Where can I get cheap but good quality wiring and a box for an amp/sub?

[talnlnky]

yeah, go to a welding supply store and pick up 4awg cable there. It'll save you a lot of money. get like 30ft of it, use as much as you need for your power cable, then use a foot for your ground cable, then use the rest to upgrade you battery ground, chasis ground, and alt to bat cable. Then you just have to pick up a fuse holder and you are set.

or... you could just pick up around 20feet of 4awg and forget upgrading the big 3 under the hood.

If you are going to buy a box, just go with a sealed box, then go around the edges (especially around the binding posts) and make sure there is caulking around it to keep it air tight, if there isn't caulk, then pick up a tube at home depot and get messy with it... CAULK FROM THE INSIDE OF THE BOX ONLY! Generally speaking, pre-built, store bought boxes are trash, but a sealed box will be much better than the ported or bandpass boxes you could buy at a store. Get the cheapest RCA's you can find, I wouldn't spend more than $10 on them if you can. People will spend hundreds on fancy RCA cables, and honestly, for 99% of noise issues in stereos... IT DOESN'T MATTER... so, buy the cheap stuff first, if you have weird noise issues... THEN, as a last resort you can go out and buy the $50 cables.

oh yeah... he was right about the sub being more like a 300w sub.... unless the sub has a 3" voice coil (yours has 2") its not even going to be close to 1000w.

a 1-1.5" coil is usually good up to around 150rms
2" might be able to get 300 or 400
2.5" might be able to get up to 600-800
3" can get upwards of 2000


we are of course talking RMS values here as they are the only kind that matter.

You might also consider buying some pillow stuffing (polyfil) and throwing in a few handfuls of that into the box (if you buy a sealed box)... it should help the sub play slightly lower, and slightly louder (tho, you probably won't be able to tell much, if at all).

[CtrlAltDefeat]

Originally Posted by talnlnky

yeah, go to a welding supply store and pick up 4awg cable there. It'll save you a lot of money. get like 30ft of it, use as much as you need for your power cable, then use a foot for your ground cable, then use the rest to upgrade you battery ground, chasis ground, and alt to bat cable. Then you just have to pick up a fuse holder and you are set.

or... you could just pick up around 20feet of 4awg and forget upgrading the big 3 under the hood.

If you are going to buy a box, just go with a sealed box, then go around the edges (especially around the binding posts) and make sure there is caulking around it to keep it air tight, if there isn't caulk, then pick up a tube at home depot and get messy with it... CAULK FROM THE INSIDE OF THE BOX ONLY! Generally speaking, pre-built, store bought boxes are trash, but a sealed box will be much better than the ported or bandpass boxes you could buy at a store.

hmmm using the additional for grounding is not a bad idea, either... I hadn't thought of that... wonder how much the cable would cost from there...