ORIGINAL: basketballord

don't know what to tell ya man, that is a bit confusing. The thing installed on the top of the trunk almost looks like a capacitor, but if it's running to the speakers, that's not what it is.

The wires that run from the sub to the amp should be bridged, as your amp is for two channels it looks like. This mean you are "bridging" the two channels into one since you have just one sub; in other words, you are combining the power output of the two channels on the amp into one channel. To do this, you install the positive wire from the sub to the positive OUPUT terminal of one channel (let's say left), and the negative wire from the sub to the negative OUTPUT terminal on the other channel (let's say right).

The little wire is undoubtedly the remote turn-on lead for the amp. This keeps it from sucking juice 24/7.

Generally power wires are the big red and black ones. Red = positive, black = negative. connect those to the positive and negative POWER terminals on your amp.

The wires with the RCA looking plugs are your input signal cables. They send the sound signals to the amp. One is Left channel INPUT and one is Right channel INPUT I would say, though I can't tell you which.

Hope that helps.