dsmdan's 05 Ram Quad Cab Blow-Through Build

[dsmdan 10+ year member]

Its probably going to be a few weeks until the cut is made.

 

[SPLluminator 10+ year member]

Nice man!!! Subscribed. Btw, you were right about those connections you make, they look clean!

 

[dsmdan 10+ year member]

Well not too much of an update. Lately I've been doing some more work on the interior door speakers and sound deadening them and other misc. things.

But on a good note my 3 other Deka batts came in today! Cheap factory 2nd's FTW. So now I have a total of 5 Deka 9a31's, giving me a combined 4000 cold cranking amps, and 500 ah battery reserve. Not too shabby for a DD considering I only have about $400 into all 5 of them. Just have to pick up some nuts and washers for the terminals.

Also, I flipped over the rear wall seat brackets, and sure enough, they now allow the rear seats to fold fully down while still locking to the wall in both the full up and the seating positions. No modifications were required, but it I'm going to tighten up the gap on the actual brackets on the seats so they fit a bit more snugly. I'm concerned that I'll have some rattling noises with them as is.

However, I've been tossing around the idea of mounting the extra Batts in the truck under the rear seats, but I'll need an extra inch or so to make that work. So if I decide to to that I'll end up doing something like Namosh did and "raise" the rear seats up a bit. I'm not fully positive yet, but I may be only able to fit 3 of the batts under the rear seats, so I may end up mounting 1 under the hood. I could easily pick up a diesel battery tray for the passenger side and put it there, and have the other 3 in the rear. We'll see how it plays out.

Here's a pic of the brackets. The bracket on the right is the factory orientation. Left bracket shows it simply flipped over allowing the rear seats to fully lay flat.

Also the slider to slider accordion seal showed up today (sorry no pic).

I also removed the current plastic tray like bedliner for a bit extra height clearance and took some measurements for max box dimensions. I can go 50" wide max, I'm willing to go up to 50" deep max, and I can go 21" to 21 1/4" high max. That should give me just enough height to stand the 18's straight up and not have to angle them, yay! At least now with these specs I can start designing the box.

I hope to get the rear wall and part of floor finished with sound deadener tomorrow, and then start planning out the box. And I hope to have decided on final battery placement too. When I have that done, I'll find some shit and the balls to cut my hole.

 

[GI JOEY 10+ year member]

That should be plenty of space. 21 tall is perfect man. Im excited. I like blowthroughs. What are your plans for strengthning up the back wall?

 

[dsmdan 10+ year member]

Hey everyone sorry for the delay in updates but I've been pretty busy with other things around the house and work the past few weeks. However, I did manage to get a nice piece of copper and fab up some busbars for the rear batts, and I was able to draw up a box design I think I'm happy with, but might end up changing a thing or two.

Also yesterday I purchased the sheets of mdf and other needed supplies, and I'm heading out soon for a few more supplies, then I plan on starting the box today. I may end up cut done today too, we'll see.

And still no amp, so whenever I am done with the setup, I'll be strapping 2 of my AQ2200's to them for the meanwhile.

Thanks!

 

[basscort2009 5,000+ posts]

why do u only have bracing on one side of the box? hope thats just u being lazy on the design //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[dsmdan 10+ year member]

Yes haha just being lazy with sketchup. And also being lazy in not mentioning my laziness.

 

[Silver-N-Black 10+ year member]

Can't wait to see more pix. Looking good so far.

 

[dsmdan 10+ year member]

Hey all sorry for the delays again (like you really care haha), I must be the slowest project builder ever!

The box is not done yet, its partially completely and hopefully today I can get more done on it and start the fiberglass work on the inside.

Still no hole cut, but I do no how big it will be. I'm waiting to cut the hole last after the box is finished so the hole will be 100% accurate.

Still need to run the power and ground runs to the bed. I had the grounds ran, but they turned out to be just shy of being long enough so I had to remove them. Everything is an arm's length away, I just need some ambition!

Here's a few pics of when I was just beginning the box, sorry no mid-completion pics.

 

[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

lookin nice keep the words to a min. and the pics to a max.

gl

 

[dsmdan 10+ year member]

Well guys if all goes as expected, the build should be completed today! Lots of pics to come later, I forgot my camera at the shop this morning.

The box is about 80% done, and is fully fiberglassed inside. My RD D9 amp is en route via UPS to my house now. The wires are almost fully ran under the truck and to the back and back into the cab for the amp. The cut is being made today.

Will update later! I'm stoked!

 

[dsmdan 10+ year member]

Well it's pretty much done and it's violent to say the least. My ears huuurt lol. Pics to come in a lil bit.

 

[supermaxx123 10+ year member]

done with no pics?

 

[randpost 10+ year member]

Where did you buy the copper bars for your batterys?

 

[dsmdan 10+ year member]

I'm posting from my iPhone so I can't post my pics yet.

I got the copper bar from storm copper.