Double-Din Nav and DVD player CUSTOM!
Ok here is the final shot. Overall I'm pretty satisfied. The leather matches perfectly with the surrounding dash. I messed up 2 or 3 of the corners, pretty badly, but at this point, I'm just going to leave it. I can fix it some other time. Thanks for checking out this project!
JoAnn Fabrics, in Crest Hill, by Joliet, is where we picked it up. The spray glue is good ol' Elmer's.
The hardest part was the bondo. It wasn't hard, just time consuming. I just hooked my ipod up to it. The screen displays an ipod control wheel and lets you use your ipod through the screen. It's sweet. It charges the thing too, so I can just leave it in my car. No more cd's for me.
The hardest part was the bondo. It wasn't hard, just time consuming. I just hooked my ipod up to it. The screen displays an ipod control wheel and lets you use your ipod through the screen. It's sweet. It charges the thing too, so I can just leave it in my car. No more cd's for me.
LS1 Tech Stories
The Best V8 Stories One Small Block at Time
Gas Monkey Built a 6-Wheel Ferrari Testarossa With a Corvette LT4 Engine
Verdad Gallardo
7 Most Reliable High-Performance Engines GM Has Ever Built
Verdad Gallardo
Amazing '71 Camaro Restomod Is Modern Muscle Car Under the Skin
Verdad Gallardo
6 Common C5 Corvette Failures and What's Involved In Repairing Them
Pouria Savadkouei
Retro Modern Bandit Pontiac Trans AM Comes With Burt Reynolds' Autograph
Verdad Gallardo
Top 10 Greatest Cadillac V Series Performance Models Ever, Ranked
Pouria Savadkouei
Top 10 Most Powerful Chevy Trucks Ever Made!
Hennessey's New Supercharged Silverado ZR2 Has 700 HP
Verdad Gallardo
Coachbuilt N2A Anteros Is an LS2-Powered C6 Corvette In Italian Clothes
Verdad Gallardo
Teching In
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 19
Likes: 0
From: Queens, NY
The D3's a great affordable unit, God knows if I had a Mustang I'd have one in there already, cause these GM din-and-a-half dashes are pains in the ***. When the time comes I might make it happen, but yours is definitely looking great. Enjoy it, man
Great job! How was the depth of the H/U in the dash? did you have to do anything else to make it fit in there? Did you use the mounting hardware that came with it? 
how deep does your unit actually measure? i was test fitting my JVC i just got and i couldnt get it to sit flush....it could have been i just wasnt trying hard enough :o Yeah it goes pretty far back but not too badly. The unit does hit the bottom of the air vents, so I had to bend the air vent a little in the back. Nothing that affects the Air flow or the unit. The unit did not come with an installation kit or any sort of mounting hardware, so I had to get to Ace Hardware and make my own ****!
Well, the foglight button is behind the bezel, it's just plugged in and chilin' there. I never turn them on or off, so I didn't feel the need, currently, to relocate them. The ASR button doesn't even work. The car didn't come with any button there, so I just put it there so it wouldn't look so plain.
Poor Brian, I just had my LED's swapped over and now you don't even see them. I'm such a dick!
Sell your flip out and put the money towards this baby. 600$ off of ebay!
Poor Brian, I just had my LED's swapped over and now you don't even see them. I'm such a dick!
Sell your flip out and put the money towards this baby. 600$ off of ebay!
My mounting method right now is a bit "iffy" It's just kind of jammed it in there for now. In order to get it to sit in the center area I had to put about 5 cd's under the unit. Due to the fact that the vent in the back goes down at such a stark angle it makes the entire unit sit very unevenly. To balance it out I took a fat piece of cardboard and jammed it in between the unit and the vent. It leveled it out very nicely, and due to the amount of pressure from the top and bottom held it in place. I took some piece of metal with holes drilled into them, found at ace, and screwed one part into the unit, there is a special spot for screws,and the other end into the existing holes for my previous unit.
As far as depth goes, it doesn't go all the way to the back, just up to where the damn vent starts to curve down.
I'll take some pictures tomorrow afternoon when I get home from work. I'm feelin lazy right now
As far as depth goes, it doesn't go all the way to the back, just up to where the damn vent starts to curve down.
I'll take some pictures tomorrow afternoon when I get home from work. I'm feelin lazy right now