Hi. I've been tossing the idea of installing an indash DVD player for a few months now until it finally dawned upon me to install a computer into my car to save a poopload of cash. I've had a spare computer lying around for the past few months and decided to gut it, clean it, and reinstall a chopped down version of Windows 2000.

Now herein lies the problem:

I bought the harness from Crutchfield that will allow me to install another headunit in my 460 setup. I tested it out with a junk HU and it worked PERFECT. Bass actually sounded significantly better. So I decided to wire together the left speaker wires (+ and - to themselves, not all one giant mess, I'm not dumb) and the right wires, than hook them up to an RCA setup. Let me draw it out for you:



For a split second, I heard sound coming out of the test iPod, than the wires slipped and sparks flew and the next thing I know, (I think) I blew a fuse and the headunit didn't power up.

So basically, my question is... will what I drew above work? Will the amps be powerful enough to amplify a sound signal coming out of a walkman/iPod/soundcard/whatever? Or will the sound phase in and out and am I S.O.L. and gotta go and purchase new speakers, amps, and whatever else?

FYI, the soundcard has a sub-out jack, so the subs aren't a problem. Just can I get sound out of the bloody speakers in the car or no?

 

is the adapter you are talking about the usa-spec thing with two rca inputs? you plug it into the cd changer controls?

 

Man that's confusing! Does the harness go to the amps (post HU) or to the HU (instead of the CD changer/player)?

First of all you need to make sure your not sending too hot of a signal level to the amps; they're pretty sensitive to the input level.

Since your ipod's output is variable in level you need to make sure its turned down before you start playing music through your system. I'm not really sure I'd recommend what your doing if you don't know exactly what your doing.

To answer your question, the amps are powerful enough to amplify an ipod; just make sure you don't blow them up by sending too much level.

Whether or not your SOL depends on whether or not you blew something up. Check each component with a multi-meter.