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Car: 1985 Berlinetta
Engine: Megasquirted TPI
Transmission: Transgo 700R4
Axle/Gears: 3.42
My project
Here it is. Almost completed. After a few months in the making, I'm finally to the point where I can finally show it off:
Please excuse the pictures, the flash brings out every bit of dirt, even when you can't see it under normal light!
Also, I need to put in those door panels!
The specs:
Dell 500 MHZ pentium II
ALDL monitoring
MP3 playback (you can see winamp in the second pic)
7 inch lilliput touchscreen, very high resolution!
The computer is in a case inside the rear seat, out of sight out of mind.
What do you all think?
Please excuse the pictures, the flash brings out every bit of dirt, even when you can't see it under normal light!
Also, I need to put in those door panels!
The specs:
Dell 500 MHZ pentium II
ALDL monitoring
MP3 playback (you can see winamp in the second pic)
7 inch lilliput touchscreen, very high resolution!
The computer is in a case inside the rear seat, out of sight out of mind.
What do you all think?
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Car: 1995 Formula; 1976 Trans Am
Engine: LT1; None
Transmission: T56; None
I think it's pretty cool, and I think you had better write a tech article and that you had better have taken lots of pics!
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Car: 1985 Berlinetta
Engine: Megasquirted TPI
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hahah thanks!
It looks much better in person. The interior, not the car... the car looks like crap lol.
It looks much better in person. The interior, not the car... the car looks like crap lol.
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Excellent Toehead! I think I am still the only 'bird with carputer in progress. ;-) Pics to follow this week....and I did take a lot of pics.
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significant progress
I've attached some pics of my progress so far. At least we all now know that a Lilliput 7" touchscreen LCD TFT VGA monitor does fit in the Firebird/Trans Am radio bezel. It took a little modification and I took enough pics to make a "how to", but that will come when I have more time. Enjoy for now.
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Car: 1986 Z28
Engine: 305 TPI
Transmission: 700R4
both steups are pretty sweet..NightCruzer how much did that computer setup cost you....thats one of those things I have always wanted to put into my car.
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I got the motherboard with cpu, the power supply, the hardrive and the monitor for $380 off of Ebay from someone who abandoned their project. In addition I had to buy a USB dvd drive which was like $87 new, a laptop to desktop (IDE) hardrive adapter $6, a laptop to desktop cdrom adapter $4, a computer case $83 and a new radio bezel so I wouldn't ruin the one in the car - $8. Total so far $568.
And one more pic of what I learned to do today.... This is all a learning process for me. This is a photo of my carputer during the BIOS Boot screen when the computer first gets power.
Toehead I apologize for seemingly hijacking your thread. I'll start a new one.
And one more pic of what I learned to do today.... This is all a learning process for me. This is a photo of my carputer during the BIOS Boot screen when the computer first gets power.
Toehead I apologize for seemingly hijacking your thread. I'll start a new one.
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Car: 1985 Berlinetta
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hey thats fine man! looks great! yours is a bit higher budget then mine... all i bought for mine was the screen... the rest I got from the scrap bin at work.
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Car: 1986 Z28
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do you have any pictures of the computer? what did u use to hook the screen to the computer?
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Car: 1985 Berlinetta
Engine: Megasquirted TPI
Transmission: Transgo 700R4
Axle/Gears: 3.42
Not at the moment, the camaro is slumbering at home. I hollowed out the rear seat and built a plexi case... It is a laptop. The screen is hooked up via a vga extension cord and the touch is usb. Sound is run directly to my aplifier, which drives my speakers. The sound quality is amazing, although there is a huge difference between the low and high bitrate mp3's.
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Car: 92 RS(sold) 1989 IROC-Z
Engine: 350 TPI
Transmission: 700R4
Axle/Gears: ones that turn
thats awesome any more pics, cause I really like that setup the only problem is thats its so visible aren't you worried about someone stealing it
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Car: 1985 Berlinetta
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ya.... i usually throw a sweatshirt over it. So far so good though, and I park in some sketchy areas.
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Car: 1986 Z28
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ya that would make me nervious....you should try and design a way to be able to detact it some how and hide it....
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do you have any close up shots of were the screen is mounted to the console?
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do you have any close up shots of were the screen is mounted to the console?
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Car: 1985 Berlinetta
Engine: Megasquirted TPI
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oh, it pops right off... the problem is finding a place to hide it. It makes me nervous too, but the current method seems to work.
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Car: 1987 Camaro, 1986 Trans AM
Engine: V6 2.8 multi-port and V8 5.0 FI
Transmission: 5-Speed and Automatic
Axle/Gears: no idea
What did you use or what could you use to plug in and give the appropriate amount of power to teh computeer without ruining it?
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