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<blockquote data-quote="lubetek" data-source="post: 1823633" data-attributes="member: 565332"><p>Wow today I was driving to the beach and after about 20 minutes my music cut out completely. As soon as it happened I knew one of two things happened. Blew a fuse, or over heated amps.</p><p></p><p>Pull over and all fuses checked out. both amps were BLAZING hot. let them cool down and had no problem turning them on and bumping. My directed 1500D is running at 1ohm and to be honest it usually runs pretty cool but my ORION 8004 runs WAY hot, (my Infinity speakers are 2 ohms from the factory so my sub has to work harder. It is stable at 2 ohms but man does it heat up.) It always has and I knew after building this system that it might cause a problem. I figure the Orion puts off so much heat in my trunk that the Directed amp gets even hotter and my 15" RL-p puts off some heat too.</p><p></p><p>Now my trunk is BXT'ed like a mofo and the rear deck has like two layers of Dynamat Extreme. I even have dynamat extreme between my rear tail lights and the body of the car.</p><p></p><p>I need a cooling solution asap. Any ideas welcome.</p><p></p><p>One thought I have is my rear deck. There is a hole about 5" in diameter in the metal that I'm thinking could be used as an intake to the trunk. I could cut a hole in the rear deck cover over the existing hole in the metal and install a low power large diameter fan to take air from the cabin and bring it into the trunk. My only problem would be how to exhaust the air to the outside. Maybe some sort of exhaust hole with an exhaust fan under the car? I have a huge trunk. I think I could make two exhaust fans on either side of the trunk, (to exhaust directly under the car.)</p><p></p><p>any other ideas??</p><p></p><p>Now that the weather is hitting the 100+ degree marker I'm gonna need some cooling or else my system will be in the off position lol can't have that now.</p><p></p><p>Oh my car is a 1994 Mercury Grand Marquis LS</p><p></p><p><img src="http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/7357/project13ek.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>rear deck and hole that I'm thinking I could install a fan on:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/3885/project116oy.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>and the area of the trunk I think I could install exhaust fans in. that area on both sides of the trunk has an opening that drops down bellow the trunk floor. Put a fan down there with a port tube that would come up and bend out towards the inside trunk compartment?</p><p></p><p><img src="http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/6760/project148cf.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lubetek, post: 1823633, member: 565332"] Wow today I was driving to the beach and after about 20 minutes my music cut out completely. As soon as it happened I knew one of two things happened. Blew a fuse, or over heated amps. Pull over and all fuses checked out. both amps were BLAZING hot. let them cool down and had no problem turning them on and bumping. My directed 1500D is running at 1ohm and to be honest it usually runs pretty cool but my ORION 8004 runs WAY hot, (my Infinity speakers are 2 ohms from the factory so my sub has to work harder. It is stable at 2 ohms but man does it heat up.) It always has and I knew after building this system that it might cause a problem. I figure the Orion puts off so much heat in my trunk that the Directed amp gets even hotter and my 15" RL-p puts off some heat too. Now my trunk is BXT'ed like a mofo and the rear deck has like two layers of Dynamat Extreme. I even have dynamat extreme between my rear tail lights and the body of the car. I need a cooling solution asap. Any ideas welcome. One thought I have is my rear deck. There is a hole about 5" in diameter in the metal that I'm thinking could be used as an intake to the trunk. I could cut a hole in the rear deck cover over the existing hole in the metal and install a low power large diameter fan to take air from the cabin and bring it into the trunk. My only problem would be how to exhaust the air to the outside. Maybe some sort of exhaust hole with an exhaust fan under the car? I have a huge trunk. I think I could make two exhaust fans on either side of the trunk, (to exhaust directly under the car.) any other ideas?? Now that the weather is hitting the 100+ degree marker I'm gonna need some cooling or else my system will be in the off position lol can't have that now. Oh my car is a 1994 Mercury Grand Marquis LS [IMG]http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/7357/project13ek.jpg[/IMG] rear deck and hole that I'm thinking I could install a fan on: [IMG]http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/3885/project116oy.jpg[/IMG] and the area of the trunk I think I could install exhaust fans in. that area on both sides of the trunk has an opening that drops down bellow the trunk floor. Put a fan down there with a port tube that would come up and bend out towards the inside trunk compartment? [IMG]http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/6760/project148cf.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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