Stereo upgrade

Tossed the old factory head unit.
New pioneer nex1500.
Kicker ks 6.75 components ….
Silicone baffles
JL bass amp
Memphis 400/4
JL sub
Some sound matt from Amazon
Almost done.
Whew

 

Couple pics

 

Any questions feel free to shoot

 

If you still have your old factory radio I'll take it!

 

Nice. Covering the big hole in the door may slightly improve midbass response. Some use abs plastic or even the siless damping mat if you have extra. Really depends upon things like speaker characteristics, etc. Prolley not worth it unless you have a bunch of extra siless laying around.

 

Looks good! Do you want to do mine next?

 

Put in your year and truck and scroll down to "stereo", pick the one you want, and search near your zip code.

 

Man I would give you my factory radio but it didn’t work. The volume knob was shot.
Life is way better now.

I’m running an “active setup”. One channel on each tweeter. One on each mid in the doors.

 

Nicely done. Almost gives me the inspiration to do mine. Almost. Is that a silicon cup thingamajigger your speaker is sitting in... do you trim it? Or am I just baked. Strong work.

 

It’s a silicone speaker baffle.
To me better than foam that would degrade

 

Finished product, how does it sound?

 

It’s awesome. If you have never run an active system I really recommend it. You must have a hard fact way of controlling crossovers digitally.
Most amp crossovers (with a dial knob) will not be specific enough to control this. (Some amps of course have computer software that allow you to run the crossover digitally).

My pioneer head unit is run in “network mode”.
Allows for high mid and low rca out not the standard front /rear/sub rca out.

It was a lot of work. Kicked my bottom. Have door clips handy. Take your time and plan on having the seat in and out a few times.

 

Been a while. After tuning and working through everything this was a great upgrade. I love it. Also make sure you use oxygen free copper wire. It cost more but it’s the right way.