so just having the new wire made the subs a lot louder; i am not sure why, id guess because the amp can draw more power? i was able to turn the gain up higher than ever before they started bottoming out.
Wow, I wouldn't think you'd see THAT much of a difference unless you were going from very small and low quality/large strand wire to correctly sized quality/small starnd wire. Smaller strands are better because electricity travels along the outer surface of wire, not through the middle. So, many small strands will carry more electricity than fewer, larger diameter strands because there's more outer surface area for the juice to travel across.
i am having to drill holes in the doors to run the speaker wire in.
Oh god, what a pain in the ass that was for me. The OEM boot is basically impossible to run wire through, speaker wire anyway, unless you want to take the whole damn door off and get right in there. I decided to drill my own holes too. So I'm drilling, and when the bit finally caught and went through the metal, the bit was going so fast I couldn't take my finger off the trigger in time to stop it and it hit my outer door panel on the inside. You can see the reverse dimple on the outside. I did it to both doors, even when I was trying to be careful the second time it happened again. So be careful of that when your drilling.
. also ran 12 gauge speaker wire to the crossovers and ran the new kicker rca's
