I 94 TA has the factory AM FM Cassette and I just bought on Ebay a factory AM FM CD unit. I have no experience in replacing a radio and was wondering what is involved in removing the old one. Does anyone have any instructions on how to remove the exisiting radio ?
Thanks

It's extremely easy.

Disconnect your negative battery terminal.

Just remove the bezel around the radio. That's the plastic trim piece - it just unclips and pops out. Just be careful not to break it.

After that, the radio is held in place with four 7mm bolts. You'll see them on each side of the radio (2 on each side). Remove them and slide the radio out, but not all the way.

Reach behind the radio and unplug the speaker harness, the power harness, and the antenna. That's it - just remove the radio and you're finished.

The whole process should not take any longer than 15 minutes.

Greg

Thank you, most appreciated.

Will it matter if one is AC delco with more speakers than the other one? I want to do the same thing, but mine only has four speakers, whereas some others have ten. Will it work anyway? Sorry about the hijack.

couldn't tell you on that one. The ones with 6-10 speakers are usually"Bose" Delco radio's and come with a factory amp and the stereo and amp use circuitry that is not in common with normal ground and positive universal systems(so, I'm told). I'm not sure if you can just take out a base model and plug it right into the back of a premium radio-only one way to find out. Do you have the stereo on you or you didn't buy it yet? I just realized, you say you have a T/A so I'm sure you have the Bose tape deck(amp above spare tire in back usually). I wouldn't worry about the number of speakers as I'm sure that is just divided up more AFTER the amp. Back of stereo should be same. In fact, I used a CD deck out of a '02 silverado in my 97 Z. That was a little more challenging though b/c the frame had different mounting points so I drilled the CD player chassis and put L brackets and it pluged right in though. Good luck.

The head unit is mounted the same in ALL fourth gen f-bodies. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure the head unit wiring is even the same as the Monsoon/Bose audio systems use the speaker level signals from the headunit.

Kev,

You can only "direct swap" systems that are similar in configuration. Like supercharged400 mentioned, many of the newer Bose/Monsoon systems use nonstandard, outboard amps. You CAN install these systems, however, you will need all the components of the system itself. In other words, you can't easily wire in an aftermarket amp to a Bose system.

You can install any non-Bose/Monsoon CD system that does not use a subwoofer into your car. Some of the older Bose systems didn't use outboard amps either, which should make the swap easy.

I'm doing an install now into a 1995 Formula with a factory Monsoon CD system from a 2002 Trans Am, and the wiring is totally different, since the system in the Trans Am used a subwoofer amp. Once you have all the components, it's pretty easy though.

I hope this helps.

Greg

Wow, thanks for all of the replies everyone. I had kind of figured that was going to be the answer. I just hate buying a new CD player and then it not matching the car's interior just right. Plus to be honest, AC Delco rocks. I figure if I can go to Ebay and pick up a nice factory CD player for fifty bucks then why not? Oh well, thanks for the warning.