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eh? what did you cut it with? Aaah, hang-on, sabre saw?

shit yes, good score

What are you painting?

+1 for "bin the lift kit"

yeah, cool project. keep up the good work!

yeah, they used to hold an annual regatta even. I went to it in 1990 and crewed for my mate in his sunburst. Saturday and Sunday, everyone camping in the reserve. It was pretty fun And that jetty was in good nick back then, too! Dunno what happened, but my guess is that people got more aware of how polluted the lake is and weren't that keen on capsizing during hard racing

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I thought I should update this thread. It's sorted. I gave up and took it to the auto sparkies and they ordered the right patch cable that would connect existing amp to new head unit. For a good price too ($65 for the cable plus 1.25 hours labour.) The whole thing sounds bloody excellent but there is some kind of mild interference happening, engine related, so I may have to take it back to them

white ladder!

Ah jeez, I pulled the factory head unit out today and it quickly became tricky. Because it's the top of the line factory unit it has a separate amp and that is connected to the head unit with a circular, multi-pin, "din" connector. That's the 6 pin connector. And there is also an 8 pin connector that seems to not do much in my car. Hopefully, all I need to do is make a custom connector that goes from the 6 pin DIN connector to 4 male RCA's and I will just bypass the amp on the new head unit. Which is a bit of waste, but never mind. I've been deep into the interwebs trying to find pin-out diagrams and message board how-tos. And I've ordered the 6 pin and RCA connectors from Ali. We will see how it goes yeah, Tortron, bypassing the factory amp was my first idea, but the advice I got was that the factory speakers would sound like crap without it