Harmonic_tC

Hey everyone, I have started my Car PC project and just finished my dash fabrication. I put in a Xenarc 700TS 7" Touchscreen. I also put in my Alpine CDA-9855 underneath the screen. I had to shrink the vents down a bit and I fabricated the vents to open and close but they cannot direct the air left or right only because it would require too much room.

As you will see, the screen has not been installed yet but thats because I am waiting to finish buying all the computer parts and getting it running. I should have that done in a week or two. But at least here is a teaser pic of the finished dash

Here is the computer specs

Gigabye microATX motherboard
AMD socket AM2 2.0 GHz 3200+ orleans processor
1 gig Corsair ram (512 x 2)
DSATA 220 watt programable power supply with startup/shutdown controller
40 gig toshiba 2.5" HD
Panasonic DVD/CD burner/player
BU-353 GPS antenna
60 gig portable HD for music (and its full already!)
Custom built stainless steel computer case
StreetDeck frontend software with nav/obdII/DVD/sat rad/ native support
USB-UIRT WX remote interface (I can use my alpine remote to control the computer, very nifty)


I will update my pics later since everything but the dash has changed.....

Here are the pics of my new case. It fits perfectly under the seat on the passenger side.









And ill show off my second mortgage, lol yep thats 7.5 feet long, almost 3 feet deep and 4.7 feet tall toolbox AND FULL of tools, haha












Well, I got the monitor in and the PC running. These are some dash pics. I need to finish the PC part of the install and I will take pics of that when it is finished.

I am going to be pulling the dash back out to re position the monitor to angle at me a little more and i will then sand out all the little imperfections that I didnt get before paint.
Here are the pics!




Ok, here are the final pics!
This one is of the universal XM tuner that the CPU operates and the AUX in box so I can get my CPU audio into my deck



Hope you guys like!
It kinda sux that im done with the build, haha. It was lots of fun. I will take vids of it in use and post up later

Eppopipe

i want one...make me one

Nick06tC

awesome work i had to pull up a pic of my stock setup to see what you did.

How did you do that?

Harmonic_tC

I will not make another one only because this one already took about 10hrs of my personal time. I need my time away from work, lol


Unfortunately I did not not take any progress pics as I went so itd be hard to explain what I did.

aarontrini85

looking good

are we going to see this done by HIN chicago??

Harmonic_tC

It doesnt look like ill be at HIN. But you will definately see me at the next SE event. I should be calling you sometime this week BTW.......

tweetertc

hey just curious.. what paint you use.. i got ever SEM color in the world at work... and i dont have anything that lustorous...

Harmonic_tC

Hey, I am actually replying on the car PC right now. Just got it up and running, i hope to have it installed ithing the next few days.

The paint is actually SEM, its the titanium metallic and the metallic silver. They are super close to a factory match and have about the same finish as the factory paint

THansenite

That looks really good. I can't wait to see pics of that with everything in it. Very impressive fabrication.

mattssi

How come you chose to make the corners different on the bottom? Sort of looks misshapen?

Harmonic_tC

its just one of those things that i didnt notice until i began to paint. At that point you can hardly tell so i left it.

peteyd

watching.

DuMa

wow. thats pretty good. what fab process did u use? fiberglassing?

any pics of the back? i wanna see how u cut up the vents.

aacordon

should have bondo's then dry sand, then wet sand the primer then wet sand then paint to get a perfect finish, i see a lil crevice. I do lots of body work so im picky lol

Harmonic_tC

ill get pics of the back but it will be some time from now.

I am going to pull it back out and i need to align the monitor a little better so im going to need to re finish to make everything perfect

I updated the first post with more pics!!

Stu_Gotti

Looks friggin nice man! Good job on taking the initiative for such a project!

Nick06tC

Im jelouse of this

rockbrawler884

Wow... thats great... Makes me wanna try something like that myself... all i need now is a stock center console... i don't wanna mess up the one i have..

Harmonic_tC

Thanks everyone!

I bought a spare console as well. I too just didnt feel like hacking mine up

aarontrini85

what did the new one cost???


if its not to mutch i might do this also


well a little diffrant dont want 2 of us driving around chicago with the exact same setup lol