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Routing speaker wires into front doors... 700

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posted by  badge988 on  Thu Feb 6 13:26 CST 2003
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Sorry to be so caustic but if you need to feed the door speakers with 300 watts or even 100 real watts you won't hear my siren!

Seriously tho, you can pull the wires through the rubber duct if you play your cards right and take your time, I have done this several times on 700s for both the front and rear speakers. I have mirror strobes and they require a dedicated cable for the strobe tubes and is thicker than the # 14 monster cable. Inside the door you will find a reinforcement channel that runs behind the rubber boot and sends the wires down to the bottom, you can pull the boot from the door and run a fishtape through to the kickpanel areas and pull your wires through. Next you can run the wires into the door and down around the steel channel and follow the power window harness, you will have to take your time and use patience for this however the rewards will be no shorted speaker wires and blown amplifiers.


As for the stock wires they will handle 100 real RMS watts with no issues. I have yet to see an amp rated at 300 watts do this with a real sinewave for any length of time. 300 peak maybe or 300 at 1% distortion but at this point the voice coils are burning up from the squarewave.

Badge 988






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