Headunit Help

[Syndicate13]

Ok, I have an ailing Infinity headunit in my car, the amp under tha passneger seat and all that jazz. My car never had the CD changer in the trunk though, maybe it's an early 95 thing. From what I have read it is a pain to install an aftermarket headunit and I'd rather keep the factory look for purposes of stealth anyway. I am looking at a headunit on Ebay, this one to be exact http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1997...38640QQitemZ8008706836QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW What I want to know is will it plug right into my wiring with no modifications? If so I will go ahead and order it and be happy that I finally have a CD player. If not I will start to weigh my options on putting in a Pioneer. Thanks for any help.

 

[sherms_gsx_tank]

i dont know if i would spend money on a stock player. even though it is an infinity. but if the stealth thing isnt that big of a deal to you, circuit city has a really nice wire harness converter. you buy one that plugs into your stock wire harness and one that plugs into your head unit and those two plug into each other which is obviously way easy. but i know when i got mine like 2 years ago they were kinda pricey. so you could just do what i did and line up the wires so you know what wires are supposed to be connected together and then just return the wire harnesses open bag and all. theyll take it back.

 

[Syndicate13]

The problem with the Infinity system is the stock amp. If you integrate it with a specialty harness that I don't even know if I can get then it supposedly works fine. If you bypass it you have to splice into the output wires from the amp and the tweeters in the dash won't work. I want plug and play since I don't have the patience to tear apart the car and rewire it. There's nothing wrong with a stock CD player, I'm not an audiophile I just wanna listen to something other than the radio.

 

[Defiant]

Ok, I have an ailing Infinity headunit in my car, the amp under tha passneger seat and all that jazz. My car never had the CD changer in the trunk though, maybe it's an early 95 thing.

The changers are all over eBay as well. Since you're an Eclipse, the cable is probably already there.

From what I have read it is a pain to install an aftermarket headunit

Not in the slightest. It's a double-DIN opening, and although they say on many (Crutchfield, Best Buy, etc.) sites that a radio won't fit, they're just mistaken. Modern radios fit just fine and with a harness adapter will plug right in. You only have to run a ground wire from the new radio because DSMs ground through the radio chassis. And modern radios put out twice the poop of the Infinity without need for an amp.

and I'd rather keep the factory look for purposes of stealth anyway. I am looking at a headunit on Ebay, this one to be exact http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1997...38640QQitemZ8008706836QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW What I want to know is will it plug right into my wiring with no modifications?

It'll both mount right up to the factory brackets (as will after-market) and fit the dash perfectly.

If so I will go ahead and order it and be happy that I finally have a CD player. If not I will start to weigh my options on putting in a Pioneer. Thanks for any help.

I went with a very nice $100 Dual that plays MP3s and has an input for iPod or whatever else has an out line for headphones:
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=189128
Again, the sites say it won't fit. They're mistaken. Plus, you get a handy place to put a small Beretta:
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=187237

 

[Syndicate13]

Defiant, did your car originally have the Infinity system? From what I read to install an aftermarket unit I would have to either buy a seperate cable to go from the RCA preouts on the radio to the stock amp or splice into the output wires from the stock amp, effectively bypassing it. I want the least amount of work possible here, although a Pioneer that plays MP3's would be nice. Are the speaker wires even present behind the radio in the dash? Like wired for both already?

 

[thechad]

I have 3 eclipses and I have bypassed the amp on all olf them it takes about an hour to rewire. Disconnect the wiring harness from the amp underf the passenger seat and cut off the plug. Open the loom and ignore the 2 black and 2 red wires those are power and ground for the amp. The speakers are tisted togeather all six of them. Hold a nine volt battery to the each end of the wires to trace the speaker. Braid the tweeters with the corresponding front speaker an attach to the front speaker. easy

 

[Syndicate13]

Well I found a CD player for 50 bucks shipped, lot less expensive and less of a hassle to do this than buy an aftermarket headunit (150+) and install stuffs (20+). Thanks for the help as always guys, you (almost) never let me down!!

 

[Defiant]

Defiant, did your car originally have the Infinity system?

No, and I don't know if any of the Talons did. They have an Infinity radio with separate CD player, but they may not have been offered with the Eclipse's 10-disk changer setup. My Owner's Manual shows a 6-disk changer mounted behind the driver's side rear seat, and the factory brochure shows one with a wired remote which I've never seen in real-life. I went through mine and did the Eclipse conversion which I ran until I got the Dual. With MP3 capability, there's no need for a changer anymore.

From what I read to install an aftermarket unit I would have to either buy a seperate cable to go from the RCA preouts on the radio to the stock amp or splice into the output wires from the stock amp, effectively bypassing it.

You just unplug it and stop using it. The Talons are set up with a secondary loom to the dash tweeters, but it seems not all Eclipses are. Modern decks make the old Infinity amps useless.

I want the least amount of work possible here, although a Pioneer that plays MP3's would be nice. Are the speaker wires even present behind the radio in the dash? Like wired for both already?

As you've probably already found out, there's nothing to it.