I found someone elses pics of a very similar mod for those of your who are itching to see what this mod entails:

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=68140

take a look at this link to familiarize yourself with the head unit. the layout is the same from nissan 1995 6disc in-dash to 2004 RF 6disc in-dash head units, suprisingly.

the difference with my mod is that we patch the actual ribbon cable instead of trying to solder directly onto the board (the pins on the board are very close and easy to screw up.. unforgiving to say the least.) also, we are actually interrupting the output of the cd player module instead of just patching into it. this gets around having to play a cd with 74 minutes of burned silence.

the ribbon cable we are going to mod is the one coming out of the main board (I will explain in my next post.) with an xacto knife, we will be:

1. making one cut through four of the outermost pins on the ribbon
2. peeling them back sequentially and staggered (outermost pin is a dead one, we'll just be cutting that one out of the way.
3. bending and folding them 90 degrees outward
4. using hot glue to tack them down (bend them more than three times and they break)
5. soldering 20ga wire to each of the 6 exposed contacts
6. using hot glue to secure everything to the actual ribbon

beyond this, the instructions in the above link still hold true - you will need to do more soldering to attach the switch and the 1/8" stereo jack for the input.

because I didn't get that head unit on ebay, and the only other ones on there are $100+, I'll need to create some diagrams for the actual ribbon patch. It is very straightforward but if you don't feel up to it, I might be up for modding it for you. anyways, it would make me happy if you guys really end up doing this mod, it's worth it.

whitman