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firebladejr

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Hi ppl,

I have been trying to install a stereo for the last two days (damn long condsidering i've installed about 6 units in other cars). The car is an R33 S1 2door. I have fixed my previous problems but have now run into some new ones which I need help with badly!

Problems are:

I have nowhere to mount the stereo! The original brackets are missing and I'm left with a nice double DIN sized hole. I need to get some sort of frame to mount the decks cradle to, and will also need a single DIN pocket. Question is, does anyone know of a dash frame/chassis from another car that will fit to the skyline? I need the actual metal bracket that fits two DIN slots, one for the deck and the other for a plastic pocket.

Other problem is the aerial connection. It looks like it has a weird plug shape with 2 prongs?! Anyone know of an adapter to mate the jap aerial to an aussie spec aerial?

Thanks in advance for any help.

cheers.

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go to ur local autobarn or car audio shop .. they will have the conversion adaptors for about 30 bucks ... so then u can install american or aussie stereos ... go to a nissan wrecker ... i think u maybe able to get brackets for pulsers and 300's to fit .. i'm not sure ... just find one that wrecks skylines :)

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i had the same problem u will have to find other car brackets of make them ur self from cuts of metal which i did its a bitch to get the deck to be straight. You can get a din from nissan but they do cost $40 but the s15 one fits also which might be cheaper.

Do u have holes on the side of ya dash that u can screw onto if so ur lucky cause mine didnt even have that goodluck!

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damn it!!!!! I bought the brackets from another wrecker (closer), but they aren't enough... the brackets I bought are kind of L shaped and fit deeper inside the dash, towards the back. There is no way I can fit a deck to them without it being about 3 inches deep from the facia. I spoke to a mate who recently put a stereo into an r33 and he said I am missing more brackets.

Is anyone on the forum wrecking an r33 with these brackets?? I would love to basically buy the whole bracket/cradle setup that goes with the deck right back to the internal dash rails.

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i finally just finished getting that mother(*@#$ in!!!

talk about an absolute **** of a job.

Now the problem is that the dash doesn't clip back in properly (the facia around the stereo) and there is a slight gap under the DIN pocket.

Oh... and another problem.. Now my passenger side headlight doesn't want to work. I took the bulb out (what a bitch that was) and it isn't blown at all ?? It looks like a bad connection or old wiring. Anyone else have this problem? And can anyone else tell me how in the hell I am going to be able to get the bulb back in the headlight with the clip?

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Firebladejr,

Go genuine with the brackets - you'll pay for them, but at least they'll be the right ones.

As for the funky jap aerial adaptor, I went to our old mate Dicky Smith and bought a single prong connector. Costs all of about a dollar. You can cut the old two prong connector off, and simple wire the new one on by twisting both cores together and soldering (obviously the ground sheath is the same).

I did this to mine, and there was no probs - surprised myself.

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didnt u get mounting brackets with your head unit?

they fit in there snug, but i couldnt get the console back on.. because it stuck out too far.. it was a simple case of drilling new holes in the existing mounting frames.. to get the unit to sit deeper in..

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