How much wire do I need to order?

[phatcat600 10+ year member]

Im about to order my first wave of stuff for my first aftermarket stereo ever. I figure I may as wel get all the wire out of the way right off the bat...but I have no idea how much I will need at all.

How much would you recommend and what guages?

-redoing the big 3 in prolly 1/0 guage

-1200 watt orion amp in trunk

-400 or so watt speaker amp (dunno where to put it, what would you recommend? trunk?)

-2 tweets, 2 mids, 2 subs

in a 99 grand prix gt

I know im gonna get *****ed at for asking this and people are going to tell me to search, but I already tried.

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[flakko 5,000+ posts]

kay get at least one run of 0 gauge from batt to distro (if youre goin that route)

(2) Fuse holder (w/fuse) 1 for the big 3 and 1 for the batt to distro

fused distro bock (w/ fuse)

normal distro block

1-2 ft xtra 0 gauge for the ground

get a crap load of speaker wire 16 gauge will be fine.

thats all i can think of rite now, im tired

edit: 4 gauge from both amps to distro, and 4 gauge from both amps to fused distro.

 

[phatcat600 10+ year member]

anybody else have a final checklist for me?

 

[MrSector9 10+ year member]

Ghetto setup

3 50 foot 3 wire extension cords

1 Box Cutter style knife

Flakkos is pretty much what you need, On the other question I have my speaker amp under my seats, one for each seat //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif keeps my bum warm when i crank it up.

 

[phatcat600 10+ year member]

anyone wanna actually help?

i need to know everything i will need.