JL Audio Cleansweep. A Must??

daculatruck50 · #1 07-19-2006, 06:00 PM

I have a 2004 regular cab f-150. I plan on installing a JL 300/4 amp and JL Component speakers in the front only. I was wondering first of all if the F-150 is even compadable with the cleansweep because i've heard fords cross over the speaker signals and the signals aren't full-range. If this is true the cleansweep wont work. Second of all do i even need one. I've heard factory head units are no good. Thats why i figured i needed one because i wanna keep the factory look.

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Lumadar · #2 07-19-2006, 06:25 PM

I have a JL Cleansweep and a JL 450/4 and it worked great. Really does sound like a quality aftermarket deck.

daculatruck50 · #3 07-19-2006, 07:55 PM

Where did you install the cleansweep and the amp? and was it a hard install

Lumadar · #4 07-19-2006, 08:39 PM

The cleansweep went in the dash behind the stock deck. you could fit a small child in there, lol.

And I put that amp, and my 500/1 behind the rear bench on the back wall. In the supercab and screw models there is a TON of room back there.

In a regular cab it's different, but I am sure you could mount it on the back wall somewhere. MAYBE under a seat?

daculatruck50 · #5 07-20-2006, 08:36 PM

Yea i want to put the 300/4 under the seat. Dont really know if it will fit and if will overheat or not.

Lumadar · #6 07-20-2006, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by daculatruck50

Yea i want to put the 300/4 under the seat. Dont really know if it will fit and if will overheat or not.

I do not know because I didn't do that installation type. If it physically fits, I doubt it will overheat unless a lot of the surface area is physically being pushed on buy something thick.

Go test fit it and see

Socal858 · #7 07-20-2006, 11:21 PM

id recommend against both the cleansweep and 4 channel in a regular cab

a headunit will offer greater fingertip control, the cleansweep is an excellent product but is very expensive. have you considered doubledin video for a factory appearance?

rear fill is not really necessary in a regular cab, i have nothing in the rears and my staging is great. just run some big power to good components in front, with an SQL woofer in rear

Bartak1 · #8 07-21-2006, 12:31 AM

If I ever used a factory HU again (doubtfull lol) then I would definatley get the CleanSweep to try to get some better SQ out of the stocker.

daculatruck50 · #9 07-21-2006, 12:21 PM

i wanna keep the stock head unit. And the 300/4 fits perfectly between the rails of the seat. It doesn't look like there will be an over heating problem. Also the 4 channels are for JL XR650-CSi components up front and a 12" JL Sub behind my seat.

speedfreak · #10 07-31-2006, 02:10 PM

Another alternative if your not dead set on going JL is the Rockford 3sixty...