I decided the next thing I wanted to do to my car was adding a nice system. I have had an Alpine HU for a few months now and that wasn't enough so here is what I got. The reason I haven't installed it yet is because I need mounting brackets for the speakers. The shop would have had to order them and that would have taken a long time so I just had them make me some. I am going to pick them up either Tuesday or Wednesday and I will update this thread with some pics of the install if I have the patience to take them, lol. Here is a list of what I got:

-Kicker KS65 speakers all around: 65W RMS
-Kenwood KAC-8403 amp: 60W RMSx4 at 4 Ohms or 90W RMSx4 at 2 Ohms but I guess I won't be running 2 Ohms on speakers. Thats what I was told anyway.
-Kicker power kit: 4 Gauge cables since later on I will be adding another amp and subs so I decided to just get the 4 gauge wires right away so I wouldn't have to re-do it. It also came with an inline fuse and a battery terminal hookup.
-JL Audio RCAs
-Kicker 16 gauge speaker wire.

Here are some pics of it layed out on my floor:





Sorry for the poor pic quality but all I had was my phone camera.

This is my first system and I think it will sound pretty good. Let me know what you think.

 

U dont want subs??? seems like a nice lil audio setup, but a lil bump would be great

 

TO NOTORIOUSLANCER:

Sub/Subs will come eventually. Lol sh*t aint cheap!

 

the bump brings the hump

 

Haha ok?

 

What amperage draw does the amp have? Look at the fuse on the amp and tell me 25/30/40/etc. Judging since it's a Kenwood @ 65w per ch, probably a 25/30...

 

Its a 40 amp fuse. Why?

 

If you add another amp in there (say a mono block amp) later on. you'll soon see why the amperage draw is a BIG comcern with our crappy alternators. 40 definitely surprised me seeing I have in the car right now a 25A fuse for my 50x4 Kenwood KAC-746 amp.

 

if he adds another amp he defetnely will need to get a capacitor.
the stock altenator handles pretty good with my system and im runnin 2 amps, 2 tvs, 4speakers and 2 subs.

 

lol **** aint cheap, especially good name brands

 

Of course but I have modded enough to learn that its 99999999X better to do it right the first time!

 

Should have went with a nice component set for the front stage. But still nice setup....

 

True but I wanted to keep it simple since it IS my first system and I don't know all there is to know about car audio.

Now I am stumped. I was working on putting it in from about 7 til almost midnight and kept running into problems. I cant seem to get the speaker wire through the grommet that leads into the door. Does anyone have any tricks that would make it easier?

 

You need to run a steel "fishing" wire through the grommet from the door. A metal coat hanger will work. Tape your new speaker wire to the end that pokes through the car and pull it through the door.

 

Ok thanks. For some reason I couldnt get the wire through using a coat hanger but I tried a stiff zip tie and it worked perfect.

Now I have it all in and I ran into another problem. I was listening to it and all of a sudden I hear what sounds like the speaker cone hitting the grille. I found that one speaker came loose and is just bouncing around.

My question is how do you guys get to the screws on the rear deck that are right under the window? Its at a weird angle and I think I didn't get them tight enough.