Ok, Im a little lazy and pressed for time. I just bough an 04 RAM 1500 QC. I have also purchased and under seat box with two tens. I have a power wire, ground and remote switched to my amp. My question is. How, with the stock stereo do you guys get a signal to the amplifier. Are there any preamp outputs in this higher end system? Do I have to run one of those line level converters? What is the easiest way. I want my thump back!
Thanks a bunch,
Sniper308

 

I was just about to buy this same setup and wondered the same thing. I know for a fact that there are no component outs on the back of the stock RBQ headunit so how is it done?

 

i think i bought the box thats you are talkin about

http://blackacid.sorkmos.com/ramspor...m/P1060073.JPG < is this it??

well i dont know about the outs on the stock stereo, but i bought a after market deck and it was pretty much just connect and go

 

Yup that's the box. Only I don't have the split seats.What kind of tens did you use and amp? Do they hit hard? What I did was go to Super walmart and buy a Scosche line converter. Run an input from the passenger side kick panel. It's the 2 grey wires with a yellow and a green tracer. Line splice them. Now if yours may be different so take the door panel off and look behind the 6X9 woofer in the door to make sure. The passenger door you don't have to try and get it through the rubber, go under the kick panel and tie in there. The driverside door is another story. the speaker wires go up instead of down when the enter the truck, so youhave to patch in behind the woofer. Don't try through the rear doors cause with the Infinity system all the doors are rear channels. The woofers in the front doors are already lowpass and the rear doors are mids and highs. If you use the fader though the front door will never fade. once they are patched in run the wires to the back to the line converter and oula! your done. Instant (not really) RCA's. Right now my system is a mix of items. I want to either get new JL Audio 10's and a PPI amp or get two Infinity Perfect 10's with an Infinity Reference 610a amplifier and put them in there for a true full Infinity system. Hope this helps. Right now I have a JL audio 10W0 and aLightning Audio 10 pushed by a Lightning audio 200.2 It sounds ok but the LA 10 flutters a lot. Its just stuff I had laying around. I bought the box plus 2 JL 10 one was blow for $75 from a kid at work.
Hope that helps.
Jason

 

yeah I didn't really understand what you did with the line converters probably b/c of my own ignorance. Let me try to understand and you can correct me.

You run speaker wire from the passenger front door speaker and the driver's side front door speaker. These wires are spliced into the existing speaker wires and not replacing the existing speaker wires which go from the headunit to each speaker. The spliced wires run to your line converter and the positive and negatives are combined onto their respective pos and neg posts on the line converter. Then on the line converter you have a 1 set of rca's which plug into the amp. The amp goes to the subs. Done . OK, if I got this right, it makes sense now.

You said that that the front doors are low pass filterd (i.e bass) and the rear doors are high and mid pass filtered (i.e. everthing else) so it doesn't make sense to use the rear doors. And, since they're all the same rear left and right channels, it doesn't make sense to combine them.

I guess my question would be, where's the front channel goto? The tweaters on the dash? I wonder if it would be the best idea to start at the headunit and splice off both the front and rear channels wires there and then all 4 sets into a line converter. Then run the rca set back to the amp which goes to the subs in the rear. Ofcourse, if the low,mid and high filtering is done IN the headunit, this won't make a bit of difference since the sub will only play the low end which will end up being only the front two speakers.

Let me know what you (or anyone else) thinks.

Thanks guys.

 

You don't have to go from the back of the radio. You are only running subs after all right? Running from the front door speakers works great. As an added bonus it's already low pass filtered, so when your amp is crossed over as well you will have a higher decible per octave(Steeper slope cutoff) than what your amp had originally.
Sniper.308