Some Cool Ideas And A Ques. On Stock Speakers

BlexusGS · May 6, 2005

Hey,

I just wanted you guys to know, which I'm sure a lot here might already. Do you know that the stock grille on the GS models 98 and up have chrome underneath the grey/black colored paint? The other day I noticed I was getting a lot of chip marks on my grille. When I looked closer it was chrome! I was planning on getting an aftermarket chrome grille anyway so I decided what the hell and took a razor blade to the whole thing. Needless to say it looks awesome, not a frickin' scratch on the chrome slats. After I took all the paint off I polished it up with some Mothers Chrome Polish. It looks so good, I already got a lot of compliments on it; still stock but gives it a little extra look and stands out from an ordinary stock GS.

Also, next topic, I have two 12" Rockford Fosgate HX2 subs in a seal box. The box took up so much trunk space, in other words I had NO TRUNK, literally. I didn't want to get rid of the system because it was so sweet. Anyway, I spoke with a rep. from a local car audio store and he told me that you need roughly 1 CuFt. of box space per 12" sub. I calculated that I had about 3.2 CuFt in my box; so I decided to cut it down so I could fit it all the way in that little area in the back of the trunk. It took me a couple of hours and it fits great and best of all, I have my entire trunk to utilize (and I also lost some weight)! Now I have about 2.15 CuFt. of box space, the dimensions are as follows. 14" high, 30" long, 13" deep (at the base) and 9" deep (at the top). It is trapezoidal in shape to fit to the angle of the back of the rear seats.

Now, I just have a quick question. How do I know if my stock door speakers are still being amped by the stock amp without having to trace wires everywhere? Every since I took my stock sub out (because it was hanging down too low where I wanted to put my box) my door speakers don't sound loud like they used to - actually ever since I got my Kenwood amp for the box I felt that my door speakers are less powerful. I have a toggle switch mounted under my dash to turn the amp off when ever I want - when I do this the stock door speakers are very quiet. Did they do something OR have to take something out when they were hooking my amp wires (RCA's) to my stock deck? Please help. Sorry for the long post - I thought the other two things might have been helpful to the Lexus owners. :)

TurboGS300 · May 6, 2005

I have a toggle switch mounted under my dash to turn the amp off when ever I want - when I do this the stock door speakers are very quiet. Did they do something OR have to take something out when they were hooking my amp wires (RCA's) to my stock deck? Please help. Sorry for the long post - I thought the other two things might have been helpful to the Lexus owners. :)

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Yes the stock speakers are still hooked to the factory amp. By flipping the toggle switch you're cutting the main remote signal to both amps(factory and kenwood) <_<