alanjlambert1472
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Apr 2010
New Jersey
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Anyone familiar with how difficult it is to put an aftermarket CD player into the Premium Sound setup? If I can see correctly, the system is amplified from the factory.
I have my old head unit and a sub that I'd like to install.. just curious how to either incorporate or get around that amp (normally I am used to higher-output systems that are amplified at the head unit and not peripherally)
1986 Ford Thunderbird Turbo coupe
all stock, hacksaw muffler delete, 124k miles.
1985 Ford Thunderbird Elan 5.0, 172k miles, shift kit, true duals, stock otherwise. **SOLD**
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DirtyBird88
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Feb 2010
Puyallup WA
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I knocked it out on my 88 and it was fairly simple.
Just a college kid trying for the 12 sec daily driver.
1988 TC Ported big valve head, bo 1.5 cam, K&N , full 3in w/ dynomax bullet , Ihi running 16 psi ,3.73's stinger/greddy front mount and turbo xs rfl bov Kirban afpr , 255 Walbro and AEM wide band ( Soon to be installed ,Precision 50 trim t3t4, 55lb injectors , spec stg 3, tuner and mass air conv.)
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Jeff K
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Apr 2001
Milwaukee, WI
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Put in your old head unit (aftermarket, I assume) and sub and be done with it. The stock "amplifier", and I use that word loosely, is something like a whopping 20 W per channel... worse than a modern bottom end head unit, and its THD is terrible by modern standards.
Jeff Korn
88 Turbo Coupe: Intake and exhaust mods, T3 turbo at 24 psi, forced air IC, water injection, BPV, Ranger cam, subframes, etc., etc.
86 Tbird 5.0 (original owner): intake, exhaust, valvetrain mods, 100 HP N2O, ignition, gears, suspension, etc., etc.
11 Crown Vic Interceptor
14 Toyota Camry (wifes car)
95 Taurus GL Vulcan winter beater
67 Honda 450 Super Sport - completely customized
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teal95
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Dec 2002
Grass Lake, MI
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It should be really easy. Pull out the stock head unit and look behind it off to the right side. There should be another gray connector with 8 wires in it. It might be fastened to another harness back there. This goes straight to the speakers. Drop the panel behind the rear seat and unplug all the wiring from the stock amp. Make up your adapter harness and plug it in. Just make sure to plug it in to the correct speaker harness since you now have 2.
steve
'83 & '84 GT turbo EEC-Tuner
'85.5 & '86 SVO twEECer
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