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i hooked up my kicker sub and cheapo amp just a few days ago for the first time in my rollas stock stereo. ive done it b4 on my old car but that was easier since i had a JVC cd player in my landcruiser which had the RCA plugs on it already. since our stock headunits dont have RCA outputs, go 2 autobarn for a AERPRO Speaker to Line Level Converter - AP304 = only $14.95! the converter has 4 wires which you need to connect with your front left & right speakers (+/-) wires. just splice the speaker wires and solder the converter wires on, then cover the exposed wires back up with electrical tape. ALSO, if your amp doesnt power up after its all wired its probebly coz you may not have connected the "remote" wire on the amp 2 anything. there was all different advice in here bout that but i connected my remote wire to the +12volt ignition wire. if your amp works anyway without connecting this remote wire, then dont worry bout connecting it. check here 2 make sure youre soldering on the correct wires :P look @ "1987 and newer" http://au.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/inde...?showtopic=4060 all the other instructions are found somewhere in these forums, just gotta search 4 em.. but 4 me, putting in the converter was the missing peice of the puzzle. i dont remmber seeing advice for the rest of the wiring up for the amp in here, but if you need any help i may b able 2 post some pics if you are unsure of where 2 feed the wires from the battery through to the inside of your car, hiding all the wires etc. even though the wiring kits and the converter has diagrams, it helpz 2 see actual pics 2 go with the diagram u know? jase

umm are any of you sydneysiders able to hold my cooling panel 4 me until the next monthly meet?

yea i was thinking of making a harness of some sort. the non slip mattz dont seem to stick as well as iwould like... velcro maybe?

You can convert from RCA to std line with a converter, I think you get them from Autobarn, Tandy's, ***** Smith or something for like $25 or something. Weird it only has Low Pass input.... na what i meant was that the switch is there so you can choose whether you want the amp to work on either high or low input, while using the same 2 RCA (red/black) plugs. ANYWAYZ... after that last post i made i did come to that realisation that there MUST be a way of connecting a sub to a stock HU. after searching the forumz and reading the other threads bout DIY sub to stock HU, they didnt offer proper solutionz and i knew there had 2 b a better way but i didnt know what... so i rocked up to autobarn bout 3pm and found exactly what u were talkin bout azza... but yea $14.95 for the converter! i pulled out the sub wiring out of my landcru23r and yea its sitting in my boot waitin 2 be wired up. i hooked up my kicker in my brothers celica to see how the sub looked and sounded when it was powered up.. but yea his amp is much higher wattz than my lil kicker should handle so i kept the volume low hahaha! least it works. he needs 2 get this RCA converter 2 coz his sub is connected to 1 of his speakers coz he has a stock HU as well. as long as it works properly, its fine with me. ill hook this thing up tonight when i get home but im still at work. thankx 4 ur help azza, even though your post came up like at almost exact same time i was already at the shops picking up the converter :)) i got the recipt 2 prove it too if ya dont believe me :P great mindz think alike ay?

all i have on my amp is RCA inputs with a switch above it that says high/low input. so how would i connect RCAs to a spliced rear speaker? is that possible? i cracked open my right hand rear door and saw the speaker cables that lead to the rear speaker.. they are thin az!

oh yea, in order to save money im not going 2 buy an amp or wiring kit. i still have my old strathfield generic amp which was screwed onto my old sub box with housez 2x10inch weconic subz. they were 400watt each and the amp was i think 600wattz max? so in theory if i hooked it up with my kicker i should get a maximum of 300wattz out of the amp. my kickers RMS is 300 so for now, since im dead broke, this will do perfectly... 4 now. as 4 the wiring kit, ima source that from my old landcruiser too :)

names Jared (its k everyone gets it mixed up)... but I'll forgive ya lol :) ;) Yea next time I'm there I'll ask m how much they want 4 1 n let u noe (tho it may b a while till I go again) There are like, 3 Jasons up there dude and I get all of them mixed up, and then I think EVERYONE's name is Jason. I'll think Subway next time I talk to you. Jared the spokesman. Yeahhh. Oh yeah man it's the drivers side a-piller as well of course ;) Cheers man. i believe he was talking to me bout that a-piller :P

