My new headunit

[DSMJake]

Hey i just installed a new headunit in my car and wanted to know what you guys think i am so proud of it (16 installed it myself) so i had to show it to somone i think i did a good job.

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[dylan702110988]

congrats!

I was also 16yo when i got my DSM...and 2 years later here i am...

words of advice...never let your friends drive your car! this was my first mistake...

 

[diatenshi]

looks nice man, now all you gotta do is ditch the automatic : )

 

[boostngsx]

Looks pretty nice man. How much did that cost you?

 

[ryan90]

looks good. Once you get a little confidence you'll be underneath your car cursing because you just torqued a bolt off

nice HU, reminds me I need a new head unit soon.

 

[DSMJake]

thanks for the advice i didnt even care about if i got a turboed model / stick or auto once i saved enough money i was headed to buy me a 2g of course now i wish i would have got a stick but hey i bought a car with my own money and have no car payment now so down the road ill look into a tranny swap. and oh yeah no one will ever drive my car . shes my baby and boostngsx total it cost me about 400.00 (yeah i got a good deal at best buy) i think it was like 200 for the headunit then i bought new 6x9's and 6 1/2 pioneer speakers for the doors and then i bought a install kit and wiring harness which the plug didnt work so i had to cut it off and splice all the wires together.

 

[RedTurboEclipse]

looks good. do you have an RS or a GS. If either, did your car have the option with the Premium infinity sound. if not, before you installed that deck, did your dash speakers work, and now with that new deck, does the dash speakers (not the doors) work now.

also what do you mean the wiring harness didn't work? did bestbuy give you the wrong one?

 

[DSMJake]

The wiring harness i got from circuit city the plug on the one end of the harness connected to the plug inside the hole where the headunit goes but the other end had another plug which didnt plug into my headunit so i had to cut the plug off and splice them together but its all good it works nice. And i have a RS to be straight up when i got the car there was no stereo no 6x9s so i couldnt try it before the new headunit ill check tomarrow if the speakers in dash work. Oh yeah i thought RS model didnt have power windows or power locks i thought it was odd mine does.

 

[RedTurboEclipse]

The wiring harness i got from circuit city the plug on the one end of the harness connected to the plug inside the hole where the headunit goes but the other end had another plug which didnt plug into my headunit so i had to cut the plug off and splice them together but its all good it works nice. And i have a RS to be straight up when i got the there was no stereo no 6x9s so i couldnt try it before the new headunit ill check tomarrow if the speakers in dash work. Oh yeah i thought RS model didnt have power windows or power locks i thought it was odd mine does.

RS was stripped of everything, but options were available I believe, so yours probably had some of them. And since you had no stereo when you got it, do this. Check under the passenger seat, if there is a stock amp there, chances are your dash speakers are no longer working. If there is no stock amp there, then your car did not come with the infinity premium audio option. Meaning/assuming (why I asked you to check) that the stock wiring of the audio in the 2gs are parallel and maybe the 2gs without the premium audio come from the factory wired for the dash speakers to work even after installation of a new deck. (With the premium audio that comes with the stock amp, the crossovers for the dash speakers are built into the amp, thus why it is removed, you also remove the dash speakers from working)

You can almost notice them not working if the sound field in your car is not as clear as you had hoped for. You notice most of the sound is coming from the rear and the sound that is in the front is faint and only coming from beneath you (which obviously makes sense since they are placed on the doors close to your legs).

 

[DSMJake]

that makes sense i dont think mine work cause ive never seen a amp under the passenger seat when i reached under.

