Gifts on NG! Improving the Music - Toyota Celica, 1.9 L, 2001

I have long wanted to make myself a gift, but my hands did not reach. And then the New Year. Well, I think at least now I won't hurt myself. I call the guys I know and ask what is normal from 2din heads with a discount;). Suggested by Sony XAV-W1. Not a bad multimedia head with an integrated sound processor! ! ! We must take ...

This is followed by a call to a friend of Rakish who has recently begun to delve into the environment of car audio , I hope he will soon present his improvements on cars here;)

Let's go bought interfaces, fuses, connectors, heat shrink, corrugation and go home.
Found a pinout of a standard head for Japan / Europe with a standard amplifier. By the way, if anyone needs it, I have pinouts for America with standard amplifiers and built-in ...

All this was dragged into the car.
They took off the Pioneer, realized that they were installing it with their feet. They killed an hour to put everything in order.

We marked all the wires, proceeded to install. Everything was done for oneself, the joints were shrink-wrapped, the groups were united in a corrugation, and they signed.

Next, we made noise insulation by splitting.

Then we decided to try the whole thing on, and were not surprised to see that the head protrudes 1.5 cm. This is a standard situation, many do not pay attention to it. But we are not looking for easy ways. We take the fastening strips, mark with a marker. Let's go home, drink tea. We take a drill and pliers. 10 minutes of work, 2 fittings and voila: The head fits perfectly into the interior, like a stock one ...

Right now, I'm playing with the settings ... There are those frequencies that
were never heard before + Rakish helped to rebuild the soundstage a little, now I 'm driving happy.
At the same time, I switched the car to Off-Road mode, now we look like this: