well im not buying another screen... but im swaping my alpine DD unit into this 96dx...

its actualy not a bunch of work... it looks worse than it is! if i didnt have my alarm system it would have been easy to pull the dash.... tuffest part IMO is those heater hoses on the firewall! i hate those spring clamps!!!!!

after i finish this up im going to be striping the 99ex and put it back stock as much as posible! then i can drive it thru the winter while i start working on the body work on this 96dx.
so paint is coming up pretty soon

o ya im also swaping in my spare 99ex front seats into this 96dx. im going for the full 99-00 swap. only thing im missing for the complete swap is the back seat. after i do that no one will ever know its a 96dx they will think its a 99-00dx

main thing that sucks is i have to clean out the paint booth before i can use it
ITS FULL!!!!!



i do love all this space

 

O CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!! good news and bad news.....
1good news my new heater hoses came in today.
2good news i have it all swaped over now...
BAD NEWS my sirius satelite radio isnt working.... it says aquiring.... and then the stations pop up but no names or song i have to play around alittle with it to make sure but i think i lost my free sirius radio so i might have to start paying for it again....... SON OF A *****!!!!!!!!!! this blows thats like 13bucks a month i was saving!!!! im hoping just a cable came unpluged but i think when i disconected the power harness it reset itself.

and i also have the front seats installed tho i had to pull apart the drivers seat to replace the outter rail that wouldnt lock into place.... just swaped the stock 96 rail onto it no problems now. but i also had to pull apart the top of the seat and put the seats frame in a vise and get a BFHammer to it over and over to get it straightened out... when the seats where in my old 94eg civic it leaned back in the middle of the car. i thought it was just the seat rails seing how they didnt bolt up anyways.... but NOPE turns out the seat frame was bent SOMEHOW...... i dont know HOW it got bent from previous owner but it was. i got it straight enough now where i cant really feel a lean to it... i just have to get used to the lumbar in the car... gotta try and set it right....

i also put in my 2color lighted climate controls tho ONE DOWNFALL..... apartently when i soldered all the leds into the AC/REC/DEF indicators in backwards because non of the 3 light up with them pluged in so eventualy ill have to unsolder those 3 and reverse them good thing i have extra controls.





my temp sat antena spot.LOL i didnt feel like working the wire around the back window seal for along time for something id just pull back out shortly to paint the car. its magnetic so i just poped it on the lid quickly...







and YES I KNOW i need to sweep out my car.LOL its to late to keep messing with it and i just needed my car driving.

 

Awesome awesome awesome!

 

o ya..... good news when i hooked up the sirius receiver i plugged the network cable into the wrong terminal... a quick unplug and plugged into the right terminal and it still works perfect and with no bill. LMFAO YEAH!!!!!! still have to do some minor tweaking to my amplifier and internal settings but so far so good!
today i also bolted the old radio into my 99ex since well it needs a radio...

next ill pull out the led cluster and swap it into the dx to put the 99 back stock.
ill slowly pull most my toys off the 99ex. right now im just waiting on payday so i can buy the primer and filler and some dry ice to experiment with, then i can start the body work..... just need to put the stock suspension back on the black civic so i can drive it in the snow.

 

hmm, on the last picture in your 2nd to last post, the seat looks a little twisted. My driver's side GSR seat is like that too... is it suppose to be like that? if so, why?

also, your stereo... where do you get those? and is it a car computer or what?

 

thats just an Alpine screen

 

ya its a alpine double din unit.... dvd player, ipod direct cable, 6.5inch screen. sirius radio. i love the unit! its alittle older but still very nice unit... the newer models have video ipod capabilities.... id like to have that but dont want to spend another 700+bucks just for that upgrade....

and i dont know how the seat got twisted but i got them that way.... they definatly are not suposed to be like that!!!!! it was seriously twisted.... i ended up crushing the tubing alittle when i was beating the hell outta it to try and twist it back to normal!
how ever it got bent it took alot of work to bend it! either a really fat guy doing some hardcore leaning.... or someone really strong in the back seat that wanted out from the back and pushed really hard on the outter side that twisted the seat.LOL
but i got it bent back pretty close to it feels fine with me sitting in the seat now!

 

if you get a new one you should hook me up with the old one, haha

oh, well mines not bent enough to where you can feel it or anything, it's a reaaaaaaaaaaally slight twist and almost seems like it's suppose to be or something, idk.

 

o well mine was hardcore leanen!
that was one of the main reason why i removed them from my old 94eg and replaced them with stock seats.... i thought it was just the seat rails not made for that civic.... turns out that sucker was just seriously twisted.LOL i tried to man handle the sucker to straighten out BUT that didnt work very much at all... it slightly bent back but no where near enough.... so i had to pull the fabric and foam to really get down to work.


i would sell the unit... BUT i want 500bucks shipped for it. no sat radio tuner included tho
will come with everything...... 2 plastic bezels. one new one trimmed to decently fit 99 bezel. new metal cage for mounting. wire harness with 96-00 wire harness attached.
i wanna upgrade to there newer IVA-W505 dvd unit. its a tiny bit larger screen and afew more updated toy options
tho is freaken like 900bucks

 

how all does it work? where do the CD's load? is it just that unit seen in the dash that's all you need? would it include the iPod cable? What does it look like while controlling the iPod, and does it control the iPod from the headunit? Can you change all of those backgrounds and stuff on the headunit screen? I wouldn't need the bezels.

I may have to buy that from you someday... it'll be a while though if i ever buy it from you. I would really want to do this with that unit:
http://www.solsociety.com/forum/inde...howtopic=29531