Sctmcly0

So I am looking to put a sub and amp in my 98 gc 5.9 with infinity gold sound system. Is there any way to keep the factory head unit? I have looked it up and haven't found and a straight answer. Yet. Where would I hook in the RCAs I guess is the real question

KF2M

I don't believe that the factory system has RCA outputs. What I did with my 02WJ is I got my hands on a Bazooka Tube with the built-in amp, and replaced all the stock speakers(they were shot). Very happy with it, fills the low-end nicely.

xj_maniac_newb

You can buy kits to run the subs and amp on your stock headunit, but its pretty pointless. If you're fine with all your door speakers blowing, having little control of your bass, and are fine with sub- par accuracy then i guess its not a bad idea. They do make kits that will give you the control and semi good bass, however for the price and time you'll invest into it you'd be better off just getting an aftermarket head unit, which can honestly be had for very little these days. Even a $50 sony head unit from walmart will give you not only better sounding bass, but also allow your door speakers to sound better as well.

Sctmcly0

I like the look of the factory headunit, so I would like to keep it. I'm not trying to run the other speakers off the amp though, just the sub. So it shouldn't blow the other speakers. I have saw where people have done it before, I just don't understand where they got their audio out to feed the sub. Splice the RCAs and tie into one of the speakers? I understand that it would be less complicated and easier to put in an aftermarket stereo but i would prefer to keep the original
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Rjmils

I dont remember what they are called u can pick them up from walmart in the car audio section. Its a little blue box has two wires coming out and the rca jacks on the other side. You splice into your existing speaker wire somewhere and plug your rcas into the box. At the most its 15 bucks

gs69350

Your jeep has a factory amp under the rear left seat. If you can get a wiring diagram and run some more power to the area you can use all factory wiring. Most amps have a high input so you could tap into your factory rear speaker inputs to the factory amp to provide the signal for your new amp. Let me know if you need clarification, ill respond from my pc instead of my phone.

Sctmcly0

Okay, now someone is on the same page as me. If you cold please give me more info. I can find the wiring diagram if you could just give me a push into the right direction. Thanks in advance

gs69350

Your head unit puts out amplified signals, you can actually run your speakers without the amp! I've got 1 zj running that way now. Anyways, find the rear channel inputs to the factory amp and use some wire taps to run wires to your new amp. These will go into the high input of your amp, not the low/RCA inputs. You will fry your amp if you run these to the low inputs. Then use a seat bolt or other bolt under the seat that goes into the body as your ground for new amp and run a FUSED larger gage wire from battery to your new amp. You will also need to find a wire that goes to factory amp that signals it to turn on and off, run that to appropriate terminal on New amp. Then stick your subs in back and run speaker wires. You get to keep all your factory speakers, head unit, and have some badass bass.

I have a 5.9 limited also with the extra sound bar in the cargo area. Unfortunately almost all my speakers were blown by previous owner so mine has no bass right now. :-(

xj_maniac_newb

Its not adding the stock speakers into the amp that i was referring to blowing them. Time and time again i see people do this, and the only real way to control the amount of bass you have other than getting in the back and turning the amp volume from there. Speakers are blew when you want to beat the block down or listen to your bass loudly and your only quick way is to turn the bass through the head unit. But if you dont plan on doing that i guess you'll be fine.

FAlfani81

Google Stinger SGN13

What you're gonna want to do with that is tap into your rear speakers and split off to this unit. You can then run RCAs off those channels

Sctmcly0

Thanks for all the help guys. Can't wait to finally have some serious sound in the jeep

KF2M

Running a Bazooka 8" 100W tube in my GC. More than enough boom. Tapped into the inputs of the infinity amp.

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