My carputer project

[Jame5]

Thanks buddy

That dash has been retrimmed in royal blue alcantara! \'Tis easier to see the colour/texture in the subwoofer pic, so no your eyes are fine! heheh

I\'ve always thought trimming the dash is a nice idea. I\'d love to have it done, along with a million other things. Looks like very good workmanship going on. Be sure to post up some more photos.

[Eddie]

are yes you know, I always liked hte duel pod look on the fortune rx  but had nothing to put in it till now:)

Been so long since I bought the PC cant remember its from a member here, its bloody small I know that:)


I do like the way yours look oem only hope my efforts dont look like I have stuck something to my dash. Yours is like factory how is it with the gear and handbrake still easy to get too?

Jobs a good un as they say up north:)


regards

[S3TH]

heheh thanks chaps, it\'s not too hard to retrim the rx7 dash! you\'d get away with 1m of alcantara in a colour of your choice (given the average width of alcantara rolls is 1.3-1.4m), a can of spray adhesive, or better yet, timebond, patience, clean hands & Jit to supply you with all the bits you manage to break in the process :wiggle

ohh it\'s great when your in 3rd, 5th, it\'s just a nice finger length away , i don\'t stay in 1st or 2nd for long, in 4th you\'d have to take your hand of the gear though :Hammer

getting some software with shape recognition, so you can draw a G with 2 fingers on the screen and it\'ll open GPS, M for music etc, diagonal swipe to exit programs, 2 finger swipe for volume up/down etc. should be fun :Santa

[Jit]

dude....youre gonna have to replicate that on my car man....i love it! Im defo gonna drag myself down there in the day one day to have a look over it....great work fella

[Hayward North]

Kinda surpassed what i want, all i wanna do is log so i think a saml 7" touch screen and a little smallend pc would do the trick, something with a usb so i could plug a stick in and log to that

[ENVYD]

mate did you do the dash your self?  if so how much do you charge? i want mine done in white along with the door cards! anyways great work!

[S3TH]

Yeah jit you decided on the fd/cosmo? heheh steve, mines only 1" bigger @ 8" and the pc isn\'t uber specc\'d but is lightning fast

The stuff I used:

Motherboard
Case
Power supply
Low density 1GB ddr 3200 module
80GB 2.5" laptop HDD
Laptop optical DVD/RW drive
Lilliput 8" Widescreen touchscreen

Went for that motherboard in particular because it has a compact flash drive & a pcmcia slot built into the mobo.
CF drive = 2gb card loaded with windows for instant boot/seek times!
PCMCIA = my tmobile 3.5g card for 2mb broadband wherever i am

Enough of unveiling my geekiness...

envyd yeah i did it myself but i don\'t wana do it again LOL, retrimming is probably one of the most frustrating things man can do...

[ENVYD]

lol ok mate no bother i will have to buy a second dash and give it a shot my self! lol

[RobbieRX-7]

nice work man. I remember seeing this a few years ago in another fd. I\'ve been wanting to do this for ages now, just never got round to doing it. Will any old pc work?

[S3TH]

nice work man. I remember seeing this a few years ago in another fd. I\'ve been wanting to do this for ages now, just never got round to doing it. Will any old pc work?

Yup, but the lower power consumption & quieter the better... you just need the right psu, an m2-atx has a regulated 12v input and powers your pc with a standard atx power connector... the carnetix p1900 has a regulated 12v in and a regulated 12-24v out iirc, so you can connect it to laptops etc.

[goldk28611]

whats the cooling like on this?

What CPU/graphics card fans and other fans are you using - i could only see one 80MM and it looks kinda thin... guess you\'ll have to wait for (if we have then again) hot sunny days to find out.... thought about water cooling or are temps no different from having it as a normal desktop?

[S3TH]

whats the cooling like on this?

What CPU/graphics card fans and other fans are you using - i could only see one 80MM and it looks kinda thin... guess you\'ll have to wait for (if we have then again) hot sunny days to find out.... thought about water cooling or are temps no different from having it as a normal desktop?

80mm? think your a bit disorientated by the pic, the pc is minature, the 2 fans are 40mm, the cpu is ultra low voltage and low heat it could run fanless! temps are 35-40degrees max. I don\'t think i would setup a water cooling system for it :Laugh

ohh the cpu is a via nemehia... 1200mhz, but a relatively high fsb iirc 533mhz so is nippy for little applications!

[interloper393]

wow that is nice, so does the power card thingy just connect straight to the ignition power cable, so it switches on when u turn the car on?
Also how did u go about connecting them up to the car speakers, guessing u use the sound card socket somehow lol..
erm.. how long does she take to boot up, ma laptop takes bout 5 mins

soz for the questions but there a be aload more lol

[S3TH]

does the power card thingy just connect straight to the ignition power cable, so it switches on when u turn the car on?

True indeed the computer/monitor both turn on with ignition, you need not flick one switch!
There are loads of modes, when you turn the car off it shuts the pc down and gives it 45seconds before cutting off the power

how did u go about connecting them up to the car speakers

I\'ve got an alpine 9835 headunit, the pc sound out goes into the auxilery input of the headunit so it can act as the preamp/equalizer/crossover to the sub/fronts amps.
Will be mounting the face-off of the alpine in the roof lining to be controlled with a remote... not necessary but i\'m a sucker for lights! :rollin

how long does she take to boot up

it takes about 30seconds cold, but theres a setting to tell the pc to hibernate when the ignition is off, which cuts it down to 5secs! \'Tis just a drain on the battery if you leave it for a couple of weeks/months but will probably be the setting i have eventually.

ma laptop takes bout 5 mins

re-install windows! lol

soz for the questions but there a be aload more lol

That\'s cool buddy, fire away, i know ima need your advice when i install my body kit! LOL

[interloper393]

kewl so did u do all this just to play your itunes lol or are u wanting to display other info like the apexi data? how would u go about doing this?
going onlines a good idear, i need never leave my car.. only to pee :S