Perhaps my question is better suited to Show and Shine, but I'd say it's a toss-up. I'm installing a Euro DIN head unit. Since that's not a direct fit, I'm going to fashion a bracket to fit it.

The Euro DIN unit is 5.0 cm tall and 17.6 cm wide. The factory unit is 5.2 cm tall and 18cm wide. Obviously, there will be a gap. Since I've got an OZ, I want to make my bracket out of a metal to match the brushed metal finish in the OZ interior.

Does anyone know what metal it is?

Once I design this, I'll have CAD drawings of the bracket and be able to build them using some machining equipment a Mechanical Engineer friend of mine can use at his school, so there is a potential to make a few of them if anyone else is interested.

Thanks. I'm really interested to know if anyone has done anything like this already, especially building interior trim materials to match the OZ.
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well...the interior is not metal. it is plastic but has a brushed metal look.

 

Hmm.. I suppose I should have realized that. I never looked too closely. That'll make it tougher to color match with - has anyone done anything like that already?
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one of my friends has a brushed aluminum cover over his EQ. it's a flat piece of aluminum with holes cut out for the knobs and LEDs. it looks REALLY good, regardless of it matching. well he has a mustang black interior, but it will look good anyways as long as it is nice and polished and clean.

 

Perhaps I'll give that a shot then. Though, since posting this, I've installed the unit without anything on the sides and I'm not really seeing the brushed metal look working out now, so perhaps something else interesting will come to me.

Thanks everyone...
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it will look nice go for it

 

I guess I'm still on the edge... I'll post a pic when I come up with something - probably before the week ends.
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Alright, my estimate was off as several weekends have passed. I've also had my fair share of wasted brushed metal, but I did finally come up with something. Check my profile for a pic. It's not quite as good as I'd hoped, but I am happy with it and it's growing on me more.
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How much depth did you have between the dash trim piece and the cage for the deck or whatever... How thick could something you mount in there be is what I'm getting at?

 

you could always just piant it all the same as your exterior car color.

 

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at. My unit is mounted flush though and the brushed aluminum sheet I added is mounted roughly 1/8-1/4 an inch back from that, so it's behind both the unit and the interior frame. Is that what you're asking about?
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Pretty much...
I was thinking something that might look kind of cool is if you put a piece of heavier guage speaker wire with a coloured transparent coating on it around the deck under the dash trim piece. so where yours has the aluminum (by the way, it looks good) you would see the glossy greyish wirecasing with the wire braiding showing through underneath it. Kind of hard to describe... but just think power wire guage wiring filling the gap... Might look cool.. I dont know

 

Maybe.. I'm actually planning on some red LEDs at the four corners. I should be able to easily run 4 12V LEDs in parallel off the illumination wire to the back of the stereo I'm assuming that's a 12V. If not, I can grab 12V off the power anyway. I think that'll really look nice, especially when I re-color my AC/heating controls red as well.
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I'm planning on doing the cliamate control too. I think that's a sick mod

 

hoew do we do the climate control knobs?