Audio Loom

[mattyb]

I actually have a 2010 Turbo Terry Ghia, and the amp is under the front seat. I'll take a photo tomorrow but my loom looks somewhat different to yours. I purchased a Fusion Line level converter from ebay, and while I was there found V12 amps for $79 delivered from a seller here in oz. So I'm contemplating getting 2 and down the track having them professionally fitted, one amp to run the speakers, and one for the sub. But I grabbed the Line level converter in case I decide to just go with a small monoblock to fit under the front seat, soley for the sub.

Have you unplugged the loom from your factory amp now, and removed the factory amp totally leaving behind the line level converter connected to the unplugged loom and your new amp?

[mattyb]

by different I mean colour of the wires, etc. I'm not a very electrical minded person, but I'm hoping to learn, as my warranty depends on it, lol.

[spook]

One way to trigger a 2nd amp is to leave the factory amp connected and use one of these kits - universal voltage switch

There is an LED on the factory amp (have to pull the covers off to see it) that you can tap into and connect to the voltage switch input trigger.

Then connect the ouput of the voltage switch to the remote line of your 2nd amp to switch it on.

This will work OK if you want to run a better amp to power the sub and leave the factory amp connected to run high pass to the door and parcel shelf speakers.

[Gasman]

thanks Spook.I wonder if its possible to just leave the factory amp connected and just splice into the remote power wires. So you are saying we need to run a filter to amplify our door and deck speakers?

[spook]

The problem with factory sub amp is that there is no remote power signal (12v). As I understand it turns on once it detects an audio signal.

If you keep the factory sub amp connected, you can use the method I described to get a remote signal to a 2nd amp.

The ICC runs a built in high pass filter when it detects the sub amp is connected. If you are happy with the sound, you can leave your door and deck speakers running from the ICC and just use the 2nd amp to run a bigger sub and therefore have some more control over the bass.

This is pretty much what I'm looking into right now as I don't want to run new speaker and power leads all over the place in order to run everything off an amp. I have already upgraded all speakers and the sound is much better anyway.