White FX4 5.0 Screw Super Slow Build
06-28-2015, 11:21 PM
#1
White FX4 5.0 Screw Super Slow Build
Howdy,
For those of you who do not know me in the forum, this is one of my first posts, so bear with me; I am not exactly sure how to use this forum. For the past year I have been active reading many posts on the forum and gaining great ideas from you guys. I currently reside in Plano, Texas, which is just North of Dallas. Next year I will be attending my senior year of high school and I am most likely going to major in petroleum engineering at OU. Yes, my dad paid for the truck, but I am paying him back slowly but surely. All of the modifications I have paid for myself funded by my lawn care company. So, long story short, this build will be very slow due to the lack of income flow.
About about the truck, it was purchased 4/19/14 and unfortunately, I do not have many pictures off it fully stock because of water damage to my phone, but from the date it was purchased it was intended to go off road. I know it's not a jeep, but unfortunately because of my height a jeep is just not an option. I intend to use the truck for moderate off-roading and mudding but nothing too extreme.
Current Modifications:
2.5" Rough Country Level
17x9 fuel full blown -12 mm offset (had to do slightly more trimming than I expected but it does not rub at all on turns now)
35x12.50 Atturo Trail Blade MT (purchased both the rims and tires off of Mr. Wheel Deal and I could not have had a better experience)
Full replacement Ranchhand front bumper with grille guard
Full replacement Fab four rear bumper w/ led reverse lights
Muffler swap with glass pack (same piping)
(2) 12" JL Audio W3v3 running on a kicker 600 watt amp (extremely underpowered but very loud)
2.5" rear seat lift to allow for the box to fit under the rear seats
(2) 6.5" kicker marine speakers in the front doors (came off of my boat)
(2) kicker coaxial speakers for the rear doors (not sure on specs)
Weatherguard low profile tool box
Highlift jack mounted to tool box
RCI skidplate painted white
F150 side and tailgate decals plastidipped white and black
Vinyl ford logo white/black overlay
Clazzio leather seat covers
Future Modifications:
All new components for the door speakers that are actually amped
Upgrade sub amp to 1000 Watts
RPG upper control arms
Either Fox or Icon 2.0 front and rear, haven't decided yet
Regear to either 4.56 or 4.88 (currently have 3.55 and w/ 35's makes it pretty sluggish)
SCT 5 star tune (also to make up for larger tires and wake up the 5.0)
For those of you who do not know me in the forum, this is one of my first posts, so bear with me; I am not exactly sure how to use this forum. For the past year I have been active reading many posts on the forum and gaining great ideas from you guys. I currently reside in Plano, Texas, which is just North of Dallas. Next year I will be attending my senior year of high school and I am most likely going to major in petroleum engineering at OU. Yes, my dad paid for the truck, but I am paying him back slowly but surely. All of the modifications I have paid for myself funded by my lawn care company. So, long story short, this build will be very slow due to the lack of income flow.
About about the truck, it was purchased 4/19/14 and unfortunately, I do not have many pictures off it fully stock because of water damage to my phone, but from the date it was purchased it was intended to go off road. I know it's not a jeep, but unfortunately because of my height a jeep is just not an option. I intend to use the truck for moderate off-roading and mudding but nothing too extreme.
