It looks like I'll have the Kenwood head unit installed on March 17, along with the 20 GB hard drive. My installer said it's a simple procedure to wire it so the unit will play DVDs while driving......of course, I would never actually do that.

 

I have the eclipse double din unit in my Z and can confirm that you can disable the lockout by grounding one wire.. very simple to do. awesome unit

 

Which double din Eclipse unit do you have?

 

check this thread out

https://my350z.com/forum/showthread....threadid=45706

 

I am very interested in seeing pictures of your install after it is done. I want this unit.

 

i just bought the kenwood today, i should have it in my hands on the 8th, ill let you know how it turns out, im excited.

 

Who did you buy it from?

 

crutchfield. i probably paid too much.

 

Yeah, but at least you can be absolutely sure you'll be covered if you have any problems with the head unit. That's the one thing that makes Crutchfield's high prices acceptable. I always check their Scratch-n-Dent section. You can sometimes get some fantastic deals in there.

 

Crutch is great just because of all the free stuff they give you.. i hope you took advantage of the free Sirrus tuner, youd be dumb not to, for an extra 14 bucks you get a 140 dollar tunner!!!!! you can't beat that anywhere

 

thats one of the reasons i decided to go with them, they sent me my tuner and antenna already, just have to wait till my headunit arrives.

 

Stop it everybody. I am getting envious.

shaunz could you take pictures of the Kenwood from all angles before you install? Are you doing the install yourself? When I add the Kenwood to my checkout cart at Crutchfield it tells me that there are modifications needed to the mounting kit. What are they? Did you get the Master Sheet instructions? If so, could you scan and post? Sorry for all the questions. I would like to install myself but I don't want to mess up my Z. I am thinking about buying everything and taking it to a local car audio shop.

Thanks

 

I ordered mine too... I should get mine about the same time as you... very excited.

 

good job. lets just hope they get enough in to fill our orders. hopefully it wont go on a backorder due to the people that bought theres b4 us, well good luck to us both, this should give us a sweet looking audio setup.

 

when you guys get these, id be interested to know how loud you have to keep it turned up, do too the low voltage... also are you going to be running the stock speakers?... I really want to get one, but I want to know what the sound quality is, and how it compeates with the Road noise before i lay out 1300 big ones

 

ill be running 3 jl 10w6v2's on a 1000/1 jl amp, diamond audio components and diamond audio 6 3/4 on a 450/4 jl amp. i hope i get my moneys worth out of this one.

 

the low voltage is on the amp pre-outs.. it will not affect volume.. just adjust your amps gain to the 2v level and you are set.

 

<---- getting anxious... cant wait any longer

 

I think if you get the dts/dolby digital decoder that there are high voltage outs on the preouts of that unit. Then you get the best of both worlds.

 

Looks like Eclipse has finally put their new double-din units on their website.

http://www.eclipse-web.com/