jonb

I'm away from my car for a while but want to get a headstart on my stealth HU install before I get back and get my hands back on the car. Can anyone confirm the dimensions and specs of the default Bose HU orange LCD panel ? (The one set into the plastic fascia above the cassette and beneath the CD slot, 03 model if possible) I seem to think it was a 20x2 char but not too sure. Any info on the driver chip or brand name would be really useful but I think I am more likely to replace it especially as there are some nice OLED units around so the dimensions are what I am really after - even just the window size in the HU plastic measured from the front would be a great start!

I used to think this was the best man-room I'd ever seen - - until I saw this - - these are "my pictures of manrooms" not "pictures of my manrooms" though. I'm nowhere near that insane.

Great looking car - awesome choice of parts! Very tasteful too.

Trying to think of just the right amount of sweariness to have inscribed ...

Are you buying the whole kit from GTM or just the pulley/upgrade ? I like the mix of reliability/power from the normal HKS but am very curious about upgrades - Abbey did the original install on my car and retuned it last year so they'd have been a particularly useful source of info - however all information is very welcome!

Did you install the HKS SC in the end ? Just curious to see if someone else is going to check out the uprated GTM pulleys for it ?!

There's a "review" of this from April 2008 - the link in the article to thinkgeek doesn't work any more - http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/25 ... p3_player/ I'm just a bit curious how you'd organise 2Gb of music without a display, you have to eject the tape to get to the buttons that skip /etc. I guess you'd just be best to buy one memory card per album so you're not trying to skip 100's of tracks blind - 128Mb SD is about a fiver, 64Mb 2quid or so - no point ripping at high quality if you're going to play through an adapter. I'm kind of intrigued since it's such a retro looking gadget. Has anyone found anywhere to buy them (not a wholesaler) ?

That's great info thanks! I suspected it might be the case - since the BT plays through the amp I should have known it needed a bit more than a phone-mute line to integrate it. Too much to hope the little deaf lady would be reusable! "Pardon"

If I swap out my BOSE HU for aftermarket can I still use the factory BT with its wired in mic / wheel controls etc. ?

Awesome result though, much better than his red version - has anyone else been looking at the 370z dials and thinking what an improvement they are on standard 350z orange ! I've soldered bits into and removed smds from a toy servo once, that was enough definitely don't fancy doing 20+ of them! It's not that it's hard just massively fiddly.

What a great warning to those who have been afflicted with "love is blind". I mean a red bugeye dc1 - what was he thinking?!

I had the dash in my 200sx flocked - was a huge improvement over the acres of shiny plastic that used to obscure my view on the occasional sunny british day. It made me want to flock EVERYTHING it was so cool. Cost about £100 to have it done properly (very large piece) even though you can get home kits I was glad it got done properly instead of probably patchily if my previous gluing experiences are anything to go by. I would have wanted the 350z dash flocked too but the standard rubbery finish plastic doesn't reflect anywhere as much light so it seemed a bit unnecessary - also I was fine driving the 200sx around without a dash and the instrument binnacle cable-tied in place while the flocking was done but it's a bit too ghetto for my posh 350z

The bottom one is likely marmite stying but if the top one is the same grey as the dash (and the blue highlights can be made orange like the rest of the z lighting) it might look 'nearly stock' which I'd like. I'm not too keen on how the single DIN ones look in the dash and I don't want a big screen on display all the time.

Anyone got a pic of either of these installed ? Or general comments apart from a mild wariness of any unit with the same badge as the oem ? Or know of a car audio shop herts/london where I can look at one in real life ? I like the fairly standard look of the DUZ388RMP especially as it seems to allow me to change that blue light, and I think the WXZ468RMP might suit the interior too. http://www.caraudiogiant.co.uk/shop/ind ... oductId=17 http://www.caraudiogiant.co.uk/shop/ind ... ductId=281

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