Welcome aboard. Strong first post. Excellent wiring info. Any pics of enclosure and install?

 

Great info. Your Man Card is valid with no expiration date.

 

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Hey, yep, will be posting the photos of the gear and where I pulled the wires through. Moving now, but will settle in a few days and will post then. I want to contribute some more to this forum. Thanks!!!!!

 

Routing of the amp power wire from battery terminal along and through firewall.

Note the grommet location. There was a lot of room to pull this through, just make sure it is pressed up against the outside wall as you pull.

More photos later.


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Sweet getting that through the firewall. Did you have to drill anything on the inside for that to happen? Where did that come out under the dash?

 

This is great! I'm following as I'm trying to Frankenstein OEM sub enclosure in my premium so and pictures of the sub and enclosure would be great! For some reason the internet is lacking in that department


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Would love to see pics of the sub, where it fits, shape etc. Have any other photo's? Did the OP ever upgrade the factory speakers? If so, what speakers did you upgrade to?

 

tag for interest.

Ive found that the HK audio (from my limited testing during demos) is lacking in low end, and that center front speaker is annoyingly intrusive on the rest of the sound field.

 

still interested in hearing any upgrades others have done. I am going to my local shop this weekend. they are suggesting Hertz speakers as an upgrade that work well with the factory system. (That was a quick suggestion)

 

2018 Outback Limited Sub Setup

RPBOT,

Like you, I want to keep my 2018 OB Limited stock as much a possible W/O major moddies for a little more "BOOM! ? if you don't mind... did it require you to remove the HU from dash to make these connections? And is the HK amp in the dash as well? Attached shows it is under the drivers seat in my OB it seems to be the power unit for the ele. seats. thx in advance.
Peace

 

I finished the install of a Kicker 12" CompR 2-Ohm 500W RMS Sub-woofer Enclosure, with Kicker CXA600.1 600W RMS mono amp, 2-Channel LOC, and Kicker Remote Bass Control in my 2017 Outback 3.6R Touring. I have been looking around these threads and did not see one specific to Gen-5 Outbacks, especially 2016/2017 Outbacks with the Fujitsu TEN NAV HU and HK amp, with the level of detail needed to be able to feel comfortable hacking up my wiring harnesses. :|

Let me start by saying that I wanted to keep my car as stock as possible and not mess with replacing the Fujitsu TEN HU w/ NAV and HK amp with another aftermarket product. I really wanted to keep all the controls the same in the HU, allow the mediocre EQ settings to still control the car audio including the aftermarket sub I am installing to beef-up the wimpy sub in the rear-side panel. It's really non-existent as are the rear-door woofers! The front woofers and the three tweeters in the dash sound OK, but now that I have the sub thumping I am going to replace the tweeters and woofers next with something not requiring a tremendous amount of customization and allowing me to continue using the HK amp.

I have seen some other comments on these threads about the new Gen-5 Limited/Touring model HU wi/ NAV having line-outs instead of speaker outs from the HU to the HK amp. This is true as shown in Diagram 3: HU to HK AMP Pinouts where pins 7 and 8 are the line-outs feeding the HK amp.

Diagram 1: General Overview
Ok, this is really to show a high level view of what I did and where I placed the equipment.

Diagram 2: Wiring Taps and Pins
The is my equipment with contact points for each component diagrammed out. You can refer to Diagram 3 and Diagram 4 for specifics of the pinouts.

Diagram 3: HU to HK AMP Pinouts
The amp socket pinout should be interpreted as if you are looking directly at the HK amp where the 24-pin (HK amp side) connector "i262" from the HU connects into the HK amp socket. The 24-pin HU plug should be interpreted as if you are looking at the end of the harness plug connector. The colors are correct and I can affirm pin 12 is the turn-on wire for the HK amp. I piggy-backed this for the Kicker amp remote turn-on.

Diagram 4: HK AMP to Speakers
The amp socket pinout should be interpreted as if you are looking directly at the HK amp where the 30-pin (HK amp side) connector "R316" from the HK amp routes out to all the speakers. The 30-pin plug connector should be interpreted as if you are looking at the end of the harness plug. The colors are correct and I can affirm all pins are true to the detailed fuctuion. I tapped the 2-Channel LOC (6-wires: ground, ground, L-, L+, R-, R+) as shown in Diagram 2 into the rear woofer speaker outs - pins 14/29 (Rear Left), 15/30 (Rear Right), 3 (Left Ground), 18 (Right Ground). The RCA outs fed the Kicker amp RCA input.

I was able to validate some of the diagrams from other posting, specifically the one on LegacyGT threads: URL soon since I am a noob poster here.

LegacyGT - chithead and svxdc had some great feedback and posts related to Gen-6 Legacy, but I was able to leverage for this post.

I hope these help some of you trying to do the same without completely modding the whole car ... I just needed a little BOOM! to make my commutes more enjoyable! I will post some photos soon ... next week or two of what things actually look like in the car and where you can route the +12V amp power through the firewall. Best of luck!

Photos soon ... I have to wear off my noob first.

 

rpbot in your design you tap into the Rear door woofers signal coming from HK Amp. rather than the single Rear panel subwoofer signal with LOC. Is not the subwoofer out better since is already carrying only low frequency signal needed for the aftermarket Amp and Subwoofer?