Post by dizzum_D on May 4, 2010 1:21:49 GMT -5
Some of you may know I've been into the car audio scene for a while now and I've done a few pretty loud and elaborate installs. Well I just completed my most extensive install to date, and its in my Ram.
For this install the goal was simple, to get the truck loud as fawk and look good doing it. If you know anything about trucks, its pretty difficult to get them loud and basically it requires balls to do it. There's pretty much 2 options to getting a truck loud. Wall it off or cut the bitch. I wasn't willing to lose my rear seats so I decided on option b.
I'll stop babbling on and let the pics and descriptions do the talking.
First up the new head unit. Eclipse 7200mkii. Copper Chassis, 8v preouts, dead head (no built in amp), features up the ass for folks like me lol.
Front battery and wiring. Deka 9a31 deep cycle. Wiring is all Knu Konceptz Kollosus Fleks 1/0. There's 120ft. of this wire in the truck.
I fully solder and heat shrink all my connections. IMO it looks very professional.
Alternator is a DC Power 270xp. Does 180amp at idle and 270amps at 1200 rpm. I plan on adding a 2nd alternator later.
Subs are RD Audio HW 18's. 3500 watt RMS, they are pretty gnarly.
Sub amp is a RD Audio D9. Dual 1/0 inputs and outputs. Puts out about 6k watts at .5 ohm.
Interior speakers amp is a Rockford Fosgate P400-4.
Pioneer 6.5" components in the front doors, Infinity 3.5"s in the dash.
Kenwood 6.5" components in the rear doors.
Designing the box on SketchUp. Its a 6th order bandpass.
Running wires.
Starting the build process.
Rear batt's and copper busbars for them.
Building the box.
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Fully fiberglassed inside of box with bracing, 45's, paint, etc.
Grew some balls and cut the hole in the truck.
Had to make my own custom wiring solution for the subs.
Subs test wired to a .5 ohm load.
Got it all in the truck.
With the fiberglass cover on.
Inside look.
Rear seats in and folded up.
Rear seats folded down. I had to flip the seat brackets on back wall to be able to fold the seats down or up, and they still lock. Its much louder with them folded down.
Amp mounted under the rear seat.
All done.
For this install the goal was simple, to get the truck loud as fawk and look good doing it. If you know anything about trucks, its pretty difficult to get them loud and basically it requires balls to do it. There's pretty much 2 options to getting a truck loud. Wall it off or cut the bitch. I wasn't willing to lose my rear seats so I decided on option b.
I'll stop babbling on and let the pics and descriptions do the talking.
First up the new head unit. Eclipse 7200mkii. Copper Chassis, 8v preouts, dead head (no built in amp), features up the ass for folks like me lol.
Front battery and wiring. Deka 9a31 deep cycle. Wiring is all Knu Konceptz Kollosus Fleks 1/0. There's 120ft. of this wire in the truck.
I fully solder and heat shrink all my connections. IMO it looks very professional.
Alternator is a DC Power 270xp. Does 180amp at idle and 270amps at 1200 rpm. I plan on adding a 2nd alternator later.
Subs are RD Audio HW 18's. 3500 watt RMS, they are pretty gnarly.
Sub amp is a RD Audio D9. Dual 1/0 inputs and outputs. Puts out about 6k watts at .5 ohm.
Interior speakers amp is a Rockford Fosgate P400-4.
Pioneer 6.5" components in the front doors, Infinity 3.5"s in the dash.
Kenwood 6.5" components in the rear doors.
Designing the box on SketchUp. Its a 6th order bandpass.
Running wires.
Starting the build process.
Rear batt's and copper busbars for them.
Building the box.
\
Fully fiberglassed inside of box with bracing, 45's, paint, etc.
Grew some balls and cut the hole in the truck.
Had to make my own custom wiring solution for the subs.
Subs test wired to a .5 ohm load.
Got it all in the truck.
With the fiberglass cover on.
Inside look.
Rear seats in and folded up.
Rear seats folded down. I had to flip the seat brackets on back wall to be able to fold the seats down or up, and they still lock. Its much louder with them folded down.
Amp mounted under the rear seat.
All done.