Electrical help! I'm "shockingly" in over my head.

I'm going to be putting a 2400 watt system into a 2004 US Honda Civic Coupe. My question is this. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be able to keep a stock electrical system, also, due to my lovely Honda ELD I'm pretty sure I can not upgrade my stock alternator (though if anyone has a solution that I don't know about to fit a HO alternator or something else on to a civic without running into problems with the ELD, then by all means, I'm more then willing to see the light). What can I do before I start putting this system in to make sure I've got enough power and I'm not "starving my amps"...? (Also, can I damage my system or amps by running them "starving" before I upgrade the electrical? Or should I make all the necessary upgrades before I put it all in?)
(if you need it, my amps are 1 Alpine PDX 4.100 and 2 Alpine PDX 1.1000, all really efficient amps.)

 

That is what the ELD does, but because the amps run straight to the battery and not through the ELD, your ELD has no idea your amps are leaching your battery, so it doesn't let your alternator give your battery the charge it needs, and before you know it, dead battery. (Or at least, that's the impression I've been under after reading up. I do not claim to know what the heck I'm talking about, lol.)

I had read of a few ways to bypass the ELD, some on that site, but none that let me upgrade the alternator without throwing a code and messing up the whole car. I'd been browsing that site for a while now as well though, and I haven't found any really concrete answers for my question. Thank you though, I will keep tearing through that forums archive.

Yeah, I've read that post a couple of times. While there are a lot of good ideas, no one has really set forth with a good way to disable/bypass the ELD without taking a huge risk of messing something up. Again, I'm going to keep searching everything I can find, but I figured it was time to ask the questions while I kept searching for the answers. Thank you though! I really do appreciate the help, I need all of it that I can get.

 

Thanks! I appreciate it!
My thoughts exactly, even though I feel like I've been banging my head on a brick wall, there's gotta be some way to make this work.

 

Another option. I just found out I have the ability to make my 2400 watt system a mere 1400 watt system, but make a good deal of moola in the process.
Would I still be needing to make the same upgrades to my electrical if I put in a 1400 watt system instead?
(I'm not ruling out the 2400 watt system yet, just going over all of my options.)

 

... ...bump?

 

That's what I was going to do, but I was worried that if I did that I was going to break something... which I'm still not sure if I'll break something or not...?

 

Awesome, will do! Just one thing... how do I check keep an eye on my voltage again?

 

There's no two ways about it, after talking with my installer we've decided to put in only one amp and one sub, which leads me to the question, what kind of upgrades do I need to make when running only a 1400watt system?

 

Also, any idea of I would run into any problems running a 1700watt system?

 

Sounds like a plan.
I was reading up on "batcaps" though, and someone on another forum recommended them to me. have you heard of these, do you recommend them?