Gen 1 Standard Cab Install

[baxtej44]

**Longest Install EVERRRRRRRRRRR**

haha don't hate me

lookin good baxtej44, it may have taken a long time to get to this point but it looks like youll have a clean set up when youre done. keep us posted when you return!

yeah i'm back in town, had a good time.. it was a state competition for DECA, which is a marketing group i guess you could call it. i competed in a team event, so me and another girl. we did hospitality and tourism...

we did absolutely incredible on our role play (we are given a situation and we had 30 minutes to prepare a solution and present it to 2 judges), we got 91/100 (this is our first competition ever), and we got 3rd place in that, but that score is combined with our exam (100 questions) and what dragged me down was her test score (it sounds mean, but it's just the way it is), our average was only 63 so that completely screwed us over and so we didn't place to move on to nationals... i knew i should have done an individual event... uggghhhh.

 

[baxtej44]

i'm boomin! no video yet, gonna have to find my digital camera as it will have way better quality than my cell phone and also idk how to get videos off of my phone on to my computer because when i send them in a video message to my email my computer can't read the file format. so last time i needed to do that, i downloaded a video converter, gave me a virus. downloaded a different one and it converted it, but stripped the audio...

anyway, i cleaned up the grounding location real well this morning and re ran all of the cables so they weren't so sloppy. if i wouldn't have been so excited and anxious to have it hooked up i would have trimmed them all to fit, however it also makes it fine this way so that i won't have to buy a new wiring kit if i ever change vehicles (only a new ranger of course, nothing else ) or if i change set ups.


i really like it, and like everyone says, now all i want is more. if i had the space/money for like 3 of these... holy buckets of sunshine batman it would be insane.

i've got the gain about halfway up right now, and it's nowhere near headache level, but i'm definitely loving it. everyone talks about "filling in" and it never made sense to me until now! it sounds great! i need to tune it all and have it sounding nice.

 

[baxtej44]

put your gain at half way. it should be good. you want your LPF on and i like to set mine to 80-70 hz with a -6db orrr -12db slope

so halfway is good? i don't want to blow my sub obviously and my amp is more than enough to feed my rms value of the sub.


also, in my head unit. there's an option to turn the sub on/off, and also if it's mounted reverse or normal, and i don't think the last one is labeled, but it's what i would have to guess is like sort of a filter for my sub, i can go from i think like 50hz up to 100hz and can go plus or minus on the slope.

so you're suggesting i go -6? isn't that just turning it down? not second guessing you, just trying to learn - why do i want that?

 

[4x4fun]

so halfway is good? i don't want to blow my sub obviously and my amp is more than enough to feed my rms value of the sub.


also, in my head unit. there's an option to turn the sub on/off, and also if it's mounted reverse or normal, and i don't think the last one is labeled, but it's what i would have to guess is like sort of a filter for my sub, i can go from i think like 50hz up to 100hz and can go plus or minus on the slope.

so you're suggesting i go -6? isn't that just turning it down? not second guessing you, just trying to learn - why do i want that?

lol no your DB slope is how fast the sound stops. in the form of a gentle taper. or not so gentle. lets say your sub LPF is set to ummmmm 75 hz. your sub wont stop making noise till around the 85-90hz range. but the volume does get softer and softer. the slope gives the mids time to fill in for were the sub is about to leave off.

so if you set it to -18db slope it will stop at pretty much 75 hz and can leave a dead spot in your system. but this is good for band pass boxes and some of the higher "order" sub boxes that.

were as if you have just a sub and smaller speakers in the front that cant put out much base, a -6db slope will be more forgiving of the 4iches in a dash, as far as bass goes.

 

[baxtej44]

lol no your DB slope is how fast the sound stops. in the form of a gentle taper. or not so gentle. lets say your sub LPF is set to ummmmm 75 hz. your sub wont stop making noise till around the 85-90hz range. but the volume does get softer and softer. the slope gives the mids time to fill in for were the sub is about to leave off.

so if you set it to -18db slope it will stop at pretty much 75 hz and can leave a dead spot in your system. but this is good for band pass boxes and some of the higher "order" sub boxes that.

were as if you have just a sub and smaller speakers in the front that cant put out much base, a -6db slope will be more forgiving of the 4iches in a dash, as far as bass goes.

okay thanks

 

[ForOffRoadDriving]

ive never tried to upload a video clip, but you gotta get some pics up of it at least, i want to see how it turned out!

 

[baxtej44]

ive never tried to upload a video clip, but you gotta get some pics up of it at least, i want to see how it turned out!

will do, soon hopefully.

 

[gertsdsbs]

YAY! just got done installing my system on my 86 single cab. Let me see if i can post a video!

 

[baxtej44]

YAY! just got done installing my system on my 86 single cab. Let me see if i can post a video!

looking forward to seeing it.. in your thread

 

[sooperxtool]

lol

 

[rockin86ranger]

how did the box end up fitting, im fixing to star an install in my truck and was looking for some ideas.

 

[baxtej44]

how did the box end up fitting, im fixing to star an install in my truck and was looking for some ideas.

it fits perfectly, wish i would have thought/had a way to secure it to the back wall because it moves a little bit. and been having some troubles with my amp... i think it has a mind of its own of when it wants to work and not. seems to be a ground because sometimes it seems like it correlates with my braking, sometimes with my steering. and then other times it's just random or bumps. seems pretty random, but sort of controlled also.


like the idea that i have my amp built into my box, because i didn't want to hassle with it underneath the seat


i can send the dimensions if you'd like

 

[rjppunk]

does your ranger have those stupid cargo bungie straps on the rear wall of the cab? If you do you can pull those out and it leaves a very nice mounting point.

 

[baxtej44]

does your ranger have those stupid cargo bungie straps on the rear wall of the cab? If you do you can pull those out and it leaves a very nice mounting point.

no straps unless my grandpa would have removed them some time between 88 and 2008 when he owned it.

 

[rockin86ranger]

so do you have the seat moved up for it to fit, or can you go all the way back, iver been trying to get a setup for my ranger but the seat needs to be all the way back, i've goy my choice of subs, i got 2 10s and 3 12s to choose from but im thinking about runing the 10s cause i think they have slighty thinner profile