in the past few weekz (maybe months) ive seen toyota commercials promoting TRD! im sure it was on free tv - not foxtel. am i the only one whos seen this? featured the corolla rally car doin roostertailz down a dirt track and said something 2 the effect of "when we win, you win"? some kinda catchphrase like that... i was thinking initially that they were promoting TRD.. or maybe they are just talking bout how they are developing their range based on what they learnt through TRD and racing or something and not selling the actual TRD parts, which wouldnt make much sense either. either way TRD stuff is 2 damn expensive 4 my liking. as long as the part fitz and it works i dont care if its reTaRD or not. mostly coz of the ****ty service and huge cost

hey silvabullit have you seen the C-ONE under panel? you think we could get them made as well????

ok im sick of this frikken project. sick of it! no i dont have an amp 2 hook it up 2 yet. actually i have an old 1 from my landcruiser that should do as a temporary amp... but i still got a stock HU, so no rca cable hookupz. and the wiring kit... dont have 1 for the corolla yet. although i did test out the speaker by hooking it up 2 an old ghettoblaster and i did get sound! as 4 the box being completely sealed... i think i screwed that by putting that terminal in the back, but yea ill fix it after i got the thing hooked up and im bothered to perfect it. as long as it fits, and itll produce bass when i hook it up, im happy. END OF STORY. if you want a closer look, i may come to the next monthly meet so you can check it out then. PS - after taking a quick spin, i noticed the sub FELL OVER after making a hard right turn. any advice on keeping the sub in place?? oh yea heres a pic of the box after i added the fibreglass filler and bondo, but b4 i sanded it all down 2 make it as smooth as i could without buying more damn putty

a word of advice.. ive searched heaps of DIY sub box tutorialz, and came across 1 that was slightly better than the otherz while i was in the middle of fibreglassing the back of my box. in this particular tutorial, the guy cut a peice of MDF for the base of the boxwhich makes a lot of sense (for strength and stability purposes) and fibreglassed the walls and top of the box. so when he pulled the fibreglass out of the car, the mdf came along with it coz it was more or less glued to the fibreglass. now i DID have an MDF base to begin with (you can see it in 1 of my first pics in this thread), but i decided not to do anything different from the tutorials that ive been reading just 2 be on the safe side. but yea found out later that my initial idea was done by someone else and it worked for them! so yea once again, i could have used that bit of information B4 i started my box. another useful tip that i WAS able to use was that when youve already done a few layers of f'glass and you still think you see thin spots, weak areas or tiny holes in the corners of your fibreglass, just mix some resin+hardener and pour it in and let it roll round in those weak areas. it wont take long b4 the resin hardens and youve pretty much sealed any holes you may have had. a good way to tell if youve properly sealed every little hole in the box (subwoofer not yet screwed into place) is to pour bout 1 1/2 shot glass's worth of water inside your box, hold the box up and let the water roll around. if you have any holes in the fibreglass, youll obviously be able to tell if any water manages to fall to the floor. then remove the remaining water in the box with a cloth and leave the box out 2 dry b4 sealing the holes. i did that exact thing this morning and found that i missed a hole in 1 corner. so yea the most important thing is that the bugger is hole proof! thats the point of making a SEALED box. if you wanted to make a ported box, i think youd be better off buying it coz i saw the instructions for making a ported box for my kicker and i couldnt be bothered! good luck if you choose to make 1! right now im considering the best way to wire my box up. tutorials rule against using a TERMINAL BOARD when wiring up your box. and if you havent decided on your method of wiring by the time your box is mostly done then you have little choice but 2 drill a hole in the back, feed the wire through and seal it with cilicone or something 2 that effect. NOT ME. ima be a difficult bugger and give it a go anyway. main problem in using terminal boards is the risk of air escaping... in other words, holes in the box. 2 counter this problem im going to make an mdf ring similar to the sub rings i made for my kicker. ill fix it in with fibreglass and yea should be good as gold :) UPDATE - BTW I DIDNT DO THIS. JUST SCREWED THE TERMINAL STRAIGHT IN WITH A BIT OF CARPET MATERIAL IN BETWEEN. GONNA USE FILLER ON THE INSIDE 2 SEAL ANY HOLES.

