JL AUDIO! Need some Help!

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:30 pm

"Post pictures of/during the install."

Will do, I'm planning to do a before/after photo album. I'll sneak a few pictures on here. Only thing I've done so far is swapped in a 5 spd. (with the hole in the floor still, making a plate to cover it up once I get some time) and I have the CD8454 in. Right now I'm rocking to the 20 year old Ford factory 4.5" whizzer cones in the dash

Talk about motivation, though I'm surprised (and halfway happy) that they still work. Interior of the truck is in surprisingly good shape, but the exterior needs paint. I like the color, two tone blue and white. Works well on the 80s Ford trucks, hard lines of the truck make a two tone look good.

Goal is just a simple system, single amp, 2 way components, single small sub. Probably an Audiocontrol digital processor, haven't decided which one yet, though. I'm hoping I can squeek the 8" in the console somewhere, I'd love to have the seats reclined all the way back for imaging purposes of the speakers and for the fact that I'm 6'2". I have to get the metal plate and shifter in place before I can really measure and see what kind of room I have to work with. I'm going to have to make some kind of console anyway, I'm not taking road trips with a 20oz drink in between my legs the whole way. Been there, done that. If I can get the sub in the console, then I can just use behind the seat as an amp rack and have plenty of space.

joeyc · Post by **joeyc** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:36 pm

Don't you just love losing your hearing do to really really loud vibrating stereo systems?!! huh? did you say something? :)

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:39 pm

"Don't you just love losing your hearing do to really really loud vibrating stereo systems?!! huh? did you say something? "

My system will cause hearing damage more quickly than yours. Take THAT!

joeyc · Post by **joeyc** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:43 pm

OH YEAH!!?? Well I'm going to get 4 BOSS 15's and a Sony explod Amp, and it will really hurt your ears!! More than yours will, hahaha

smoker · Post by **smoker** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:59 pm

KikiTheCat wrote:the actual outcome will depend on power, enclosure design, and install as well.. but if you want to go deaf, get two 13W7s and a 1000/1 for each sub.
make sure you have a charging system to handle the load.

good advice......where have i heard that before?

High Society · Post by **High Society** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:01 pm

I got 2 - 15" MTX Thunder 8500

What kinda box are they in? What do you have powering it now? Going from two 15's to one 12 or 2, You'll loose the SPL you are wanting. Before you go dropping thousands on JL, Get your self a ported box for the 15's. If you dont already. You might want to get one more 8500 and see how 3 15's would sound. Would save you a lot of money. Thre 15" 8500 should make you go deaf in no time. Unless you really wanna waste all that money?

MobileAudio219 · Post by **MobileAudio219** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:04 pm

hey jonatan, I'm assuming you have buckets in your truck? If so you should be able to get an 8" in there. Where are you putting the components, in the door?

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:05 pm

"hey jonatan, I'm assuming you have buckets in your truck?"

Bench

I highly doubt I'll find a way to squeak the 8 in there. I'll angle it every way I can, though

"Where are you putting the components, in the door?"

Hopefully kicks if I can muster up the room, if not it'll be door pods. Either way, the small size of the truck leads it to image pretty well even from doors. If I do kicks, they will be vented so that it'll effectively be IB. It may take a little trimming behind the kick panels, and moving the parking brake over a tad. I'll have to see how the tweeter goes, I'm hoping it will work well in the A-pillar, JLs sets have a rather high x-over frequency (4.8khz 2nd order for the tweeter, for the XRs anyway). If not, the tweets will end up in kicks and I'll have ambient tweeters in the pillars to raise the stage and help side to side imaging.

High Society · Post by **High Society** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:26 pm

If I can fit four 8's behind my bench seat. You can fit one :)

MobileAudio219 · Post by **MobileAudio219** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:20 pm

Go to the junk yard and pick yourself up a set of 60/40 or bucket seat tracks from a 1st gen, since ford buckets all share the same bolt pattern you have an endless supply of seats that you could use...

I used tempo seats only because I got them for free.. If I were you I'd look for some leather seats out of a thunderbird