Installed the stereo into my 66'... questions...

[SadbutTrue]

I installed most of the system from my old cadillac into my mustang (everthing except the my sub and its amp). Its a Pioneer head unit, 800W/60WRMSx4 Kenwood amp, powering 2 nice Kenwood 6x9s and 2 nice Polk 6.5" (both rated for 65W RMS), as wlel as some dinky little speakers in the dash (carryovers from the old stereo) hooked up directly to the head unit.

Seemed to be working okay, but I was a bit disappointed by the bass, and I'm figuring I may have hooked up a sub control wire wrong because when I play with the head unit's equalizer it didn't make much, if any, difference.

Questions...
1) Any idea which wire I didn't connect right?
2) How should hte bass for such a system be? I wasn't expecting it to punch like it did with my old 12" sub but I was expecting more than I'm getting
3) A friend told me I need create boxes/containers for the 6x9s (they're basically hanging off the rear deck into the trunk) - where can I buy them?
4) If I do need to create a subwoofer box to get my bass fix... does anyone sell 65/66 custom boxes, or does anyone know of a generally available on that will fit?

 

[iskwezm]

are there crossovers on the amp?

 

[enferno]

are you sure the polarity (+ and -) of the speakers are all correct? phasing issues can be caused by reversing the polarity of the speakers or the sub, and will be most noticeable in the low end.

also, have you done any soundproofing to your car?

 

[horseballz]

Sure seems lake a possible phasing/polarity issue to me. To give an example, if you have 2 woofers in a cabinet (with perfect test conditions) and one of the woofers is wired opposite of the other, the more you crank it, the less you'll hear it, even though the amp and speakers are working hard. In theory/perfect world, you wouldn't hear it at all! All this is most noticeable at the lower frequencies.
My $.02,
Gene