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Originally Posted by mobj92
yeah i still have the stock stereo. so what do i have to do now with that?
Are you guys telling me I have to connect the speakers to the amp? crap, it was a pain just to get them all in.
Thanks for all the help guys
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I just lost a long message. That really irks me.
It isn't that bad. It may seem overwhelming but it is not. I had my amps hooked up to my factory stereo for the last 8 years, and I did it without cutting a single factory wire.
First thing you will need are the line out converters. They take the speaker level output that your stereo does and drop them down to RCA cables. You may also need a reverse wiring harness, or you can be like me, and buy a toyota wiring harness, then find a specialty electronics store to get the real small blade connectors. These will slide in on the back of the factory stereo.
So you hook up the line out converters to the blade connectors, plug them in to the speaker output on the stereo, then run the RCA cables back to your amp.
To get from your amp which is located in the trunk (most likely) run the front speaker output from the amp to the wires that power your rear speakers. So the wires that carried your signal out from the radio to your rear speakers is now being used to carry the signal from your amp to your front speakers.
All you have to do is connect the fronts to the rears on the harness. For example connect the front right positive to the rear right positive.
Of course your rear speakers are already back in the trunk and it is quite easy to run your own wires from the amp to the rear speakers.
