Big Dave's Truck Project

[Mark LaFountain 1,054]

awesome skillz. great work. I need more pictures though lol

[BoomBoxB 0]

awesome skillz. great work. I need more pictures though lol

x2 yeah we do!

[mccleery3 166]

MORE PICS!! you do some great work dave!

[Notorious97200 339]

I wanna see more !!!!

pics, oics, pics, please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)

[filtor1 13]

Oh to have an ounce of your skill. Great build! I look forward to seeing it completed.

[F-150 Murphy 0]

I love seeing this done to a truck its so sexy.... i wish my truck was this amazing

['BIG DAVE' 0]

THANKS ALL. 'Preciate the kind words! Its taken longer than I anticipated cuz when I'm sanding to 400 for auto spray paint- I look around and no other work is gettin done. No weldin, no fiberglassin, no wood work, no bondo, no nuthin! Had buddies that said they'd come help- but no one ever showed SO, I've bin pluggin away.

I have tons of pics- every step, all kinda angles- but havent found a vault to load them in, so Mark does a great job of gettin them up and out for all to see, but I have more, like a 'How to' slide show

Truk wiring is run. Need to weld up a bracket & support for the isolater & circuit breaker up in the engine compartment. But its bin -30 degrees up here and the truk doesnt fit in the garage- well, it does, but then no room to work around it.

SO, bin waitin for nicer weather. Using the VB-2 sheeting, sound insulation dampening mat- easyyyy to use. Got the roof done. Doors r ready to do- but again, too cold to stick

There are no screws holding this build together- its all 1/4 inch & 1/2 inch bolts and 'T'nuts with bolts- which means that everything has more work involved, cant just fire a screw in to hold something- gotta plan ahead, drill thru, affix the 'T' nut- then router the next piece of wood, so there is a 'recess' to allow for the 'T' nut thickness. Wherever carpet or vinyl wrap around a piece- that piece or the mating piece has the thickness of the carpet or vinyl routered from it- so the pieces mate without a layer of material as a spacer. Just all takes a lot of time

Wanted to put all this stuff inside the cab- so the bed is free. But, when the amps arrived- they were 13x18 inch-x 5 of them!~ I looked at the truk and started to laff. Ok- we're puttin amps on the ceiling! Cuz I still wanted to be able to look out the back window. Made things a little more challenging.

The doors were especially a P.I.A! Looked on-line and couldnt find anyone who had done a set of these F-250 doors with the Double pockets! Wanted to do the pod in one wrap- but no way it can be done. So, had to do it in multiple steps. Then- wanna show off the Mach5Audio Speakers- wanted to paint everything rather than use carpet or fun fur. So- bit of a process to get all the glass perfect enuf to paint.

Its funny eh- u do something nice- like a glass/vinyl door panel, and people look and say- "Ya- so?" And they dont realise what they are supposed to be lookin at. BUT- if u hang a big elephant ear off the door, covered in fur - "People yell-- Aww man- look at the speakers they added!" lol.

When I had my own shop, I'd take a vehicle in for a month or months and work on it like a hobby. AT a retail shop- there is no way they'd take this much time to do a build- just no money in it- unless the customer had bags of cash! So- its all doable, but in the constrains of a shop environment- this type of build isnt a money maker, like a quick sub box with carpet, or amp rack, or deck & 2.

Cars I've built or re-fit have won over 200 trophies, just luv doin this stuff! A tricky one was a 1985 Vette- with 3x JL 12's, Epicenter, Phoenix Gold MP2500, MP-275, EQ-15 & x-over, 3 capacitors, extra battery, ALL behind the seats! Gotta find someplace to make the pics available:)

If there's any questions, fire away:))) Have a good one!!!

[bobonit 5]

Beautiful work, just beautiful.

[Dutchie. 10]

This work is just beautiful. The only word to describe it. Much praise to you. Just makes me want to get more and more into audio.

[B7L|BL4Z3R 4]

PICTURES

[mrogowski 6]

So Dave sent pictures of how he put the sub box together. Here are shots of his work in random order. Still can't get over the amount of labour involved here:

[mrogowski 6]

[B7L|BL4Z3R 4]

its looking ill... keep up the good work

[BoomBoxB 0]

two thumbs up

[traksta15 0]

wow...........great work!!

[Mark LaFountain 1,054]

two thumbs up

way up!

[Kanaworm$ 292]

Wow! Great work! Keep the pics coming.

[nem 2,019]

It sure looks to be labor intensive. Nice work man!!

[mrogowski 6]

More work completed, this time to the sides of the sub box.

Dave chose a nice copper pattern to mount some of the electronics on.

As usual, the fit and finish is spectacular

[acex3a 5]

keep the pics coming this is a great build!

[mrogowski 6]

More shots of the sides - looks like the assembly of them:

[ABXX49 20]

Great work. This thing is going to put up some disgusting numbers...

[mrogowski 6]

Here's the work done on the door pods:

This really sucks - you can see how the door moldings are not the same

Work done on the rear of the pods

The finished product

[acex3a 5]

more pics!!!!

i cant wait to see videos of this!

[Duran 387]

This guy is insane...phenomenal craftsmanship here!