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Jun 6, 2005

J187

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My Car Computer Progress . . .

Ok, this is the trunk with the vanity panel up. This is a mid-progress shot, I have since cleaned up around the DVD Combo drive and I'm installing a cover over lower fan.

Here is a shot of the screen with flash on

Here is a shot of the computer running Road Runner front end

Jun 6, 2005

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sick dude. I love it

Jun 6, 2005

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that is hella tight dude im loving it...ur starting 2 give me ideas lol

Jun 6, 2005

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looking awsome bro! Love the trunk, and the dash nice work!

Jun 6, 2005

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damn that dash is hot.

Jun 6, 2005

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Very, very sweet!!!!

What does something like this cost?

Jun 6, 2005

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Jun 6, 2005

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Niceness. I especially enjoy the trunk setup you've got there!

Jun 6, 2005

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eveything is comin along nicely...keep us updated!

Jun 6, 2005

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very awesome, what kind of software is road runner (with the honda logo)??

Jun 6, 2005

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so u have your dash lights ablet o turn off? iw as thinkign of that when i put in led's. leave most of it on a switch for night driving

Jun 6, 2005

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j187, i have a little bit of an idea what i wanna do to mine to, i was thinknin of putting a dvd/cd-rw underneath the monitor, relocate the a/c controls like derek did, something a long those lines, what u think? i ask you not only to help u with ideas, but because i see the drop dead gorgeous job u did on ur monitor

edit...what about all the bass/vibration around the hard drive....that wouldnt be good...or do u have the actual drive on shock mounts

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Jun 6, 2005

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imt rying to come upw ith a way to make the ac and such control buttons work off the touch screen so i dont have to move em. just wire to pc

Jun 6, 2005

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I wasnt a big fan of carputers until now, thats badass!

Jun 6, 2005

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You know, funny you should say that. The original plan was to do just that. I began the control relocation and then I started to thinik . . . HOw often will be using the DVD Combo drive??? The answer for me was harldy at all. It didn't warrant such a drastic change to the dash. Remember, that would mean either extending the living crap out of power cable and IDE or using a usb slim drive, neither of which appealed to me. Most of my videos/dvds will be ripped to the HDD, so I won't be using it much there. I kept my alpine 9833 relocated down below - So I won't need the CD ROm there, and When I wanna install programs or the occasional DVD Video I put in, it doesn't bother me to go to the trunk. If you have more use for it, go for it. I just couldn't warrant it.

Jun 8, 2005

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what about the hdd?

Jun 17, 2005

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what about the hdd?

The HDD is vertically mounted on the other side of the board that holds the MOBO. Its a plain ole Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM IDE HDD. If I get a chance, I'll take a pic of the actual computer setup.

Jun 17, 2005

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looks awesome dude, you got skills!

Jun 19, 2005

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cool, just to be safe i would get some soft rubber and mount the drive through it, cuz if u hit a hard bump it's gonna destroy that drive, the heads floater 1/10 of a mm above the plater, so it doesn't take much for those to digg in

Jun 20, 2005

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Thats nice buy wouldnt that huge magnet on the sub damage the CPU and the Hard drive???

Jun 20, 2005

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that is just dead sexy. i want to do the same thing, but i was just going to put the computer in the glove box, using one of those small factor form pcs.

Jun 20, 2005

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what OS are u running...how'd u come up with that honda desktop thing! is that a program???

Jun 20, 2005

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Keep up the good work!

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what OS are u running...how'd u come up with that honda desktop thing! is that a program???

Software called Road Runner. The Honda H spins. It's pretty cool.

Jun 20, 2005

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here is a link to more....Carputer set ups....

2004 Mazda 6s 5-Door

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=52574

2003 Corolla S Install

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=51959

Nissan Armada

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=52793

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Jun 21, 2005

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I like that front-end. I am currently builing my carputer and was going to use Media Engine. I really like that Honda skin your using though, any link to it. Do you think Roadrunner is much better?
Thanks