OEM radio- no sound

[dnsherrill]

i ran an aftermarket Alpine head unit for a long time with the factory amp. worked just fine. until the amp died anyway.

then splice the car's amp connections to fit the new amp harness

Sounds like the factory amp is the achilles heel here..non premium sound stock system doesn't have one correct? Maybe that's why I don't have any problems with the stock system?

yep, I have two 96's....the factory head unit from the white car plays good in the brown car; the aftermarket h/u from the brown car produces no sound plugged in the white car
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I just need the wiring scheme so I can make the new feed connection for the new power amp, I guess it's in my EVTM, duh

 

[chris2523]

then splice the car's amp connections to fit the new amp harness

nope. use the headunits preamped outputs to run a 40 watt 4 channel amp. and have sound better than factory. i paid like 40 bucks.

 

[dnsherrill]

.....and pull new 8 or 4 gauge wire from dash to trunk? ignore existing h/u to amp wires?

 

[chris2523]

i ran 4 gauge from the front battery to the rear battery and 2 amps. then ran 3 sets of RCA cable pairs for the front, back, and sub channels. then ran the wires back forward for the 4 interior speakers and wired the subs.

its extra work, but it works the best and can scale easily to whatever sound performance level you want in the future.

if this is too much, just do the interior speakers, the head unit, and wires to the interior speakers. that's an\ afternoon of work and it will work just fine.

 

[mark0101]

Actually the 98-02 town cars sound fairly good for a stock system, but the mark is far from premium, took them a few years to figure out what they were doing.

The TC system rocks!!! I love the way it sounds. Mark VIII on the other hand blows.

 

[dnsherrill]

my amp part number is F5LF-18C807-AA...maybe a TC 18C808 is compatible, they're all over the place used