Looking good. Nice find.

Big thunder formerly Glencove. Wouldn’t mind moving but probably not this season.

You know I’ve read the term drive shower a thousand times and never cared to look up what it is. If someone wants to rec a reasonable one I’ll look into it. I may have a gimble bearing or u-joint going out already. One is very slightly rough while running but it’s not perceptible to my normie friends, only me.

What boat do you have and where is it? You live in peoria or Bloomington right?

https://forums.iboats.com/forum/engi...a-drive-shower


this might help you understand what a drive shower is.

Good investment

Ok. I’ve seen one before and assumed that’s what it was. I didn’t know they were recommended even on lame stock 330hp setups though.

mine has 4 6x9s across the back, one in the front left of cockpit, then the two cabin speakers (I’m assuming I haven’t looked at those). Those are running off an old 4 channel clarion marine amp. I didn’t touch any of this and it works well except that it’s much louder in the rear cockpit area.

there was also another clarion marine amp with speaker wire running into the port underseat compartment. Someone cut a big rectangle face into the side of this and made a nice starboard grill and put it over the face of this opening. There was no box in it when I got it. I replaced the two channel clarion marine amp there with 1x 600 w rms kicker D class and then absolutely wedged a box with 2 12s into that compartment. It looks like 8ga running to the batteries. It only works off one battery currently so I think that’s a good setup. The digital amps are very efficient so I’m comfortable with the little 600w amp. In fact I’d like to replace the 4 Chan clarion with a digital amp as well to lower the draw even more.

i then ripped out the old clarion head unit and disc changer. I replaced that with a Logitech BT adapter. I threw an inverted and 12v round plug up there to power this. I was using what I could scrounge at Columbia Best Buy. If id planned ahead more I’d have amazoned a little 12v to 5v inverter instead. Then I split the rcas out of this (splitter was there already) into both amps. Now my “head unit” is whatever phone is bluetoothed. The phone volume is now the stereo volume unless you play with amp gain knobs.

This whole setup only took me a day as I used most of the wiring present already. I scrounged the amp and subs from my friends basement and spent about $70 at Best Buy. Not gonna lie, I bought lots of tools too. It’s not perfect and not what I’d do if I was going all out with a lot of money and time. But it works and sounds great and generally gets louder than you’d want it. I’d still like more headroom on the top to go really loud. But I’m sure I’ll just with this for at least a year.

The two sad little sun faded remote clarion controls now have no purpose in life. Not sure what to with them.

There was a big basket of music CDs at Best Buy when I was checking out and I thought to myself it sure would be easier to pick 6 good ones lol. But now I have my 40gb of music and pandora or soundcloud or YouTube red readily available, which is quite nice.

Do you have pics of your setup. I’m not sure if mine was stock, I’m guessing maybe half and half.

PM me, where are you located?