Folks,

My brother is having his empeg fitted to his new sti8... however there is a problem. The unit will not fit through the aperture... the subaru silver dash surround is too small.

Other head units tend to have a plastic clip on surround that can be left off, and hence would fit through the aperture. We have the 1din blank that turns the 2din into a 1 din for the head unit and a small storage area.

Anyone else had similar problems? is it just a matter of filing down the silver subaru dash surround? This will probably look really bad :(

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Richie.

Richie,

I guess the answer "give the empeg to me" doesn't really help, does it?

'bout time to resurrect the PSU thread for a final call?

Cheers,
Nick.

If the EMPEG's got the tuner module , I will do an straight swap for a brand new silver DIN-sized HD/tuner that has a removable surround and a removable HD with USB2.0 connectivity.

I'm starting a museum of car mp3 devices :)

Note to Chiark: is this sufficiently plugless for you?

[Edited by 12LEE - 2/28/2003 6:14:58 PM]

LOL, yeah, that'll do :D

The Empeg is a fantastic bit of kit built by hackers in the original sense of the word.

I have a Riocar (Empeg) and a Nakamichi MB-75 fitted in my STi7. The fitter said it was a very tight fit with the Riocar on top of the MB-75 and he had to file the aperture. Once the Riocar is in you do not notice this at all.

Hope this helps.

I had this problem with a Pioneer unit because the head unit front surround wasn't removable. I sent it back for a Blaupunkt DAB unit - sorry no help

LoFi

Cheers for the info peeps. Better get a new set of files then... just hope it doesnt turn out to be a mess.

also.. I cant even pry the empeg from my brothers hands... perhaps i'll have to put a pc in the boot.... hmmm :D

Richie.

Here we go peeps, one happy chappy :D Sorry you guys missed out on the sale of my Empeg ;)

Two hours of drillin', trimmin', and it fits like a glove. Could have gone 2mm higher but its not worth the trouble. You can see from the piccies that the cage is approx 1 cms wider+higher than a 1din unit.

The lower din is the SECS from here just incase you were wondering :D

http://upload.turbosport.co.uk/getpi...5015540310.jpg

http://upload.turbosport.co.uk/getpi...5015270499.jpg

http://upload.turbosport.co.uk/getpi...5015581395.jpg

~Jules

Jules,

Fan-bloody-tastic :D - like that setup a lot!

Cheers,
Nick.