2004 INFINITY G35 COUPE

ACC/DASH/DECK STOCK --> V35

PROJECT
COMPILED BY DOCRON1

**Disclaimer: This DIY guide is meant to assist in the disassembly of the 2004
G35 Coupe dash console, the switching of the Dual Climate Control circuit board
and controller buttons from the stock Infinity G35 Coupe to the Nissan JDM v35
AC controller and the replacement of the stock head unit (HU) to an aftermarket
HU. This document is not meant to serve as an official installation manual or
replace the provided Infinity documentation. The author of this document
assumes NO responsibility for any problems, complications or malfunctions of any
similar project associated with use of this guide!

READY, SET……………GO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tools Needed:

For dash disassembly:

For aftermarket deck, AC controller, Dual Climate Control button/IC board button
swap:

1. 20 feet - 12 Gauge wire (from RadioShack) for lead amp wire (blue/white stripe)
from aftermarket deck to remote power terminals on aftermarket amps
2. Multicolor electrical tape – to label Front, Rear, Sub out RCA cables from rear of
deck to amps (so you can remember which RCA cable is for what amp)
3. Solder - for AC controller button swap
4. Multimeter
5. Xacto knife - for trimming plastic and other associated tasks
6. Solder iron
7. Wire stripper/crimper
8. Precision flathead screwdriver
9. Wire crimp connectors – associated sizes 10—24 Gauge
10. Plastic cable ties
V35 JDM Skyline Dash Parts Needed: (prices are current as of 1/13/04)
1. 68260-AM913 Double Din Dash Titanium $56.90
2. 68260-AL700 Aluminum bracket $32.97
3. 27500-AL501 AC Controller $220.50
4. 68475-35F00 Dash Pocket $9.30
5. 68470-60M00 Blank Bracket $5.70
6. Shipping costs $57
7. Credit card charge for total including shipping is additional 5%

You don’t need both Dash Pocket and the Blank Bracket. They are to fill the second
DIN otherwise you will be able to see straight though the dash. You can obtain dash
pockets and other plastic trim from your local car audio installation store too.

Process of obtaining Nissan Japan v35 dash/ACC parts: (from J’s Garage)
1. Email Yoshitaka Ikeda at J’s Garage @ yosi@j-garage.com
2. Tell him which parts you want in your email.
3. You will get a return email from J’s Garage confirming desired parts.
4. Fax a copy of your license to J’s Garage (****-81-53-4721795) This is to
confirm your shipping address, you can black out your license number if you
want.
5. Return email from J’s Garage will direct you to a secured third party billing
company (similar to PayPal and c2it) where you provide your credit card
information.
6. YOU PAY……..
7. Return email from J’s Garage will confirm they have received payment and that
your order was placed with Nissan Japan.
8. It takes about 1-2 weeks for J’s to get the parts from Nissan Japan.
9. Shipping of the parts from Japan to the US varies on your location but most
people will get the parts within 1-1.5 weeks. You do have to sign for the
delivery.

NOTE:
The Japanese v35 dash console you get will be labled “AL700” on the back of the
console piece despite the box being labled “AM913”. This caused some confusion
whether the color would match the US G35 dash color. It will. In short, Nissan Japan
gets the pieces unpainted labled AL700. When they paint it titanium or black it is then
labled AM913, etc. I think Nissan Japan only makes titanium and black colored dashes.
Now onto the installation….

1. Lower both driver and

passenger windows.
Remember the windows
will raise and lower
slightly upon
opening/closing the door.
You don’t want to risk
clipping the top of your
windows when rolled up
while opening and closing
your doors during this
project.

2. Move both the driver and passenger seats as far back possible to allow more space.
You will be working in small spaces.

3. Disconnect the ground terminal of your battery.

4. Raise you steering wheel as high as it will go. This will make it easier for you to
get at some screws and panels.

5. Remove the screw located below the hood release.

6. Pull down driver panel using
notch located under steering
column. You don’t have to
disconnect any wiring, just let
it hang gently.

7. Remove indicated screw of driver

side panel. Removal of this screw
will make it easier to disengage
side panel as well as removal of
driver side middle AC vent when
you remove the HVAC unit.
8. Start disengaging driver side panel
by pulling the bottom of panel
toward the left of vehicle. There
are 2 clips that hold the side panel.
You don’t have to disconnect the
12V power plug, just let it gently
hang. The reason for this removal is
to allow enough clearance to
remove the left AC vent when
removing the HVAC unit.

9. Move to passenger side

10. Disengage and lower the

passenger side kick plastic
plate located under the
lower glove box.
11. Remove the passenger side door trim. This is done to allow the disengagement and
removal of the passenger side kick panel.

