Undrstm8ed's Audio Build - Ground up

Undrstm8ed · #1 10-18-2014, 01:42 AM

This was my mock up material I mentioned in a previous post.

"my design for a "Carbon-fiber Battery Tray." Right now the design plan is in works for a group 65 battery; why? because I need to produce two of them for the Project Ranger design for the bed dual battery system consisting of two 51lb batteries. The battery trays, the amps with air/liquid cooled rack, and majority of the enclosure itself will be all comprised of marine grade birch, carbon fiber, and aluminum accented materials."

I've estimated that not including time but just in material costs alone, I'll have roughly between $330 - $410 into each of the Battery trays alone. Amp rack may launch me well over $1200 mark, so I am hoping all of my attention to detail and work quality pays off as this will not be your typical big box store setup. I've many friends that have been quite involved with I.A.S.C.A. as judges and supporters and Ive been groomed in that manner. It's not the cost that matters in what and why but what it takes to get what I want from it. That's a bit harder to justify than it sounds to many people.

http://s150.photobucket.com/user/Und...attery%20Trays

I'll be adding often much content in this thread I am just minimizing the bandwidth the forum uses and inviting all to my photobucket page.

As of now as I am preparing several components which comprise of; the bed through enclosure housing three 8" subs, two battery trays, air and liquid (possible additional design) cooled amp rack.

The 2008 F250, 350, 450 came with nice oval rubber grommets in the forward bed location in the lower corners. I ordered a set to add to my 93 ranger as this was a super clean way to route and hide three 1/0 cables from the engine bay. I will be cutting these locations out over the weekend as hopefully in the next upcoming week or two I'll have the accordion boot for the bed through so I can cut the bed and cab as well before taking it in to get the spray in bed liner done. Once all holes are cut / blocked off and sprayed I can go to work on the rest of the bed components. Meanwhile I just ordered a grip of 1/0 cable, 4ga, 8ga, fuse and distribution blocks.

I prefer sound quality over the ability to send a kidney through my colon, those days are way behind and got old quick for me. I prefer to sit people in my vehicles and wow them with sound like they've never heard before.

It took me an entire season of new products and several listening opportunities of both on and off axis demonstrations of speakers. I narrowed it down to Focals and the Dynaudio. The Dynaudio allowed me to not spend $4k on a 3 way component set.

I will be using a 3 way Dynaudio setup with a 7" midbass driver in the door, a 3" and a 1" soft dome tweet in the kick panels for mids and highs. I am hoping with the right tweaking and tuning I can get the sound stage and imaging to do what I want. The lower end will be rounded off by three ID8 8" Arc Audio subwoofers; same as their KAR amplifiers (KS 300.4, KS 300.2). All processed thru passive and active crossovers and an Audio Control unit to dial it in (since it already has a built in line driver and noise gate).

As for the head unit, Samsung Galaxy Tab3 7.0in a custom bucket that allows me to charge while in the car and slide it out to take it with me and keep it mine. The battery tray just happened to be the most recent pics I've downloaded and since its a bit rather late, i'll add the Tablet pics in the next day or so.

My challenge? fighting all of the standing waves in a near completely flat and squared off vehicle !!

I look forward to questions and comments, just remember this is my build design to showcase. Thanks for looking

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Undrstm8ed · #2 10-20-2014, 12:44 AM

Here is my plans for my Galaxy Tab 7.0 with some pics as I go along, Busy weekend so i'll have to edit them and add content on Tuesday...

Old head unit; Alpine

The idea is to put this in an old style dashboard and make it work using bluetooth...

If only Bluetooth was around in 93'... Got it covered!

Wasnt quite sure if I wanted it the original location or...

Move the AC controls up and lose the Ash Tray area and flush it down low.

Up top it is..!

So I been working on a lot here. I've since blocked off the vent, Used an old Factory Radio slide and affixed a piece of ABS plastic for some new controls to the 93 Ranger; One being the above Bluetooth for audio streaming from the tablet. and the other is a 12volt powered 7 way USB hub and a couple relays and connections.

Now this will allow me to integrate a laptop inside if need be for convenience of taping all things. So in this I have a few things powered up on 12 volt accessory with the key;

- Power to the Bluetooth module
- Power to the Tablet
- Aux Power for my Note III
- A External Passport 1TB HD
- 3 additional USB 2.0 ports (one for Laptop)
- 1 USB 1.1 port (laptop/Mobile printer connection)

Here is the custom slideout bucket I mentioned.

This is the space where the power plug gets glassed into place for charging the unit

A test fit here and there.. or about 20

I want to keep it at or near the OEM angle of the original radio for visibility

Now I get to glass it into place along with some additional lighted Mini-sub rocker switches which will allow for additional features.

Undrstm8ed · #3 10-20-2014, 01:50 AM

Just a brief update on the bed work...

I ordered these from the dealer, they're the rubber plugs found in the cab side of the bed in F250, 350, 450+. They were about $7 for each and easy to replace. This is them and prior to them being installed and before the spray-in-bed-liner goes in...

As you can see, this pre-thought was never implemented in 1993..

As you can see by the battery tray(main) there is plenty of room to run 1/0 cables through these grommet locations.

Design has changed slightly as far as measurements and enclosure style. but the idea presented here is still the same thought. Without the plastic bed liner in I have 57" across in space and just over 20" in depth from the bed firewall to wheel wells.

The opening here will only be 30" pass through. Since the enclosure went from being a bandpass design to a sealed enclosure. The front face will be unique and full carbon fiber with Marine-Grade birch supports and initial cavity