[V8] Bose full swap out

[allanvega at adelphia.net]

Already ahead of you on this on Jeremy. Im runinga set of MBquart rce-210 4" componants in the factory bose enclosures in the front doors with the tweeters going below the dash grills. In the rear I have the mb quart 6x9 referance series(also componants). All mb quarts are powered by the legandary phoenix Gold zx-450 pushing a true 75 watts per channel rms. The deck is an Alpine cda-9833(new 2004 model with more featurs than i know what to do with) One peice of advise to all who are upgrading there deck. SCRAP the oem antenna. They just dont work well with after market decks( I dont care if you have new antenna amps with the turn on power hooked up correctly, they still suck! btdt. For me, I used a standard GM fixed mass antenna. I went this rout for one siple reason....well 2. 1.) It fits in the factory cell antenna location in the right rear quarter pannel. 2.} It was only 11.99 at autozone. Hope this helps all looking to upgrade from the bose system our cars came with. Allan
> 
> From: "Jeremy Ward" <jward at mti-interactive.com>
> Date: 2004/08/11 Wed AM 11:19:13 EDT
> To: "William Gutierrez" <lundabo at msn.com>,  <CoultL at aol.com>, 
> 	<v8 at audifans.com>
> Subject: RE: [V8] Bose full swap out
> 
> 1.7ohms was a number that someone told me once...  I am running 4ohm
> 6x9s in the back, a 50Wx4 MP3/CD head unit and Bose stock speakers (sans
> amplifiers) in the baffles in the doors.  Works just fine, but I have it
> faded to the back a bit...
> 
> One of these days, I am going to upgrade to 4" separates in the doors,
> and a tweeters under the speaker grills in the dash locations.
> 
> Bill,
> 
> Your poor reception *may* be due to the rear antenna-amplifier not
> receiving +12v...  Did you hook up your 'antenna out' lead from the new
> radio to the wire (found at the factory radio plug) that feeds this
> booster?  I unfortunately do not know what color that wire is...
> 
> HTH,
> 
> - Jeremy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: v8-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf
> Of William Gutierrez
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 8:08 AM
> To: CoultL at aol.com; v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [V8] Bose full swap out
> 
> 
> My recollection is that they are 1 ohm speakers.  That, if I recall, is
> the 
> real difficulty of upgrading the system--few amps can power the stock 
> speakers.  When I upgraded, I replaced everything.   Sounds good, but I 
> still can't get the reception I had with the stock deck.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Bill Gutierrez
> 1990 V8 5spd
> 
> >From: CoultL at aol.com
> >To: v8 at audifans.com
> >Subject: Re: [V8] Bose full swap out
> >Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:41:25 -0400
> >
> >Does anyone remember the impedance of the factory speakers?  I measured
> and 
> >I know it was not 4 Ohms.  I am sure your Alpine can deal with it but
> that 
> >is the reason I replaced my factory speakers.  I would guess it would
> be 
> >fine if the resistance is 2 Ohms or greater.
> >
> >-Justin Lewis
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