12. Remove passenger side kick panel by

initially pulling at the bottom of the kick
panel toward the left of the vehicle.
There is only 1 or 2 clips that need to be
disengaged. You don’t have to
completely remove this panel. This
panel needs to pulled out enough to
expose the lower glove box bottom right
screw.
13. Remove the lower glove box bottom
right screw.

14. Remove the lower glove box

bottom left screw.
15. Open glove box and
remove the 4 screws that
hold the top of the glove
box.

16. Gently pull directly down

on the glove box and let
gently hang. There is no
need to disconnect any
wires. The tightest wire will
be the trunk release cancel
switch. The glove box need
to hang down in order to
remove the passenger side
panel.
17. Disengage the passenger side panel by
again initially pulling at the bottom of
the side panel towards the right of the
vehicle. There is no need to disconnect
the 12V power plug. This is removed
to again allow clearance for the
removal of the HVAC unit and
clearance of the right AC vent.

**NOTE: The following steps are for the 5AT Coupe model for
removal of the gear shifter and center console. There are other steps
not listed here to remove the 6MT gear shifter and center console.

***GO SLOW AND BE CAREFUL FROM THIS POINT AS YOU

CAN POTENTIALLY SCRATCH THE TITANIUM PAINT OF
THE CENTER CONSOLE AND DASH!!!!
18. Now move onto
removing the center
console where the shifter
is located. First step is to
open center armrest.
19. Now you need to reconnect your battery’s ground cable to allow you to put the
shifter in neutral so that you can remove this center console.

20. Remove the AT shifter by the following steps.

21. Remove center console

with the following steps.
You don’t need to (and
you can’t anyway)
remove the circular trim
piece that surrounds the
gear shifter. Lay the
center console piece on
the passenger seat.
 22. Remove Infinity clock trim piece. First work
your fingers under the top of the trim piece and
start pulling directly to the rear of the vehicle.
The first time you remove this piece, you have
to pull with GREAT FORCE! Once you
disengage the top clips, the 2 bottom clips will
be easier to disengage.

A possibly easier way to remove this piece is to grab the trim piece as I do in the
picture. You can pinch and pull the top part of the trim piece towards the rear of the car
enough to get your fingers into the top crease to assist in the disengaging of the top
clips.
23. Once you finish cussing
and frustratingly remove
the clock trim piece,
disconnect the plug of the
LED security light. Place
the clock trim piece in a
safe place (i.e. the back
seat). You truly don’t
have to disconnect the
power wires and remove
the clock or the clock trim
piece. You can just lay
them up there on the top of
the dash. You have to remove these pieces in order to get the aluminum bracket
anchor screw in step 25.

24. Remove the 2 screws that

hold the Infiniti clock.
Disconnect the clock plug.

25. Remove the screw that

anchors the aluminum
bracket.
26. Locate and remove the 2
bottom screws that
anchor the HVAC unit
and aluminum brackets.
These screws are located
above the location of the
now-removed center
console/ashtray/hazard
light switch.

27. Remove the trim plastic piece

located above the navi cubby and
AC vents by carefully inserting a
precision flathead screwdriver and
wedging it out. Be careful to not
scratch piece and not to snap it in
two by pulling too
aggressively. This trim
piece, once initially
detached, can be
removed easily.
28. Again, put the gear shifter in neutral as the
HVAC unit will not clear the shifter if it is
left in PARK. Grab the HVAC unit at the
bottom and gently and gradually pull deck
down and out. The hardest removal
locations are the AC vents and the top
aluminum bracket (where you removed the
screw). The entire HVAC unit is pretty
heavy so again be careful not to scratch any
titanium paint. You’ll have to place the
removed HVAC unit over the gear shifter
and resting it on the black bottom part of the
center console (NOT the removed aluminum
center console that now is resting on your
passenger seat).

29. Disconnect the 4 plugs on

the back of the HVAC
unit. Get any screwdriver
and push in retaining clip
on the bottom of each
plug to remove the plug
from the HVAC unit.

30. Disconnect the AC controller plug. This is a little complicated if you don’t know
how to remove it correctly. To do this, you need to first remove the 2 retaining
clips located on the top and bottom of the car’s side of the AC controller. These
retaining clips are held by 2 very small clips on each side of the AC controller
plug. Again use a precision flathead screwdriver to dislodge these very small clips
to remove the 2 top/bottom retaining clips. Keep these retaining clips in a safe
place as you will need them when you connect your new v35 AC controller. Once
you remove the 2 retaining clips, there is only one more clip that holds the plug
together. (If this doesn’t make sense, please take time to study the AC controller
plug and how is disconnects.) I apologized for not taking a picture of this as it is a
very important connection but I was frustrated after finally figuring it out.
 30. Your
dash
should
now look
like this!
/
You’re
done
with
your car
for
awhile.

