legit no idea how it took me so long to find these guys:
so i wound up ordering one of these guys kind of solidifying my thoughts of keeping the OEM radio and building off of it.
i ordered one i found on amazon and got it from the post office yesterday because i kept missing the sign for it shit and it wouldn't let me e-sign for it for whatever reason.
my current thinking is a compact 6-8 channel amp mounted in the center console where the oem amp is- remove the oem amp, and try to find the plugs to make the new amp plug and play into the existing wiring only pickle i've run into is legit having 0 time to work on any of this currently.
i have two alpine type-r 8's new in the box along with an alpine mono amp that i bought for something back in 2018/19 and never used that i'd like to have hidden somewhere but i haven't gotten to think that far just yet.
JL's stealthbox options are sweet but just batshit money IMO