4/1/2026

94 Camaro Radio Replacement

Thanks for visiting Field Finds! Heres the first project since the founding of the site this week. Hopefully this is one of many to come!

The project at hand started with the cool, albiet broken, Bose Delco CD Radio in the z28. I tried a few different things to clean the connections and the buttons with contact cleaner. This revived the volume knob but the display was hopeless. Ultimately, the plan for this car is a road trip machine so the plan b of a new (unfortunately touchscreen) double DIN unit from Crutchfield was a go. The first step was removing the panels and cutting out this subdash support. After trying multiple different cutting tools, I settled on a removed hacksaw blade to saw it out as cleanly as possible.

Following that, I could get the USB port I purchased drilled into the top of the "cassette holder", which I still don't understand why the CD equipped car came with. The idea here is a low profile look should I decide to remove the cables and phone mount for a car show.

Finally, connected up the supplied harness, adjusted the levels for bose-amp-compatible connector that Crutchfield sells (an absolute godsend!) and got to wiggling the dash back together. I am pretty happy with how it turned out, it looks very clean with the radio sitting receded within the dash, and the dash being the same shape as factory. Additionally, besides the cut out subdash, the install is entirely reversible and that subdash will not affect the mounting of the factory radio. It may squeak more without it, but I don't really intend to find out. The added benefit of the phone mount location besides not sticking an ugly mount on the dash with a wire hanging down, is that it is out of the way, to not distract, yet easy to hook up.

Thanks again for checking out my first post, and hopefully as the weather warms this summer I will get more up!

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