Current Modifications:
2.5" Rough Country Level
17x9 fuel full blown -12 mm offset (had to do slightly more trimming than I expected but it does not rub at all on turns now)
35x12.50 Atturo Trail Blade MT (purchased both the rims and tires off of Mr. Wheel Deal and I could not have had a better experience)
Full replacement Ranchhand front bumper with grille guard
Full replacement Fab four rear bumper w/ led reverse lights
Muffler swap with glass pack (same piping)
(2) 12" JL Audio W3v3 running on a kicker 600 watt amp (extremely underpowered but very loud)
2.5" rear seat lift to allow for the box to fit under the rear seats
(2) 6.5" kicker marine speakers in the front doors (came off of my boat)
(2) kicker coaxial speakers for the rear doors (not sure on specs)
Weatherguard low profile tool box
Highlift jack mounted to tool box
RCI skidplate painted white
F150 side and tailgate decals plastidipped white and black
Vinyl ford logo white/black overlay
Clazzio leather seat covers
Future Modifications:
All new components for the door speakers that are actually amped
Upgrade sub amp to 1000 Watts
RPG upper control arms
Either Fox or Icon 2.0 front and rear, haven't decided yet
Regear to either 4.56 or 4.88 (currently have 3.55 and w/ 35's makes it pretty sluggish)
SCT 5 star tune (also to make up for larger tires and wake up the 5.0)
06-28-2015, 11:31 PM
#2
Congrats on your Truck & Welcome to the Forums!!!! Wish you all of the best with your studies as well as upgrading that beast 
Its looking really good with what you have done so far and look forward to your future updates!
Its looking really good with what you have done so far and look forward to your future updates!
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shawn21 (08-14-2015)
08-14-2015, 02:09 PM
#3
I installed the iDatalink kit with a Kenwood DDX372BT a couple days ago. My first impressions are the clarity now is incomparable to how it was before and the system all together sounds a lot better. Here is a video on my install.
08-18-2015, 04:54 PM
#4
F150 Forum
Watched your video. People might be confused about what you said about steering wheel jack. You don't need the jack with a Kenwood radio (non-data compatible as you have) but you do need to connect the blue/yellow wire to the blue/yellow wire. That's why you could not find a hole to put the jack in on the radio.
Cheers,
Cheers,
08-24-2015, 12:51 PM
#5
Watched your video. People might be confused about what you said about steering wheel jack. You don't need the jack with a Kenwood radio (non-data compatible as you have) but you do need to connect the blue/yellow wire to the blue/yellow wire. That's why you could not find a hole to put the jack in on the radio. Cheers,
08-24-2015, 12:57 PM
#6
Senior Member
White FX4 5.0 Screw Super Slow Build
Nice truck. And Boomer! Good luck with your future schooling.
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shawn21 (09-22-2015)
09-22-2015, 07:43 PM
#7
New Mids and Highs
So I finally got around to purchasing new door speakers and an amp, and it has made a tremendous difference. I also applied dynamite to all four doors; hopefully this weekend I will have time to do the back wall.
As for the speakers, they are Kicker CS 6.5" speakers rated at 100 rms. The amp is a Rocksford Fosgate R400 which is rated at 400 rms at 4 ohms, so each speaker is running at approximately 75 watts.
The install went swiftly until it came to the front speakers. It turns out Ford has put new adapters on the newer models between the doors that do not allow any wire to go through. I simply bypassed this by drilling a hole in the door (awesome, drilling into a new truck).
Before the install, the mids and highs were greatly overpowered by the dual JL subs. Now the miss, highs, and lows are equal.
As for the speakers, they are Kicker CS 6.5" speakers rated at 100 rms. The amp is a Rocksford Fosgate R400 which is rated at 400 rms at 4 ohms, so each speaker is running at approximately 75 watts.
The install went swiftly until it came to the front speakers. It turns out Ford has put new adapters on the newer models between the doors that do not allow any wire to go through. I simply bypassed this by drilling a hole in the door (awesome, drilling into a new truck).
Before the install, the mids and highs were greatly overpowered by the dual JL subs. Now the miss, highs, and lows are equal.
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09-30-2015, 04:24 PM
#8
F150 Forum
Not at all. What I'm saying is the connection you make to enable them is connecting the blue/yellow wire from the Blue Maestro plug to the blue/yellow wire on the Kenwood radio. You do not plug the 3.5mm jack on the blue plug into anything on the kenwood radio. Hope this is clear.
10-01-2015, 02:24 PM
#9
Not at all. What I'm saying is the connection you make to enable them is connecting the blue/yellow wire from the Blue Maestro plug to the blue/yellow wire on the Kenwood radio. You do not plug the 3.5mm jack on the blue plug into anything on the kenwood radio. Hope this is clear.