But you gotta have tiny fingers, and be a whiz with a soldering iron to use them. you need short,short,short leads on them. I've made a few sets in my day, and its not easy with construction worker gorilla mitts...

heehee Yeah, a lot of times it's easier just to buy cables with the ends molded on. Having someone hold things in place while you solder is a BIG help.

No one told me I had to solder anything. I'm buying new cables lol. Any recommendations for RCA cables?


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I dont really see the need for new cables or soldering anything as of yet. Hell, your power and ground wires can be tested before hand and even a bad set of RCA wires wont damage anything. You might be doing extra labor and spending money where you dont need to unless you just want all new wires that you installed for your own sense of security.

Except possibly your head units outputs, and your amplifiers inputs. If your rcas are questionable, get out your DMM and test continuity. If you replace an end on an rca cable, test continuity before putting into service. Bad means Bad for a reason.
Reading the prior posts, the OP's rca cables appeared to have been cut.
his choices are to repair or replace. there is no other option here.

I don't understand how a bad input cable is going to hurt anything. I've made some real good antennas but never any harm done.

Always a good idea to test DIY or unknown cables/wires before installing/using. :tup:

Given their low-voltage nature, I tend to agree, but you wouldn't believe some of the things I've seen over the years, so I choose to consider all possibilities, and whether I would risk my sensitive electronics over a $15 set of rca cables....Much less recommend to someone else something that I see as questionable.

A different forum I go to suggested that I get this KnuKonceptz 4GA kit.

Looks like it doesn't come with a remote turn on, where can I buy that? Car Toys or something?

I ended up picking up 2 12s and a JBL amp from Craigs for $200. Everything looks pretty new and I tested them out and they're great. However, I think I'm going to just go with 1 12 and sell the other. I'm trying to figure out what sub box I should go with now as well. Can't seem to find good ported ones so I might have to try making one myself..

Knu makes a decent amp kit. Odd that it doesn't come with a remote lead. You don't have to get that anyplace special, its just an 18ga stranded wire. What brand are the 12's? trust me, one is plenty for the Z.
Building a ported box, if its something you've never done before can be tricky. Be sure to follow the specs for it to the letter. dimensions on a ported box must be pretty accurate. Good luck with it, and get some pics up when its finished.........

They're JL Audio. I believe they're JL W4's, and the amp is a JBL GT0601.1. Here's an album: imgur: the simple image sharer

I picked them both up for $200. They seem pretty new, and the subs feel pretty good. They sound great to me.

The only remote lead wire I can find online is like 50ft and it's like $10, I don't really need that much. I'll probably stop by car toys or radio shack.

Also, I was talking to an audio shop and they said to build a ported box, it'd have to be pretty big. So I'm going to have them build me a sealed box.

Edit: Another thing, the Knu kit says it comes with an 80A fuse, is that sufficient for the amp I have? I'm not really sure about this stuff, but the amp has two fuses. Should that be a concern?

Ya, 80 amp fuse is fine.

It's just an on/off signal line and doesn't require anything special for the wire. It doesn't carry any current to speak of, so it can be very small gauge.