Its gunna be hard to explain through text but i can try..what a cap can do is it will keep on drawing power from your battery continuously and will keep giving it to the amp. Your amp is gunna keep on sucking the power and when you have this going on the cap keeps going back to the battery and draining large amounts of power from your battery...your alternater will keep recharging the battery but theres times that the cap will drain faster than the alternater will charge..eventually everything will just be completley drained...it usually won't happen but if your bass hits hard enough long enough and instead of everything just overloading with power the cap will keep draining the battery and feeding the amp

^^ive gotten all this information from this company i go to for my audio needs..they are probably the only people ive ever talked to that know exactly what theyre talking about...the three people that install are the only 3 'master installers' in this area and ive had problems with my system that ive gone to probably 10 other stores (at least) most of them in the milwaukee area and none of them could figure out...these guys knew right away.. he gave me some analogy that i forgot but it made alot more sense when he told me then the way i made it sound

as for your problem..all i could recommend would be to double and triple check your wiring..make sure you have a good ground with any paint scraped off..ive also seen ppl run more grounds from their battery to 2 or 3 more places in the engine bay andrun a larger wire from the alternator to the battery and that seemed to work...you shouldn't need another battery..buy a better battery might help as well..

 

hey empire.. hopefully u can figure out that problem.. b/c when i get a certain bass it rattles and its annoying... i have no effing clue to stop this rattling.....

 

idk about the new lancer but 03 lancer has so many rattles and crap its rediculous...idek where to begin to try n get it all to stop

 

hahahaha its only the wing and the back panel.... it sounds nasty when my bass hits... but it only does it on some frequency of bass...

 

When I had the stock bumper on my OZ, the license plate and frame rattled some much I almost dynomat'd the frame/plate! LOL What do you know, Dynomat makes license plate frames too.

 

yea theres a lot of rattles inside my car as well...the rear view rattles like its the cool thing to do when some frequencies hit..it gets annoying but ive grown used to alot of it

 

apparently there is a sticky on how to stop the rattling... but no pictures... mayb if we just shove **** loads of cotton or foam it will stop??? but who knows...

 

Step 1. Make sure it's not trunk monkey causing rattles.
Step 2. If rattling persists, dynamat everything that rattles.

Also I thought that there was some kind of roof insulation you could get from Home Depot that worked just as well.

 

^It's expanding foam that some use in those hard to get places, like the truck lid. In the places under the braces where the mat cannot fit. If you do get it to use, practice to see how much it does expand; no since in breaking or rippling metal cuz of it.

 

an expanding foam eh?? hmm thats interesting.. but im a pus$y about putting something permanent into my car like foam.......stupid pillars..... i'll prolly try to do something when i go home for thanks giving b/c ppl look at me funny when i work on my car at the dorms... they think im stealing parts or something lol and plus when i go home i can always ask my parents for money b/c its "improving" my car for safety reasons....

 

The foam is probably the most flammable stuff in the car! LOL

 

yeah... i live in the desert.. and with my luck its going to go kaboom! in the summer heat lol

 

hey guys... using ur genius minds.. could anyone give me an estimate on how much 2 12's and a box would weigh?? i think it would weigh around 100 lbs??? b/c from the looks of it.. i think i fixed the huge wheel well gap on our cars.. just put 2 12's in the trunk

 

it depends on the subs and the box...ive had 12s and a box that weighed prly half of wut mine weigh now...i think mine now are prly 110.. 120 idk rly

 

yeah.. its heavy as f**k... i was driving next to this kid with a new ford focus... their wings look hilarious.. hahahaha but yeah usually without the sub im able to get a good start off the line.. but since those big weights are in the back.. the dude pulled away from me and i wanted to cry.. lol i have a automatic.. but was using the sport mode.. still....