Installing a clarion in my Camaro

[cancam99ss]

Hi guys,

Once again I need your help. I am trying to install my clarion head unit in my 99 Camaro I honestly know shit about electronics and was wondering if there is a plug and play option or do I need to start splicing ..... Here are the pics of the radios

By stock monsoon on the top and a clarion vx401 on the bottom

[My00Z28]

you going to need an adapter harness or get out some wireing diagrams and find what wire does what and start splicing/crimping/soldering/or w/e you want to use

[derekbuckner1]

If the clarion is a double din, you do know that you will have to trim your bezel or find someone that makes one, right?

[az gt eater]

Best thing you can do is lay all new wire for your speakers. Don't you have the Monsoon system? Then there is an amp built into the car.That amp is going to mess with your new signals badly. The amp runs all the speakers except for the tweeters in the door. And those tweeters have built in crossovers. You will want to bypass the amp. The wires in the car are what? 18-24 ga? Those are not gonna help you transfer power to the speakers. And what impedance does the stereo run? You need to match the ohms of the speakers to the ohms that the stereo is putting out. Some hu's have the ability to switch ohm's from 2 to 4. Clarion is a nice deck. Maybe you can do that.

[tremiles]

Metra makes a widely available harness that will plug into the harness on your headunit. You could continue to use the stock monsoon amp with stock speakers and still sound stock. You could replace the stock speakers with component separates (I cut holes to flush mount and angle the tweeters in the door panels above the woofers) using the stock speaker wires to power the woofers and tweeters which will be a massive sound quality upgrade depending on your speaker choice. I used reasonably priced Infinity Reference 6.5" components up front and coaxials in the rear, knowing the coaxials would only repoduce the bass signal they are fed by the monsoon amp. They sound a ton better than the original speakers even with the monsoon amp. Or you could replace it all and run a new headunit, amp, speakers and sub. It all depends on your ears and budget.

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[cancam99ss]

Stupid question where can I find the monsoon amp?

[cancam99ss]

???

[tremiles]

Under the passenger side rear interior cover by the spare tire.

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[BadTA00]

Pacific Accessory Corporation makes all kinds of adapters.

http://www.pac-audio.com/

[cancam99ss]

Still need to get it centered and need a dash kit but it's alive!!!!!!