Thread: F-Body Ideas - Camaro and Firebird

sort of like your amps. The plexi glass case I made is horribly ugly though... the plexi I used was ancient and too brittle to make a nice case. Good thing you dont see it lol.
I'll go do a search on the forum. It is certainly cheap... I don't need anything extravegant. I'm looking for "adequate"
Thanks for all your help.
-Brendan

Here are some pics of my install so far. Still have lots of work todo.

Need to hack up my lilli and radio bezel but im using this setup for now:


You cant see the screen here because of the camera flash but its a pretty acurate representation of how bad the reflection is when I am out driving during the day. It sucks!


Here is my USB port and ON/AUTO/OFF switch for my m2-atx

One more thing...here is what I used for a temporary mount for my lilli. It worked pretty well.

Just get a bolt the same size as the lilli mount bolt but much longer. Take off your radio bezel and mount the bolt as shown securing it with one nut. Put a 2nd nut on it and the square lilli nut on the very end. Slide your lilliput down on the square nut and loosen the 2nd nut on the bolt....this will put pressure on the lilli mount and hold your screen in place.

Originally Posted by transam02

Is there any way or has anyone come up with a way of losing the stock a/c controls an possibly having the controlled by the car puter.

One guy did it a few years ago, but he was an electrical engineer. He used solenoids to control the vacuum switches, the electrical switches used relays and the cable was controlled by a servo. I don't think he finished it completely with the auto climate circuit and so forth, but it did work.

You would be looking at major dollars and need a lot of knowhow to do it. I doubt mere mortals could build something like that. I'm not going to try.

Here is the thread. He is selling the parts due to selling his camaro and getting a GTO.
A/C Control Electrical,Vacuum, and Mechanical

I was just thinking about relocating the controls the other day. I've been considering mounting a 10.5" over the center control area. Just recess the A/C controls back a little and have the whole LCD and shroud move up and down to reveal the controls. If the center vents weren't blowing, I could leave it up. Unfortunately, the more I think about it the more I think the flushed look like Bernhard used is the way to go. It just looks so factory. I think the center console is my best bet for the A/C controls because it's not a reach and I can also mount my Alpine H700 controller faceplate next to it as well.

When I get some extra cash I'm going to go to the junkyard and get the vacuum lines from the controls to over by glovebox area. If you remove the plastic undertray you will see that all 6 vacuum lines plug into a connector. I'm going to get that connector and as much of the lines as I can. That way I can make a plugin, removable vacuum line extension cable. I think it will be better than cutting the hard plastic lines and extending them, but it's hard to say which is the better idea.

I think I know how to extend the cables as well using a bicycle brake cable sheath and a new length of cable. I can cut the factry sheath and splice in the new extension piece. Then run a new, longer cable through it. Should be pretty easy.

As far as the electrical goes, I could just extend the wires by cutting them and soldering in new pieces. The other way is to add a molex connector to the factory wires to make it unplugable. Then make an extension set of wires using the same molex pugs. That way I can add or remove the extension wires. It's more work, though. If I just extend the wires by soldering them they might be able to tuck under the dash if I ever move the controls back to stock. Or there might not be enough room. I don't know.

All in all, I don't think the relocation would be that hard. With thecontrols under the console lid it will make the interior real clean looking. The dash area will be a flat blank slab until the stereo is turned on. I think it would be classy.

If you are fine with a smaller 7" screen, you can do like Curious did. That looks real factory. You can leave off the buttons along the left side if you want. I'm not doing it that way because I want the biggest screen I can get. It makes everything easy to see and read while driving.

Meissenation re-did his dash to a red and black two-tone. Check it out on page 1 of this thread as well as here:
http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=485792

I like it.

Here is my install as it is today and below that is a photoshop of what I might do. Should I keep the divider between A/C and screen, make it smaller, or get rid of it? What do you guys think?

Originally Posted by NoTicketsPlease

Here is my install as it is today and below that is a photoshop of what I might do. Should I keep the divider between A/C and screen, make it smaller, or get rid of it? What do you guys think?

It's up to you. Can you leave it that size or does it block the bottom of the screen?
I'm thinking you should leave it as is or make it a bit smaller depending on the above answer.

Bonding the controls to the big bezel doesn't seem like a good idea to me. It looks OK, but how could you blend in the seam between the two?