Comments | greatbearmd: Tuneage accomplished

greatbearmd

Tuneage accomplished

Jan 27, 2007 20:05

Today was a fantastic mid-upper 50s day to work outside, so I tackled the car stereo project. Discovered the reason why the amp would not work, one of the harness adaptors was made incorrectly, preventing the turn-on signal from reaching the amp. I had most of the dash apart tapping into other wiring needed to make the install work. All that ( Read more... )

photo post, projects, car stereo, geekery

Comments 9

rockybear02 January 28 2007, 02:58:37 UTC

WOW that's great Phil! I'm sure you'll love the interface - probably would be great to control your ipod from the head unit.

Glad you got it done today. :)

ciddyguy January 28 2007, 02:58:54 UTC

Sounds like a project and a half ya got going there.

Glad you found out what the issue was with the amp and got it fixed. For for ya.

Shoot us a pic of the finished product will ya?

jrjarrett January 28 2007, 03:52:22 UTC

Oh dear GOD, I'm shuddering :D

I thought wiring a simple JVC stereo & amp into my '88 Scirocco was complicated.

I must have you now :D

Seriously, yes, completed pix, pls!

greatbearmd January 28 2007, 04:16:56 UTC

Oh, trust me. This is noooothing. You should see the work that I break a sweat on. I just need to try and take more pictures of the major stuff, or at least do some scanning of past jobs.

Truthfully, this post was just a way for me to show people some of the things I do. I mean, I talk about a lot of it but dont go into detail. Plumbing, cars, wiring, building, I dont think in terms of blogging when I am doing other stuff.

Here is a project that has languished untouched in the garage for over ten years. This is the dash I made for my crazy Dart back in the early 80s. Note that no wiring in that car is factory. I made my own harnesses for some of the crazy shit I had done in there.

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greatbearmd January 28 2007, 04:18:16 UTC

er, make that last word 'mods'.

tho some would say I am mad. 8-O

danthered January 28 2007, 05:33:42 UTC

Wow, quite an installation. Can you tell me a little about this head unit with the great big screen?

sfmini January 28 2007, 09:34:51 UTC

I have wired entire houses. I have done every bit of the plumbing on a house. I can even do hvac work, but car wiring has always had some mystique that I could never overcome. I do remember, though, the time I was poor and in college I had to replace the heater core and I basically had to disassemble the entire dash to get to it.

The Dart dashboard reminds me of my '67 Plymouth Barracuda dashboard. I hadn't thought about that in years.