Rivercrazy

I wouldn't put them in the engine compartment. One water hose that springs a leak and all your gear goes poof. And you will always be fighting the heat game back there. The amps will be pretty warm even before firing up the stereo.....

BadDog

If you do put the amp under the hatch you might consider using a realy to power some 12vdc boxer fans. Electronic gear is mutch happier if kept cool. Radio Shack has a pretty decent selctionof fans. I am sure you could find others on the web. Be aware that the fan will also not be spark proof.

Krumbsnatcher

I do not know about the amps in the engine compartment but you should lose the CD changer and get an iPod or other MP3 player they work better and hold more songs, and no skipping.

I have an iPOD with over 15,000 songs. plus you can take your music out of the boat when you leave.

dawiz74

Put mine in the compartment under the steering wheel on my formula. It's nice because it locks and is out of the way, but don't know yet how much air its going to get.

Gerry

Krumbsnatcher,
Do you use the cassette adapter or the fm transmitter with your Ipod?
Thanks,
Gerry

Krumbsnatcher

Direct wire it is pretty simple. My 10 DIsc CD changer is connected to my auxialary output on my head unit, so all i had to do is go to Radio Shack picked up to female connectors to place over the male connectors that are pulled out of the CD changer.

Then Monster Cable makes a really nice long adapter cable that plugs into the female adapters and you are now ready to go.

You can also get a non slip case cover that will not slide all over your helm.

I can easily control the tunes while i drive and the best thing is I have over 15,000 CD digital songs and 100 playlists that i can choose from.

So the question is are you ipodding?

Krumbsnatcher

I only use the FM transmitter while i am in my car to lazy to tear the dash apart and hard wire a connector.

FM Transmitter will not get you the digital quality. Besides my buddy has made a junction box to connect each of my buddies boats to the same ipod.

We can have 10 boats tied up and all playing the same song through one ipod.

the future is here! In fact the amps do not even require a head unit if you have an ipod.

fund razor

Hey Krumbsnatcher,

You taught me something.
I thought I pod music used MP3 compression. I didn't realize that they were actual CD quality (44.1k sampling rate, 16 bit word clock)
15,000 CD digital songs is like 80 gigs? That's some serious storage space.

I figured that they were MP3s.
I'll have to take another look.

BlownBajaOnHavasu

i don't recomment amps in the motor compartment. i just bought a boat with two amps that used to be in the motor compartment, now they are in a landfill in havasu somewhere.

any water in your motor compartment splashing around will find it's way to your amp.