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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: rec.audio.car
- Subject: Re: Installing 2 head units
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.112727.871@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 11:27:27 PST
- References: <BxLIA0.M8s@eis.calstate.edu> <6701@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
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- In article <6701@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu>, darren@papaya.ucsb.edu
- (Darren Tokushige,,CS major,COMS,Undergrad) writes:
- > I myself own a Celica (85') and want to warn you about installing two
- > head units. If you measure carefully, there is probably enough width
- > and height in the double din cavity for 2 head units,
-
- There certainly is, since the original factory radio/cassette setup had two
- separate ISO-mounted units, one the radio and the other the cassette player.
- (This made for lots of fun for experimenters. The "interface" between the two
- was, god forbid, a standard 5-pin DIN connector. A couple of extra connectors,
- a switch, and a pair of phono jacks, and presto! you have line-in jacks for the
- amps, suitable for the line-level out from a portable CD player.)
-
- > but I doubt that it is deep enough. [...]
-
- This is a very valid concern. But I believe that it depends on the model year
- of the car, and possibly the type of A/C ordered with the car.
-
- My 82 Celica had ample depth for ISO-mount radios. My "new" car, an 84 Supra
- (what can I say, I like the body style better than anything made now), has a
- lot less depth. The difference is, as you say, in the air-conditioning ducts.
- The Supra (and possibly your 85 Celica, I don't know) has a completely
- different A/C system from the 82 C.; one difference is that the later system
- has an automatic temperature control option, like like a thermostat in a house.
-
- There *is* enough depth for the Sony CD decks I mentioned, but only if you take
- the power amp module off the back of the unit and mount it nearby (very easy to
- do).
-
- > Before you buy that cd player, make sure it will fit. Even if you sacrifice
- > your lower heating ducts, it still might be an impossible squeeze...
- > Good Luck.
-
- The right answer here is to get the unit on a returnable-with-no-questions-
- asked basis, and don't clip ANY wires until you've tried mounting it.
- Fortunately lots of places are offering this deal these days.
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
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