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mountaineerjeff

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I know that the power antennas are very bad for goin dead. mine died awhile back and was replaced by previous owner, it has a radioshack diy job going on that is just disturbing. im not really liking the stock power antenna, i would have to rewire my head unit. so i was thinkin of doing something like an antenna off a honda s2000.


where I got the idea


what do you guys normally do? is there an evo swap? im up for tryin it first, but no need for me to make a common mistake
 

mountaineerjeff

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is it still a big metal peice though? i think tose are pretty bad looking. i do like the manual attennas that wrxs have, but i think that that would be too much fab work right now
 

ktmrider

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Curtis modifies the stalk to look/flow much nicer with the body lines.
I got one from him and think it looks very nice.
Ralli380GT has a non-power model in his FS thread and maybe Curtis will chime in...
 

poppin3000

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is there an easy way to put a stubby antenna on? I just got back from the emergency room w/ three stitches on my palm from cutting my wrist on my broken antenna /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 

Leon_R

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Sorry to bring back an old topic, but there doesn't seem to be a resolution to this issue.

Does anyone have a good manual antenna solution?
 

Leon_R

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I figure that would work, but we are fresh out of Galants at local junk yards /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 

BluFalcon

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I heard that if the motor is still good, you can reinstall a new antenna on the power antenna setups. Anyone know about this? I have a standard antenna that I was lucky enough to find in a local yard, but would like to restore this feature to the car if possible.
 

mountaineerjeff

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I ended up getting the shortened one from a board member.......Idk who it was, coulda been curtis, but I cant remember who. on 181 I just removed everything completely. it saved some nice weight with the removal of the power stuff, and the cable and all.
 

QnzMostWanted

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why not get the universal manual antenna from autozone, it pushes up and down manually,
 

maxash0775

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I am planning to change my antenna shortly. I want to get the "shark fin" looking one that come on BMW's. I think that would look sick on our cars.
 

Leon_R

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Quoting QnzMostWanted:
why not get the universal manual antenna from autozone, it pushes up and down manually,



I was just looking at those. There are a few models that look like they would work. Does anyone have experience with those?

A friend did have one of the shorter "rubberized" models and it had terrible reception. My guess that those "shark fins" would not well work, ether. That is why I am looking at one of those "GM" antennas, which are much taller.
 
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luis84one

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my 8g galant had the antenna built in to the rear window somehow.. has anyone tried using that kind of antenna on the gvr4's ??
 

Brunoboy

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........in-tennas........
 

iceman69510

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I replaced both my non-working motorized with manual antenna bases from the 99-03 galant model. You have to loosen and adjust the mounting bracket (inside the trunk part) to install it, but it fits and the contour is about right.

Almost any Mitsu mast will work with them. I have the short rubber one from a current Eclipse spyder on my car right now.
 
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