8th Generation Honda Civic Forum - View Single Post - D.I.Y. the long-awaited amp integration harness by Whiterice!

gr3yEX1 · 07-22-2008, 04:48 PM

No I am actually running my speakers through the "Amp Integration" method instead of bypass. I'm gonna go ahead and return my amp bypass harness that I bought from Crutchfield soon. It works really well integrating into the factory amp. I get nothing but clear loud sound! It shouldn't be a problem your not going to blow up your factory amp. If anything it will take a very long time before anything happens to your factory amp. By that time your car will be old and probably be time to trade or sell your car LOL. On my aftermarket radio that I installed I'm running front outputs using RCA's for the front speakers and the rear outputs is for my 2 12's in the back. Unfortunately the my Pioneer DVH-4000 had only 2 outputs front and rear so there's no way I could run both subs and rear speakers to the back. You could use a splitter, but I tried that and figured it would be a bad idea since I enabled subwoofer on the settings you could literally blow your rear speakers in no time!

So what I did was this setup: FRONT outputs - FRONT speakers, REAR outputs - Subwoofers, and I just wired my rear speakers directly to the headunit's rear speaker wires. It works nice still this way, but you have to tweak the fader a little bit to get front and rear equal. My rears turned out to be louder then the front so that's why I tweaked fader.

07-22-2008, 04:48 PM	#115 (permalink)
gr3yEX1 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: lake forest, ca Age: 28 Posts: 166 chris	No I am actually running my speakers through the "Amp Integration" method instead of bypass. I'm gonna go ahead and return my amp bypass harness that I bought from Crutchfield soon. It works really well integrating into the factory amp. I get nothing but clear loud sound! It shouldn't be a problem your not going to blow up your factory amp. If anything it will take a very long time before anything happens to your factory amp. By that time your car will be old and probably be time to trade or sell your car LOL. On my aftermarket radio that I installed I'm running front outputs using RCA's for the front speakers and the rear outputs is for my 2 12's in the back. Unfortunately the my Pioneer DVH-4000 had only 2 outputs front and rear so there's no way I could run both subs and rear speakers to the back. You could use a splitter, but I tried that and figured it would be a bad idea since I enabled subwoofer on the settings you could literally blow your rear speakers in no time! So what I did was this setup: FRONT outputs - FRONT speakers, REAR outputs - Subwoofers, and I just wired my rear speakers directly to the headunit's rear speaker wires. It works nice still this way, but you have to tweak the fader a little bit to get front and rear equal. My rears turned out to be louder then the front so that's why I tweaked fader.