i managed 2 go back 2 supercheap to get the hardener they didnt give me when i bought my fibreglass putty and bondo the other day. coz they hide the hardener tubes under the counter of the cash register and the checkout chick 4got to give em when i bought them. the checkout chick almost accused me of being a paint sniffer or something!?! when i asked 4 hardener, she said in a full defensive tone "we dont JUST sell the hardener - youve got to buy the putty!" then i said " i bought 2 cans of putty/bondo just yesterday! i didnt get any hardener!" then she said "well who served you then????" like as if im going to remember her name and what she looked like as if i was trying 2 pick up the chick or something?! i just want my toolz and my putty and im out the frikken door.. i dint stop to ask her name and ask her out on a date?!!?! (no i didnt say any of that but it did enter my mind considering the way she was speaking 2 me). but yea then i produced the recipt. damn lucky i had that in my bag coz im sure i wouldnt have gotten anything from her otherwise. she took a quick look at it and i had 2 wait another 5 minutes for the girl that served me 2 come to the counter and she confirm that NO, she didnt give me any hardener. while waiting she served bout 3 people behind me who werent in the best of moods either. they just wanted 2 buy their sh!t and leave. ANYWAYZ... in other news, bought some felt already. its black though. my interior is grey >:/ i bought 1 metre = $9.95 with my VIP card. its enough 2 cover the whole thing, but didnt buy 2 much just in case i find the right colour. obviously spotlight didnt have the right colour felt (thats the closest matching material 4 my conquests interior)... my local autobarn doesnt have it in stock. supercheap doesnt sell it. repco has 2 order it in. does anyone know anywhere else that might have it????

oh yea ive decided to go and paint the back of the box matt black, once ive smoothed out the rough edges and got the dirt off that stuck to the back of it. the front im still thinking of vinyl if not carpet. right now im concerned bout the slight irregular shape of the box on the top half... how carpet will mould to the slight dips and bends without 2 much fuss... which do you think is more durable? which could take more than a couple bumps? that reminds me i gotta order the grille that goes with this sub. you cant buy my sub in australia but you can still order the grille for $50 from jbhifi?! how odd is that?!

hey im vip over there at spotlight! im down with the ladyz down at spotlight :P bought bout 3 metres of red felt to retrim dads freebee pool table over a year ago hahaha! shoulda thought of spotlight from the beginning... i was looking clark rubbers direction but yea stupid me didnt think of the spotlight just 5 mins from my house. thankx dhc! you actually sound suprised that i made it this far ?!

yea just wondering who amongst us here is part of the SRC? how organised are they compared to us here at TOCAU? i enjoy the sense of community and mutual enthusiasm & knowledge ive gained (and the mods ive bought) from you fellow TOCAU memberz.. just wondering if its like that over there from people who are already members of that club. are most of the sydneysiders in here also SRC members? i just registered with them last night btw...

the extra time is fine... meanwhile any extra $$$ i got is going towards completing my custom sub box :) id say bout 85-90% done already... woohoo :P check out the audio visual section

ok today i woke up and took a look at the box... saw that the resin was still gooey!? so left it in the sun for 2 hours then it was ready 2 lay a coat of fibreglass onto the front. let it dry by the afternoon and spent the last hour sanding out the rough bits and cutting away fibreglass that had air pockets in it... then i kinda got a lil 2 excited... and even though im nowhere near where i want to be with the fibreglass i screwed in the kicker to see how it fit... forgot to buy hardener with the putty with the fibreglass filler & bondo i bought today. :( all i gotta do is get all those holes and rough edges bondo'd to HOPEFULLY seal all the holes. autobarn near my place normally stocks sub woofer carpet... but they had 2 run out of stock when i actually needed 2 buy it! sonofab!itchhh.... ok heres the pics. nowhere near testing it out yet but at least it looks good!

soo... just bumpin the thread 2 keep it floating up near the top ) has it been 2 weeks yet?

