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

[scooter99]

Thanks guys!

[scooter99]

There has been a little change in amplifiers. Since I'm going to be building the civic again, I decided that the 1.2500D would be too much for that little car. At least I think it will. So for now, I'm going to go ahead and use the 1.1600D in the civic, and then wire the subs to 4ohms and use the 1.2500D for the truck and these 8's. Should give me great output. I may try this in the civic when I get the sub in, but I don't think I'll need it.

The other change is, I'm going to take my Alpine CDA-9886 out of my civic and use it in the truck, I think. I'm going to put the Pioneer DEH-80PRS in the civic, since it's my daily driver. Might as well have the nicer unit in the daily.

Lastly, the mids and highs will just run off the deck for now.

I'll have to replace a few things when it comes time to do the truck, but I think I'm ok with that. I'll have to be!

That's all!

[Pasta Prime]

Nice freehand work with the router. I tried that once and it looked like I threw up spaghetti on my board.

[Twostrokeking]

dude u do amazing work seriously. you should consider opening a shop

[scooter99]

Threw up spaghetti. THAT'S GREAT!!

Thanks Stroke! I don't think I'd make it in the shop part of the industry. I'd be afraid to eff up someone else's car. Mine is one thing, someone else's is quite another. But thanks!

So I have alot more pictures to post from today! But remember that I'm taking pics from my phone, and apparently when you try and upload them from my phone to Photobucket, IT TAKES EFFING FOREVER!!! So I'm trying to wait patiently, but as soon as they're all uploaded I'll get em posted!

Nice progress today, and a couple changes!

Hopefully I'll be back in a bit!

[scooter99]

Ok here we go! Got lots done today! Let's get started!

So when I left you guys last I had all the stuff painted black. Well that just wasn't sitting well with me. I needed some contrast! So I decided to take the trim pieces and paint them a metallic silver color.

I actually got a bad can of paint when I started it so it didn't turn out that great to begin with. A little sand paper and some love, and it ended up ok. Again, if this was a more permanent build, i'd have been sanding it down, priming it again, getting rid of all the flaws, etc. Try not to be to critical, remember, TEMPORARY!!

So why did I leave the screws in there, you're probably asking. Well cause I wasn't filling the holes so I wanted to the screw heads to at least get painted. That's why I did it.

So that was the first big change. From there I moved on to the lights and plexi and getting all that ready. There were some issues here too! I'll get to that.

Got the leds stuck on the sides and read to go.

Followed by the plexi.

Then I glued them in. I tried as best I could to skip over the actual led lights when gluing and just sticking to the between portions. I think it went pretty well.

Love this look! This is without the protective plastic covering.

Then I threw on some electrical tape to close up the seam and encapsulate the light flow.

That was where my issue came in. I was actually so frustrated at it, I forgot to take a picture. But the leds were setting back too far, so when they shown, they didn't give off any light cause of the tint. I was pretty upset. But by this point I had to come up with a solution.

I had another sheet of acrylic here, so i could have cut another piece, but with all that glue in there, and the frame being so flimsy, I was worried about breaking it trying to get the acrylic out. So I got out my air sander and went to work hoping this would work!

[scooter99]

Thankfully it worked out!

So I moved on from there, tape again

And then tested it. The lights are off, and I'm not overly happy about that, but it's what I had here and they're two separate types of lights. What I probably should have done, was I should've put the brighter of the two lights on the sides and then the dimmer on top and bottom. But it's done now. I'll live with it.

Next little issue was this connection. It sits way taller than the back of the frame. So I had to address that.

Sanded it down, perfect!

She still looks purdy! Just more subtle now.

Now it was time to run the wire. This is the 1/4" back plate for the sign. I drilled a hole in it after setting the oval on the plate and marking where the wire was going to go through at.

Got out the sander and sanded down a groove for the wire to pass through.

[scooter99]

I used a finish nailer to get the plate and sign on, but that made some holes obviously, so those needed touching up.

Then the frame

Ready to be stripped!

[scooter99]

Pre money shot!

Time for some sexy!

Lit up!

Close up!

Added a little DC Love!

So that's it! That's what I got done today. So what's left?!

Wire the subs

Get the amp mounted

Then it's onto the truck, Run power and ground, rcas, turn on wire, install new head unit, and a couple other things! THEN ------Put the DD-1 on this bish and get her playing! Almost there!

[Twostrokeking]

Looks great!... for a ford logo (;