Next time someone has theirs out they should take some pics of the inside

 

Nice work I like the setup. Its clean and you still have a trunk.

 

Is that the sub that comes with the car if you pay extra for the upgraded stereo system?

 

No its not......the sub that comes with the car is a 10", my Pioneer is a 12".

You should be in luck.....I gotta pull mine back apart sometime in the near future, I'll try to take pics when I do it.

Here's an FYI for everyone as well. If you have metal ends on your RCAs like I do (check out the pics) make sure they don't touch ground or you'll get alternator noise in your system. It took me a month, ripping the dash apart twice, and two noise filters I didn't need to figure out where the noise was coming from. I finally figured out when I noticed that the noise was only there when the deck was pushed back into the dash all the way.

What was happening was the metal heads on the RCAs were touching the metal bracket behind the stereo and inducing the noise. A simple piece of tape over the metal fixed the problem.

This leads me to another problem, and why I have to rip the dash back apart. When I wired everything up I wired the turn on lead for the amps to the sunroof fuse along with the stereo, figuring I'd always have the amps on so it wouldn't matter. Well, apparently since the amps get the turn on signal the same time the deck does, their anti-thump muting circuit is off by the time the radio comes on and clears the stray voltage out of the RCAs. Before, when the RCAs were touching ground, that didn't let any stray voltage build up. But now that I fixed that problem, I have another: a periodic turn on thump. The good thing is all I should have to do to fix it is wire the amp turn on lead to the H/U like I should have done in the first place, lol.

Oh yeah, one more thing for those of you that have/are getting PAC SWI-X's or SWI-ALPs. Program the PAC when the car is running. I first programmed it when the car was off and after about a half hour of driving, the volume up buttom would mysteriously get intermittent(only that button). I thought I would try reprogramming the PAC with the car running and that seems to have fixed the problem.

So the moral of the story is, if its not one thing, its another.

Jamie

 

Can I get a picture of the whole dash with that radio? I want to see that dash kit...

 

I don't have any.....

The dash kit looks surprisingly good. I didn't think I was going to like the black and I was going to paint it to match but I didn't get the paint in time so I just put it together. I figured I'd paint it later but it looks fine.

 

Don't you know anyone who has a digital camera? lol

 

Hey Bandit, is there a lot of room where youn put the tweeters? I've got manual mirror controlsd there, you think there's still enough room to add tweeters?

Did you cut behind the deck to have it fit flush like that? Looks great, mine sticks out about 3/4 inch, doen't look too bad, but not as nice as yours

 

Theres some room - the most room was on the bottom that's why I put the tweets there. Above the tweeters there's a metal stud that sticks out from the door, which may or may not interfere with the tweeters but I just put them low so I wouldn't have a problem. I don't know what the manual control mirror sail panel looks like so I can't really answer your question.

Yeah I did, I notched the the corners of the plastic piece back there with my hot knife, to make room for the RCA wires and the PAC plug in. Its still a bitch to get the radio in there, tight fit!

 

where did you run your power wire from in the cd player since it doesnt have it on the harness

 

Hey man, I was wondering how big your amps are, like dimension wise? I am going to put my 4 channel and Mono Amp in the same location you have yours and want to know roughtly what it will look like?

Thanks.

 

I have 2 12" Insignia subs in my trunk and lookin for speaker/stereo next.. but my big question is.. What about the steering wheel controls? Will they work once we take out our stock GM radios?

 

Nice set-up I am a big fan of /////ALPINE!!!!!

 

Hey - I don't remember offhand but my amp models are Alpine MRV-F345 and MRD-M605 so you can look it up. They're surprisingly small actually.

 

cooool........!!

 

I'd also like to add I like how you mounted your amps.

 

ok, thanks, I went out and set my amps in the trunk to check anyway. There kindof on the big side.

 

looks nice!!

 

I had my In-dash proffesionally installed and I made sure that I didnt lose my steering wheel controls. Love em'. They called them "SWI-X". They did have to drill a small IR receiver hole on my dash but you cant even see it unless you look for it. So to answer your question. YES they can work but you have to find the right controler and get it installed.Try the link below.

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-5oUDw4m...wheel+controls

 

where is your IR drilled at for the steering wheel controls?

 

If you get a compatible head unit you don't need to use the IR interface. My Alpine uses the SWI-ALP which plugs directly into the back of the head unit and so do a lot of Pioneers and I think Kenwoods too. Makes the install much easier/cleaner.

 

how did u wire the window speakers in, pm me

 

I have a clarion head unit that doesn't have the direct conection for steering wheel controls....so I need to know where the wires for the psi-x connect and the best place for the IR to hide at...

 

Ok so i posted a link to the pic of the HUGE (not) IR transmiter hole that was drilled into my dash. You almost cant even see it. Besides I couldnt complain...It was all parts included with the free install. They were even nice enough to run 2 pairs of RCA's and my remote wire out during installation.

 

eddigaz... did you try to put the kit in upside down at first? i have the PioneerAvicN2, and i dont want my A/C vents covered again... i was told it can be done by cliping a few tabs...