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Re: stereo headunit
Try here this is where the car audioshop i work at gets there face plates
http://www.metraonline.com/
www.crowriversound.com
Dave Sage
Ontario, Canada
1979 280zx
1970 240z
http://www.metraonline.com/
www.crowriversound.com
Dave Sage
Ontario, Canada
1979 280zx
1970 240z
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From: Rochester, NY
Re: stereo headunit
i had an alpine head unit installed in my 73 240 by a friend who does alot of custom work in his shop. he fabricated a face plate from 1/8" black textured abs plastic. cut it to fit the [i think] trapezoid shape and it looks like a factory piece.
David
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I just did this last year - putting an Alpine 3 cd in dash changer in my 280ZX. I couldn't find just what I wanted - so I had one cut from 16 ga stainless steel plate - I roughly drew it out on paper - transferred it to an autoCad drawing - plottied the AutoCad drawing - cut the drawing out and checked it for fit and then emailed it to my local waterjet cutting shop - he cut it from 16 gauge brushed stainlees left over from a sign board job he had done.
My part of the whole operation was done in one evening, I drove over to the waterjet cutting place and picked it up the next afternoon.
I had two 12v power plugs added in the panel for both a laptop and a cell phone AND another plug in for 120vac for charging cell phones and my laptop on the road. The water jet shop cut all of my mounting holes as well. I didn't even pick up a drill. All I had to do to the finished product was deburr the edges - about a 20 min job. It fit PERFECTLY - I didn't even have to add the strap at the back of the head unoit to support the head unit.
cool stuff huh? and < $20. invested
I was so impressed, I had him cut out a SS shifter boot plate, and new inserts in the dash to carry the stainless steel trim theme thru out the iinterior. Later I intend to do the back plate for the speedo cluster as well
GerryG
My part of the whole operation was done in one evening, I drove over to the waterjet cutting place and picked it up the next afternoon.
I had two 12v power plugs added in the panel for both a laptop and a cell phone AND another plug in for 120vac for charging cell phones and my laptop on the road. The water jet shop cut all of my mounting holes as well. I didn't even pick up a drill. All I had to do to the finished product was deburr the edges - about a 20 min job. It fit PERFECTLY - I didn't even have to add the strap at the back of the head unoit to support the head unit.
cool stuff huh? and < $20. invested
I was so impressed, I had him cut out a SS shifter boot plate, and new inserts in the dash to carry the stainless steel trim theme thru out the iinterior. Later I intend to do the back plate for the speedo cluster as well
GerryG
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Sure, I don't see why not. The cutting jet is 0.010 wide. You have to special things with O's, Q's, P's, etc, Anything that won't fall out should be simple. Hybrid Z's should cut out their badging using Chevy bowtie's with a Z cut ib the middle
-- HA
Using stainless steel the badging should last forever
Draw it up on AutoCad and email it to::
Joe Wise at watercut@tcainternet.com for a quote
In addition to the inside stuff, I had a water cut new rear bumper mount bracket from stainless and got rid of the heavy rear bumper shouck mounts
-- HA
Using stainless steel the badging should last forever
Draw it up on AutoCad and email it to::
Joe Wise at watercut@tcainternet.com for a quote
In addition to the inside stuff, I had a water cut new rear bumper mount bracket from stainless and got rid of the heavy rear bumper shouck mounts
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Re: stereo headunit
I bought one of those plastic faceplate instalaltion kits, and it didn't really fit perfectly. It wasn't quite wide enough and you could see a tiny bit of the wiring behind the edges.
Then someone broke into my car and ripped the dash area out with one finger, but couldn't get the Cd player because of how I installed it behind the face. Later, I made my own faceplate cut from thick aluminum and bolted right down to the metal frame of the center console. Now it'll take a crowbar to get that front face off, and the CD player itself is attached even better this time.
(and I now have an alarm, so it won't be as easy to sneak in without someone knowing)
sorry I don't have any pictures of it yet, but I painted the aluminum glossy black, and it looks really nice in the console. Of course, if it WAS factory, they wouldn't make a huge triangle shape like that just for a small rectangle CD Player. :-P
Then someone broke into my car and ripped the dash area out with one finger, but couldn't get the Cd player because of how I installed it behind the face. Later, I made my own faceplate cut from thick aluminum and bolted right down to the metal frame of the center console. Now it'll take a crowbar to get that front face off, and the CD player itself is attached even better this time.
(and I now have an alarm, so it won't be as easy to sneak in without someone knowing)
sorry I don't have any pictures of it yet, but I painted the aluminum glossy black, and it looks really nice in the console. Of course, if it WAS factory, they wouldn't make a huge triangle shape like that just for a small rectangle CD Player. :-P
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