? about stock amp.......

[Tony91Sport]

Ok, this is the deal. I just put a sony cd player in my moms car, and i got some advice from the local stereo place to bypass my stock amp, so i wouldnt blow it. Well awhile ago i put a sony cd player in my 91 sport. And it gets pretty loud, but it tends to distort. So i got to thinking, i wonder if my stereo would sound better if i bypassed my stock amp. So i got my moms bypass harness, and after damn near getting my arm chopped off by the interior panel, i put it on. I thought it would sound real good, but i had to turn the thing damn near all the way up just to hear it. Unplugged it, and it worked fine. Now im wondering, did the stero kick down the power because i have the amp turn on/off plugged in, would this be why? I just thought if this, and thought id ask before i go and lose my arm battling my interior trim panel. Can anyone help?

Tony 91 Sport

 

[HellFire92XLT]

I've never seen a "bypass harness".... What I have seen is an adaptor for the ford factory amplifier for use with aftermarket decks. I havent looked into it much since I run Kenwood Excelon and Alpine V12 amplifiers anyways, but there's some type of impedance difference with the ford amp, which is because it basically sucks. If you really want to bypass it, theres a couple of people who have put up wiring diagrams and what you're going to have to do is remove the rear passenger side trim panel in the cargo area and wire it there. Good luck, let me know how it turns out.
Andrew

 

[explorer93xlt]

well i think i finaly blew my stock amp in my 93 i had it hooked up to a pionner 45X4 head unit , what happend was the rear right speaker just stoped working?? what i wound up doing was re-wireing all the speakers from the head unit and just cut into the wires before they go into the door this way it by-passes the amp and makes alot less wire for it to travel to it goes from the radio right to the speakers, it by passes the intire ford radio system the only wires in the harness in use are the power and ground, but what i really wanted to do was go to a junk yard and get a amp from a expidition , would this work in a 93 explorer???

 

[Kris Guilbeaux]

It is going to be louder with the factory amp. I did not leave it connected if you run aftermarket speakers I would not leave it hooked up. But if you are running the factory speakers stick with out the bypass harness. The bypass harness is just teh way to get rid of the factory crap altogether.



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[JTang]

If you got an aftermarket amp, and hooked it up to the RCA's in the back, you would get a volume output in-between the two scenarios you experienced. This is because there is absolutely NO WAY that a tiny head unit with tiny components can really put out as much power as a dedicated amp. So, when you powered the speakers with just the head unit, it was really low. On the other end, when you were getting all that crappy distortion, it was because you were sending a sound signal way to powerful for the stock amp, so the stock amp did what it could but after the signal gets too strong, it all comes out as distortion. The absolute best thing to do would be just to get an aftermarket amp. Even a small 15x4 RMS aftermarket amp will sound way better than anything on a head unit that claims 45x4 watts.