well today i took my two 10's (Jensen's XJ) i think, and my "dual 5260" 400 watt amp out of my Ford Escort LX hatch, and installed it into my 01 Ford Focus ZX3. Ill explain my problem, than the setup I had in my Escort, and than my setup I put into my focus.
I am having this problem in the ZX3, sometimes when I press on the gas more than halfway closer to a full throttle, the car straights dies in the mist of full acceleration. Isnt the ZX3's alternator suppose to keep the battery charging while the RPMs are so high? If I go at a normal RPM rate, (1k-2.5k RPMS) it hasnt died yet. Its died when I was going at 85 MPHs pressing on the gas, It hasnt died while coasting or braking, only when I am pressing the gas pedal. In the morning I will test if its too much amps to pull all together with the headlights. I havent been able to test it during the day. So far it has happened four times when flooring it from a dead stop, and once when I was going pretty fast around a corner. When I plug in my RCA's which are white/black, does it matter if white is right and black is left, and vice versa? there are not labeled. I will go outside right now and take a few pictures of things i have concerns with.
The escort has an original Alternator, new battery and never had the problem i am going to describe. In the Escort when I first installed my 10's I didn't have my 500k Farad cap installed and my headlights would dim. After installing my cap and upgrading the wires never had any problems in that car. The cable setup that I never had a problem with was, From the battery was "4 gauge Walmart wire, to my 500k cap, from my cap to the amp, i had a 8G high quality power from a audio store. I used 8G grounds for the entire time, for my cap and amp. My signal wire was a 16G.
In the focus, today I install all 8G wire (high quality from an audio store) not Walmart stuff, and 4G ground wire coming from my amp (i have 4G Ground wire for the CAP which is not installed). i soldered all my head unit connections but not the best solders I could have done. I checked all my fuses before i reconnected the battery, Im concerned about how my negative battery post connects to the battery (ill post a picture tonight) . I am also concerned about the constant 12v head unit power plug because when i pulled the factory deck it had the weird plug that wasn't just straight like aftermarket head units. I ended up cutting my escorts 12v constant power plug, the zx3's plug, stripping about an inch of insulation, and stuffing the wire on the zx3 as far as i could into the escort's straight plug. My "firewall" hole, i drilled threw the metal into this weird carpentry kind of material right next too where my clutch would be (i have a ATX). I did not put a grommet. The headlights do dim, not the dash at all. My battery in my Focus is brand new, few months old with less than 100 car starts on it.
I don't know what I did wrong? I am going to take voltage readings and Resistance readings tomorrow, Please help guyss!
I am having this problem in the ZX3, sometimes when I press on the gas more than halfway closer to a full throttle, the car straights dies in the mist of full acceleration. Isnt the ZX3's alternator suppose to keep the battery charging while the RPMs are so high? If I go at a normal RPM rate, (1k-2.5k RPMS) it hasnt died yet. Its died when I was going at 85 MPHs pressing on the gas, It hasnt died while coasting or braking, only when I am pressing the gas pedal. In the morning I will test if its too much amps to pull all together with the headlights. I havent been able to test it during the day. So far it has happened four times when flooring it from a dead stop, and once when I was going pretty fast around a corner. When I plug in my RCA's which are white/black, does it matter if white is right and black is left, and vice versa? there are not labeled. I will go outside right now and take a few pictures of things i have concerns with.
The escort has an original Alternator, new battery and never had the problem i am going to describe. In the Escort when I first installed my 10's I didn't have my 500k Farad cap installed and my headlights would dim. After installing my cap and upgrading the wires never had any problems in that car. The cable setup that I never had a problem with was, From the battery was "4 gauge Walmart wire, to my 500k cap, from my cap to the amp, i had a 8G high quality power from a audio store. I used 8G grounds for the entire time, for my cap and amp. My signal wire was a 16G.
In the focus, today I install all 8G wire (high quality from an audio store) not Walmart stuff, and 4G ground wire coming from my amp (i have 4G Ground wire for the CAP which is not installed). i soldered all my head unit connections but not the best solders I could have done. I checked all my fuses before i reconnected the battery, Im concerned about how my negative battery post connects to the battery (ill post a picture tonight) . I am also concerned about the constant 12v head unit power plug because when i pulled the factory deck it had the weird plug that wasn't just straight like aftermarket head units. I ended up cutting my escorts 12v constant power plug, the zx3's plug, stripping about an inch of insulation, and stuffing the wire on the zx3 as far as i could into the escort's straight plug. My "firewall" hole, i drilled threw the metal into this weird carpentry kind of material right next too where my clutch would be (i have a ATX). I did not put a grommet. The headlights do dim, not the dash at all. My battery in my Focus is brand new, few months old with less than 100 car starts on it.
I don't know what I did wrong? I am going to take voltage readings and Resistance readings tomorrow, Please help guyss!
