Dual HVAC, Double Din, XM, Back up Camera Finally Finished

Hello all,

Before we begin, I started this project about 4 days before the jdm dual HVAC thread started. I already had the circut board cut and there was no turning back. That being said I hope TDC comes through with a real world solution because this was very hard. I do not recommend trying this unless you have done stuff like this before and have the time and patience. I have about 60 hours into the HVAC relocation and avic-z1 install alone. All in all it was a fun project. ENJOY!

avic-z1 installed

avic-z1 with oem screen

I can mirror whatever image is displayed on the z1 to show on the oem screen. As of now I can't show the nav from the z1 on the oem screen while the z1 shows my AV sources, but I,m working on it.

Some pics of the circut board cut

This is the top half of the circut board wired and mounted in the car. I used cables to link it to the bottom half that is attached to the front trim panel.

This is the back of the radio trim with the HVAC controls mounted, wired and ready to plug into the cables in the car I made. I made the mounts out of ABS plastic. All together there were 49 connections between the top and bottom circut boards and 22 more connections that go from the bottom circut board box to the main radio circut board under the drivers seat.

This is the main circut board from the oem radio. The 6-disc changer was removed and not used again. The board is mounted in an ABS box using the mounts from my oem nav brain. Along with the 22 connections from the top half of the circut board that is mounted below the z1 I also had to extend and run the rest of the wires that were plugged into the back of the oem radio.

More pics coming of back up camera, xm install, and the making of the trim panel.

that is beautiful work. I was hoping to do something similar in the future...but I need to get a second radio/HVAC panel to chop up so I am not rushed working on the one and only I have at the moment

Thanks for the inspiration!

very cool! i wish i had any electrical engineering skills to do anyhting like this

b

Dual back up camera screens, the z1 I can watch while driving

The back up camera I used was from BOYO. It came with a gloss black finish so I painted the frame body color.

I drilled one hole in the plastic trim of the bumper (part with badges on it) were the center pop clip was between the 2 top licence plate mount holes. This is were the wires for the back up camera are going through. That new hole lines up with the hole were the pop clip was going through the metal portion of the trunk lid. I used the supplied rubber grommet in the metal hole and ran the wires along with the factory ones down the passenger side trunk support

I put my xm ant. under the plastic trim of the hood scoop. The pics above show wre I ran the wire. I used dynamat extreme to attach the wire until I got to were the washer fluid hoses run on the driver's side and followed those into the engine bay.

FYI-I get great recption with the ant. mounted here, unless I'm driving east, away from the sats. Then its a little choppy, but a I'd rather have a little less reception than an ant. mounted in plain view anywhere on my car.

Sick install and mad skillz but 2 navi units, 2 monitors ? A lil' bit of overkill.

only one nav, the avic-z1, but I can display it on both screens. I wanted to keep my oem screen because, even with the factory nav removed I still retain all of the original info functions, outside temp, mpg, trip info, factory alarm controls, etc.

Tom

I put my xm ant. under the plastic trim of the hood scoop.

FYI-I get great recption with the ant. mounted here, unless I'm driving east, away from the sats. Then its a little choppy, but a I'd rather have a little less reception than an ant. mounted in plain view anywhere on my car.

Interesting idea. I put my GPS antenna underneath the 3rd brake light cover, no real issues with reception there.

Interesting idea. I put my GPS antenna underneath the 3rd brake light cover, no real issues with reception there.

The GPS ant. is under the dash pad, behind the inst. cluster, I reused the factory mount.(sorry, no pics) The XM ant is under the hood trim. I thougt about placing it somewhere in the rear window but my tint would probally kill it.

Tom

It's an amazing feat indeed, but I do have to wonder why you'd go through all that to add your own nav when you had OEM nav already? The other goodies in that double-DIN unit make sense but why all that to reduce the stock unit to simply a secondary display?

I guess most double-DIN setups that do DVD also do nav anyway, but I'd have skipped on duplicating the nav part.

OT- what paging alarm system do you have? remote start? thanks! (I'm about to get the Clifford or Viper one)

I have an Autostart AS-2300TW. It's a 2-way non-lcd remote start that I have intgrated with my factory alarm with a SUBDL module from www.bypasskit.com

The SUBDL basically makes the Autostart mimic what the factory alarm does using just the Autostart remote. It will work with either the Viper or Clifford units which are both great systems. Hope this helps.

Tom

wow looks pretty amazing. so some hacking skillz necessary I see. I'm assuming similar things can be done with non nav owners in terms of hacking out the radio/cd changer for a unit there?

It can be done without the factory nav. Really no difference with the radio/HVAC part of the install.

It's an amazing feat indeed, but I do have to wonder why you'd go through all that to add your own nav when you had OEM nav already? The other goodies in that double-DIN unit make sense but why all that to reduce the stock unit to simply a secondary display?

 

I guess most double-DIN setups that do DVD also do nav anyway, but I'd have skipped on duplicating the nav part.

OEM nav IMHO sucked ballz.

The GPS ant. is under the dash pad, behind the inst. cluster, I reused the factory mount.(sorry, no pics) The XM ant is under the hood trim. I thougt about placing it somewhere in the rear window but my tint would probally kill it.

 

Tom

Could you please snap a detailed shot of the XM antenna?

Could you please snap a detailed shot of the XM antenna?

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Thank you. This works fine through the painted plastic? Is it attached via magnet or???

Thank you. This works fine through the painted plastic? Is it attached via magnet or???

Yup, works fine through the plastic, used body tape to stick it.

Tom

Thank eveyone for the positive feedback. Don't hesitate with any other questions.

Tom