Hi folks,
I know this is an old thread but I don't want someone to read this erroneous info and wreck their system. I'm not sure why nobody else realized this...
Here are the specs for that Eclipse amp, it's the same as the 36401...40x4 watts at 4 ohm, 60x4 at 2 ohm.. If you bridged it you could drive 2 Ohms at 120 Watts max 2 channels.
I never even heard of an 8 ohm car audio system. 8 Ohms is mostly reserved for home stereo equipment.
Chances are they are 2 Ohm coils so hooking them in series would yield a 4 Ohm speaker. If you wire the 2 coils in parallel you end up with a one ohm speaker then you could wire the duals in series for a 2 ohm load. That is if you want to run a mono amp at 2 Ohm. 9 out of 10 times you would want to run the right channel output to one coil and the left channel output to the other coil on each speaker so both speakers would reproduce the bass from both channels simultaneously. If you connect the voice coils up in series on all 4 coils in series for 8 Ohms like suggested I don't know what one would expect.? Probably wouldn't get much sound from the 4 coils in series for 8 ohms. That may even blow your outputs from to low of a load if you hammered on it trying to get them to bump. Having the wrong impedence is almost as bad as a dead short or free wheeling open loads allowing the outputs to run away as they say. Most amps are protected against that these days though...
Good luck with your 8 Ohm car audio installations. Actually I do remeber a mobile radio that used an 8 ohm speaker but it was a Realistic CB radio from Radio Shack from the late 80's, not a car stereo...
Just a thought....
