2006 Mazda6 (mazdarati) carpc

Hello fellow Carpc enthusiasts .

i'm here to showcase my lil carpc project.
I drive a 2006 mazda6 , i bought used last year. I call her "mazdarati" because I was privy enough to drive a maserati once and i immediately fell in love.
And since i cannot afford a real one, i will simply call what i own something similar.
Plus the name is catchy.

Specs :

HARDWARE :

Motherboard : GA-M61PME-S2P nForce 430 AM2+ mATX
Processor : 2.2GHZ AMD Sempron 45w
RAM : 2gb DDR2
Hard- Drives : 32gb OCZ vertex SSD and a 500gb Western Digital laptop hdd
Power Supply : DSATX 220w with brainstem
Optical view port to other dimension : Lilliput 629 7" VGA Touchscreen 629GL-70NP
wifi: D-Link PCI Wireless adapter
EVDO : Verizon MiFi
GPS : BU-353 Weather-proof GPS Receiver
ODB-II : OBDLink CI Scan Tool
cheap webcam
powered 7port usb hub
3dconnexion "mouse"
joycon carpc
"rugged" cigarette usb "extension"

SOFTWARE:

OS : windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
Front-ends : Centrafuse 3.1 and winamp (skinned)
Garmin Mobile PC.
Scan Tool ODB software
DashCommand OBD-II Software wth nissan GTR skin
google chrome
skype
google talks.


For audio i am using my factory radio. i modified the CD-changer input by attaching a 3.5mm jack.
I added a 760w Pioneer amp in the trunk. It powers a Punch 3 Rockford fosgate sub that I have down to 2ohms.

Last week I picked up my fiberglassed LCD housing from a friend. That "completed" my project; or at least brought it to version 1.0 lol

i will post pix, and if you have any comments or questions, i'll be more than happy to answer them.

This is how the car looked like wen i got it. I took this pic from a quick google search..
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4241/mazda63.jpg
By trinybwoy at 2010-03-14

Testing of the screen :
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/8817/47616693.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8900 at 2010-03-07

More testing :
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/3338/13791631.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8900 at 2010-03-07

earlier stages of the fiberglass process :
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/5562/93867663.jpg
By trinybwoy at 2010-03-07

and another shot...
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/9562/fiberglass2.jpg
By trinybwoy at 2010-03-07

white...
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/339...1002261750.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8530 at 2010-03-07

in the car fine tuning :
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/205...1003011522.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8530 at 2010-03-07

makeshift screen housing and installing of 3.5mm audio input for factory radio
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/199...1002181334.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8900 at 2010-03-07

carpc, with DASTX attached to the side.
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/7...1002281722.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8900 at 2010-03-07

back of pc:
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/751...1002282317.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8900 at 2010-03-07

ignition controlled relay that controls the LCD . the lilliput draws it power from the dsatx
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/1545/lcdrelay.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8900 at 2010-03-07

Putting some polyfill into the sub box.
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/1...yfilandsub.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8900 at 2010-03-07

finished fiberglass lcd housing :
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/4499/51175175.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8900 at 2010-03-14

angle 2:
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/675/22174157.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8900 at 2010-03-14

angle 3:
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/4298/51379411.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8900 at 2010-03-14


and finally in the car...
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/4...1003121513.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8900 at 2010-03-14

another shot..
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/6...1003131410.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8900 at 2010-03-14

and another...
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/396...1003131418.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8900 at 2010-03-14

Garmin mobile pc:
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/1...1003131421.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8900 at 2010-03-14

shot @ night:
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/426...1003120011.jpg
By trinybwoy, shot with BlackBerry 8900 at 2010-03-14

I like it looks good

thank you.

Really nice molding! I need to learn how to do that. Good work.
Andrew

i need to modify the molding.
i need to put a brim on it like a hat. to stop the sun hitting the screen i cant see annnnything with this summer sun lol
the molding was made in the winter , and sun wasnt an issue then lol

Trinybwoy,

Would you mind telling me how you used winamp and centrafuse together? I have a problem with my library being so slow as well as taking forever to get to a song in the W's. haha. Would you mind me using your idea of winamp and also telling me how you did it? if you dont want to thats fine, but it would help me alot! haha Thanks bud

Hey Krillik,


I dont use winamp and Centrafuse simultaneously.
I used to use centrafuse as my primary FE. but it wasnt fast enough for me. it took about 25mins to load all my music into on playlist.
So i jumped over to winamp. Winamp's playlist can handle quite a large number of songs once loaded. (i have about 67k in my library) [winamp loads that many songs in about 2mins]
to make winamp a little carpc friendly, i use a skin called komodo, you can google it easily.
the skin itself isnt exactly carpc functional beacuse of the smal buttons, but it looks good :-)

If im lending the car to someone i fire up centrafuse and let them use that.

not sure if that answered ur question...

yes it did acutally, I appreciate it!

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Originally Posted by krillik

yes it did acutally, I appreciate it!

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no problem

I want one!!! wanna build me one too? haha