This isn't for a Bonneville but i hope its still ok to post here, mods if you want you can move it...

i have a stock c.d. player in my intrepid and i don't want to put an aftermarket cd player in it, is there a way to wire my amp up to my stock cd player? Thanks

You can buy what I bought. It is an audio control LC6i. It is a high powered line out converter. The guy that came in second place for sound quality competition at spring break nationals used one of their more expensive peices with a stock radio. My peice costed about 150 bucks.

if you get an amp with high level inputs then you need nothing. Otherwise you will need a line level converter which can be gotten for under 50 bucks.

Most people and installers will recommend using a line output converter, or LOC. If I was going to use one in a car of my own, the only one I'd even concider would be from David Navone.

http://www.davidnavone.com/adaptor_products.htm

You'd want the NE-7V for a two channel amp, and sells currently for 20 dollars.

if you buy an amp with high level inputs, I am pretty sure that it won't be a very powerful amp. I am willing to bet any amount of money that there is not a better basic line out converter than the audio control peice. I have a 2000 watt system in my car and it works perfect for it. It also amplifies the input signal like a good head unit does with its 4 or 5 volt preouts. You can see a picture of it by clicking on my photobucket link in my signature

I'm quite familiar with audiocontrol stuff, I've been working with it since the original epiceter. Your LC6i retails for 150 (ebaying for 115ish + *&h), and while its a very nice piece you'd have a hard time convincing me its worth the difference in cost. Maybe you could see the difference on an RTA, but I'd be surprised if there'd be a decernable difference. David Navone along with Richard Clark are two of the fathers of modern car audio as we know it. I was turned onto the products by a friend who was an iASCA judge. Again, the LC6i...very nice piece, no doubt. But most people don't need a 6 channel $100+ LOC.

well i guess it all depends on what kind of system you are running. The people you speak of do have an impressive resume. The father of modern car audio may be a bit of an over statement but, as far as my set up, the lc6 is a perfect fit. I guess you are right in saying that people don't all need them. I just know I did, plus it has the subwoofer control and signal summing. I guess if you are just running a four channel amp it would be fine. I have just seen a bunch of the smaller line out converters melt on higher powerd systems like mine

Whatever you do, do not, I repeat do not splice the converter too close to your rear speakers. The rear Speaker itself acts like a microphone and pics up vibration which thens transfers it to the sub, producing unwanted noise and vibration.

and make sure that you give everything that you add as well as the stock radio a common ground point to cut down on engine noise because its a really annoying sound

thanks for the help guys, i got a LOC..
i got another question though, how do i hook up the remote wire? what do i hook it up to? Thanks