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Old 06-14-2005, 08:12 AM
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just got it back from the painter last night. American International kit molded into the stock dash with a slim dvd drive installed in the lower din for the carputer.

sorry for the crappy pics - took em at 3am last night.


Old 06-14-2005, 08:48 AM
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looks real nice man... post some pics when you get it put back in your car
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Looks cool
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looks good....do alot of drinking?
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Originally Posted by jmaldonado
looks good....do alot of drinking?
just a bit
Old 06-14-2005, 10:06 AM
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DenonFord *drool*

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Old 06-14-2005, 10:07 AM
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How does the dash kit get molded? i'm very interested in this...looking to get a denonford, but can't find one for the life of me...

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how did you get the dash off? i wanna get mine painted too! how much $$$ did it cost you
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How does the dash kit get molded? i'm very interested in this...looking to get a denonford, but can't find one for the life of me...

ravi
sent you a PM w/ a quick runthrough of the steps I took

Oh and total cost including materials i used to mold the dash kit in was around $100 - but I did all the prep myself (hours and hours of sanding)
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wow, that looks great! Please post pics once you install in your car!
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installed pics:


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SimplyJ what kinda stereo deck is that? it looks very clean... i also love the dash! i want to get mine done as well
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It's a Rockford Fosgate RFX-8250 - made by Denon and rebadged by RF. Very similar to the Denon DCT-A1N model.
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how much $$ did you put down for that? any features that make it stand out from the others?
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honestly I got it because I can't stand all the blinking lights and cheesy features on most headunits. i wanted a clean, no frills deck that looks like it should have come with the car. I'm installing a carputer, so all the blinging features other headunits have such as DVD or Nav will be run through the computer.

here's the specs on the headunit:
Copper plated chassis
Dual 20-bit Platinum D/A converters
Balanced 8V line outputs with dual mini-DIN connectors
Coaxial digital input
Metal alloy rotary encoder ****
Dual preamp outputs with double shielded cables and metal RCA connectors
Low impedance (<50 ohms) 5V preamp output
24 FM / 12 AM presets with auto memory store
Auxiliary analog RCA inputs
Backlit LCD display with clock
Mute function
Bass & treble controls (+/- 12 dB @ 100 Hz & 10 KHz)
100 dB dynamic range / 86 dB channel Separation

I paid about $350 shipped for it and it was worth every penny. Like I said, I like things clean and felt that the brushed aluminum face and backlighting complimented the Z's interior very well. Before the blue dash most people didn't realize it was aftermarket. I've always liked things to blend in well... here's my old car's dash:

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Old 06-16-2005, 05:15 AM
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Looks real good. I like the painted dashes over the carbon fiber dash covers.

This is mine in red.
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