EDIT: i had to go check you had me thinking and no they arent working. :/

 

[RedTurboEclipse]

if you are satisfied with the sound field how it is, then its no big deal, but most aren't when they sit in a 2g dsm with all the speakers working and tuned properly. having those dash speakers works changes the entire experience IMO.

the stock wiring harness only feeds to the front doors and rears, obviously no aftermarket deck will have separate wiring for tweeters. that is what xovers are for. It just made it a challenge on 2gs.

there are a few options you have if you want to make the dash speakers to work, you can always wire them with the front hoping they won't blow, which if stock chances are high for that to happen.

or you can get a bass blocker, or xover to send only the high fqs to them, which would be the ideal setup.

the problem of course is the wiring and how you are going to wire it up without tearing the dash apart.

unfortunately the leads for the dash tweeters as i mentioned are not on the stock stereo harness, nor are they to be found anywhere in that wiring mess behind the stereo area.

fortunately however, you should have a harness under the passenger seat which connects to the stock amp.

this harness has all the leads to all the speakers in our car making installs easy for any type of system whether it be stock, aftermarket deck powering speakers, aftermarket deck with 1 amp powering door/dash speakers and deck powering rear, or aftermarket deck with 3 amps and amps powering all the speakers, etc.

for those who want the dash speakers to work with an aftermarket deck, the rear speakers you can leave wired behind the deck. You will need to get some passive xovers or bassblockers, and wire them up accordingly with the fronts and rears. I mention the harness under the seat because it would be easier to wire the tweeters/dash speakers to there instead of trying to find/feed the wires up into the dash for the dash speakers. there is also much more room to just leave the xovers under the seat.

Since the deck will connect to the xovers input wires/connection, it is much easier to also just route this wire down to under the passenger seat, and from there, the output wires for the mids and highs of the xovers can be connected to the harness which happens to have the leads for both the doors (mids) and dash (highs) speakers.

Some 95s, and maybe 96s, have wiring tied in for the dash speakers where it was parallel with the front speakers. I mentioned this earlier, but just remembered it was only on 95s, and maybe 96s. No one with 97+ found this extra set of wiring in their vehicle. There is a thread about this.

 

[DSMJake]

yeah im satisfied with how it sounds now the back speakers do the most for me it feels like since my long a$$ legs i have my seat all the way back till it touches the backseat so im basically in the back seat . All in all it sounds good enough for me

 

[knochgoon24]

looks good. Once you get a little confidence you'll be underneath your car cursing because you just torqued a bolt off

That's where I'm at right now. Just pulled the engine and tranny for all new gaskets, belts, new engine paint, a BSE, and new hoses. Six 15 hrs days later, my engine is back in, but not yet electrically connected. A new FMIC goes in after that.

Sometimes a little confidence makes you go wayyyyy in over your head.

Ya live, ya learn.

 

[vanilla gorilla]

for those who want the dash speakers to work with an aftermarket deck, the rear speakers you can leave wired behind the deck. You will need to get some passive xovers or bassblockers, and wire them up accordingly with the fronts and rears. I mention the harness under the seat because it would be easier to wire the tweeters/dash speakers to there instead of trying to find/feed the wires up into the dash for the dash speakers. there is also much more room to just leave the xovers under the seat.

Since the deck will connect to the xovers input wires/connection, it is much easier to also just route this wire down to under the passenger seat, and from there, the output wires for the mids and highs of the xovers can be connected to the harness which happens to have the leads for both the doors (mids) and dash (highs) speakers.

Some 95s, and maybe 96s, have wiring tied in for the dash speakers where it was parallel with the front speakers. I mentioned this earlier, but just remembered it was only on 95s, and maybe 96s. No one with 97+ found this extra set of wiring in their vehicle. There is a thread about this.

I used those bassblockers back in the day.....
But my new kenwood HU has awesome lowpass/highpass filters. Making the oldschool bassblockers no longer nessesary.


But to the OP. Nice install. Ive been a kenwood supporter for years. $400 seems pretty high for all that stuff, oh well.

 

[Defiant]

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/app...filler-box-cubby-hole-trim.html?highlight=din

Use that dead space.

 

[SpiralOut]

looks good. Once you get a little confidence you'll be underneath your car cursing because you just torqued a bolt off

nice HU, reminds me I need a new head unit soon.

Happend to me this last week! Broke off one of the bolt while changing my LCA. Really pissed me off. The head unit looks good BTW

 

[keat]

Looks good man. Very nice. Wish I could do the same...except the previous owner ripped out anything i could mount my deck on..

 

[DSMJake]

Just by an install kit i didnt use the stock black brackets that you slide it into either i ripped all that out so its nice and snug.