Well, I finally managed to put a gallery together. There are 3 photo sets that I uploaded:

1. Big 3 (4) upgrade with a custom billet hold down for an Optima Yellow Top.
2. Amp mounting boards with X-overs etc. Dynamating in/out of front doors, and mounting of Rainbows.
3. Alpine IVA w205 in dash with Oznium diode rocker switches that remotely control the amps and 'black box'.

Here's a link to my gallery..I hope the photos are useful. I did the entire install using this forum and the relevant searches.

javascript:openCode('gallery.cfm?num=10819','remot e')

Thanks to all who post here.

 

Sorry, in the previous post I pasted the wrong link, the following should be correct. Check it out if you want to see a complete install of 2 Alpine PDX amps, an Alpine IVA W205 Headunit, and a Big 3 (4) wiring upgrade. I tried to annotate the photos as needed. Sorry for the wrong link above..

https://www.f150online.com/galleries....cfm?num=15244

 

Well...sorry for all these posts, but maybe I've finally figured out the structure of this thing. At any rate go to this link to access all three albums...i think

https://www.f150online.com/galleries...cfm?gnum=10819

 

Very nice

I need to do some more work on my install

 

Yeah that is slick. Thanks for the photos.

Great shirt too.

 

Looks great Bigmac.

Nice and clean, I like that

 

Very well done. Can you do mine... lol.

 

X2!

 

Thanks to everyone on the forum. Reading Bartak threads helped a lot on the install. I only had to ask a couple of stupid questions:

1. Is it OK to route 12G speaker wires to the right front stage in the same sill channel as the + power wire. The resounding answer was yes.
2. Was the 300Amp fuse necessary in the Big 4 upgrade between the alternator and the Yellow Top? I didn't pick this up in my reading of the forum. Again, a lot of you came through with a resounding YES on this one.

I wanted to go with Rainbow Vanadiums but when my budget became close to being max'ed out, I needed to make some compromises....so far I'm really happy with the system. I didn't realized the expense of the wire (even though I bought all of it from KnuKonceptz), and the Dynamat was outrageous. I'm truly glad I did the Dynamat once the metal scratches on the backs of my hands healed! On the up side, the cab is a lot quieter (now I want to Dynamat the rear doors), and I could probably have kept my Magnaflow which was my 1st mod and the only one that my wife rejected....I now have a SIDO baffle that is a little quieter than the Maggie that I like (an exhaust shop tells me its off of a bow tie type vehicle )...