Ford f150 05- bl18, sundown, hertz, big build

could someone help me pick out like the package/s or whatever i will need from knukonceptz please im not sure exactly what i need
What are you looking to wire up? How many amps and how many channels and how much power on each amp? How many speakers and where are the speakers? Are you going to rerun 100% new speaker wire or planning on tying into factory wiring? Crossovers or going active? It will be hard to give exact lengths since it varies from vehicle to vehicle and also on how you route the wires ie under the door sills or down the center under the carpet.

For my truck, which is similar to yours (crew cab super duty) I used 1 4-channel RCA and 1 2-channel RCA to connect my 4-channel and mono block amp to my HU, they were both 16m I believe and I have a good 2' or so left over after running from the back wall down the drivers side door sill and up into the dash. I then used probably about 60' of speaker wire for my front speakers, but this is for 2 full runs to each door, longest run is from back wall passenger side all the way over and then down the drivers side door sill and up across the dash and into the passenger side door (I have computer wiring going down the passenger side door sills.) For 1/0 power wire I believe I have about 16' or so (I used 20' runs to start) Run from the drivers side battery down to the frame rail and into the back of the cab then up to the distro blocks on the drivers side of the back wall. Then about 7' of 4ga routed through my amp rack and to near the passenger side for the 4-channel amp.

This is mostly a generic guess but I would look for 20' of 1/0 power wire to a distro block and then a run of 4ga to the 100.4 and 1/0 to the 1500D. Making the ground will be the most important part, do some searching on grounding on this site and you should find all you need. Make sure it is on bare metal and as short as you can make it up to about 3'. With the power and ground to the amps next you'll need to feed them with signal. Get 6 channels of RCA cables, I would recommend a 4-channel cable to feed your 100.4 and a 2-channel to feed the 1500D but this could easily be accomplished with 3 individual 2-channel cables, it is all personal preference or price. For speaker wire it mostly depends on what you are planning, active or passive, and location of the crossovers if going passive. Shortest possible setup would be to go passive and mount the crossovers in the doors somewhere. For this you would simple need to run one speaker wire to each door and connect the amp to the crossover, from there just run speaker wire from the crossover to the mid and from the crossover to the tweeter. Depending on how you set things up you could use as little as 40' or as much as 70' I would think 16ga for the door speakers should be sufficient and probably go with 12ga for the sub, maybe 5-15' depending on where the amp is located since your sub is going in replace of the rear passenger seat.

I think that would about cover it, takes a bit of planning on your part and if ya really don't want to over spend you could take some yarn or something and make the run and measure it out and write down how many feet of which wire you think you will need, but thats getting a bit anal.

Honestly after checking out the knu site I would go to ebay and get yourself a Kicker PKD1 kit, this will give you all you need to power the amps, then you will just need to buy speaker wire and RCA's. Plus the kicker wire is AMAZING to work with. I haven't personally used Knu wire but I have Kicker, and from what I have heard only the knu Fleks compares to the kicker wire in flexibility. Looks like about $105 for the cheapest kicker kit on ebay (SHIPPED) and it looks like it would cost you about $120 plus shipping to get comperable gear and quantities from knu. That is figureing Fleks cable though so you could get it for cheaper

Well hope that helps, still gotta do some research and measuring on your park but looks like you need more than the simple packages from knu at least from what I can see on their site.

 
gunna bridge the HSK 165's to the 100.4 and the BL to the saz1500 as well as the big 3. I think im just using the crossovers to keep it simple for me.

 
Cool, well then if you put the crossovers in the door then you will only need a single run of speaker from the amp to each door and then 2 short runs inside the door from the crossover to each driver.

Not sure how much wire you will need for the big 3. I been thinking that when I go to redo the battery cables in my truck I would probably just go with welding wire. There will be little things you will need to get if you don't go with the kicker kit such as ring terminals(specially for doing the big 3), fuse holder and distribution block.

 
Cool, well then if you put the crossovers in the door then you will only need a single run of speaker from the amp to each door and then 2 short runs inside the door from the crossover to each driver.
Not sure how much wire you will need for the big 3. I been thinking that when I go to redo the battery cables in my truck I would probably just go with welding wire. There will be little things you will need to get if you don't go with the kicker kit such as ring terminals(specially for doing the big 3), fuse holder and distribution block.
is the kicker kit enough for big 3 and everything else other than the rca and speaker wire?

 
is the kicker kit enough for big 3 and everything else other than the rca and speaker wire?
Probably not but ya never know. Depends on how you run it and such and how much you need for the big 3. I think I had about 2 or 3 feet left over when I finished my power run in my truck. If it isn't there is a guy selling some lengths of kicker wire for a decent price that might be able to fill the gaps ya need. http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=365809

If your not too worried about cosmetics and using the same wire throughout or anything like that ya could always get some welding wire, or some of the cheaper knu wire to finish off the big three, or hunt around the classifieds on here since there is uaually people selling short lengths of 1/0 wire.

 
k. and what lengths should i get my rca's and speaker wire?
I would hate to see you run short so I would go with 6-meter cables, that is what I am using in my truck and it will reach from the back passenger corner then around the drivers side doorsill and up into the middle of the dash. Then I would probably get 60ft of 16ga speaker wire and 10' of this http://www.knukonceptz.com/productDetail.cfm?prodID=KAR124SS With this you will need just one run to connect the sundown to the sub, connect all 4 ends to the outputs on the sundown and then pair up the positive and negatives to the terminals on the sub box.

 
hey if you dont mind me asking how many sq feet did you use for just your two front doors and roof
i used about 20 sheets for the front doors i think. and i didnt put any on the roof just the floor. the roof would take about uhhhh 10 sheets is a rough guess

 
ok ordering everything tomorrow so ill posting up everything im getting so you guys could tell me if i have to make any last minute changes or if i need to add anything.

BL 18. dual 1. cooling but why is the cooling no extra money? flatwind. daily. no extream lead. and universal... let me know if all this is right.

Hertz HSK 165's from datboiroy

Kenwood exeleon ddx182 from sonic electronix with the Kenwood KCA-iP300V

Kicker PKD1 from sonic electronix

still dont know what type and how long of speaker wire and RCA's to get so let me know that.

Sundown 100.4

is this COMPLETELY everything?!?!

 
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