I normally don't just come out and ask direct questions when I am planning something like this, but I can't seem to find the answers I need any other way. I just spend the last 2 hrs searching S2ki and cannot find an answer. I am hopeing one of you can help me out.

I am going to shave the antenna off the back of my S2000. Unless the body shop tells me they can't for some reason (or they want to charge me a small fortune.)

At any rate, I plan to retain the use of an antenna, but I want to hide it.

I was thinking about creating a loop inside the fender so I don't have to reroute anything. However, I am not sure what I will need to do the job. Any suggestions? Tips? Ideas?

I really have no idea what kind of hardware I need, or where I would find it. PartsExpress? Radio sHack? Car audio shop?

HELP!??

 

is there some sort of special way you want to do this?

just mount it in your fender. use dynamat over it so it will not move around.

im actually a little confused about what you are trying to do.

 

The antenna is shaved on my car. I bought it that way. I don't realy listen to the radio, just CD's anyway so it doesn't bother me. I've looked into putting a small amplifier antenna above the rear-view mirror put I don't like the look of it.
It's easy to shave. Tack-weld a small plate under the hole then bondo fill it smooth and repaint.

 

Pete - get them to spin the antenna upside down and remount. Just have the antenna pointing down instead or up.

 

Yeah, shaving the hole it not the issue. Having a functional Antenna is.

I though about simply turning it upside down, but I am not sure how much room there is in there, and I expect the reception would go WAY down. That MIGHT be mitigated with an extra long whip screwed into the stock base (then looped in the fender.)

Can I unplug the stock amplified antenna at that end? Is there another amplified antenna with a smaller base and a whip antenna already on it that I can use?

Any other suggestions?

 

There is plenty of room inside the fender - I was looking at the area over the weekend when i had all the trunk panels out. There is enough room to mount the oem antenna upside down - easily -im sure you could just unplug it too and plug it into another, longer antenna. I would assume you could pick something up in radioshack.

On a side note - my reception actually improved immensely just by changing my headunit - with that tiny antenna i have i had no reception on the stock headunit - now i get most stations - go figure!

 

I suspect you will lose most reception if you mount the antenna inside the fender. Typically, the auto body serves as a ground plane that the antenna uses as a reference to which the signals from the air are "referenced to" (sorry not quite sure how to explain this). If you surround the antenna with the body's sheet metal, you should get little to no signal.

Now, their might be a way to add a foil strip of the appropriate length to the rear window or to the top of the front wind shield.

You also might be able to put the antenna in the secret compartment and get some reasonable signal.

 

honestly -- i'd think you'd be best off by just relocating the antenna and mount to inside the bumper (not the fender). the bumper is plastic, should readily be pathed to the fender, you'll still have the ground plane if you mount to the chassis, and you will be less likely to get interference from surrounding sheet metal the fender.

or you could try fashioning an adapter and use an antenna like this ( http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cf...tnumber=210-020 ) inside the rear bumper.

just a thought. i've never done something like that, so no practical experience here...

 

Mmmm....

That's an interesting idea, Phil. Thanks. I will consider the bumper.

Anyone have any good links to antenna design so I can read about grounding planes?

 

or just screw it and go XM