31. Now even before you disassemble your dash, you could have prepared your v35
Skyline AC controller and wire harness for your aftermarket deck.

32. For an easier installation of an aftermarket deck, you can use a wire harness
designed for Infiniti and Nissan cars. I purchased mine from sounddomain.com
but you can also get one from Crutchfield.
For Scosche NN03 Wiring harness reference:

Yellow = 12 Volt Battery/Constant (12V+)

Red = 12 Volt Ignition/Switched (12V+)
Blue = Power Antenna
Blue/White = remote Turn On (12V+)
Orange = Illumination/Dimmer
Black = Chassis Ground (12V-)
White = Left Front Positive (LF+)
White/Black = Left Front Negative (LF-)
Gray = Right Front Positive (RF+)
Gray/Black = Right Front Negative (RF-)
Green =Left Rear Positive (LR+)
Green/Black = Left Rear Negative (LR-)
Violet = Right Rear Positive (RR+)
Violet/Black = Right Rear Negative (RR-)

You will also need a Nissan Antenna Adapter as most aftermarket decks will not
accept the stock G35 antenna plug.

You can do a web search for “Nissan Antenna Adapter” and there are several
vendors that sell these.
33. Gather all your v35 Skyline dash/AC controller parts

34. Get your v35 AC controller and

disassemble it. You will now be swapping
out the Dual Climate Control circuit and
controller buttons.
35. Remove the v35 AC controller “dead”
button. You will need to jimmy 3 clips
that hold this “dead” button to the AC
controller. The bottom clip is easy to
release using your fingertip. The other 2
clips are small and can be broken easily so be careful. You will need to again use
your trusty precision flathead screwdriver to push the pins in. Study the clips
carefully and you will able to see for yourself how they are fastened in.
You will do the same removal for the
stock Dual Climate Control controller
button. The stock Dual Climate Controller
Button on the stock HVAC unit has an
additional 2 very small retaining clips
located between the 2 top retaining clips.
These can be removed with the same
technique using the precision flathead
screwdriver. Be careful not to break these
clips!
 The Dual Climate Control controller button will simply snap into the spot where
the “dead” button once was.

36. The following steps are to remove the stock navi cubby, AC vents, and AC
controller from the HVAC unit. First step is to remove the 4 screws that hold the
aluminum bracket/CD changer to the circuit board.

**REVISED PICTURE TO INSERT**

37. Use the following
picture diagram to
remove the aluminum
bracket.

38. This will now expose the HVAC circuit board. Now you will remove the 2 screws
that hold the navi cubby.
39. Next step is to remove
the AC vents. Again
use your precision
flathead screwdriver
for the 2 clips located
on the medial side of
the vent. The vents are
lodged in grooves in
the dash piece and are
mildly difficult to
remove. Make sure to
remove these vents
carefully so that you
don’t break the thin
dash vent brackets.

40. Next remove the circuit board from the front of the stock deck/AC controller.
There are several screws that need to removed . Screws circled in red are the
screws that need to removed. Revised picture below (red circle in middle of white
plastic piece)
41. You’ll now do some
soldering. This next step
is either easy or hard
depending on your
soldering skills. On the
now detached stock circuit
board, find the green
circuit button for Dual
Climate Control. I used
the precision flathead
screwdriver to gently lift
this button while flash
soldering each of the 4
terminals.

You end up with this little button.

42. Your new v35 Skyline AC controller initially looks like this:
43. After you resolder the little green Dual Climate Control circuit button, it will look
like this:

44. Screw white plastic cover back onto v35 Skyline AC controller.

45. From this point on, it’s pretty simple. For easiest installation, follow these exact
steps.
a. Attach v35 AC controller to JDM titanium dash console piece with 2 screws.
b. Attach stock navi cubby to JDM titanium dash console piece with 2 screws.
c. Attach the 2 AC vents to JDM titanium dash console piece.
d. Attach aluminum bracket to rear of JDM titanium dash consol piece with 4
screws.
e. Install and anchor your aftermarket deck and dash pocket (if applicable) into
titanium dash console and aluminum bracket.

46. Next, replace you newly constructed JDM HVAC unit back into your gutted car
dash. Connect the wiring harness from your aftermarket deck to the stock wiring
for power/ground/ACC/powered antenna. The stock antenna connector will not fit
your aftermarket deck’s antenna input.

47. Connect your AC controller with the stock plug. Remember you have to replace
the 2 retaining clips onto the AC controller plug. If your AC controller is not
connected properly, your AC will not work properly and will blow warm air (~75
degrees). It would be a good idea to test the AC controller before inserting the
HVAC unit back into the voided space and finding out later your AC doesn’t work.
48. Reverse the disassembly process to put your dash back together. Again, be careful
not to scratch the titanium paint on the dash and center console.

49. If all goes well, you should finish with something like this.