Damn, that took waaaay longer than I thought, I had planned on taking a casual Saturday afternoon and doing both doors.....5 hrs later I had one done, phew! Do it right, do it once I guess, passenger side should go mint tomorrow.
nice starting point. So if I may ask, how much is this all running you?
jkrepps
04-17-2008, 06:24 PM
That is looking very nice, and you are right: do it right, do it once. Plus, it gets faster with every bit you do (not that you have many doors left, of course).
What front end are you going with for the car pc, or are you just going to use the O/S? And what drivers for the sound card?
nebster
04-17-2008, 06:34 PM
*shakes head at all the alpine stuff*
hope the install goes well, looks good
freep
04-17-2008, 06:55 PM
alpine FTW! I'll be watching this one for updates, looks great!
Scott8
04-17-2008, 09:29 PM
are those special Zip-ties holding the tweeter to the door?
Ty_Max
04-18-2008, 01:16 AM
Jeez you do things really professional looking good job! :D
mr_lore
04-18-2008, 03:21 AM
nice starting point. So if I may ask, how much is this all running you?
Sub was already there, replaced the stock bazooka long time ago, and I had an alpine 9853 or 9857, something like that hooked up + ipod, now I'm upgrading to this.
computer was about $200 since I work in IT and had a lot of it laying around
amp was $280
both sets of speakers was just under $200
edead, dont remember, I think like $100?
misc wires, etc ~ $50
touchscreen was a trade to some guy who wanted to go back to stock so he gave me his modified center console piece for my stock one.
mr_lore
04-18-2008, 03:22 AM
That is looking very nice, and you are right: do it right, do it once. Plus, it gets faster with every bit you do (not that you have many doors left, of course).
What front end are you going with for the car pc, or are you just going to use the O/S? And what drivers for the sound card?
XP backend running tinyxp, 17 startup services including RoadRunner (front end), iGuidabnce (GPS). Il show pics of it later, its super slick, check it out on the mp3car.com forums/software/front ends/RR
mr_lore
04-18-2008, 03:24 AM
are those special Zip-ties holding the tweeter to the door?
Heh, good eye, those were there until the glue dries, couldn't really come up with a 'clean' way of installing them so out the epoxy came!
yellowxhoodie
04-18-2008, 04:56 PM
wow.
i wish i had the know how to do that knida stuff man.
looks good so far, cant wait to see the final results!
Quick note to all you guys thinking about doing this!
Even if your pc is pretty low in power usage (mine is less than 100w) DO NOT power it via ACC or accessory voltage, make a direct battery run and follow your own schematic, don't cheat like I tried to do.
Lets just say I learned the hard way :P
Pics to follow tomorrow!
Nick06tC
04-27-2008, 12:57 AM
Nice setup. deffinetly clean and complete!!
optional
04-27-2008, 09:56 PM
sweet man, i'm hoping to do a carPC sometime soon, I figure i'll be removing the spare anyway when my 18's come, so whatever.
mr_lore
04-28-2008, 02:16 AM
Got some work done, but still not there yet, waiting on my damn baffels and VRD light upgrade to take apart the hatch and edead it all at once.
Here you go: (please excuse the dirtiness, the car has been worked on for two weeks with 0 attention to cleanliness, also yes I know I have a huge crack in my windshield, its getting fixed on Tuesday hopefully)
Parrot Bluetooth system is wired to the mic input of the usb soundcard, not ideal since this will not get you any data from the phone on the screen but I change phones often and the 3 that I have used while I was building this system all did not work or were quirky as hell when hooked up to the pc via bluetooth. This gives me the ability to voice dial any one or recieve calls while driving thats all I wanted.
sweet, so you're using the audigy as a passthrough to the speakers then? any keyboard/mouse around? phone integration? what else is involved :D
mr_lore
04-28-2008, 02:26 AM
Like I said, phone integration is completley handled by the parrot CK3000 kit, the soudncard just gives it a path to the speakers and allows me to mute via the touchscreen.
Dont need kb or mouse because it is a touchscreen
optional
04-28-2008, 02:42 AM
right right, i'm just a computer guy so i'm interested to hear the little bits and pieces :D
did you n-lite tinyxp to customize it even more or did you customize it all post install?
what does the regulation between the battery and the PSU? or is that part of the special PSU you got?
I would of nlite-ed it but this is just about what I needed and just as legal in my mind since I do have a legal cdkey that i used with it. It does needs a bit of tweaking, some services need to be turned back on to get all the drivers working/discovery services, etc, and then some more stuff can even be turned off. Some people who make these things even prevent the explorer shell from loading and just have the front end fire up.
The PSU is the beauty part of this system, it starts the pc 2 seconds after ignition is set to on, waits a few secs, then fires up the amps as not to get the 'thump' you get when you turn on a computer with the speakers powered. After acc is set to off, the pc gets sent a off signal to shut down and then the psu kills all power after 40 seconds regardless of what the pc did.
mr_lore
04-28-2008, 04:10 AM
Video is up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avHOq_OYKes
etsnet
04-28-2008, 05:59 PM
Good job.
What motherboard did you use and how is the cooling with it in the spare tire slot? It didn't look like you had any fans. Also what case did you use?
mr_lore
04-28-2008, 07:40 PM
The mobo is cheap mATX am2 motherboard, nothing special with a 3400+ amd proc, 1gb of memory, 300gb hard drive, atapi dvd burner, and the cheapest matx slim line case I could find on newegg.com.
The case does have a 80mm case fan that sits really close to the cpu which also has a fan, on the test bench this thing never even got warm to the touch so I was planning on letting the cooling do its work in the sealed environment of the spare tire slot. If I do start to overheat I will look into additional venting but this thing is so low power (it doesn't even have a real video card, and the hard drive is a samsung spinpoint t low noise/power edition).
I have the case/cpu temp alarm set to 54c (129 F) which is about 20c below the failure rate of pc components. I bet I will never hear it, especially here in WI where a 90 degree summer day happens about as often as someone hits the lotto.
etsnet
04-28-2008, 08:14 PM
The mobo is cheap mATX am2 motherboard, nothing special with a 3400+ amd proc, 1gb of memory, 300gb hard drive, atapi dvd burner, and the cheapest matx slim line case I could find on newegg.com.
The case does have a 80mm case fan that sits really close to the cpu which also has a fan, on the test bench this thing never even got warm to the touch so I was planning on letting the cooling do its work in the sealed environment of the spare tire slot. If I do start to overheat I will look into additional venting but this thing is so low power (it doesn't even have a real video card, and the hard drive is a samsung spinpoint t low noise/power edition).
I have the case/cpu temp alarm set to 54c (129 F) which is about 20c below the failure rate of pc components. I bet I will never hear it, especially here in WI where a 90 degree summer day happens about as often as someone hits the lotto.
Interested in seeing how long that works. I want to do mine but the normal car pc mobo are like $200. Maybe I'll just try and do what you did but I'm in Florida so we get 85 degree days on Christmas.lol
I'm like you where most of my components will come free cuz I work in the IT field and have a ton of crap laying around. I think I know what I'm gonna use now. Which version of that screen do you have? I know there's one that's a little harder to see in the day time.
mr_lore
04-28-2008, 10:32 PM
$200?! yikes, yeah mine was about $60 I think, its actually $50 now:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128333
My thoughts on extra cooling were to take out one of the rubber grommets in the floor pan of the spare tire well and make a air scoop, the grommet is about 1.5-2inches in diameter, perfect amount of fresh air if need be. Especially at highway speeds.