Stock amp with new pioneer??

[spazmoid]

For the people who have installed new headunits, has anyone used the wiring harness that utilizes the premium sound's amp? My new HU puts out 22rms X 4 and its currently goin through the stock amp, i'm guessing only to get shot down seeing the stock amp only puts out 20ish rms right? It sounds great but has anyone ever had a problem doin it this way, i just don't want to blow anything up or start a fire or something. Thanks

 

[Troglodyte]

I've never measured whether the stock unit amplifies the signal on top of it's input, or whether it just takes the voltage as a reference for volume and only puts out it's stock. But, until I replaced my speakers and amps years later, my radio put out 35x4 and never hurt the stock amp or burned it up.

 

[NiNeTy Fo SHO]

You cannot amp an amplifier if thats what your thinking. If you tried, the weaker amp (not necessarily the more powerful one) will blow its fuse.

It should drop the HU output down to the standard signal (like RCA signal) and then proceeds to amplify that.

You can wire your headunit so that it uses the stock amps or you can use the bypass harness and have your HU power the speakers itself. Then you can remove your stock amps if you would like. When you use the bypass harness, you will loose the sub. BUT, in my opinion, the added sound and better quality sounds mucho better than using the stock amps. I also get quite a bit of bass without the stock sub.

 

[spazmoid]

Well i don't even have a sub anyway cause i have premium sound, but would bypassing the stock amp happen with a harness that pluged in around the amp?? If so do you know where i can get one without resulting to buyin online??

 

[Troglodyte]

If you are done with the stock amp, just bypass the amp by cutting off the connectors and matching the wires colors from one side to the other. Be very careful with the yellow (Power) wire. The red is ground (for some reason) and the dark blue is the remote turn on that you won't need for the amp anymore. A good idea would be to leave the Yellow, Red, and Blue wires in the connector and match the others.

 

[NiNeTy Fo SHO]

OR...you can just find hte clip in the dash that automatically bypasses the factory amp and goes directly to the speakers! The factory amp will not get power anymore and never turn on from my understand and no need to cut wires.

Look at your rear speakers from inside the trunk, if there are 4 wires (2 pos. and 2 neg.) going into the speaker, then you car ahs this second connector to bypass the factory amp.

$10 for the connectors at any audio place. (standard for a LOT of fords) an d find hte connector in the dash. It is mounted with a plastic push clip towards the steering wheel side of the dash. Look in the DIN slot with the radio removed and you should see it. It has 8 wires coming out of it and the connector looks just like the power connector that you are using currently. (except one is gray, the other is black.)

 

[shoteen95]

i ran my aftermarket headunit (23X4) with the premium sound amp for a long time with no problems. Ofcourse, this was after i had my infinity reference speakers installed. Sounded damn impressive.

I say, invest in some decent speakers and leave the amp in play.

 

[SuperHO]

I found that running the stock amp with a pioneer HU in my wife's 94 sounded like dead ****. Once I ran the amp by-pass, it sounded much better.....and I even got the JL 6w0 hooked up and makin noise off the HU....I love the way Pioneer decks are 2 ohm stable... it don't thump like it really should, but it lets you know it's there.

Sound quality's waaaaay up since I bypassed the amp, too.