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Decided to add the Steeda strut tower brace to the engine bay and see if it tightens up higher-G turns or adds any understeer bias. Whether it actually makes a difference or not, I do enjoy the placebo effect - and it looks pretty under the hood.

Set of 4 takeoff Wildpeak A/T3W 235/65R17 OEM all-weather, all-terrain tires from my Tremor as I am upsizing. Located in Vancouver BC - can pickup or dropoff. Less than 2500km with no off-road, $600 Canadian for the set. Photos are on my rim, but they are coming off tomorrow and will be unmounted.

Yes, new wires for the tweet. With the side panels on the dash popped, I found them quite easy to fish. You wouldn't need any kind of passive crossover with this setup - the Key is smart that way. You'd tap the subwoofer before the amp to get a full-range signal. The Key has a selectable 80 Hz...

The Focal IS Ford would be a good choice to avoid messing with the tweet mounts. If you’re not touching the rears, the Key if you can find one would be great as it can be set to bi-amp a 2-way front. It won’t actively DSP the sub though, so you’d be intercepting the fronts and using the...

Thanks. Yeah, digital domain processing has really advanced in the last couple decades to the point where it makes a significant improvement even at the lowest price points. I really think the HS10 makes for easiest, most compact install if you're not looking for maximum low-end extension and...

Love the original photos, and thanks for a useful thread! Do you have any insights or photos about the 245/70s on your truck after the lift? Been thinking of doing this with my Tremor, but the tight clearance at full lock with the stock height has me a bit concerned even though I have that...

I'll take a SPL meter with me next time I drive and test. The FR curve shows the sub at 85 dB SPL because the reference test standard for response is to have your sweep tones (generated at -18dB) set at 75dB in the room to get the best representation of response at "normal" listening volume.

Final Results Here's the frequency curve after two rounds of EQ. Red is stock, green is the current response, and the dotted line is my target curve, which is the JBL/Audiofrog standard for car audio. Even with mid-level equipment, the Maverick cleans up quite nicely, on par with other...

Door Woofers Pretty straightforward install here. The stock 6.5" drivers have probably the smallest magnet and voice coil I have ever seen in a speaker of this size! It's actually amazing the output they produce when you look at their business end. Here they are next to the Morel Tempo Ultra...

Rear Speakers The C-pillar trim is a pain to remove. Even though I knew the tricks and used a trim lever to push upwards on the panel clips, I still managed to rip one off. It's not a great design - even the smallest bit of sideways torque when pulling will probably do damage to the back of the...

Tweeters next. As others have experienced, these were a pain to install when compared to some of the drop-in options from Focal or Powerbass, as they required some serious dash butchery. But I really wanted Morels for this build. Luckily, I discovered that the flush mount they include in the...

Thanks! That's a great solution. The Audison DSPs have a de-equalizer built in into their first stage to do the same thing - you send it pink noise and it flattens out the signal internally. Agree that it's a pretty important step to make EQ easier.

Spent a lot of time over the past couple of weeks installing and tuning. Most of the techniques have already been posted and are well worn by now, and they work well, although I did pick up a few lessons learned along the way! Equipment rack behind rear seat Test fit on cardboard - there's...

You can still do the PNP loopback with a passive if you don’t mind a bit of modification - I found it to be of quite good quality. I would cut the front LR speaker signal coming back from the amp at the head unit (he uses a molex connector here making this quite easy) and redirect this to...

The Prima has a secret weapon - any given pair of channels is bridgeable to 130W/4 ohms continuous, which is what the woofers are getting. 35W is only going to the tweets and the rear fill running at -15dB, which is more than enough. The setup was super slick. Also, I’ve found lots of headroom...

The Audison Prima is a 9-channel DSP so I have active amping - no passive crossovers and each driver is individually driven directly from the amp. I ran new lines from rear to dash for the tweeters. With conventional crossovers, I think I’d put them in the dash, use the factory wiring to the...

Yes, the KISL would be fine. I just wired one up, by soldering an RCA connector I had to the Hideaway harness. Set the toggle switch on the rear to low voltage input, and you’re good.

100% agree with you. As you said, due to their size, the Hideaways are useless for max SPL and deep subsonics, so they disappoint a lot of people and get that bad rap. But to get decent-looking numbers on paper, Kicker had to overengineer the enclosure and amp. It can’t compensate for lack of...

Haha, I get you and this reaction a lot! Totally understand - my home system is dual 12” SVS subs with an additional 10” in the opposite corner to fill in a resonance gap. Flat to 21Hz at THX reference dB. That said, I simply have no room in the Maverick. This is a backcountry road trip vehicle...

Thanks! Sorry, I just took a base measurement at defeat since I didn’t have the time or interest in trying to EQ anything with the factory head. In hindsight it would have been an interesting exercise though!