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I asked this before and I tried to find what the guy was talking about but I couldn't.... Where do you guys put the wire that goes from the battery to the amp? Where in the firewall I mean... Thanks!


Its a 1991 Eclipse GS.
 
you can always just run it out your hood and through the door crack and then take the right side dash off and put the wire under it and then run it under your carpet to ur amp. There is only about 3 inches of wire showing and thats only when your passenger side door is open... It wont crush the wire either unless you have thicker than 4 gauge wire...cuz it worked fine with 4 gauge on my van. What the other guy was trying to say was....that you have to run a wire through your firewall for a boost gauge so if you look on the vfaq pages it might tell you where to run that wire and you can do the same with you power wire.
 
I guess the AWD's are hard to find a place through the firewall but in my FWD i ran my 0 gauge wire through the brake cylinder cap. I ran one car through the fender and the door jam and after a few months it finally wore throuhg the wire covering and shorted out like crazy. Everything in the car started to flash and stutter. I would definatly not recommend that with anything over 8 gauge wire. I was running 4 gauge when that happened to me. Go to your local car stereo shop and they useally only charge $10-20 to run a power wire for you.
 
"Somewhat related? As a somewhat related side note, many people ask where they should route the vacuum line through the firewall to run the boost gauge. I ran mine through the speedometer cable hole. This hole is located slightly below the brake master cylinder. The hole is much bigger than the actual speedometer cable, so there is plenty of room. The cable is surrounded by a rubber grommet that you can pull out towards the engine to open up the hole. Once you get a few wires in there, the rubber grommet will no longer fit, so you will have to close up the hole some other way if you want to. The advantage of using this hole is that you do not have to cut up the car at all, and the hoses, wires, or whatever come through the firewall up high behind the brake pedal. They will be accessable if you lay in your drivers side floor and reach up. They will be out of site and out of the pedal travel path. Here is a picture of the hole from the engine side. (TS- note, if you run wires through here, it is best to slit the grommet and run the wires through the slit. If you have many wires and can't use the grommet, make sure to run several layers of tape over the wires for several inches before and after the hole to make sure that the wires don't rub the hole and get cut.)"
 
SmokinV8's said:
I guess the AWD's are hard to find a place through the firewall but in my FWD i ran my 0 gauge wire through the brake cylinder cap. I ran one car through the fender and the door jam and after a few months it finally wore throuhg the wire covering and shorted out like crazy. Everything in the car started to flash and stutter.
Didn't you have a fuse under the hood?
 
just poke a hole in your gromet at the engine harness where it goes through the firewall then run it under the carpet to where you want.
 
SmokinV8's said:
Yeah i had a 100 amp fuse under the hood which blew after a few times the wire shorted out.
Wow! Well, I certainly can see how a 100 amp fuse would cause some problems before it blows!
 
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