Save your money This stereo rocks!!!

[OregonSpeedFreak]

Hey I'm not an expert ...but i did sleep at a holiday inn last night...
My aquaintance told me the signal from the stock Toyota stereo is great.

So I left my stock deck in the car and just bumped the signal.

In the rear we modified the stock sub woofer box giving it more air space and installed a single 8" Kicker powered by its own hidden 500 watt Sony amp
then we installed 2- 6" Momo's in the midship and some 3" polka tweets up front.. these four speakers are powered by a top o the line Kicker 4 channel 500 watt amp.Disconnect your cardboard wafers in the ceiling too they suck
..obviously all the stock speakers are garbage.

Both amps are very secure and hidden in the huge area hidden behind the plastic near where the passengers head is.

The end result is An absolutely superb sounding sysytem that looks completely stock.

i was ready to drop $700.00 on a deck but i'm glad i didnt , now for $900.00 bucks in momo's and amps this system Rocks!!!

Install pics Below in newer post

[Chatsworth 818 FJ]

Pictures? Details how you modded the stock sub box. What exact speaker did you use in it?

[AceTechno]

Never ever heard someone use the term "Bumped the signal" What does that mean? You mean you used a FM booster to amplifi the FM signal reception. Thanks.

[OregonSpeedFreak]

Chatsworth 818 FJ previously said:

Pictures? Details how you modded the stock sub box. What exact speaker did you use in it?

I'll get you some pics soon, it at the body shop getting door handles painted black..ps like your bushwackers mine are white on black.
the speaker is a 10" (stock is 8") polka audio MOMO

[OregonSpeedFreak]

AceTechno previously said:

Never ever heard someone use the term "Bumped the signal" What does that mean? You mean you used a FM booster to amplifi the FM signal reception. Thanks.

in this case it means i ran 2 huge #4 power wires back to 2 seperate amps ..taking the stock stereo's digital signal and BUMPing it up.
it sounds awesome.

[AceTechno]

OregonSpeedFreak previously said:

in this case it means i ran 2 huge #4 power wires back to 2 seperate amps ..taking the stock stereo's digital signal and BUMPing it up.
it sounds awesome.

Umm, cool! BTW the stock stereo does not offer a digital out. Even if it did Kicker amps and Sony amps only support Hi/Low level Analog inputs. I'm sure it sounds great. You should read my Profile.

[OregonSpeedFreak]

AceTechno previously said:

Umm, cool! BTW the stock stereo does not offer a digital out. Even if it did Kicker amps and Sony amps only support Hi/Low level Analog inputs. I'm sure it sounds great. You should read my Profile.

My bad ... the guy at holiday inn said it was... and i did start my thread with a disclaimer stating i dont know chit from chinola . i assumed digital disc meant digital sound...
thanks for the correction
paul

[Rump]

What I hate about the stock unit is there is only a bass adjustment and not a sub adjustment. It sure would be nice to adjust only the sub to better fit the genre of music I'm listening to at that time.

I'll be interested to read and see pics of your upgrade.

[Wheeler]

Oregon,
how did you access the area where you hid the amps? Can you elaborate on how those panels are removed?

Thanks,

[ajstoy]

would love to see pics of set up..esp the location of amps..not to many"safe" places for them..cant wait..