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You still looking at the white you showed me earlier? All the cool kids have white cars these days

Just to echo the above really, although I have not tried AT as I think it's super expensive. But then with the value of the car you are selling it is a good market. PistonHeads - I have good luck here, especially with modified / performance cars. My 370 sold here. eBay - Most of my car sales have been via eBay (all cars sub £10k). Just be prepared for maybe 1 serious enquiry for every 10 messages. I enjoy winding them up. Forums - Very good if you are patient.

Yours is my second favourite R33

I've always said R33 is my absolute least favourite Skyline (never liked the lines).....but damn that is nice! Looks absolutely immaculate! :lol:

Andy, good to catch up with you over the weekend. Car looked great! Being my first hill time at a hill climb I spent a lot of the day soaking in the sights and sounds! I managed to get a few quick shots of the pheonix from the day - not my best work, but just to add to your thread Hopefully see you at another one soon. Do you do much at Clay Pigeon? I've been meaning to get along there for some time now as thats close to me.

Coming along nicely, can't wait to see the new colour! Bob's looking trim in this pic below?

Progress on this! I removed some of the unnecessary components to free up more space in the centre for the Pi, and found the 2 power cables for the motor. Touched them onto a AA battery and hey presto! The spindle spins Now to try and work out if it can support 5V as that would be much easier - I can take power right from the micro USB, and maybe add a small latching switch under the lid to turn it on / off.

That looks very cool -G-, love the controller I think my Pi build has support for most of those consoles other than PS2, PSP and Saturn (as you say quite tricky). But I don't think I've ever played a Saturn so no love lost there

What makes it worth the effort? Nothing I already have the Pi running 1000's of games via the SD card and can plug it into the TV today, and play with USB controllers. So I am effectively gaining nothing by putting the setup into a PlayStation. As you say, it is purely just something to keep me busy, and at the end of it I will have a cool retro unit to keep on in the media centre Indeed. My friend has a similar cartridge for an old Mega Drive (or maybe Master System). These units are great but a little restrictive if you wanted to use it for anything else. This setup should run me maybe £60 max and provide me with many thousands of games. But I can also run it as a media centre, YouTube, iPlayer etc etc via Kodi plugins. But in all reality I will likely just use it for Gran Turismo, Destruction Derby and Metal Gear Solid

Had a sneaky hour on this last night whilst the SO was out. First up I stripped down the Power circuit board and removed all un necessary components. This just leaves me with the 2 power switches and the power LED. I plan to fit my new power circuit over this board to save space. Next up was the connectors at the back of the PS body. Below is a stock photo just to show what connections I have available to butcher. From left to right we have: Parallel IO Port - behind flap. This will hide the SD Card extender and 2 female USB Ports for controllers. Serial IO Port - for now this will remain as is AV Out - Will be the HDMI Extension port Power - 5v power via micro USB Below is a pic from the inside of the various connection ports. The left connector has been removed from the circuit and had the inside taken out. Then with some gentle Dremmel work I was able to make it fit a female HDMI port (not worked out how to secure these yet but I guess some hot glue and perhaps a cable tie). The middle connector will remain stock as not required right now. The right side is where the Parallel IO port used to be (behind the flap), where I need to mount the SD card and USB ports. Not started this yet. I then cut this circuit board down to give me much more space in the middle of he base. Allowing me to mount the pI lower down and have better clearance. Finally - some progress pics as I have test mounted the Power cable and HDMI extension. The micro USB power surround needs a little more fettling just to smooth out the edges, but generally pleased

This is a properly cool idea!! I had look last night at the drive and can see 2 small wires going to the motor. I'll do some Googling today to try and work out what power they need and will look to hook them up - either to general power on, or a seperate switch maybe. Pandamonium is such a good game! brings back memories! I went for TOCA as it was a good game, cheap to buy, and had a cool image on the disk face. Ideally I wanted Parappa the Rapper! You can keep Ridge Racer etc

