ive done many searches and havet found anything useful. how can i get a firebird radio pod to attach to my camaro dash? can i drill holes and then put screws in it or do i need more support?

 

cmon guys i really ned help here. ive got a 2001T/A center console that needs to go in as sson as i get my car back but i havent really figured out how to attach the firebird radio pod to my car now. i konw many people have done this....

 

I just drilled holes in the dash (after deciding where I wanted the pod.... centered above the console) and put screws threw the pod holes and into the dash. Been like that for several months and no problems. Although I had to grind off some bracketry stuffs on the back to make the "bar" on the pod sit flush with the dash.

Just have to finish the pod. Cover and put the "top" on it.


-Bud

 

ok thanks. i figured you would just have to fabricate something but i wasent for sure and i needed to know. hopefully i get the car back soon and i can start finishing my interior!

 

67 Camaro 88 can we get a close up of the gaguge/clock in the console :-)

 

yea yea detailed pics

 

Well... its a cheap sunpro mech oil pressure gauge. Nothing too special, but I needed something quick (no time to order stuff) to read oil pressure. Realized mine was dead in the dash... it was nice to see it idle at 50psi and almost peg out the gauge at redline with the mech one though that's for sure

Eventually (this summer when I get home) Ill get a 100% black gauge instead of the silver ring one. I could care less if it's autometer/name brand, I just dont like the silver ring


The plate that the cig lighter and the gauge are on is made out of a piece of third gen console. So it "matches" the car. It wasnt crooked when I made the plate, but the hatch switch was there before I got the gauge. When I put the gauge in, I put the plate back on not even thinking.. and its ever so slightly crooked. Just gotta shave off some stuff behind it... no biggie.


-Bud

 

Pod face is buffed too... no more squares

 

Yea thats what I wanted to see, was how you filled in the hole that was there to begin with.

Thanks.

 

awesome job buffing out the squares... i want to do the same thing in my bird. I hate to change the topic of the thread but it looks like you've answered the original question already so why not. Can you tell us how you went about buffing out the squares? did you sand it down and then buff it to make it shine?

 

I went really really out of order with the sand paper... but just get some really rough paper and start sanding away... do it way more than you think is enough. Then do it with finer and finer paper. Last sandpaper I used was wetsanding with 1500 I think. Then I used some 3M Finesse polish stuff with a buffer.

One reason I went so out of order on mine was the fact taht the squares would not go away. I ended going back to 400 and working my way back up quite a few times before the squares went away as much as they did. I think the squares might have been baked on or something too.... if you look at mine in direct sunlight and just right you can still see the squares just barely.... but just the color, no texture/raised parts. It's very odd. Can't see the squares at all in the car though.

3M Finesse stuff:
http://www.premiumautocare.com/3mfinitmacpo.html


-Bud

 

yea thats what i was wondering because im about to do the same thing to mine.......dont think the squares would look too hot!