This is a better pic of 3 Xtant amps powering over 1000 watts. EQL trunk mount equalizer. 2xs trunk mount x-over. In trunk 3 JL 12w6's. Front stage Boston Acoustic Pro 5.5. Alpine flagship head. Wanted to see if there was any other Maverick/Stereo junkies.
Yeah! I hit a wopping 143.6 db with that bad boy. I was worried i was going to get a lot of, why did you put a loud system in a classic car. My original idea was to have a car that could compete in shows, on the track, and in the stereo comps. Still working on all three aspects. 74Maverick, Thom
thom, i saw a 4dr. in the bone yard that had the back seat removed and the whole back end all the way throught the trunk were speakers. the box they built had 15 holes for speakers. there were two batts. in the trunk and two alts. on the 250 motor. that was sound a plenty...frank...:bananaman :bananaman
Wow, well, way to make use of the room in the back of a 4-door. I cant even imagine what something like that would had sounded like. I cant even handle what my speakers put out. When I take the car to do an SPL check and sound quality the put a mic in the center of the car, shut the doors and crank it up w/ a remote for my alpine head unit. Thom
I would love to amp up what I have in mine only problem is I need to hear the engine to make sure it is still running .......Robert nothing worse than having it cranked up at a red light and the engine dies ....... had that happen once with a 86 merc Lynx XR3 2 12's and coustic 460amp turned out the timing belt had stripped had put a new one in a year earlier........ in the back seat though .........
74 do you did you hook up all that stuff yourself or have it done? all i have stereo wise is a new dash speaker and two sony 6x9's(they were on sale cheap) on the deck. i wanted to get a new head unit so i can actually play cd's and get a better radio signal.i wanted to go with an alpine headunit. this one... http://www.circuitcity.com/detail.jsp?c=1&b=g&catoid=-8864&qp=0&bookmark=bookmark_0&oid=68518 but i dont have a clue when it comes to stereos and i hear nothing but bad things about installations from the local places like best buy ,circuit city, tweeter. how hard is the installation and what do i need?
I run a pair of 12's and a pair of 6x9's off a 400 watt amp, mounted the 12's flush against the rear of the metal supports behind the back seat, then put black carpet over that area and on the back of the rear seat, now I have a nice flip down back seat that still keeps the speakers stealth, I also run a JVC head unit and put on a EQ. I'd have to say that the EQ is what took a good stereo and turned it into a great stereo. RobC, Installing your own deck is not hard at all, any dummy can do it, just don't let yourself get intimidated by all the wires. Some Mavericks require that you cut to put in the style of stereo that you are looking at. Do you have the long rectangle shaped opening (DIN) or a small rectangle hole with two knob holes on each side? I'm not sure if Mavericks ever came with speakers in the back, mine just came with a crappy little tiny speaker in the middle of the dash. You might need to run new wires to the back. Red and Yellow are the wires that are your power, one needs constant power to keep your clock right and the other doesn't require constant power, I don't remember which one is which right now so just check your instructions, the black wire is your ground. And the rest are your speaker outputs, generally white and grey are up front and purple and green are the rear. Each set of colors will have one solid color and one with a black stripe on it, the black stripe is your neg and the solid is your pos. Sounds like alot of work but it really isn't hard, just takes a while to get it the way you want it, so give yourself a good chunk of time to do it.
Rob C, I do all of my installs myself. The only part of the system that in most cases is worth having the dealer put in is the head unit. Most manufacturers will not give you the full lenght of waranty w/o a dealer install. If you get one used i can install it w/ ease just PM. Ill give you directions and get that head unit in for you. You can either get an install kit for a single din or I used the duplicate of the am radio plate I had for the Mav and dremeled it out so I could mount my head to it. Deal w/ Tweeter for install and products(If you really want to get sick) dont plan on saving money going there but you get what you pay 4. My buddy Jay Schreir is the installer there hes the best of the best I learned alot from him. To give you an idea the extensiveness of my system I spent more on wires/Ground and power blocks than most people will spend on there whole system. Got to go to bed will type more tomorrow falling a sleep. Sorry Thom
Couldnt resist, got a smoke and got a second wind. Rudy explained it perfectly. If you think at any point you are going to run amps, while you already have carpet pulled up to run the speaker wires you want to also run: 2 RCA cables back from the head unit/the blue remote wire/4 ga power wire from the battery back. Theres a trick to running the speaker to make it easy to convert to amps later. Run power wire down one side of car and all signal wires down the other this will avoid any distortion from power wire. The ground for the amps will be mounted in the trunk good ground needed. As far as building boxes or amp racks I do all of that too. Just cant do fiberglass yet. I can always let you see what i ve done with mine to give you an idea. Need to see more pics of Maverick Runners car too! Thom
