Wheres a good place to go for wireing?

[cwzilly 10+ year member]

-sup; I'm upgrading my audio system in my car and just want your opinion on a place to go for car audio wireing. What i'm looking for are power, ground, and turn-on-lead wireing. Also looking for gold plated connectors (none of that cheap plastic stuff that i could find at the auto parts store or home remodeling centers).

I have a 96amp alternatore, and will mount my 300 watt RMS amplifier in the trunk that will power a sub. Thats the only amp i will have in my car since my front speackers are 3.5" kappas and my high power reciever will power them just fine. My point is that i believe 4 gauge power/ground wires are the way to go, but would 8 gauge do just fine?

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[mgaidica 10+ year member]

knukonceptz.com they make some great stuff, keeping budget in mind too.. otherwise like sounddomain.com, crutchfield.com, etc...

 

[nosaj070 10+ year member]

Walmart if you dont mind buying a kit, its still cheap as hell.

 

[nosaj070 10+ year member]

for a buck a foot for 4 guage it really doesn't make sense not to buy the kit for 25, i dunno just my thoughts

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1863080&cat=96490&type=1&dept=3944&path=0%3A3944%3A3947%3A96490

 

[sleepr 10+ year member]

I second KnuKonceptz. Great product, great price, fast shipping. Just a great place to deal with.

 

[Grimolfr 10+ year member]

http://www.knuconceptz.com/

or

http://www.partsexpress.com/

Both have good per-foot pricing. Knuconceptz has interesting colors and translucent insulation, etc.

Parts Express has your basic black and red solid-color insulated wire in almost any gauge imaginable from 18 gauge to 1/0 gauge.

I have some Knuconceptz stuff for my installation, but I got my wire from Parts Express simply because I wanted the basic red/black insulation.

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

8 would be plenty, but if you ever decided to upgrade you wouldn't have much room. I 2nd the wal-mart suggestion. Perfectly good kits as cheap as the on-line stores.

 

[80_Cutlass_mn 10+ year member]

Hey Scosche EFX Wiring kits from wal-mart rule. I dont think you can beat them for the price, especially the 4 guage kit. 26 bux for 2-17ft rca cables, 1-17 ft 18 ga. remote wire, 17 ft of 4 guage red translucent inslulation power wire, 6 ft of 8 guage red power wire, 6 ft of 8 gauge ground wire, 1 distrobution block 1 4 ga in, 2 8 ga. out, 1 maxi-fuse fuseholder with clear 80 amp maxi-fuse. All connections gold plated except rca's. All necessary screws and stuff. Oh yea forgot the 8 ft of black wire loom with zipties.

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Hey Scosche EFX Wiring kits from wal-mart rule. I dont think you can beat them for the price, especially the 4 guage kit. 26 bux for 2-17ft rca cables, 1-17 ft 18 ga. remote wire, 17 ft of 4 guage red translucent inslulation power wire, 6 ft of 8 guage red power wire, 6 ft of 8 gauge ground wire, 1 distrobution block 1 4 ga in, 2 8 ga. out, 1 maxi-fuse fuseholder with clear 80 amp maxi-fuse. All connections gold plated except rca's. All necessary screws and stuff. Oh yea forgot the 8 ft of black wire loom with zipties.

there's my obvious answer! that's where i got my first wiring kit...till i need 1/0 then i got welding cable for $.99 a foot. Schosche EFX at walmart is the way to go. peace

NG