Thread: 800X1280 narrowscreen???

That is awesome! Looks great, should turn out really well with all the time you've spent working on it.

Use a heatercore instead of a tranny/oil cooler. save $80.

heater core less durable to outside in grille elements, thicker to, & not nearly as easy to mount..... a tranny cooler will be the cleanest & most reliable way to do this.....

Originally Posted by turbocad6

heater core less durable to outside in grille elements, thicker to, & not nearly as easy to mount..... a tranny cooler will be the cleanest & most reliable way to do this.....

Why mount it outside?

Just as easy to mount, run threaded rod through it

so what if it's thicker?

oh well, your money

then again, you dropped over $100 on copper plate when alumnium has a similar thermal conductivity and 1/10th the price

copper is a better heat conductor & will provide an extra ounce of protection for the leds..... spent more got more.... I guess aluminum may have also worked, but I wanted copper to pull the heat away from the led's that much quicker.... without testing in advance there was no way of knowing what would have been adiquate & I would rather error to the side of overkill than not enough I guess

the cooler has to go outside of the cabin...... I want to remove the heat from the cabin, not just move it from the dash to the interior & I don't want any fan noise... I thought about mounting it undernieth the truck but airflow is tricky & I don't want to pull engine heat across the cooler & it's more subject to abuse under than in the grille..... I'm working with a 3/8" inner diameter tubing & a heater core will not be as good a fit as a trans oil cooler, & where are you getting $80 savings.... a heater core is going to be $45 at least & a decent tranny cooler shouldn't be much more than $60 or so.....

How come in your pictures the laptop screen on the left looks much brighter than the LED creation? Why not just use that screen instead?

Originally Posted by turbocad6

the cooler has to go outside of the cabin...... I want to remove the heat from the cabin, not just move it from the dash to the interior & I don't want any fan noise... I thought about mounting it undernieth the truck but airflow is tricky & I don't want to pull engine heat across the cooler & it's more subject to abuse under than in the grille..... I'm working with a 3/8" inner diameter tubing & a heater core will not be as good a fit as a trans oil cooler, & where are you getting $80 savings.... a heater core is going to be $45 at least & a decent tranny cooler shouldn't be much more than $60 or so.....

86 Chevette heatercore is $20 and 36 sqin
bonneville heatercore (72?) is 60 sqin and $24

and you cited the cost of the oil cooler as $100

hmm, makes sense I guess....

I'd rather spend more & get more though..... that's really the whole point of this project..... if I wanted less & to spend less I would have just left the lilli in there...... I am trying to do this as good as it can possibaly be, I fully expect it to be awsome

I could have sourced a cheaper light source, I could have sourced a cheaper pc.... I could have used wood or cardboard & fiberglass/bondo instead of bying multiple dashboard bezels.....

this is not about doing it as cheap as possible...... it costs what it costs.....

I will have well over 40 hours labor in this pc upgrade including the screen..... the last thing I want to do is cut corners.....

in the end this will be a high end install...... & there not cheap to do.... it takes what it takes