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Old Jan 14, 2002 | 09:49 PM
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Pics of the bird coming soon

Broke down & took some pics of the bird tonight.
Got engine bay, interior, exterior & the different wheels.

******Warning- Some of the engine bay pics may not be be suitable for mod novice********

please view at your own risk.

pics to come soon, will post link when ready.
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Old Jan 15, 2002 | 09:44 AM
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Cool; I'm looking forward to 'em!
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Old Jan 15, 2002 | 10:52 PM
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Pics will be ready friday evening

Walsmart needs to be fster with their cd burning.

took 24 pics, will .bmp some & put captions or something.
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Old Jan 15, 2002 | 10:59 PM
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about time , I was starting to think your bird flew away from ya ! ...J/K lol
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Old Jan 15, 2002 | 11:23 PM
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hard to fly without an engine, I mean wings
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Old Jan 16, 2002 | 12:23 AM
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Don't post them as .BMPs as they will be too large! Open the .BMPs in Microsoft Paint and Save As.... under the File Type use JPEG format. Then post them. You'll save us 56k-ers a LOT of time!
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Old Jan 16, 2002 | 06:41 AM
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89V6FBIRD, you copied my head unit/eq idea
, also the wheels! no wait, you got the good wheels.
you'll see what I mean.
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Old Jan 16, 2002 | 08:31 AM
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Hah, cool, I have the head unit/equalizer combo too. (Altho I've got an old Pioneer head unit; a pull-out tape deck, if any of you remember those! The EQ's a Sherwood.)
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Old Jan 16, 2002 | 11:47 PM
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Yea Tom, my cousin had one of those in his 240SX, I replaced it with a Pioneer DEH-1100, then someone stole it! I hate thieves. One tried to pick the passenger lock on the 'Bird!! I still have to get that fixed.

At first, it had a JVC CD Player in there, but it wouldn't play burned CD's. I was thinkin of changing it to the 1.5 DIN sized Pioneer, but then I would lose my EQ. I think it looks better w/ the EQ and the red lighting anyways. I think my dad custom made the mounting bracket back in '94.
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Old Jan 17, 2002 | 02:06 PM
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Cool! Right now I have the tape-deck adapter, going to a portable CD player. The CD player's on the transmission hump behind the console. I did a little custom wiring to the tape-deck adapter, too. I bought a 1/8" stereo plug extender from radio shack for $5. I opened the tape adapter, removed the thin wire that it comes with, and replaced it with 6 inches of the extension wire (with the 1/8" plug attached). Then, I installed a chassis-mount 1/8" socket above the radio, underneath the dash piece that holds my defroster buttom. That socket connected to the rest of the extension wire, and it runs under the carpet to the back of the car, and comes out behind the rear driver's side seat. That's when it pokes up to the CD player, which is on a powered Scoche anti-vibe mount.

This way, if I want to, I can remove the tape adapter from the dash and put it in my console. I then unplug the CD player, and unplug the Scoshe mount (which goes to a regular cell-phone-style power plug, which goes into an in-line socket, which connects to my radio fuse in the fusebox), and put it behind my seat. Nobody can tell I have a CD player in the car.

But now I want an in-dash CD player. If Xmas didn't kick my butt, I would've bought one by now.
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Old Jan 17, 2002 | 02:12 PM
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Wallyworld & Radio shack are selling 6 or 10 disk changers for like $100 now.

I have a 10 disc changer, not suer if I should keep it in the boat, or put it in the bird? any suggestion?
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