Re-Use Ba Premium Sub+Amp With New Headunit

[xb99]

Hi All

The factory six stacker in my premium sound BA MKII XR6T started to go (skipping randomly), so I took the opportunity to upgrade the whole stereo. I bought a Alpine headunit, Alpine typeR 6" splits for the front, alpine typeR 6x9s for the rear, all driven by alpines 600W 4ch amp. I'm pretty happy with the result, I had a similar set up in my VL Calais, except I had a lower rated amp, and kenwood 7x10's in the rear.

I mainly listen to rock music , and with my 7x10 setup I didn't need a sub. With the 6x9's I'm lacking a little bass, but not much. Rather than buy another amp+sub for a fraction more bass, I have an idea!....

My question is: Can you convert the factory premium sound amp+sub to rca's and then put them into the back of a after market deck?? What wires on the factory amp can be converted to RCA's?

I know the factory amp+sub is pathetic compared to the fully amp'ed type-r's.... but it should give me the fraction more bass I crave. And its still sitting in the car, amp, disconnected.

I've searched the forums, and found lots of people wanting to after market sub from the factory, I want to do the opposite!! Surely someones done this before...

Thanks!

[Panda Eyes]

dude all you need is a low to high signal converter, then find the signal wires that go into the factory amp and put the converter inline. should do the trick

[TonyD]

If you're running an aftermarket headunit, why don't you just run the RCA's from that? That's the simplest and easiest way to run an amp for a sub ... When I first got my sub, I took the pos and neg input from before the amp and wired it into my own speaker level input in my Pioneer amp. It was sh*thouse to say the least. I then hijacked the signal from the rears and put them directly into the speaker level input in the amp and it's a lot better. Factory amp and it's corresponding signals are terrible =]