You are best to hook this up using the RCA line level inputs on your Bazooka tube. You might as well leave the factory sub hooked up, too.

First, use eMass' diagram to find the subwoofer wires. They are two red wires, one with a white stripe and one with a blue stripe. You will find them on the back of your deck (you'll need to pull it out of the dash) on a 8 conductor plug into the deck, separate from the main plug. There are only three wires into this plug, including the two mentioned above. Again, using eMass' diagram, add on RCA connections to these wires. This might be easiest by going to Radio Shack and getting a two female RCA to one male RCA Y adapter. Cut off the male plug and solder the two female RCA jacks, with the center conductors going to the red/blue wire and the shield going to the red/white wire. Leave these two wires also running down to the factory amp so that the factory sub is still hooked up. If you didn't have soldering skills you could crimp these wires together but it would be far better to solder them. Run a long RCA cable from these female RCA connectors to the Bazooka tube.

You will have to get power, ground and remote turn on to the Bazooka sub, too. The power you should run straight to the positive battery terminal. Don't forget to put a fuse right by the battery. The ground you can find a place in the back where you sand down the paint off of the metal, exposing bare steel. Try and find a place where the grounding screw would go into the frame of the car. That would be best. The remote turn on wire is a yellow wire with a green stripe on the main radio wire harness. Tap into that when you add the RCA jacks.

If all of this is too much for you, then take it in to a car stereo shop to have it installed by a professional. There is nothing wrong with that. You'll even get a warranty on the installation.

Good luck!

 

Thank you! That was very helpful and made it a lot easier to understand. I think I will go ahead and just have a shop do it. I called today and they quoted me $75 to do the job. That sounded like a fair price.

 

Smart move.

 

Well I just got home after getting it installed. They just treated it like an "amp" install and charged me 80 bucks. Not bad. They also mounted it for no extra. I went to crutchfield beforehand and bought the 29.99 chrome bazooka tube mounting kit....looks nice.

Still trying to get it to blend with stock sub, and the whole system in general. It's wired so that the "sub" control on the factory deck controls BOTH subs it seems...kinda strange. So I just keep that up...and I guess I'll have to fiddle with the crossover control and volume control on the bazooka I assume.

I'm glad the tube still works well honestly. I bought it brand new about 7-8 YEARS ago for like $400. Works great. Had to replace the woofer once over the years (which was easy). Blew the voice coil

 

They hooked it up the right way with both pieces hooked up to the sub out. Once you get somewhat close with the bass blend, then use a trick I discovered years ago in setting up a sub. When you raise the sub level on the Bazooka, lower its crossover point. The opposite is also true. Raising the crossover means you should also lower the output. This trick will get you closer still. The last bit of fine tuning is generally just adjusting the Bazooka's sub level.

I'm glad that the sub still powered up and everything worked out so easily.

 

Hey dj where did they mount your Btube? Pics would be great if possable. Thanks Drew.