Wiring up my system

[Gunman]

basically thats what your looking for to bring your power wire into the car safe. Keep in mind I have an 02 and yours might be different, After removing the groumet, you might have to enlarge the hole, but make sure you use a wire groumet, this is one that snaps into the size hole you made and has a opening for the wire to pass through.
As far as your cap goes, the CORRECT way to to slowly charge it. Just about all of them come with some form of resistor to slow down the charge, some even come with terminals with leds that let you know when it is full. Tapping it before hand just gets you a big spark, and if your gonna do that then just do in the car its the same difference. Also when you connect your ring terminals, it looks like you have the crimpless terminals, if done properly, it will never come lose, and over a power transfer that long the last thing you want to introduce is a lead resistor. Follow everything else and you should be fine.

[Peter]

this is a picture of my firewall....doesnt look like urs. is it the whole down more or the one where ur was? cuz i dont see what you see.


how's this connection?


does the length of the ground wire matter? or should it be as short as possible?

[Yanks0114]

When i bought my caps i charged them with a small glass lightbulb. It came with the packaging, and it worked great. Just goto radioshack and pick one up, make sure it can handle 12v though

[Peter]

the cap came with a charger.

[Gunman]

there, go into the bottom arrow,and you should be fine.

[Peter]

thanks. one more question and i'll be able to start the install. should the ground wire be as short as possible?

[Gunman]

short as you can, and to bare metal. Just remember to switch your factory ground on your battery to 0 guage to complete the path.

[Guest]

any tips on drilling the phatty whole in the firewall?

[Peter]

any tips on drilling the phatty whole in the firewall?

thats me asking

[Yanks0114]

any tips on drilling the phatty whole in the firewall?

thats me asking

You might not even need to drill through the firewall. I was able to bring it through with some wire allready going through. Check my sounddomain site for a pic of the install

[Peter]

you think 0 gague will fit through that? if so, can you get some more pictures and tell me where that is?

[Gunman]

dag, car is at the body shop for some "goodies" but it is right where you have pointed to on your pic with the red arrow.

[ICUFG]

pop the rubber rivot out and cut out the center of the rubber out enough to let the 0 wire to get through. (that is if you have a rubber gromlet) make sure that that wire isnt touching bare metal it will cut the wire and blow a fuse or worse.

[Peter]

You might not even need to drill through the firewall. I was able to bring it through with some wire allready going through. Check my sounddomain site for a pic of the install

i see where it is now. the thing is, i want it to stay on the drivers side. i think i'll stick to drilling the hole. thanks anyway.

btw, whats that fabric called to cover the wood in making custom boxes, in other words, what do i ask for when i go to home depot? and what do you use to glue it to the board?

[ICUFG]

try to find find some one who sells car carpet, if you cant find any one around there ask a local stereo shop where they buys theirs, its usually cheaper. To answer your ? I always called it trunk carpet it the thinnest and easiest to work with. And as for the adhesive you cant go wrong with any 3M product home depot should carry a carpet adhesive. GOOD LUCK on carpeting your box, I hate doing that sh_t. I usually just pay someone.