Zedrush

I love Zonda

This sucks, over in the states things are cheaper and they have access to alot more stuff over here its so hard to get stuff for your car. Unless you got a nova or a ford, there is not much luck. Wonder how easy it is if I buy sheets of carbon fibre and have a go at making a unit myself? Is it easily bendable?

is anyone selling over here though dont wanna import from another country

Hi guys does anyone know where I could get a UK spec carbon fibre centre dash cover, just seen this and want one.

Whats GM?

Not into football, cant be arsed to watch a bunch of hairdressers run around on a pitch for 90 mins. Much prefer UFC

have just ordered a 3g phone too, along with Web'n'Walk plan from T-mobile - I had a burning need to be able to get weather forecasts on the move.. and have people be able to track me on google earth in realtime! This will also enable me to get traffic reports, internet radio and so on.

 

went out for a drive this morning to test the system and it worked great - the bluetooth solar powered gps unit gets a fantastic signal seemingly wherever its placed (in fact it wasnt fixed and it flew off the dash onto the passenger seat and was still receiving 7 satellites..) and is able to communicate with the bluetooth adapter while its still locked up in the glove box thing.

 

The PC is nearly silent with the glove box closed - certainly you can't hear it unless you sit still and listen. Have bought a 4 port usb hub which will go in the center phone cradle compartment.

 

one problem I have atm is that Hibernate isn't really working for me - the gps doesnt reinitialise its COM ports correctly on resume.. so I have reverted to shutting down 45 sec after engine goes off - this adds about 15 seconds to the boot-time of the system but that's OK - I don't like to get in the car and dash off anyway (got to let it warm up a little!)

Hi mate what are you running for your ac/dc adapter the carnetix p1900 is made to allow your computer to hibernate without shutting off. It will automatically shut down if it feels like its drained to much power from your battery but thats if you leave your car on standby for up to 8 weeks.

I had a look at pictures from the last meet there were alot of nice very prestine 350z. Im a bit apprehensive in going as my wheels are in need of major refurb and might be a bit embarrased if I turn up and my car aint in prestin condition. Ill post up pics of my wheels, let me know what you think

Easy Geeza

Well I have spent a few hours today taking the car apart, drilling holes in it and putting it back together - I now have a functioning car PC!

 

I have replaced the BOSE head unit with a kenwood dpx501u double-din with AUX input wired up to the original BOSE speakers.

 

I have placed a 7 inch touchscreen where the sat nav cubby is normally and routed the 3 cables (power, vga and usb(for touchscreen) down behind the radio where they join up with the power/ground/ignition wires and from there through the center tunnel and back into the glove box behind the passenger seat - I had to cut out a small hole in the glove box liner tray to pass the cables through into the glove box.

 

The PC is an Epia SP13000 with slimine DVD drive, 40 GB hard drive, 512MB slimline RAM and all the normal ports; it's running windows xp and the shell I am using for the car PC is Centrafuse (this is software designed for a car touchscreen system). The PC is powered by an M2-ATX board, which is specifically produced for powering car PC and can handle up to 150W load. The M2-ATX supply can survive engine cranking and allows you to specify startup and shutdown delays (ie I have it set to start the PC 5 seconds after the ignition power comes on, and shut it down 45 seconds after it goes off - the PC then goes into hibernate ready to resume exactly where it was when you next start the car).

 

The PC has a bluetooth usb adapter which connects to bluetooth GPS and OBDII widgets.. the GPS enables me to have touch screen sat nav (using Destinator, built into Centrafuse), and the OBDII enables me to monitor various engine parameters and diagnostics (it plugs into the OBDII port just below the fuel cap release button). I also have a USB wireless keyboard with a little joystick-mouse thing - don't intend to keep it in the car but it's their if needed. Finally there is wireless LAN via USB again - this will enable me to connect to home network and sync files and also to connect to local hotspots.

 

I have taken a few pictures which I will post later.

 

The part that's left to do is to fit the screen into the dash properly - atm its just lying in the empty space where the nav cubby should go! This is reliant on me finding a 2003 nav cubby..

And the race is on lol.

Just bought a cubby, bought the mac, bought headunit, carnetix p1900 + 5v futher enhancer, lilliput 7"screen, vga and usb extensions, usb 6 pot extension. Amp version 1.1 software, amplifier, 2 6x9 speakers, got 15" sub, bluetooth airport, 3G phone. Install in the car starts 8 o'clock 31st. Will be set up the weekend before outside running of a 12v battery to see how it all pans out. Will post pics and diagram of install. Cant wait

ha ha check out fart

Hi mate welcome, you will love it

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Damn thought I might of been the first to see it ah well

Now thats what I call Driving to the extreme !

Car has same kit as mine with lambo doors

bet he pulls all the chicks

that tunnel work has been going for at least 4 years now, shutting a side off, when they going to complete it??

 

traffic, lets not go there, blackwall tunnel at 6am getting into london... my god...

 

Hmm, I don't think that a specific time needs to mentioned when talking about the Blackwall Tunnel?

 

 

Dont get me started about blackwall tunnel I have to do that trip everyday, worst yet coming back and they close it sometimes then have to come over Dartford Bridge ahh

I dont know mate they are now thinking of charging people to go through it in 2008

traffic, lets not go there, blackwall tunnel at 6am getting into london... my god...

 

Hmm, I don't think that a specific time needs to mentioned when talking about the Blackwall Tunnel?

 

Dont get me started about blackwall tunnel I have to do that trip everyday, worst yet coming back and they close it sometimes then have to come over Dartford Bridge ahh

NOPE

Ok i have phoned my dealer in Eltham, quite a helpful bloke, the part for that shown in the picture he cant find, but after a while he came back with this part number F8260CD800.. this is the cluster kit, which inludes:

the lid,

bracket for satnav (nissan screen)

the trim panel where the lid opens and this would be around £76.14

 

that particular kit will fit all models up until 06, thats what he said..

Dude Im only 10 mins from Eltham glad to have a 350z owner near by

I got a gardiner much easier

How about a silver flip blue colour, nice

I think the older you get the less sleep you need, Im 26 and If I dont have at least 7 hours sleep Im a pile of crap, but my older brother who is 35 only needs 4 hours

I think I work too long and `im starting up another company on top

he sits in his shop in front of the PC all day, he's got people who do the working bit for him, he just rakes in the cash

 

Whats "cash" ??? nevr seen any for years

 

That's what you exchange for your drink.

 

it's all coming back to me now

Hmmm maybe I wont was gonna post pics of my baby rottweiler and pics of me and my missus but probably not good Idea