pretty easy. You'll need a hi-lo converter to convert your speaker wire into RCA inputs. Circuit City has them for $20.

You connect your speakers to the converter and then the RCAs from the converter to the amp.



To run the power wire and remote wire:
Pull out the srear eat cusion, remove the door sill panel, then pulll out the rear side panel that has the rear speaker behind it. Ther is a little **** looking thing that you have to twist out first in the middle of the rear passenger side panel. Pull the panel out from the front part first, then flip the rear seat back down and pull the rest out.
Run the power wire and remote wire along all the other wires that go along the driver's side door sill. Partially remove the driver's side kick panel and run the power and remote wire up through this.

The rear speaker wiring is brown(+) and Yellow(-). Connect the hi-lo convertr to your speakers by following the above steps about removing the panels.


To run the power wire through the firewall:
There is a little plunger looking rubber piece with a bunch of wires running through it behind the driver's side dash a little way's up. Pull part of out. Tear apart a wire hanger and tape the end of the power wire to it. Run it through the part of the plunger that you pulled out. Attach it to the battery.

To Run the remote:
Same thing as power cable, but don't put through firewall. Once it's run through the kick panel. Remove the head unit. Pull the silver plastic pieces at the sides of cubby hole above the shifter. Put the shifter in reverse if you have an auto to remove it all the way. Close the little door over the stereo. Pull out the part with the AC controls. Unplug the AC controls. Run the remote wire from the kick panel over all the stuff behind the dash and into the head unit area. Remove a bunch of the tape that holds the big wire pack that is connected to the head unit. Splice the remote wire into the gray wire in that wire pack.
For the ground.
Pull out the panels that cover the spare tire. Pull out the little plastic piece that is at the middle of bottom of the trunk(where the trunk latch is). Pull out the carpet along the rear driver's side wall. There is a little 10mm bolt on that piece of chassis. Scrape all the paint around that area. Attach bolt with ground wire.



Make sure the remote, battery, are ground are connected. Turn the radio on to see if the amp turns on(should have a light somewhere). If the light comes on, connect the sub. If it sounds normal you connected eerything correctly. Make sure you put electrical tap over all splices and put everything back together.

All panels and pieces just snap on and off unless otherwise noted.

Have fun


Craig

 

You can do what craig said, or get a T-tap that cuts into wire and use that on both polarities of the speaker on each side. Run a wire from the T-tap to the amp, and do that to both rear speakers. The ground will have to be attached to some exposed metal on the car.