Ok... I wanted to remove my front factory amp,
use my new headunit and factory rear amps. I searched alllll
over the internet and couldn't find much concerning what I was
wanting to do. I did find wiring diagrams for the system and a
few plug pinouts, but not anything in the direction I was
trying to go.
So... With the wiring diagrams and the pinouts
I did find, I first wired my headunit to the factory harness
in which allows the new headunit to power the tweeters. This
is easy.
What I wasn't able to find was how to still
use the rear amps with my aftermarket headunit. Since normally
the speaker signals are sent through the front amp and then to
the two rear amps, I had to work around this.
What I did was take an RCA cable (two pair)
and plugged it into the RCA PreOuts of my headunit. Front
Left/Right. The RCA cable was the cut on the other end,
exposing all for wires, 2 shields, 2 signal wires. I wired one
pair to each of the low level signal wires heading to the rear
amps. Thus my signal was all wired in.
Now, the next part is to turn on the rear amps
when you turn your radio on. Normally, this is also done
through the front amp (there is a remote turn on lead/wire
from the factory head unit that turns the front amp on, and
then it sends the same signal to the rear amps, turning them
on), but since I wasn't using the front amp, I had to work
around this also. I used the lead/wire from my headunit that
usually would turn on the front amp and created a splice
between the two wires that fed the "turn on signal" to the two
rear amps and connected that with my lead from the
headunit.
I now have a fully functioning system, minus
the factory front amp. Which also gives me a little more room
in that center console since I really needed it for the cables
coming from the Mini-ITX computer in the rear, with
Audio/Video/Data Cables...
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Here is a Full Diagram of what I worked out:
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