UPDATE! so far today... ive done this much.... after making the fibreglass to a thickness im happy with, i cut the shape of the box out... as you can see in this pic, ive cut away the excess and im left with a nice neat edge and it fit better than expected :) here you can see that the sub box fits nicely and doesnt interfere with the babyz stroller! YAY!!!! also, notice ive already positioned the sub ring in place. in these pics, you can see ive just mdf glued the fabric over the sub ring and glued to the back of the fibreglass. the angle grinder ring was placed on top to help the fabric stretch, helped me to sort out the creases in the fabric while fixing it into place with the glue. after this, ill resin the fabric and begin the final stage of fibreglassing :)) oh yea if you are wondering bout the cost of this box so far... 2x size 3 fibreglass kits $103 3/4 inch mdf $14 1/2 inch mdf $10 thick masking tape $5 fabric $1 TOTAL = $133 for materials filter mask (proper mask)- $27 goggles (decent pair) - $10 rotary tools (bunnings generic brand)- $60 drill scissors glue gun wood glue -$7 MDF glue - $7 all these things were not included in the total because ive bought most of this stuff b4 i started making this thing, and obviously theyll still be usefull long after ive finished making the box. resin to go on tonight!

called supercheap yesterday bout getting a k&n panel filter for my brothers 98 celica. $124 full price. if my memory serves me correctly, this was also the price for the corolla panel filter. so yea if i did my math correctly thatll be $99.20. good price. but yea i got mine for free so yea HAHAHA! sorry but cant help but brag bout bargainz if i get em :P

i just checked - its 20% off original price. do you think this discount applies to the chargers too? my panel filter needs a good clean

AND THAT TOO MUTHERF*CKER! hahahaha! yea spend all my time trying 2 mod up this damn conquest and its really not that long until my corolla is old news! azza dont get me started up again coz i wanted 2 keep my last post as short as possible :P but yea... i see the point of refreshing the design, since the other companys would be doing that too for their small cars. but doesnt mean i have to like the fact that thats the way it iz. im planning on keeping my rolla till its a frikken antique, like the way ppl look at old coronas or gemini's or something... HA! just didnt want my car to seem like its ageing so soon. thats all. *btw, azza i bought enough fibreglass tonight to cover the whole box :))* yay for austudy!

i like it, but i dont like it! yes i like the colour and it looks nice and all... but yea.. my beef is i just dont like thinking that my current corolla is gonna be referred to as an "old model". it frustrated me when the facelift came out,(no offence facelift owners) and now this. redesigning the bodyshape every few years gives me the sh!tz! its kinda like when i tell people im 26 now and they think i might as well be going through male menopause. it makes no sense! doesnt mean i should get a facelift coz im getting a fraction older doez it? but yea, corollaz r a damn good car! 1 of the most popular selling cars in the world! good things shouldnt have to change every couple yearz like this! example - the landcruisers current shape hasnt changed dramatically since 1997-8??!! from the time the 80series fell out and the 100 series came in, the corollaz been redesigned over and over again in that same space of time.. i just dont get it! maybe im making something out of nothing, but 4 me - redesigning the rolla over again is like 3 year old kids having babiez. bad analogy but thats the closest thing i could compare it to. its just wrong and itz 2 early in my opinion 2 spawn another generation of rolla! end of rant. *exhale* thankyou.

damn you toyota for not adding RCAz to our hu'z! thats all i have 2 say about that.

im sure it can be done.. i think silvabullit was selling a-pillar gauge thingys not long ago. it fit 3 guages if my memory servez me correctly... so yea they are around if you looked 4 em... but your only after 2 guages yea? i guess you can cut holes into your existing pillar and bondo the gauges on, sand it and paint it 2make custom gauges... similar job 2 the diy tweeter install i saw somewhere online. same principal, but your putting guages - not tweeterz.. both require some wiring, so same diff?! definately not impossable. other cars on the street have got em,... seen a swift and i think a pulsar with huge gauges on the pillar so yea if it could be done on those cars, y not a rolla? good luck