1991 Ford Taurus SHO Heeeelllp!

[Jgfosh 10+ year member]

Hi,

I have a 1991 Ford Taurus Sho and I am trying to replace the broken factory radio with a CD Player. It has a factory amplifier that I have to bypass, located in the trunk, and I'm lost as to what to do.

I have replaced all four speakers, and want to run new wire from the door speakers and rear speakers to a new amp in my trunk, and wire the amp to my cd player, but I'm not sure how to go about doing so, especially with having to bypass the factory amplifier.

Any ideas?

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[Jgfosh 10+ year member]

Okay, I think I got it figured out. I'm going to install a new amp in my trunk, run the ground to a screw underneath my backseats, run the power through the carpet to the battery under the hood, and run the remote wire and the RCA's under the center console into the cd player. From there, I'm going to run 16 ga wire from the door speakers, through the runners, and into the trunk. Then I'm going to run the 16 ga wire from the rear speakers straight down into the trunk. After that I'm going to hook the speaker wires up to the amp and all should work..... Right? or do I need to do anything else with the leftover wires in the back of my cd player, since I just hooked the speakers up straight to the amp?

 

[Jgfosh 10+ year member]

Okay, I think I got it figured out. I'm going to install a new amp in my trunk, run the ground to a screw underneath my backseats, run the power through the carpet to the battery under the hood, and run the remote wire and the RCA's under the center console into the cd player. From there, I'm going to run 16 ga wire from the door speakers, through the runners, and into the trunk. Then I'm going to run the 16 ga wire from the rear speakers straight down into the trunk. After that I'm going to hook the speaker wires up to the amp and all should work..... Right? or do I need to do anything else with the leftover wires in the back of my cd player, since I just hooked the speakers up straight to the amp?

 

[Jgfosh 10+ year member]

Okay, I think I got it figured out. I'm going to install a new amp in my trunk, run the ground to a screw underneath my backseats, run the power through the carpet to the battery under the hood, and run the remote wire and the RCA's under the center console into the cd player. From there, I'm going to run 16 ga wire from the door speakers, through the runners, and into the trunk. Then I'm going to run the 16 ga wire from the rear speakers straight down into the trunk. After that I'm going to hook the speaker wires up to the amp and all should work..... Right? or do I need to do anything else with the leftover wires in the back of my cd player, since I just hooked the speakers up straight to the amp?

 

[Jgfosh 10+ year member]

Okay, I think I got it figured out. I'm going to install a new amp in my trunk, run the ground to a screw underneath my backseats, run the power through the carpet to the battery under the hood, and run the remote wire and the RCA's under the center console into the cd player. From there, I'm going to run 16 ga wire from the door speakers, through the runners, and into the trunk. Then I'm going to run the 16 ga wire from the rear speakers straight down into the trunk. After that I'm going to hook the speaker wires up to the amp and all should work..... Right? or do I need to do anything else with the leftover wires in the back of my cd player, since I just hooked the speakers up straight to the amp?

 

[Jgfosh 10+ year member]

Okay, I think I got it figured out. I'm going to install a new amp in my trunk, run the ground to a screw underneath my backseats, run the power through the carpet to the battery under the hood, and run the remote wire and the RCA's under the center console into the cd player. From there, I'm going to run 16 ga wire from the door speakers, through the runners, and into the trunk. Then I'm going to run the 16 ga wire from the rear speakers straight down into the trunk. After that I'm going to hook the speaker wires up to the amp and all should work..... Right? or do I need to do anything else with the leftover wires in the back of my cd player, since I just hooked the speakers up straight to the amp?

 

[Jgfosh 10+ year member]

Okay, I think I got it figured out. I'm going to install a new amp in my trunk, run the ground to a screw underneath my backseats, run the power through the carpet to the battery under the hood, and run the remote wire and the RCA's under the center console into the cd player. From there, I'm going to run 16 ga wire from the door speakers, through the runners, and into the trunk. Then I'm going to run the 16 ga wire from the rear speakers straight down into the trunk. After that I'm going to hook the speaker wires up to the amp and all should work..... Right? or do I need to do anything else with the leftover wires in the back of my cd player, since I just hooked the speakers up straight to the amp?

 

[Jgfosh 10+ year member]

Wow, my apologies for all the posts. My computer freaked out on me.

 

[Jgfosh 10+ year member]

Do I need a wiring harness if I wired all my speakers to the amp, and have the RCA cables hooked up to from the HU to the Amp?

 

[05trailblazer 10+ year member]

what have u done so far

 

[Jgfosh 10+ year member]

Absolutely nothing. I'm still waiting for my parts to come in the mail. I've got a 1000W Amp, 4 new speakers, all the cables I need, and probably some I don't need. I just don't really know how to hook it up, since I'm bypassing the factory amp, and trying to use the old wires as little as possible.

 

[Jgfosh 10+ year member]

Okay, I've been looking for a hole to snake the power cable through from the battery to the amp, but I'm not sure what to look for. And if I do find one, how do i find out where it comes through so I can pull it out from under the dash?

 

[disturbed471985 5,000+ posts]

try to find where the factory wires are running into the firewall and go in from there. Then pull up the front carpet and see where the factory wires come from and you will see ur new power wire.

 

[Jgfosh 10+ year member]

Okay, so, I think I've found an unused grommet. It looks like a round piece of rubber, right? So I just poke a hole through that and run the wire through to the other side? Will the wire go straight through to the otherside, or will there be a chance that it will get lost?

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sorta looks like that?

 

[disturbed471985 5,000+ posts]

Should wrk only one way to find out. As far as getting lost I mean if you cant seem to find where the wire is coming into your car then just pull the wire out and start again.. Pull up carpet in front seats a lil bit so you can see your firewall and see where there are grommet's then go under hood and see if there is one thats inline or close to being inline with the one you found inside your car.