I'll take it!

Geez John, you're giving an awful lot of stuff away lately. It's a good thing you don't seem depressed or I'd be worried about you! 

      Hell of a deal for somone.   If I didn't already have 2 black ones and 3 sets of gauges, I'd grab it in a heart beat.

Car-2-Lo wrote: It's yours Patrick !

Thanks John! (I'll PM you.)

Romeo wrote: Does anyone happen to know if the lower half is just brushed aluminum?

From the factory? If so, no, it's plastic.

Romeo wrote: I just need a body that will house a single DIN unit, yet pretty much still have a DIN and a half opening at the end.

I don't know about anybody else, but you've certainly confused me.

What is this "body" you're referring to? What "end" are you referring to?

The opening size of the faceplate has nothing to do with the actual mounting of whatever size unit you plan to install in the console/dash.

Is the size of the hole in the factory faceplate the same size as whatever will be sticking out through it with your installation? If not, then perhaps you should be using a different adapter.

In my original Fiero I used an adapter to mount a more modern (at the time) cassette player. I was able to retain the factory faceplate as part of the adapter itself sticks through the hole above and below the cassette deck.

What I mean is like this, from the right side, the Fiero's 1.5 DIN unit is like this:
        _________
       |    ;           ; |
Front|               |
       |_________|

My one will be like this:

        __________
       |           ;     |
Front|  ________|
       |_| Emptiness...

The front of the Headunit (Faceplate) is the size of a 1.5 DIN unit. However, the core of it (Body) is only a single DIN unit, whereas the Fiero originally shipped with 1.5 DIN units. That extra size could be problematic, as I don't want the player shloshing around and damaging itself and CDs/DVDs. Also, the lower two corners of the faceplate are indented, meaning I'd essentially have to cut a unique piece of aluminum in order to hide the empty spots. If anyone ends up for one reason or another throwing out that radio/vents/heater face and body, I wouldn't mind getting my hand on one, so I can get to work modifying without leaving my stock one in pieces while I work on it (I'm sure there'd be some law against driving with exposed wiring coming out of you centre area).

Romeo wrote: (I'm sure there'd be some law against driving with exposed wiring coming out of you centre area).

I hope you're not serious. It's not quite that much of a police state here... yet.

I still don't understand what your concern is with mounting the headunit you have. Mounting it in the console/dash has nothing to do with the faceplate.

Just in case there's any confusion (because I don't know what you've taken apart and looked at), there's nothing to do with anything you see pictured at the top of this thread that has any bearing on actually mounting your headunit.

And if the unit you have requires a faceplate hole for 1.5 DIN, what good does another factory faceplate do you? How is it going to be any different than the one you have (which is already the correct 1.5 DIN size)?

I'm not trying to interrogate you, I'm just trying to figure out what you're thinking.

OH! I figured the faceplate picutered above would have some bearing on holding the radio in place, hence why I was hoping to modify one. I'll still have to modify my own somewhat (As I don't want holes in mine) but you're right, I wont need a new one if it wont affect the actual stabilty of the headunit at all. I'll need to make a new face plate though, because unlike the original AC Delco head-unit which is retangular, mine's got two recessions in the bottom corner. From the front, it kinda looks like this:

 _______
|o       o|
\______/  The gaps would be those two angled bottoms. =)

Now I just have to worry about making my car take a single DIN head-unit.

Romeo wrote: OH! I figured the faceplate picutered above would have some bearing on holding the radio in place...

Absolutely none. That's why I was wondering if you'd actually had a look in there yet.

Romeo wrote: I'll need to make a new face plate though, because unlike the original AC Delco head-unit which is retangular, mine's got two recessions in the bottom corner. From the front, it kinda looks like this:  _______ |o       o| \______/  The gaps would be those two angled bottoms. =)

It would be a heck of a lot easier to mount a couple pieces of black plastic behind your faceplate to block those two holes in the bottom corners. If done properly it would look just fine.

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