MYoung84's 2012 Power Wagon Build Thread

[Btreat33]

Awesome truck man, moving quickly with the mod list!!

 

[S2kiHemi]

Just ordered another mod...

What is it? :********:

 

[myoung84]

I'm afraid that's all the info you are going to get at this point...

 

[myoung84]

Plasti-dipped the grille today. It's not as good as white, but it's much cheaper and will be better than chrome for now...

 

[S2kiHemi]

Much better than the chrome!

 

[Oefootball_70]

Looks really good, any plans to replace the cab lights with the black recon ones?

 

[txbass06]

Grill looks awesome man

Looks really good, any plans to replace the cab lights with the black recon ones?

x2

 

[myoung84]

Thanks for the comments! I kind of like the clear cab lights, so they will stay for now. And I have plans to paint the headights as well. Probably going to paint them white and paint the grille white at the same time.

 

[rambob]

looking good.

i need to do my grill. and bumpers

 

[durango4819]

looks good! a cheaper route then recon cab lights if you want them black is too nightshade them

 

[bigbadram1500]

looks nice

 

[myoung84]

So now I have a real Alpine system. I replaced the door speakers with Alpine Type S 6x9's and the left and right dash speakers with some 3.5" Kickers (Since Alpine doesn't have 3.5's). I installed my Alpine 4 channel amp from the old truck to power the 4 door speakers. The dash speakers and the rear headliner speakers are powered from the head unit.

I was actually shocked to see the the 4 door speakers had plastic cones instead of paper, but they still felt pretty cheap and had no tweeters. The dash speakers were still cheap paper speakers. The new Type S 6x9's were a direct drop in and required no trimming behind the door like my the Infinity's I put in the old truck. I connected the new speakers to the factory speaker wires since I didn't want to run new wires to each of the doors.

When I bought the new speakers I also bought 25' of 9 conductor "speed wire" which made wiring so much easier. I ran this single cable from the new amp behind the rear driver seat up over the top of the doors above the headliner to below the steering wheel where the factory amp is located. I unplugged the 2 connectors, cut the speakers from the harness and soldered them to the new cable going to the new amp. Did the same thing with the left over cable for the dash and headliner speakers running this cable to the head unit. The center dash speaker is no longer used, along with the factory amp. It now sounds so much better than before.

Sorry, no pics of this mod since there wasn't really much to see.

 

[S2kiHemi]

Awesome! Bet it sounds much better than stock.

 

[(S.M.R) 101]

Sounds like a fun time lol..

I hate doing audio stuff..... but love the sound of it in the end

 

[myoung84]

I went back and forth deciding if I wanted to completely guy the "Alpine" system, but in the end I am glad I did. The only thing left of the stock system is the 2 rear headliner speakers...

 

[PowerWagon2012]

Your truck looks badass bro!! Powder coating my bumpers is on my to do list right after my wheels and tires. Going with 20x9 BMF SOTA's in death metal with 35" federal couragias.


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[myoung84]

Thanks! Those wheels will look good! I have been thinking about the 18" XD Addicts in black with 35's...

 

[myoung84]

Or maybe Misfits or Cranks...

 

[PowerWagon2012]

I love the cranks!


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[PowerWagon2012]

is your new head unit compatible with uconnect?