Amplifier might be a dud?

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

Yeah, the bike is a toy. A really really fun toy! But, nothing that can't easily be left in dozens of pieces all over the garage.
I just hope I don't have any bolts leftover once it's all put together.

Thankfully it's a fuel injected motorcycle (well, they all are now). That significantly reduces the complication of removing the fuel tank; which gives me room to run wires back to the battery and ground.

I have done a LOT of soldering over the last few days. Splicing an amp in between an OEM head unit and some aftermarket speakers. Phew!

Why not remove the amp and have the new one takes its place and spot? Is it a tight space, which I would imagine it is. Then just run some RCA's and don't have to deal with high level inputs.

 

[Romans5.8 10+ year member]

Why not remove the amp and have the new one takes its place and spot? Is it a tight space, which I would imagine it is. Then just run some RCA's and don't have to deal with high level inputs.

Huh? I'm not following. I'm waiting for the new amp to get here, then I'll install it right where the dud was. I don't get what you're asking? All of the connections are done (minus the one I cut apart to diagnose), so it's just a simple swap-and-connect. I was referring to the work it took to get me to THIS point, the bike is still taken apart.

No RCA's because there's no such output on the factory stereo. The high level input is out of necessity; I want to preserve the OEM stereo. The alternative is to get one of those high level to RCA "boxes", but it's already a tight space and that would just be duplicating functionality the amp already has.

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

n/m you answered my question //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

And didn't know if you had a stock radio or aftermarket one.

 

[Romans5.8 10+ year member]

Yeah, Stock.

There are brackets available for an aftermarket head unit. But I really don't want to part with the OEM one. It just looks sooo good and really ties together the muscle car styling of the dash on this bike.