Randal Johnson

Nice tweeter setup. Personally, I'd leave it where it is (Similar to mine). Keeps your width wide and helps with a strong center. Stage depth will be more pronounced with mids. Know what I mean by this ??? It's hard to drive and tune at the same time. You need to be very relaxed and focused. Can't do that and drive too. Just Saying Also, maybe I missed it, but get you midrange / midbass up as running. Then tune (like Sean said, with the sub bass off). This will help with music detail. Keep it up brother, I'm tuned in !!!

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This is what I do / drive now. Her name is Knuckle Buster. Take her a spin around the block and you will know why. LOL What can i cay ?? I love working outdoors and being on the open road !!! Be safe out there drivers !!!

I've had a short cab / short box S-10 back in my mini lowrider truck phase. It had a 350 with a 700r4 trans. Wasn't worried about audio in that one though. Guess what we were doing every Friday night with that one ?? LOL

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Well, I like them the way they are now because the are out of the way (sort of) and not having to change anything on my dash. Talking to Ray about getting a dash pad for it. At the moment, there's a large black towel on the dash helping things out. I need more time with it.

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So a guy walks into a bar and sees a ... Wait a minute, wrong forum. My bad. So i went to a junkyard the other day and found a pair of A-pillars for my truck. Spent almost a month deciding on tweeter placement. Set my tweeters (passive down to 2000 htz) up with the stock door drivers and went to work. Pillars looked like a paint by numbers board with all of the holes on them. LOL Never did find the sound i was looking for. Too narrow, Rainbow effect, so on and so forth. pulling my hair out for sure. So I remembered a little car from Spring Break Nationals that parked beside me. You know the car, the one with all the Hybrid Audio stuff winning show after show ?? Yea, the one with the 4 6.5" sub bass drivers. Can't for the life of me remember his name ... Anyways, his drivers (not tweeters) were in the sail panels with a sort of wierd axis on them. Figured it was worth a shot. What's the least that would happen ?? replace my door panels ??? done that before a time or two. IT WORKED !!! Stage depth not as deep as I wanted, but posted the center stage (singer) dead nutz on the center of my dash. Extremely wide width to boot !!! Now once i figured out the tweeter location, I was thinking seriously about a two way 8 and tweet setup. Well, not going to happen in these doors without MAJOR work. I know, I need to deaden and what not, but threw in a pair of drivers I had laying in the closet and see what happened. With the addition of the 5.25" drivers, and working with the 9980, I'm lacking very much in dynamics, but the sound, stage, and image is there !!! Like i said earlier, nothing done and set in stone, but a major improvement towards my goal !!!

Driven Ford's all my Cable Guy career. Never had any problems with Ford. No, I'm not a Cable Guy anymore. I still love Chevys, just driving a Ford for a while. Thank you Guys !!!

With out a dedicated (all things considered) center channel setup, you're gonna have a VERY hard time to stage and image driver and passenger. Ask me how I know. Might want to listen to Sean on this one brother.

About the only fab work that's needed at the moment is the dash bezel and the Tweeter locations. Got a few more pics to post, but may not get to load them tonight. Got a LONG Monday ahead of me tomorrow.

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Disclaimer on the Audio Parts: NOTHING is a finished product. I'm just getting started. With my Job and the Wife's "honey do list", my time is VERY limited. LOL Stock Radio sounded OK. I was surprised to be honest with the stock speakers. But the truck was missing the one thing I simply can not do without. The Kenwood DNX9980HD !!! Some cutting was needed in the dash unfortunately, but was able to squeeze it in there and be able to breathe nicely. I know, the bezel needs A LOT of fab work done to it. I'm hoping to take it to my guys over at Precision Audio to take care of this for me. But for now, I can watch my music videos and movies !!! Now as far as sound with the stock speakers (6x9 in each door) go, MAN WHAT A DIFFERENCE !!! I LOVE TIME ALIGNMENT !!!

Engine and Transmission is freshly rebuilt (back stock unfortunately LOL) by a good friend of the Family. Me and the wife will be the only two people to ride and drive this truck. So it should last me a while hopefully. This 4.6 has plenty of power for me. Put over 400,000 on my last truck.

She's all stock (for now) with the 4.6 V8. Hopefully I can find some time and get the Audio cables ran under the hood soon. Nothing spectacular, just adequate for power and stealthy looking. This tool box was on White Lightning before I bought the bed cover. Stuck it on for now so I can have some tools when needed. Like I said, this is my daily driver. I will take this back off at a later date to sand and paint it. but for now, it works for what i need at this time.

This is my Daily Driver. According to the F-150 forums, I got a sweet deal on her. These pics were taken the day (night at the car wash) I brought her home.

Those Kicks look AWESOME !!! Nice fab work brother !!!

dang brother, i thought we were cool. I didn't mean to piss you off by that comment. And you have never seen my try and push any name brand off on anybody, no matter what it was. I was just wanting to see someone that normally post on this forum to post up some kind of review on them. My apologies brother. I am tuned in to see what you come up with.

Well, I was pulling up the specs for all the drivers mentioned above, But with that response, I think I will stop and just watch for what you pick out. Good luck brother.

I'd grab those SSA drivers just to try them out. Just saying. I want to buy a pair so bad it's killing me, but I have nothing to put them in.Maybe a couple of reviews might push me over the edge ... LOL

Not the same person brother. I think you are talking about Scenchez. Shizzon hasn't been on here in a LONG time.

My F150 will be using a pair of LP2150s. Only takes up less than half of the room under my back seat.

I'd stay at 2 for daily. If you plan to compete, you can always ohm it down for the competition then ohm it back up for daily. Seen this done MANY times.

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