DNFXDLI's 79 F150 Build Part 2

[Austin]

Sending it out...I've tried to source the "kit" that all the places are using but to no avail.
Looks like any of the resto places are all using the same kit....I would rather do it myself.

I'd like to do it to say I did! That'd be a fun evening project. Any plans for an external CD changer?

I'm assuming you're adding an aux line in.

 

[DNFXDLI]

I'd like to do it to say I did! That'd be a fun evening project. Any plans for an external CD changer?

I'm assuming you're adding an aux line in.

So would I...although I suspect more than an evening, the tuning mechanism still works to set the stations.
The standard kit comes with a line in which I will use for my Zune.
It comes with a 50W x 4 amp, which I suspect in reality will be closer to 20WRMS x 4, which will be fine for me after I do sound dampening.
I may incorporate a 6 x 9 or 8 x 10 sub using the line outs, but for my purposes, putting some decent door speakers in and a dual VC dash speaker will probably fit the bill.

 

[Austin]

How does the wiring work for the center channel? I skipped hooking mine up in the dent because I wasn't sure how I'd do it without piggy-backing another speaker.

 

[DNFXDLI]

It's simply a 4 channel amp with fader. So the setup (what I would do) is run the door speakers as the "rear" and the dual voice coil dash speaker as the "front".
The dual voice coil speakers simply have 2 sets of connections to them...just like a sub, only in this case you are connecting a left/right signal to the full range speaker as opposed to a summed mono signal (typically) in a sub application.

 

[Austin]

Okay, I see how that works. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[DNFXDLI]

Okay, I see how that works. Thanks for the clarification.

I took a Home Depot weekend course

 

[Austin]

I took a Home Depot weekend course

 

[fatherdoug]

I took a Home Depot weekend course

They don't offer that at my Home Depot.

Very nice haul, Duncan. That speedo cable is a gem!

 

[DNFXDLI]

They don't offer that at my Home Depot.

Very nice haul, Duncan. That speedo cable is a gem!

I teach the course....

The speedo cable was a source of worry....that foam bushing was like a petrified piece of wood on my original one and any aftermarket ones I looked at appeared not to come with it.
I might sleep with it tonight

 

[Austin]

Austin, you can sleep in my shop tonight

If you say so, but I'm cuddling up with that shiny speedo cable!

 

[fatherdoug]

I teach the course....

The speedo cable was a source of worry....that foam bushing was like a petrified piece of wood on my original one and any aftermarket ones I looked at appeared not to come with it.
I might sleep with it tonight

Don't forget the speedo lube.

 

[DNFXDLI]

Don't forget the speedo lube.

See...with age comes experience....now I don't have to get out of my warm bed...

 

[fatherdoug]

 

[73F100Shortbed]

Maybe one day you will remind me to send you those a/c vents

 

[DNFXDLI]

Maybe one day you will remind me to send you those a/c vents

I did...right after the last time you told me to remind you...
I'm a ways away from vent installation

 

[73F100Shortbed]

 

[DNFXDLI]

On a related note, I got 2 chrome seat XLT covers from DC on this trip.
All I have to say is one word................."perfect"
Considering they are reproductions, the "Ford" logo and engineering # is part of the item...I compared them to my worn originals....you CANNOT tell them apart.

 

[primetime]

I was curious, how do you plan on dressing the engine? Are you dressing those 434 cubes of goodness to look stock for the sleeper look, or are you going to add some shiny stuff to make people wonder and look close?

 

[DNFXDLI]

I was curious, how do you plan on dressing the engine? Are you dressing those 434 cubes of goodness to look stock for the sleeper look, or are you going to add some shiny stuff to make people wonder and look close?

The block and bracketry will be powdercoated in Ford blue. Intake and exhaust will be ceramic coated in a "chrome" type of ceramic coating. The valve covers and air cleaner will be of a "Ford Racing" type.
My hope is that from outward appearance, the truck will look factoryish.
The fuel injection closely resembles a Holley carb.
Rims will be Centerline Wilderness type, probably a 17'' with BFG A/T's

 

[73F100Shortbed]

On a related note, I got 2 chrome seat XLT covers from DC on this trip.
All I have to say is one word................."perfect"
Considering they are reproductions, the "Ford" logo and engineering # is part of the item...I compared them to my worn originals....you CANNOT tell them apart.

What do they look like?