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So I have spent many hours on other peoples builds and all. So it is time to start my build thread. The final outcome of this build will be.

Alpine CDA-9887 OR in my dreams a alpine F1 head unit running active
Image Dynamics CX components
Image Dynamics Q 10 inch sub sealed
Audison SRX 4 channel amp for fronts
Audison SRX mono amp
Maybe dropped a bit
Viper 5901 Alarm

Than for shows
Xbox 360
single 15 inch monitor in the trunk lid
a set of coaxial's one on each side of the monitor

Feel free to comment
So without further a due here are the pics
The old setup


Fuse installed



Sirius Installed


Old head unit just holding me over


Trim panels installed


Old wheels


New wheels


Me new amp man I love it

 
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Started Dynamat

 
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My security system main wire yesterday. Here is what I did before I installed it.

 
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So today my neighbor left and I have the house and the garae to myself. For some reason having a garage gives me a lot of motavation. So today I got back to it.

Finished up the trunk




Rerouted the wires from over the rear support to under it.


Put dyanmat were the rear seats are.


Took the realy thin peice of whatever and tracked it out and mad e replica in plywood.

Got a little bit of the front doors done have to get more dynamat tomrrow.

Started looking at how to run the speaker wires threw the gromit looks like it is not going to be that hard.

 
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Okay taking a brake considering I can continue at anytime.
When you buy a used car and they say it has a aftermarket alarm you might want to look under your steering wheel to see how well it was installed.This is not my work!! This is what I found when I took my lower panel off. One of the many reasons I am installing the new alarm myself.




So I have been doing a lot I got the speaker wire ran threw the door probably was one of the easiest things I have done so far.


Removed the piggyback alarm system and am starting to wire the new wiring harness to the conections. "going to use the alarm I have now as a test"


The piggyback alarm

The wiring for this is PITA because I don't trust were the wires are coming from so I am veryfing them all. More pics tonight

 
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Well got the car all put back together today the wiring harness I made worked perfectly with wire provided by fasfocus00. So it is all ready for the viper system that I will hopefully get in a few weeks. Luckily I got everything I wanted to get done. The weather finally broke from 4 or 5 days of rain and was a great day. So good in fact that my father and I went for a ride.


All the wires finally properly wired and ready to be hidden.


The new place for the brain safe place in the rear.



Also got the final pieces of silver trim on the dash today.


All put back together "for now"



Feel free to comment on my prgress. I hope to get some money soon to start ordering the stuff that I need and get it finally DONE.

 
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Well got my new head unit today.

Hmmm I wounder what it is


I see it is a Pioneer


Here it is a Pioneer Premier DEH-P880PRS



So I look at this as being pioneers last change to prove themselves a good company. If it dose not work out I will be getting my Alpine 9887 as planed. Installing this weekend more pics on the way!

 
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looks like alot of work so far. pioneer is good, but its no alpine.

 
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Looks like a fun project...good work

 
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nice. i'm curious to see the final install. you said you were getting an Alpine, but you show pics of a Pioneer. if you're sticking with the Pioneer, get the Sirius module for it so you don't have to have that appendage tape on the dash for sirius:
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PU...ellite/CD-SB10
i used to have a Roady XT for XM Radio. it was a pain having this extra thing sitting out. now, i have the XM version for my Pioneer. it uses the HU to control the XM. i like it much better.
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PU...ite/GEX-P920XM
i also have the iPod cable for mine and it controls my ipod through the head unit also.
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PU...4900IB.Support
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PU...s/iPod/CD-I200

 
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Installed the head unit today went pretty well. Just to be safe I put hat shrink on each rca plug so it would not touch anything. For the comment above no I am not going to buy a thing for this head unit until I know I want it for right now I am still saying I will like the alpine better and will probably get it anyway.

 
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You should get yourself one of these!! I picked it up for 400 bucks, got real lucky... no GPS though. Everything looks awesome though... nice and clean!

 
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can you tilt the screen at all? to help with glare? that's my biggest beef with 7th gens is the angle of the dash and glare. my wife's last several other cars did not have this problem.

 
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Yes you can tilt the screen but then you run into the problem of the trim piece not allowing the deck to open for cd access... I cut around the bottom of the trim piece so i can have it tilted down a little bit and not get the glare. I still get the glare though, its unavoidable on these cars for some reason. Sorry... I don't mean to threadjack.

 
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LOL ya that is nice but 2 things are wrong with them. One you can not go active with them and two I would probably crash playing around with that.

 
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nice share.....

 
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no pic shows up?......

 
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Well today i finally got my new replacement for that terrible pioneer. Here is it



Already like it will install it tomorrow.

 
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very nice. my next HU will be an Alpine double DIN.... when i can afford it!

 
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Ya they are worth the money.

 
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i know man, but $999.95.......dddddaaaaayyyyyyuuuuuummmmmm! yeah, i still want it!

 
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Thats a nice head unit! Way better than the Pioneer

 
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Ya but I will be selling it soon, I still want the 9887 model "this one can not go active" But I got rid of the pioneer that was my objective.

 
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Where'd you get that silver trim from?

I like it a lot... my plain black dash is kind of boring so I'm looking to break it up a bit.

 
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Ya I like it as well go to your honda dealer and order it or from a REAL reseller online. Honda makes it for the car.