Double din mount
06-11-2009, 01:36 AM
#1
Double din mount Well I was trying to leave the ledge in like White Bird suggested. Took the sanding board to thin it down and just touched it and it cracked. 6 hours later, 10 bucks in sheet metal and a $2000.00 tig machine and presto a double din mount for my WS6
Ed
I'm going to put grommets in the holes so it will sit on rubber. Paints drying.
Ed
I'm going to put grommets in the holes so it will sit on rubber. Paints drying.
06-11-2009, 02:05 AM
#2
I f***** up my shelf too, so i just remoed it and it gave me extra room. I made a similar mount, but in the end, just the side mounts were needed. Looks good though. What are you doing for your bezel?
06-11-2009, 05:58 AM
#3
Already filled the grooves in from the back with hairy bondo, should have the radio mounted tonight and starting to grind the bezel.
I built the shelf because I didn't want all that weight on the back, I bent the original metal in that stock pin mount into kind of a spring that pushes up in the back, plus the piece get support across the whole front from the A/C controls.
Did you do you bezel yet?
Ed
I built the shelf because I didn't want all that weight on the back, I bent the original metal in that stock pin mount into kind of a spring that pushes up in the back, plus the piece get support across the whole front from the A/C controls.
Did you do you bezel yet?
Ed
06-11-2009, 09:59 AM
#4
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That metal frame looks really nice. 
One question though, why were you sanding the plastic shelf? I didn't have to touch it to fit a double-din in my Formula. I trimmed the top part of the opening, as per WhiteBird00's recommendation.
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(WhiteBird00 took that picture, but I'm re-hosting it on my domain.)
Here is my write-up:
https://ls1tech.com/forums/stereo-el...installed.html
One question though, why were you sanding the plastic shelf? I didn't have to touch it to fit a double-din in my Formula. I trimmed the top part of the opening, as per WhiteBird00's recommendation.
(WhiteBird00 took that picture, but I'm re-hosting it on my domain.)
Here is my write-up:
https://ls1tech.com/forums/stereo-el...installed.html
Last edited by VIP1; 09-04-2011 at 04:26 PM.
06-11-2009, 01:40 PM
#5
Yea I see, I actually met with Whitebird00 and we talked about it. I could have swore I read to file a little bit off of the shelf. I already filed the teeth off you had circled and the unit was too tight. Oh, well only 6 or so hours of my time. Its re-run season anyway.
Duh
ed
Duh
ed
06-11-2009, 02:45 PM
#6
i also trimmed the upper part of my dash, but with that cage sitting in the way it was still scraping so i tried to modify t but it cracked. It was so britlle i couldnt imagine it actually providing support. I took that stock rear mount peice and bent it and made a tab for it to screw into. I took a completely diffferent approach with my bezel. I closed in the air controls so that the whol bezel is one solid peice with the opening for the radio, and 3 cicular openings for the air conditioning controls. IM not done yet but clese, and i have a friend who is going to produce them pretty cheaply. He can 3-d scan it and simply print them from his 3-d printer. Cheap material so it should be pretty cheap to reproduce them. He also has a vacuum molder but we dont know if its necessary to go that route
