1994 Ford F350 CC Build- Stalled out for a bit! Sorry!

[scooter99]

oo i thought the civic got totalled :3 glad to hear its being saved, i love mine

No not totaled but we were going to sell it and get an SUV, and now my wife has become gun shy on it and after we talked about it, we decided that we could get along without one. So we'll keep the civic at least till it's paid off, and then go from there. I'm kind of glad it's back on too, but I was really ready for a new car. Oh well.

very nice man!! coming along nicely for a temp lol

Thanks man! I just need a little more time than I have to get it done!

[scooter99]

So I decided to make tonight a little bit of a work night. My plan is to do a few things on it that will help me tomorrow night. Going to the drive ins again with my daughters to see Brave, the new Disney movie. Last time we went, I used some home speakers that were 8ohm and I had it cranked and it just didn't seem that loud to me.

So, tonight, I'm going to do a few things. I'm going to swap those out with some other speakers, I have some pics but I'll put them all up later. I'm going to do the head unit swap, maybe. I'm going to put one of the two D6500's in there, and maybe run some cable (rca's, power, ground, etc.) Don't get your hopes up, cause I wanna watch the Finals tonight too. So it may not end up happening. But I'll have some pics.

I've also decided to add some stuff to the system. Because I do so much out of the truck, Drive ins, softball tournaments, camping, I've decided to build a couple of component cabinets, and add a small 4 channel amp to the system. I'm also going to be putting in another amp to run this. The amps will all be switched up front, so I can turn them on or off when I need or don't need them. Also going to add a few quick disconnects in the bed of the truck for these.

That's all for now.

[scooter99]

So I'll try this again. I was half way through it and my computer decided it was a good time to update and restart! Oh well.

So, I had a set of cabinet speakers I was using for outside speakers for the truck. They were just hooked up to the rear channels of the head unit. I used them when we were at the drive ins last week and they just didn't have a good enough output for me. Wasn't very clear. So I decided to change all that.

Here are the old speakers and cabinets

New drivers compared to the old drivers

Oh those are gonna look nice in there.

In order to get those bullet tweets in there, obviously there was some serious alterations that had to be made. I didn't have a hole saw that was big enough to get them to fit, but with this one it would get me close, and then my trusty dremel could do the rest of the work.

Test fit! Nice!

Next I took the old caps from the old tweets out. Those are cute! LOL

Little difference huh!?!

[scooter99]

SO next I had to solder on the new caps on to the new wires. I got this little beauty a while ago, but then the builds stopped so now I finally get to use it.

Soldered em all up!

and back on the tabs

for good measure I decided a little poly fill wouldn't hurt.

Mid wired up and screwed in!

Tweet. Man that thing is big. It's damn near as heavy as the mid. Unreal!

Ready to go!

Got em wired up to the truck.

Another little close up.

And a video of how they sound! So recall, that these are only on the head unit on the rear channels. No amp, nothing.

So as I said on the video, I had nothing other than a Jay Z cd to play. The head unit in there isn't set up for my phone or anything like that. So that's what I had to play. Drive ins should be much clearer tomorrow night! Woot!

So that's all I was able to do tonight. Wanted to get the battery in tonight too at least, but I just ran out of time. Had things to do at home, and quite frankly watching the Heat prove a point tonight, was worth it. Feel bad for OKC cause I like them too, really wasn't rooting for anyone except I really wanted Lebron to get his ring, but the Heat did work! Anyway, so I wasn't able to get anything else done.

So that's all for tonight. Thanks for checking in!

[Purplehaze]

Nice! Let us know how well they work out at the theater!

[scooter99]

Hell ya! Woot woot! I just figured out how to upload videos from my phone to you tube. Here's another video I took but couldn't download last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UPr2Q8hPms&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I know everyone else knows how to do it but I didn't so that's why I'm so excited. Plus I'm easily entertained!

I'll get a video tonight at the movies so you all can hear it there. Thanks!

[graham0599]

Sounds pretty good man. Can't wait to see this whole thing finished

[scooter99]

Well the whole thing is gonna take a very very long time. But I can't wait either. Little things at a time is how it's gonna go. I'm sure the next thing you're gonna see, after the temporary set up, is going to be the subs getting done. Thanks for checking it out.

[graham0599]

That's good you're not rushing it though.

[IBleedMusick]

Scooter I didn't take you for the rigging type I was expecting them to automatically stand up rotate with lights and everything . Be careful Soundstream may still your idea and start making shelf speakers looks pretty damn good for a quick setup and sounds nice on my end so I bet it sounds much better in person.