Lu Scola Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject:

 

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S1 where did u get the Acura kit? Im in the middle of making one

 

 

The kit was originally a single DIN kit from my old setup, and I modified it to what you see the the photo. I originally looked into buying a pre-made kit, but I only found one vendor at the time http://www.gigharborautoworks.com/customkits.html, and he wanted $200+ shipping. Since I didn't want to pay that, I modified my single-DIN kit for the D3 screen as well as blended in with the storage pocket above it with bondo. Just recently, the guy is offering a new kit for ~$100 + shipping for 2nd gen TLs/CLs. You can see some of the photos of it here: http://www.acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=358673&page=6&pp=40 While the~$100 price is pretty attractive, I still do not regret creating my own kit, and it probably cost me about $25 worth in supplies (pint of bondo, some sandpaper, half spray can primer, half spray can black paint, and half spray can clearcoat).

Damm.....now that looks real good.It just might be the best I've seen.It looks original to the car 101%. 2 hundred for a fake front.He must be crazy !!

lol duplicate controls spotted

That may be true but if you're standing outside the car you're not looking for duplicate buttons.The thieves are looking for a unit as a whole to steal.We have time to inspect the picture up close and have all the time to pick out faults.

lol duplicate controls spotted

I was wondering when someone was going to catch that

At the time, the cheapest acura radio I could find on ebay (I didn't want to hack up my stock radio) w/o the climate controls was about $150 including shipping. I ended up getting a radio w/ climate controls for $45 including shipping. I was not 100% sure I was going to be sucessful in creating a good false radio, and being out $45 was not going to hurt too bad. Being out $150 would have knocked the wind out of me.

If you look closely at the false radio, you'll also notice that the color of the LCD screen is a little off. I couldn't remove the LCD screen off the donor radio w/o cracking the glass. So, I cut out a new one out of plexiglass and spray-painted it from the backside.

nice workmanship nonetheless

Shweeet