Premium Sound

[gadget73]

I would like pics of this. If theres some way I could re-use the original factory wiring and get rid of my spaghetti bs in the dash, I'm all for it. I'd love to be able to neaten things up in there. I had the silver football amp, but its long gone. All the wiring is still there but its not hooked to anything.

[marquisman]

you can make the football amp work. the black box amp is the easiest since you can guy the premium sound harness from schotche that plugs into that little square connecter with the thin wires

[gadget73]

The smoke came out of my football amp long ago. Its since been replaced with a 600 watt Kenwood in the trunk. I'm just thinking of ways to use factory wiring to get sound from the trunk to the front.

[351m]

Ok, it won't let me post pics...

[gadget73]

Use the 'go advanced' and then click attachments on the next page. if the pics are too big, you can't post them. I forget the maximums but its listed on the attachment window how big the file and image size can be.

[351m]

Maybe they were too big then

[351m]

The first 2 pics are of the plug going to the amp, the other pic is of the one from the other set of plugs at the deck and the harness from the speakers.

[marquisman]

this is different, care to explain about the whole set up?lol

[351m]

Its hard to explain, mine has the harness for the standars sound(one black and one grey plug) and it has the small one for the amp. Same as i believe most Fox Mustangs have. so behind the right kick panel there will be the harness from the amp comming up under the carpet and plugs into the speaker harness, there will be another one in there with the same wire colors that isn't hooked up, it will disappear up under the dash same as the speaker wires. Its hard to get a good pic in there.

[deepsleep]

Deepsleep, the factory amp is there because the radio itself has a fairly low power output - it is therefore designed for that low power output (which for the amp is really an input), so with your Kenwood putting out a stronger signal I'm not sure if you're not going to fry the amp if you feed it the Kenwood signal. To be on the safe side I'd say just bypass the amp, and run the wires from the radio directly to the speakers - you can buy an amp-bypass harness that is a direct plug-in, or you can cut and splice the wires yourself if you so prefer.

And I'm not quite sure what you're referring to when you ask if it messes up the sound quality, but if it's about the way I installed the Sony radio with the factory L-brackets riveted to its craddle - nope, no issues with that whatsoever, really the only way I can see the sound quality being messed up is if the radio don't ground quite right, but I have it grounded through both the factory harness and a dedicated (very big) ground strap, so it's about as perfect as it's gonna get.

Thanks for clearing it up. I still havent installed the damn thing. I'll do it this week. I think the walmart adapter thing I got has the amp wire, is that whats needed?

[mitymerc]

There are quite literally 2 harnesses behind the radio. The plugs to bypass the amp are under the glovebox/kickpanel. No repinning or anything. I will get a pic of mine after Physio tomorrow.

So is it just a matter of disconnecting one harness & plugging in another @ the kick panel?

And there is another set of black/grey connectors tucked up under the dash somewhere?

Is this valid for an '87