Decided I would try something new with the interior and I was tired of having my stupid sirius radio hanging off my window so I got a idea and here are the photos from my project. Took me about 8 hours over the span of 2 weeks to finish. I used a dremel tool to cut the plastic. Pictures arent the best of quality since they were taken by my phone.

Picture of interior when I first got the car (only about 3 months ago) but pre-installation

I ordered a new entire ashtray compartment and started to take out the lighter plug and all the extra plastic

The sirius head unit sat on this, it had to be taken apart because it would not have fit, so I took the cover off and just retrieved the inserts for the radio.

 

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This is the head unit holder disassembled


I started cutting out the hole for the head unit here



Started to put black foam around the edges to make a neater finish rather than my half *** sand job (which I did not want to try)

 

Here is the head unit inside the lid after foam was installed. Dont have picture but I got rid of all that glossy/white residue from the glue afterwards



This is the backview of what the head unit + the lid



Whew , this is a ugly picture but I just pulled off the panel over the stick shift and just removed the orginal ashtray



This is after the install, its night time and I just wanted to take a picture to show off what I could, tomorrow Ill take a picture during daytime

 

 

looks good, whats with the foam? id try and remove that excess, or at least bondo the whole cover smooth.

 

Just something temp. to go over the unsanded edges. Im going to replace the lid soon because its got some scratches that doesnt make it took to pleasing upclose

 

i should try this with my Sportster 5...how do you have the power run? I have seen hardwire kits on eBay and wondered if thats what you used...

 

Just curious, where did you order the extra ashtray compartment from and how much? This was something I was looking to do but was going to cost me $200+ for a custom piece and didn't want to cut up my original ashtray in case I wanted to revert. So if I can get a new ashtray at something less than 200 I may attempt this myself.

 

I just un attached the cigeratte lighter from the ashtray compartment and plug my power cord into it and put it behind the ashtray comparment when I installed it.

MrAdam5 I got it for 30 bucks shipped from user MAZMART "6"

 

do you have a link for that John? i just got the same sirius headset and want to do something like this

 

I kinda want to do a similar mod, only take the whole tray out, just make it one big compartment so I can actually have a place to put my phone... but still keep the door.