08 F250 super duty king ranch install

[Erotomania 0]

Brand new F-250 Super Duty King Ranch trim. I'm currently installing:

Focal K2P in the front doors

Focal Access 165A1s in the rear doors. I'm not so sure about the layout on the previous years, but the 2008 super duty has a 5x7 in the C pillar, and a tweeter in the rear door panel. So we are putting a enclosure in one of the storage pockets in the rear door panel to hold the access woofer, and fitting the tweeter in the stock location and eliminating the factory 5x7 in the pillar.

Alpine 4.150

JL 250.1 to power a JL w3 10" woofer. I tore apart the center armrest storage compartment and fitting a sealed box for the w3, the 10" woofer just barely fits in the compartment alone I still got about .8sq feet of box space.

Kenwood DNX7100 with all the bells and whistles.

So far the woofer is installed, the amps are wired but racks are being built to fit behind the seats. The tweeters have been fitted, the rear door panels still need to be modded to fit the additional speaker, and the K2's are being a slight pain to fit in the front doors.

I've done hundreds and hundreds of installs but I'm still a bit of a newb, and this is my first time getting my hands on speakers like focals, and I must say the k2's sound amazing by what I'm used to hearing(polk momos, infinity kappa's, even the polk SRs).

I'll have pictures up tomorrow, its shaping up to be a pretty sweet sounding ride.

[Dave Brooks 0]

Lookin' forward to the pics!

I'm interested in seeing the interior differences between my '06 and the '08 models. From your description, sounds like they haven't changed too much. Except for the tweeter part.

[Erotomania 0]

I'm not sure, its my buddies truck, and when he bought all of the components the sales guy had said that the center console could be made to easily fit the W3 8 or 10" woofer or a 8" W7 claiming plenty of room. After ripping the 08 console out, there really is no where to go further down with the center console. I shaped up a MDF box to fit in there, it sounds great but sounds a little choked out on lower notes so I'm thinking of fiberglassing something and get more airspace.

Kind of in trial and error phase really. He's also wanting to put some of the pioneer premier slim woofers behind the seat which is going throw another challenge, where the hell to put the amps!

This truck really has no space to work with. Under the rear seats it has those fold out metal things, have no clue what they are for but they take up all the space under the rear seats, no room under the font seats, limited room behind the rear seats, even limited room in the doors for speakers.

The DNX looks beautiful in the dash though, I will say that.

[mrray13 30]

have you tried to poly fill teh box a bit? it'll give the sub the impression it's in a larger box and should help gain some on the bottom end. general rule of thumb is 1pd of poly for every cubic foot of box space.

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[Erotomania 0]

have you tried to poly fill teh box a bit? it'll give the sub the impression it's in a larger box and should help gain some on the bottom end. general rule of thumb is 1pd of poly for every cubic foot of box space.

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I was thinking that...Sadly removing the woofer requires tearing the entire console apart. It needs to be done at some point anyway because the hole cut out in the box is just a hair big enough to leak pressure through 2 of the screw holes. Thats what I get for building a box like that at 4am.

[Dave Brooks 0]

...This truck really has no space to work with. Under the rear seats it has those fold out metal things, have no clue what they are for but they take up all the space under the rear seats, no room under the font seats, limited room behind the rear seats, even limited room in the doors for speakers.

The fold-out metal things are just a flat storage area if you don't want to put stuff on the seat. You flip the seats up and lay out the metal "tray" to prevent any damage to the seat or floor. I took mine out. Six torx heads and its done. That'll give you room for a few amps.

There are a couple of factory holes under the rear seats that'll accept 1/0 easily if you want to run power down the frame-rails...

Behind the rear seats, yeah you gotta mount things low... which makes them inaccessible for the most part if you need to fiddle with something.

Under the front seats? Forget about it!! LOL about the only thing a guy can store there is old french fries and even those would get smashed when you adjust the seat.

Doors must be different than mine, I was able to put some fairly deep oversized 6.5 drivers in mine with only a wee bit o' trimming to the narrow sides of the OEM hole. They flush mounted under the factory panel after that.

[Erotomania 0]

...This truck really has no space to work with. Under the rear seats it has those fold out metal things, have no clue what they are for but they take up all the space under the rear seats, no room under the font seats, limited room behind the rear seats, even limited room in the doors for speakers.

The fold-out metal things are just a flat storage area if you don't want to put stuff on the seat. You flip the seats up and lay out the metal "tray" to prevent any damage to the seat or floor. I took mine out. Six torx heads and its done. That'll give you room for a few amps.

There are a couple of factory holes under the rear seats that'll accept 1/0 easily if you want to run power down the frame-rails...

Behind the rear seats, yeah you gotta mount things low... which makes them inaccessible for the most part if you need to fiddle with something.

Under the front seats? Forget about it!! LOL about the only thing a guy can store there is old french fries and even those would get smashed when you adjust the seat.

Doors must be different than mine, I was able to put some fairly deep oversized 6.5 drivers in mine with only a wee bit o' trimming to the narrow sides of the OEM hole. They flush mounted under the factory panel after that.

Well It keeps getting worse.

The guy now wants me to fit 2x12" pioneer premier slims behind the rear seats. Doable, but he wants to keep those racks under the rear seats, so now I've got to figure out some magic place to put the amps.

That plus he's adding headrest monitors. Cutting into that king ranch leather gives me chills..

This install is turning into one big nasty rusty nail in my ass.

Since you know the truck any ideas would be great. I felt the back of the rear seats...There is no real bracing just a cloth cover...I might look into cutting the cloth and making a rack into the rear of back seats...I dont know how much padding I have to work with in those seats though. Big if on that idea, thankfully I'm working with 2 PDX alpine amps and a similarly sized JL amp.

Edited January 29, 2008 by Erotomania

[Dave Brooks 0]

The felt piece on the back wall is held on by three torx bolts and brackets at the top and a few push connectors along the top as well. Easy to take off and it'll give you an extra few inches of clearance at the bottom. It's a sloppy fit because it is designed to cover the power rear window motor and cabin vents. You don't need to take the side panels off to get it out, just bow it a little in the middle and it'll pull away from the edges.

How about this... put a twelve low and outside behind the seat. One on each side, almost to the wall. Taper it toward the top and avoid the cabin vents. I think you may have to play with angling the subs a bit to get the most clearance.

both PDX amps will fit easily in the center between the subs...

Think that might work?

I'm no help on the vid screens in the headrest, sorry.

[mrray13 30]

man, those pioneer slim subs suck ass! at teh old shop we installed three in recommended enclosures, only to pull them out later and replace them with either the clarion version or the kicker version.

we also had to put a pair of subs behind the seat of a king ranch crew. ended bieng a pair of 8" memphis mclass, adn they had to be squeezed in there. luckly, the guy didn't have the fold out floor, the two amps went under tehre.

good luck!

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