I think i'm gonna try a 3 farad cap. I think its the fact that my amp is 1000 watts rms at 1 ohm. we'll see what happens after that. oh yea, that optima battery i got died while driving. I put my old battery in, started right up. So I take the optima back to autozone, they test it, and it turns out its a bad battery. Guy said its the first one he's seen. Didn't get another one tho. stayin stock right now.