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playa40294
04-07-2011, 06:16 PM
im wanting to install a sub and amp but can find any firewall holes any pointers on wat to do

presti
04-07-2011, 06:21 PM
remove your passenger side front wheel, and the plastic covering above it inside your wheel arch. go form your battery, into the loom opening in your side panel that will then go along the inside of the wheel arch, then you will find a rubber grommet around the size of a 50c piece, cut a small hole in it and feed your cable through it, then run it down the inside of your floor closest to the door.

hope that makes sense mate :)

presti
04-07-2011, 06:29 PM
if your still unsure, hang in a few days ill do a 'how-to' as im going to be doing it on a mates car in the next few days

WagonPOWER
04-07-2011, 07:12 PM
I used a powerdrill!

Madmagna
04-07-2011, 07:48 PM
I used a powerdrill!

What a shame, yet another stat write off Magna and a Wagon at that

You do know that drilling a hole through a fire wall is illegal as the firewall is a structural part of the car. Here in Vic when they do roadside RW check with vicroads, a car with a hole drilled in the firewall for cables etc can be red stickered, ie tow away.

Only exception is if the hole is drilled and grommeted in a place where the car maker designed an option to be used, ie clutch master cyl hole etc

Best way is to do this properly and then you have no isses in the future

Had one car here, the hole was drilled in the firewall straight through the fan box, another person I know drilled straight through the evap box, no guesses how that ended lol

pwn3d_69er
04-07-2011, 08:47 PM
you will see a rubber gromit thing behind the passenger strut tower, go through that, now pull the back part of the leaf guard back, (plastic around the wheel arch closest to the door), you will see your wire coming through there, now, you will see another rubber gromit just behide the quarter panel (where your indercator is, your wire will be sitting on the plastic once all back together), you can drill a hole from the inside, poke your wire though there then do whatever you like with it