The few I've seen are just gaping holes where the disk drive used to be, which I'm not sold on. I plan to refit the disk drive (or atleast the top of it) and put a disk in there. This way when you open the lid there is a disk there which can be spun on the spindle. Space may yet prevent me from doing this but I like the idea.....so much so I already purchased the disk. I went for TOCA Racing

Rough sketch of my plan below in terms of layout and HW. As mentioned in the first post I really REALLY don't like the idea of having random cables poking out of the PS1 body. To try and resolve this I plan to use a load of small length extension cables and re-use existing ports on the back of the PS1. The stock power supply is an old school 8pin connection, but I will use micro USB. Plan here is to Dremmel out the figure 8 pin and slot in the female micro USB port. This then leaves a nice female port on the back of the PS where I can connect up a normal 5V power supply. I'll take the same approach with a female HDMI connection, and USB Ports for additional controllers. Also picked up a nifty little SD Card adapter which I will also route to the back of the PS body. This will allow me to easily remove / update the Pi's SD Card without having to dismantle the whole thing!

How dare you I'll try my best matey It's all good. I'm not that much of a heathen (spelling?). I picked up a faulty PS1 chassis so I'm effectively saving it?

Started a new project in the man cave this week so thought I'd bang some pictures up to show the progress. Nowhere near as exciting as some of the builds on this forum, and not in the least car related (unless you count Gran Turismo). I've had a Pi2 at home for a good 18 months or so now, used mainly as our Media Centre and Retro Gaming with mates. I have 2xUSB SNES controllers that plug in for easy gaming. I've seen a few projects on the web recently about putting the Pi into various funky cases and thought I'd give it a go. A quick eBay session later saw me take delivery of a PS1 with 2 classic controllers for £8, along with all the various Pi related cables that I would need for the build. With all my projects, car related or not I always try my best to keep things looking 'stock'. Some of the Pi builds online have been a bit rough around the edges, with cables just sticking out the back, and random connectors. I am hoping to keep everything looking original and re-use the Power button, reset button, and Power LED. The next thing to ponder was controllers, again some other builds I have seen just had USB female slots forced into the memory card slots on the front face for modern controllers, while functional I think takes away from the charm. So I picked up a USB-PS adapter which I plan to wire up internally so I can use the original PS controllers as designed, and wire them over to the Pi's USB ports. Some quick pics to get started - first order of business was to remove any unnecessary 'gubbins' from the internals.

Amazing price mate, someone's getting a bargain

We're free so will do our best to make it. Been a few years! 1. Zed Shed Crew 2. Buster + Mrs Buster 3. Stuggerz + Mrs 4. Will370z 5. Wasso + Jayne (I'll make sure she's not working!) 6. Mattross + Lisa

White wheels! YES! Looks incredible

No troubles bubbles

Very good point. With the OP only test fitting this in the car I would imagine the car was stationary. As soon as you move the video feed is cut off by the car. A chap builds bypass kits (plug and play IIRC) for less than £100.

30th July is Simply Jap at Bealiuieieuiui (however you spell it!). Just mentioning as I know you guys usually go to this

Cheers man! Don't have the best photo's for the spacers. I was really worried that 25mm was going to be too 'pokey' and tbh the lips kind of save me there. If you have removed the lips you should be safe to go 20mm all round. Again, not great pics and the springs hadn't settled at this point. They are perfectly flush with the arch + lip. Thanks for the pics dude, really great help! Did you lower the car also? or do you just mean that the stock springs haven't settled since jacking up the car? If thats stock height it looks really good now the spacers are on there!

Cars looking great dude, really nice progress! I'm hoping to get my door handles done black this month too (I have a white MKII Nismo). Do you have a front/rear photo of the car with spacers fitted? I'm looking to do this but can't find many who have the Nismo and spacers. I've taken off my Nismo arches and trying to work out if 15 or 20's works be best. Might help me guess

I'd 100% use a Juke as a daily. Great looking cars Be awesome once you've lowered it a few foot!