View Full Version : running a 12 volt wire for my amps
stil bil
07-02-2002, 12:23 PM
if any of you have done this how and where did you get into the car past the firewall???
i cant find a place!!
stil bil
07-02-2002, 03:24 PM
bump!
SR240DET
07-02-2002, 03:30 PM
do you have a s14?? or s13?
stil bil
07-02-2002, 04:10 PM
its a 1996 240sx se 2.4L so which ever that is is the one i have
Tyler Durdan
07-02-2002, 06:58 PM
It's a bitch...I can tell you this already. There are two spots...one is on the drivers side on the firewall where there is a small rubber piece where you can run it in, or there is a spot on the passenger side (this is harder to reach). Just take a long skinny rod and tape the 12v wire to it, and jam it like a son of a bitch.
rampid360
07-02-2002, 08:59 PM
Here we go again <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>
Jack up the passenger side of your car and peek under it. on the inside of the frame, see those little tubes....brake lines. Now take your wire and run it from your battery, around your strut tower and to the brake lines. Zip tie it to them. Follow them ALL the way to the back of your car. When it seems like you cant follow them anymore, run them across the top of the differential (there should be places to zip tie it.) And there's a HUGE gromit in the spare tire well. Run the wire through that and your in business. TOTALLY HIDDEN. No tearing apart your car or busting up your hands tucking and hiding wires.
btw, THIS WORKS. I had mine done like this on my old car for several months, and it wasn't damaged in the slightest when i removed it. (note: if you total your car and have to remove the wire at the towing yard....now you have problems)
This takes about 10 minutes from start to finish....piece of cake. Zip ties available at any hardware store for like 2cents each.
guidot
07-02-2002, 10:45 PM
So, rampid...an honest question for you. Where are you located and how do you think it would hold up in salt, humidity, and cold?
Run it inside the car please...less chance of the insulation coming off and causing a fire somewhere.
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