Relocating Eatc and radio

[Chris Benvie]

Couple of questions..

I'm going to swap the eatc and the radio positions this weekend, what I was wondering was,
How hard is it to take off the dash piece around the eatc and how does it come off??

Has anyone done it, any wiring/rerouting problems occur?? If so how tough was it??

thanks for any input

 

[mrjfranklin]

I have not preformed this, there is a guy on here SHOguy93. He has preformed this. I would ask him if I were you.

 

[ShoGuy93]

Here u go

and then this

Not a very hard install at all the wires come right down. Only thing u have to do is trim the mounting braket around the eatc. so that it will fit in the din slot. And thats about it. I just put some elec tape around my eatc so that it would fit nice and snug in the din slot. And you should be ready to go....

 

[BlackOnBlackATX]

Brad, the paint trim in your car is absolutely awesome. i wanted to do something similiar with the blue but i dont know how well it would have looked on my black interior. oh well, ill be experimenting this spring i suppose....

 

[Chris Benvie]

Thanks I appreciate it, the TV def will look better and actually fit up there, why is that thing stuck so far out??

 

[ShoGuy93]

That is how the cva-100 comes out. It looks like the hole unit is out. But those are just the rails. that lets the tv come out. Like i said it is an older modle. the newer ones are slimmer. and more compact but. I am happy with the cva-1000.

 

[Dave Ladely]

Radio is really in the right place now! I am also installing a video/receiver in my dash in the A/c area. However, I am thinking of moving the A/C head down to the cassette/lighter panel as I am thinking of using the entire DIN area for a center speaker for DVD surround sound. NOT cd surround, in which the center channel is derived from the left and right, but DVD audio 5.1, where the center channel is a discrete channel, as are the rear channels. All other center channel installs are really hampered by trying to adapt to the difficult location on almost all cars.

 

[Dave Ladely]

By the way, I covered my door panels, including that plastic area in the upper front of the panels near the side mirrors, and console with real leather over special foam. Easy and a HUGE improvement.

 

[Bizzy]

So to mount a headunit in the spot for the EATC did you need to make anything to make it fit right? I have a Kenwood MP3 player, and they use a mounting sleeve and I'm just wondering what it would take to put my stereo up there. It would be SOOOOOOO much better.

 

[Neo]

Why not put the eatc in the center console? If you have an auto climate control, the you barely need to touch it (I don't), so why not hide it?

 

[ShoGuy93]

The vacunm hoses and the power cables that power the eatc won't reach to the center console. The wires are way to short...... but good thinking though

 

[Chris Kauffman]

I installed Heater control unit into my glovebox, I had to lengthen all of the wires to the control head. I soldered and heat shrank (is that even a word?) every single wire, then heat shrank them all together and zip tied it all up so it's looks factory, I just never got around to actually making a flat panel for it to sit flush when you open it up, so now it's just sitting in there, but it's still cool, a pretty big pain to get to though, I think I am going to take it back out eventually. It's just nice to see people getting creative with their SHOs, keep up the good work.

 

[ShoGuy93]

Yeah i try!!!

 

[Slo-Sho]

Chris Kauffman:
I installed Heater control unit into my glovebox, I had to lengthen all of the wires to the control head. I soldered and heat shrank (is that even a word?) every single wire, then heat shrank them all together and zip tied it all up so it's looks factory,

That's like 20+ wires back there! Are all the extended wires color coded? Nice job.

 

[SHOZ123]

Anybody heard of video compression? .5 meg in dinky pics.....

 

[ShoGuy93]

 

[Chris Benvie]

damn guys, this thread has lasted for a while, never got around to swapping the radio considering I havn't had the car in a month

 

[SilverSHO]

Hey Brad...could you put those pics up again? I must have missed this thread when it was new; I'm getting red Xs.

 

[FriedRiceBob]

i realize this is an older thread and probably wont get replyd..but heres a ? anyways.
exactly how hard is it?
pop off some trim, move the etac/wires/hoses down, trim the sides of the etac...
does the etac hole have sufficient support for mounting a standard aftermarket radio?

 

[ShoGuy93]

Yeah pretty much just pop of the dash and trim the eatc and move the wires down. And the hole does support my cva-1000 really well.... Tonight i'm going to get the sho in the garage and i'm going to pull the dvd player back out and i'm going to do some trimming or grinding so that i can get my dvd player fully in there. it sticks out like a couple few inches. And i'm going to soon be making a trim pieace to go around the eatc and my dvd to make the install look a little cleaner...

SilverSHO is my pics not showing up now? They are for me....

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